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1/30/14
• Bellwork: On page 34 of your INB:
• What is a proverb? Do you know its purpose? Can you think of any? Please write 5-7 sentences.
• REMINDER: Journals were due yesterday for the Broken Calabash. Please take them out so I can check them.
• AGENDA:• Bellwork/Discuss• Discuss the end of the play• Proverbs – What are they?• Copy down Oral vs.
Literature chart• Proverbs in The Broken
Calabash
African Proverbs
What is a Proverb? (page 35)
• They take the place of ordinary words.
• They are carefully crafted with wisdom, moral and philosophical ideals.
• They emphasize experience & behavior
• African culture and literature – extensive use of proverbs; evidence or “Orature” or oral literature, which often taught a message.
• Copy Orality vs. Literacy chart (after)
Igbo Proverb 1
• Ashes fly back into the face of he who throws them.
• Definition: You reap what you sow.
Igbo Proverb 2: From The Broken Calabash• A tsetse fly perched on the scrotum
must be chased away with extreme care.
• What might this mean?
Proverbs in The Broken Calabash
• Locate 2 additional proverbs in The Broken Calabash:• What is the proverb? • Who says it and where is it located?• What is the message?• What themes and values do each of
these proverbs signify?