Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Passage #1
Choose a passage from your book that:
(1) Connects to one of our Essential Questions for the unit and (2) You found especially interesting or important.
Write the passage as a COMMENT below with the page number.
Then, in the same comment, write why your group found the passage interesting/important AND how it helps you answer one of our essential questions.
Be sure you put a label for which of the essential questions it helps answer.
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He talked of his anguish when prison guards brought him news that his mother had died, and then, the following year, his son had died in an auto accident. He had pleaded to attend their funerals, but it was denied. PAGE 11
ReplyDeleteMandela had started life as a child of royalty, had become the country's most notorious outlaw, and was now an emblem of moral courage around the globe. PAGE 9
ReplyDeleteThis shows how some people are poor and others aren't. You can be born into wealthiness. This answers number 1 because,they say how Mandela was born with royalty.
This can help the essential question of why people dominate others because white guards denied Nelson's request of attending his family members funerals. He was being dominated by the white guards by being restricted to attend the funerals. Also the white dominating guards left newspaper articles about his family just to mock him.
ReplyDeletekhoikhoi who were suspended of theft were branded with hot irons and dumped on robbin island. page 18
ReplyDeleteThis passage relates to why groups dominate other groups. It shows how people feel more superior about themselves. Our group thought that this should not be allowed and it is not ok
For the past half a century, whites had ruled under a bizzare system called apartheid, which stripped nonwhites of power and dignity by treating them as aliens in their own land.(p.9) We found this passage interesting because it explains the separation of whites and nonwhites.It helps us understand the essential question why do groups dominate others? How are both sides affected? because it states how the whites dominate the nonwhites.
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