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TRANSCRIPT
Excerpt from Kaffir Boy
Introduction Notes
Dialogue:
• ___________ Dialogue- the _________ words spoken by a person
• Uses quotation marks and dialogue _______.
Ex. “This time next fall, you will be in school,” __________my mother.
“Why would I go to _____________? You’ll never see me wasting my time at school!” I vowed.
• ___________Dialogue- __________of what is said by a _______ or _______
Ex. When my mother began dropping _________ that I would soon be going to school, I vowed never to go to school because it was a waste of time.
Mark Mathabane:
• Grew up in ______________________________
• Spent childhood in a unheated shack with no electricity or running water
• Learned to love school and received a scholarship for high school
• Received a tennis scholarship to a ___________________________ college
Kaffir Boy and Apartheid
• His story about his childhood living under apartheid
• _________________- racial segregation and in South Africa between 1948-1991
• Began with The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949
• Immorality Act of 1950
• Population Registry Act of 1950- classified _________________- “black” “white” “couloured” “Indian”
• 1960-1982-3.5 million “nonwhite” residences were forced into ______________________ neighborhoods
Vocabulary:
• Benzene- element of crude oil
• Pilchards-small oily fish
• Shebeens- illicit “_____________________” bars
• Scropbrush- scrub brush
• Kaffir- an insulting term for a ___________________________
Questions for reading:
Paragraph #1:
1. What does Mathabane mean when he says that he “revered” the gang of boys so much that their words were as important as an “oracle’s” words?
Paragraph #2:
2. Why was the lifestyle of these gang boys exciting to Mathabane?
3. How did the gang boys feel about school?
Paragraph #3:
4. What did the gang boys learn to do first?
5. Why does Mathabane see an advantage in staying in the gang?
Paragraph 4-7:
6. How does Mathabane feel about baths?
Paragraph 8-15:
7. Why is Mathabane afraid when he hears a knock at the door?
Paragraph 16-25:
8. What are 3 details in this section show the reader that Mathebane’s family is poor?
Paragraph 26-35:
9. What is Mathebane’s reaction when his Granny says he is going to school?
10. How do Granny and his mother finally get Mathebane to go to school?