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1 Name Class Date Score LA 10 Reading Comprehension Modern and Contemporary Literature WK 31 Directions: Read pages Use complete sentences with proper grammar to answer the following items. 1. What are the three most interesting things about the life of Bessie Head? 2. from The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses, explain how Brille and the rest of Span One ended up in prison. 3. Why do the warders keep prisoners of this type together? 4. What is the effect of keeping these prisoners together? 5. What happens when Hannetijie tells Brille to pick up his jacket? 6. What prediction does Brille make? 7. Compare and contrast Brille s relationship with his children and his relationship with Hannetjie. 8. What parallel might Head be drawing between Brille s home life, especially his children s behavior, and the nation of South Africa? 9. Compare and contrast Brille s and the warder s ways of asserting themselves. Which method is more effective? 10. How do the two men s methods of self-assertion compare with your own? 11. Brille thinks to himself, I m only learning right now what it means to be a politician. What exactly is he learning and why? 12. How is Brille able to break Hannetjie s nerve? How do the warder and the group of prisoners work together a the end of the story? 13. Explain how this transformation occurs and state whether you think it is realistic and believable?

2 14. Identify the theme and the setting of this story. 15. How does the setting especially the political backdrop of apartheid contribute to the theme? 16. What are the three most important events in the life of Naguib Mahfouz? 17. from The Norwegian Rat, how do the people prepare for the rat invasion? 18. Who inspects the narrator s home? 19. Describe the way the narrator and his wife perceive this person at first how does their perception change by the end of the story? 20. What sources of information about the rats do people in the story have access to? 21. How reliable do you think these sources are? Explain. 22. What happens to people s emotions as preparations continue and the rat attack still has not occurred? 23. Do you think there is psychological truth in the way Mahfouz presents his characters reactions? Explain. 24. Are the narrator and his wife under so much stress that they hallucinate? Or does the story suddenly move into the realm of magic realism, where realistic details are combined with incredible events? 25. What are the three most important events in the life of Yehuda Amichai? 26. from Laments on the War Dead, what two statements does the speaker make about graveyards in lines 5 8? 27. What does the inscription on the small brick table prompt the speaker to wonder in lines 9 12? 28. What is the speaker s first answer to the opening question?

3 29. How has his answer changed by lines 13 14? 30. In what line of the poem does he arrive at his final answer? 31. Describe how the poet s use of incremental repetition helps to trace the development of the speaker s answer to the poem s opening question. 32. Identify another example of incremental repetition in the poem. 33. What effect do the slight variations in wording, typical of incremental repetition, have on the meaning of the poem? 34. Whom might the speak be quoting in line 14? 35. What might the speaker s questions in lines reveal about modern Israeli experience? 36. What are the three most important events in the life of Venus Khoury-Ghata? WRITING Exercise: Read from WORDS, page Write an imaginative narrative in verse or prose in which you explain the origin of words. For your narrative you will have to establish a time and place, characters, and a significant event that leads to the birth of words. Remember that myths often include transformations, or metamorphoses marvelous changes of form.

4 Name Class Date Score LA 10 Vocabulary Development & Collaboration Modern and Contemporary Literature Wk 31 Collaborative / PROJECT BASED LEARNING Activity: Directions: 1. Read The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses, The Norwegian Rat, and from Laments on the War Dead (textbook pages ) 2. Locate the important terms/vocabulary in all FOUR of the passages listed above. Some are identified but you need to add more for at least 16! 3. Create a power point presentation (minimum 16 slides) where you (a.) Write the sentence from the text using the word. (b.) Give the official definition of the term. (c.) Provide a synonym & an antonym for the term.

5 (d.) Write a new sentence using the term. (e.) Insert an image for each slide / for each term (reference your sentence.) 4. Title your work LA10 WK 27 PBL (last names) Save to T Drive (your class.) 50% of your score based on accuracy, neatness, & completeness. 5. Print a hard-copy of your power point presentation with four slides to a page. 50% of your score based on accuracy, neatness, & completeness.

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