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World Literature
Period 2Week 9
Do Now: Monday, October 20th (7)
• In the do now section of your notebook:– Create a KWL about the Six Degrees of Separation
theory as shown:
Unit 2: Six Degrees of Separation (10)• Six Degrees of Separation is the theory that everyone and
everything is six or fewer steps away from any other person in the world, so that the chain of “a friend of a friend” statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps.
• Exploration of Character Analysis– Why do characters do the things they
do?• Significance of readers’ connections to
characters. • Significance of characters connections
to other characters (in any capacity).
Unit 2: Six Degrees of Separation
Introducing the Kite Runner (7)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLtavGjAOJY
Objective:• SWBAT explain background
information to Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.
Khaled Hosseini
• Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1965
• Lived in Tehran, Iran, and Paris, France, for parts of his childhood. In 1980, moved to California as a refugee.
• Graduated from high school, college and medical school in California.
• Practiced medicine and now a writer. The Kite Runner was his first novel, published 2003.
• Works with the United Nations Refugee Agency, as a goodwill envoy.
Present Day Kabul, Afghanistan
Present Day Kabul, Afghanistan
Present Day Kabul, Afghanistan
Inspiration…• Relationship: Khaled taught Hossein Khan, the family’s racial Hazara cook to read and write despite the social injustice and racial bias imposed by their society.
• Memories: Fond recollections of pre-Soviet era childhood in Afghanistan.
• Literature: Persian stories and poems, characters and themes presented in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
Ethnic Groups in Afghanistan• Pasthun Boy • Hazara Boy
Try to make a time line…• Man does he talk fast… Try to make a timeline
of key historical events leading up to Afghanistan’s current state:
• http://content.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,45950304001_1931954,00.html
Before The Kite Runner
• Ruled by a monarchy • 1933 – 1973: King Mohammad Zahir Shah reigned during the longest period of stability.
King Mohammad Zahir Shah in 1963
Afghanistan during The Kite Runner
• 1973: King’s brother-in-law wages a war and declares a republic.
• 1979: USSR invades, kills president and up to 2 million civilians. Over 5 million flee the Afghanistan.
• 1994: Taliban rise to power in Afghanistan; by 2000 the Taliban occupied about 95% of the country.
Taliban occupation of Afghanistan
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-south-asia-11451718
Kite Fighting in Afghanistan
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiOFpLd1jKE
Exit Ticket
• On a half sheet of paper write:– Three facts you learned about Afghanistan
and/or the Taliban – Two pieces of information you learned
about the author –One question you still have about the book