21ST

CENTURY
LITERATURE
SECONDQUARTER WEEK
1
Welcome
class!

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 MEL
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WRITING A CLOSE ANALYSIS AND CRITICAL
INTERPRETATION OF LITERARY TEXTS, APPLYING A
READING APPROACH, AND DOING AN ADAPTATION OF
THESE, REQUIRE FROM THE LEARNER THE ABILITY TO
IDENTIFY: REPRESENTATIVE TEXTS AND AUTHORS
FROM ASIA, NORTH AMERICA, EU, LATIN AMERICA AND
AFRICA

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 AFRICA
The world's
second largest
and second most
populous
continent.

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 FACTS ABOUT
AFRICA
1500- 2 0 0 0 HOME TO HAS THE
LANGUAGES WORLD'D LARGEST
ARE OLDEST AND
SPOKEN IN UNI VERSI T Y HOTTEST
AFRICA DESERT

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Culture
and
Traditio
n
Masks are used in various Men wear pants and a knee- a staple meal in
ceremonies depicting length shirt with a white
West Africa and
ancestors and spirits, collar, and perhaps a
sweater. Men often wear Central Africa. It is
mythological characters,
and deities. knee-high socks, while usually served with
women might not wear socks some peanut soup.
at all. Men, as well as
women, wear shawls, the
netela.

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Do you remember
what a poetry is?

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 Poetr
y
A Writing that formulates a concentrated
imaginative awareness of experience in
language chosen and arranged to create a
specific emotional response through meaning,
sound and rhythm.

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 AKIWANDE OLUWOLE
BABATUNDE SOYINKA
(WOLE SOYINKA)

A NIGERIAN PLAYWRIGHT, A
NOVELIST, POET AND ESSAYIST IN
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. HE WAS
AWARDED THE 1986 NOBEL PRIZE
IN LITERATURE.

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 CIVILIAN AND
My SOLDIERrose from the fall of
apparition
lead, Declared, "I am a civilian" It only
served to aggravate your fright. For
how could I have risen, a being of this
world, in that hour of impartial death!
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And I thought also: nor is your
quarrel of this world,
You stood still
For both eternities. and oh I heard
the lesson, of your training sessions,
cautioning-
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Scorch earth behind you, do not
leave, A dubious neutral to the rear.
Reiteration of my civilian
quandary burrowing earth
From the lead festival of your
more eager friends
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Worked the worse on your confusion,
and when you brought the gun to
bear
on me,and death
quandary burrowing
earth
Twitched me gently in the eye,
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I hope someday
Intent upon my trade of living, to
be checked
In stride of your apparition in a
trench, signaling I am a soldier. No
hesitation then
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But I shall shoot you clean and fair
With meat and bread, a gourd of
wine
A bunch of breasts from either arm
and that lone question - do you
know friend, even now, know what
is all about ? English Class | Laredo York Primary
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Activi
ty
E. WHAT PHRASE IN
"My a p p a r i t i o n r o s e B.WHAT DOES THE
W O R D " APPARITION "
LINE 3 CONNECTS TO
f r o m the f a l l o f
MEAN ? "FALL OF LEAD"
l e a d , d e c l a r e d , 'I a m
C.WHAT IS "FALL OF
a Civilian" F. W H O IS " YOUR " IN
LEAD"
D.WHAT PHRASE IN LINE LINE 4 ? WHY DOES HE
A . W h o is t a l k i n g 3 TIES UP WITH "
HAVE A QUARREL WITH
here? t h e c i v i l i a n o r APPARITION "
the soldier? Why THIS WORLD "?
did y o u say so?

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Activi
ty l. make a s k e t c h / d r a w
the w h o l e scenario
g. W h o is t a l k i n g j. w h a t does the of
in the second civilian hope t o do the poem using y o u r
f o r the soldier in the creative
stanza?
future? imagination
h. w h o is t a l k i n g i n
k. " d o y o u f r i e n d , ev en
the t h i r d stanza?
n o w , k n o w W h a t i t is
i. i s t h e c i v i l i a n a l l a b o u t ? " " w h o is
a n gr y a t the asking w h a t t o w h o m
soldier? why? here?

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 Thank you for
joining today's class.

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