Due Dates: B Block - Thursday, 11/18
A Block - Friday, 11/19
Read through Pg. 25
Respond to the following questions. You must use complete sentences. Your responses should be between ONE and THREE sentences in length.
1. Who is the Protagonist.
2. What does she do to communicate with her dead mother?
3. What time period do you believe the book is set in?
4. Which country is the book set in?
5. Describe in your own words one of the African expressions or words you found in the text.
6. Explain why you can, or cannot identify with the Protagonist.
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ReplyDelete1. The protagonist of the book is Nhamo.
ReplyDelete2. She goes back to village from collecting the wood for fire and tells people what had happened. She thought the leopard that changed into bush was her mother's spirit.
3. I think this story was set in about 1990 or more because the book mentioned magazines that had image of car.
4. This story is set in Africa.
5. Mhandara, meaning young woman.
6. I don't get the meaning of the question
B4 World Literature
Kyong Yong Kim
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ReplyDelete1.Protagonist is Nhamo.
ReplyDelete2.after she went back to home after she finished getting wood to make a fire, she told other people what happened. she saw her mother's spirit by watchin leopard turning into bushes.
3.i think its kind of old because they go and find some wood to make fire. these days we don’t, we just buy woods and burn them with a lighter
4.The story is set in Africa and we can know that because before the story starts they show u a map of Africa and says "Nhamo's journal".
5.Mhandara means a young girl in Africans.
6.i think i can know by knowing her well.
by Do Won Yoo
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ReplyDelete1. The Protagonist is a lazy girl, Nhamo
ReplyDelete2. She would go to the jungle by her self and looked inside a hole in a rock. Inside that rock was things that she had stoled. A knife, spoons, cloth, a front cover of a magazine and other stuff. The front cover of a magazine was a women who dressed nice with a little girl. When she saw that, she thought of her mother. On the cover was some tea, bread and margarine and she pretended to pour tea, and cut breads. Then she will start talking to her mother, and ask questions.
3. Maybe in the 1950s
4. In Mozambique, Africa. Near Lake Cabora Bassa
5. Hozi- A storage made out of poles
6. I think I can because shes kind of a person that would be at HIS. A lazy girl is really easy to identify.
sorry didn't get #6 that well
1. The Protagonist is a girl called Nhamo
ReplyDelete2. Nhamo goes to the jungle and looks at the magazine she stole and looks at it as if it was her mother. Also Nhamo sees a leopard in the jungle and that might be her mothers spirit.
3. Around 1900's
4. In Africa
5. Ambuya-which means grandmother
6. I think I can't identify her because she's quiet and also kind of mysterious. I think it would be hard to talk with her.
1. The Protagonist of this book is a girl named Nhamo.
ReplyDelete2. She will go to the jungle by herself and look inside of the rock where she put her things that she had stoled. In there, she had a magazine. She would look at the cover as if it is her mother. Also, Nhamo thought the leopard that changed into a bush was her mother's spirit.
3. I think it was in the 1900's.
4. It is in Africa.
5. Masikati- Good day
6. I don't think I can identify her because she is kind of shy and quiet. So I think being a friend of her will give me hard time.
1. The protagonist of this book is an African girl called Nhamo.
ReplyDelete2. She goes to the jungle where she hides her secret belongings. She found a front cover magazine of a women with margarine and Nhamo thought as if she was her mother because she never seen her own mother due to a animal attack.
3. I think it was around 1910-1915.
4. Mozambique, Africa.
5. Sadza. It means corn porridge
6. It's difficult to identify her because we've just started the book, but I suppose that Nhamo is a girl that's quiet but I also think that she's somewhat a little peculiar.
1.The protagonist of this story is Nhamo. She is very lazy and disobedient.
ReplyDelete2. How she had communicated with her dead mom was when she saw the leopard change into a bush. She also told the whole village about it.
3. I think this story takes place in the 1980's
4.This story takes place in Mozambique. But some parts mention Zimbabwe.
5. Dare-Which means where all the males go and meet up (their meeting place).
6. I can identify the protagonist because she is who gets the most attention in the story. Also she is a very unique person in the story because she is very lazy and different from the others. She also is the only one in the story (so far) that has met a spirit relating to her family.
1. The potagonist of this book is a girl named Nhamo.
ReplyDelete2.Nhamo goes to the jungle, and looks at the things she stole. One of the things she stole was a magazine. She looks at it as if it was her mother. She saw her mother's spirit by watching a leopard in the jungle.
3. I think this story takes place in the 1900's.
4. This story takes place in Africa.
5. Ambuya means grandma.
6. I think I can't Indentify the potagonist because I don't know much about her yet.
A1 literature
Katarina Kurosawa
1. Nhamo
ReplyDelete2. She saw her mothers spirit when she saw a leopard in the jungle because her mother was killed by a leopard.
3. Around 19th century
4. Mozambique, Africa
5.Masikati, which means good day in African language.
6.Yes because her name is in every page. Maybe.
A1 Literature
Isshin Midorikawa
A1lit.
ReplyDeletelyu hiroyama
1.Nhamo
2.Nhamo goes to the forest to get woods but she found a magazine and at that moment, she thought it was her mother because it looked like a mother, and she maybe doesnt remember Nhamos mothers look because Nhamos mother was killed by a leopard.
3.early 20th century
4. Africa.
5.mhandara. its a person who goes to a place to learn the secrets of womanhood.
6.well I know some things about protagonist (Nhamo), but only few parts. maybe when we read some more.
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ReplyDeleteSeonji Kim
1. The protagonist of this book is Nhamo.
2. Nhamo went to jungle and find spirit of her mother by seeing a leopard.
3. Around 19~20th century.(The book mentioned a car)
4. This happed in Africa.
5. Ambuya-grandmother in African.
6. It's hard to find her because Nhamo is queit and shy girl, and also we've just started the book
1) The protagonist of the book is an African girl named Nhambo
ReplyDelete2) She saw her mothers spirit, when seeing a leopard changing in the bush, because her mother was killed by a leopard.
3) I think it takes place around 1990s
4) It is set in Mozambique
5) Masikati, meaning good day in African
6) I can understand, and find a little bit about the protagonist, but I need more info to understand and know about her
Kai Izumi
A2 Literature
A1 Lit
ReplyDeleteHyun-Ryung Yoo
1. Nhamo is a protagonist of this book. (At least till 20pg she is a protagonist)
2. There are few things that make Nhamo believe that she is communicating with her mother. Firstly she has found this woman's picture on magazine and that woman just looks like her mom. Secondly Nhamo's mom was killed by a leopard and Nhamo has found the spirit of her mother from leopard.
3. 19th century because if you check all those little background of this book you will find out that it's just a undevelped country. Doesn't matter about century.
4. As you can see from some of their words, this book's background is Africa.
5. Ambuya, which means grandmother.
6. I have no clue for this question but if I have to give an answer I would say as I read till page 25. Nhamo is a protagonist of this book because untill 25pg most of stories are based on Nhamo.
World Literature B4
ReplyDeleteElle Clements
1) The Protagonist of this book is a girl called Nhamo.
2)Nhamo goes to the jungle and she found the magazine. The lady was on it so she thought it was her mother.
3)I think it is around 1900-1981.
4)In Mozambique, Africa.
5)Ambuya. that means Grandmother in African.
6)I do not get because i did not finish read this book everything but now i know Nhamo is very quiet and she is not friendly because she is shy.
1. The Protagonist of this story is a girl who was named Nhamo.
ReplyDelete2. She have went to the Jungle to gather the woods, but saw a Leopard, and have communicated with her dead mom. Leaopard have changed into bush.
3. My pridiction is around 1950 to 1970.
4. This story is at the Mozambique.
5. Ambuya, which means Grandmother in Africa.
6. At the first 25 page, I could not identify exactly, but for untill 40, I started to understand her.
1. The protagonist for this book is Nhamo.
ReplyDelete2. When Nhamo goes into the forest and sees an leopard she feels she is communicating with her mother because her mother was killed by an leopard. Nhamo also pretends she is with her mother by looking at the magazine cover.
3. I think this book takes place around the 1900s.
4. It is in Mozambique, Africa.
5. Ambuya means Grandmother.
6. We can identify the protagonist because Nhamo is an extraordinary girl. Other people say she is lazy, but I think Nhamo is a little jealous of Masvita.
Anna Ishii
A2 Literature
1 The protagonist for this book is a girl called Nhamo
ReplyDelete2 Nhamo found a magazine picture of a women that looked like her mother. Also she saw a leapord and when she saw it she saw her mom witch was killed by an leapord.
3 I think this takes place in the early 20th century.
4 This story takes place in Mozambique Africa
5 Ambuya is a word that means Grandmother in African
6 I think i would find her lazy but a hard worker and always jealous of her cousin.
Max Pinkney
1. The protagonist is an African girl called Nhamo.
ReplyDelete2. Nhamo goes to the forest and likes to pretend she is with her mother. She also has a magazine with a person who looks like her mother.She feels like she is with her mother’s spirit then.
3. I think this is during the 1900s
4. This story took place in Mozambique, Africa.
5. sadza- corn porridge
6. No, because we don’t know about her very much yet, but yes, because she has a unique personality.
1.The Protagonist is Nhamo. The title character, whose name means “disaster.” She longs for something different, but she is not sure where or what it is.
ReplyDelete2.Nhama goes to her special spot where she has some treasures burried. She finds a magazine with picture on the cover of a mother and daughter. Nhamo imagines this what her mother looked like, since she never had met her mother, who was eaten by a leopard.
3.It takes place around 1980s.
4.The border country of Mozambique and Zambawe.
5.ngozi-angry, revengeful spirit
6. I can pretty much identify the protagonist. The first few chapters explains a lot about Nhamo. Nhamo is an "orphan" living with her Aunt and her extended family and that she is not always accepted for who she is.
1. the protagonist of the story is Nhamo.
ReplyDelete2. Nhamo goes to the forest and finds a magazine burried, and this picture looked like her mother. But actually she doesnt really know her mothers face because her mother died when Nhamo was very young.
3. took place around 1980's
4.Takes place in Mozambique
5.Mhandara=young woman
6 im not sure of the question...
by jun ogawa
1)Nhamo
ReplyDelete2)Goes to the jungle and think about her mother looking at her hidden belongings in the rock
3)around the 1900s because Nhamo had magazines with cars
4)Africa
5)Ambuya- Grandma
6)I think I cant identify the protagonist because the book is mostly about the African girl, Nhamo
1. The name of the protagonist is Nhamo. She is a girl.
ReplyDelete2. Nhamo pretended the woman's picture on the front cover of the magazine as her mother.
3. I think the story was set in 1990s.
4. The story takes place in Mozanbique, Africa.
5. Ambuya. It means grandmother in African language.
6. Identifying the protagonist was hard because I had a difficulty to find Nhamo's characteristics.
Ifumi Sato
A2 Lit
1.The Protagonist in the story is Nhamo.
ReplyDelete2.She goes into the jungle and finds a magazine. On the cover of the magazine, there was a picture of her mother but she doesn’t really know because her mother died when Nhamo was little.
3.I think it was set around the 1950’s.
4.It took place in Mozambique, Africa.
5.Vatete –respectful title for paternal aunt.
6.I think I can’t identify her because she is a quiet girl. Also I just started this book so I think later I will understand her.
Anna Otake
A1
1. The protagonist of this story is Nhamo.
ReplyDelete2. She goes to the jungle and looked at the magazine she had stoled that had a picture of woman looked like her mother. Also found the spirit of her mother when she saw leopard, which her mother was killed by.
3. I think this story book was set around 1980, because around that time people were making fire with a wood and magazines were selled in markets.
4. This book was set in Africa.
5. Ambuya - it means grandmother in african language.
6. I dont think I can identify with her. Because first of all, i suck at talking with girls. Secondly she is kind of weird and im not good at identifly people like her.
1. Nhamo is the protagonist of the story. She is the girl who hates her life. People who are close to her call her "disaster".
ReplyDelete2. Nhama has her own place away from the villages where she burried her valueables. Once she found this magazine with an image of the mother and daughter on it. From that time on she pretends that it is her and her mom.
3. I think that this story happens in 1980s
4. Africa, Zimbabwe. Nhamo lives in a settlement.
5. Ambuya, it means grandmother in African language.
6. I CAN identify the protagonist, because in the book it is written about Nhamo almost all the time.
1. Nhamo is protagonist of the story. She hates her life. People who knows her well call her "disaster". She needs to do all of her works.
ReplyDelete2. Nhamo goes to the jungle and found the magazine so she tore out one of the pages which was a picture of a woman who looked like Nhamo's mother.
3. For me I thought around 1980.
4. Setting of this book is in Africa, Zimbabwe.
5. Ambuya - Grandmother in african language.
6. I can identify that Nhamo is the protagonist because book talks about her all the time.
o wait panda96 is Han Lee
ReplyDeletepanda96 is Han Lee
1. Protagonist for this book is Nhamo.
ReplyDelete2. She goes to the jungle and found a magazine that face look like her mother.
3.it take place in 1998.
4.this story set in Zimbabwe, Africa
5.mwari means God in African language
6.I have no idea about this question. sorry.
6.
1. The protagonist of the story is Nahmo.
ReplyDelete2. When Nahmo goes to the Jungle, she finds a magazine she stoled. On the cover of the magazine,there was a woman and Nhamo look at it as if it was her mother.
3. I think it was in 1950s.
4.It is in Africa.
5.Ambuya means grandma.
6.?
1. The protagonist is Nhamo, a girl who knows everybody's footprints and she has a lot of jobs to do.
ReplyDelete2. On the top of the hill she looked at the magazine and she was talking with it, thinking that was her mom.
3. I think this is late 1900s because of the colorful magazine.
4. The country is Mozambique.
5. Mai means mother.
6. I cannot identify with Nhamo because I have my mom and my dad and brothers and sister. I don't know about her yet.
1, The protagonist is Nhamo. She hates her life and she has to do all the work.
ReplyDelete2, Nhamo went to the jungle and she saw a magazine... In the magazine there was a beautiful woman that looked like her mother. (she tore the page out)
3 I think this story takes place around the 1990's-1950's.
4 This story takes place in Zimbabwe, Africa
5 NGOZI is an angry spirit who can cause madness, illness, and death. A murder victim a parent mistreated by his childern, or anyone else who has a grievance let over from life may turn into a ngzoi.
6 I can indetify because the author describes her and how she feels and everything...