1/30/14 bellwork: on page 34 of your inb: what is a proverb? do you know its purpose? can you think...

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?