Summer Reading Assignment Projects-2019

ELA 10th Graders - RISING 11 TH Graders

 

Project #1 - Journal

Project Name: Journal Entries

Format: Keep a journal, one entry per chapter, addressing the following:

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• Chapters 1-5: characterization

• Chapters 6-13: culture

• Chapters 14-16: conflict

• Chapters 17-25: religion

• Each journal entry should cite textual evidence supporting each claim.

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Project #2 - Model or Mask (Oko’s Compound OR Egwugwu Mask)

Diorama model of Oko’s compound

Project Name: Okonkwo’s Compound

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Guiding Question: What did Okonkwo’s compound look like and how did it

reflect the culture of the Ibo people?

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Format: Draw a picture of Okonkwo’s compound including the huts of his wives.

A description is given in the novel that will help to give you a picture of how to

design the compound (P.14). Include everything that is presented in the description

of Okonkwo’s compound. Consider the placement of objects and the colors that are

presented so that this can be a part of the picture. Draw and paint or color the

picture on a large sheet of white paper. You can also choose to create a model of

the compound with play-doh, etc. Be as creative as possible in making your

design. Label each object in Okonkwo’s compound.

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Lifesized Egwugwu Mask with presentation of meaning

Project Name: Egwugwu Mask

Guiding Question: Who were the Eqwuqwu and how did their appearance

impact their influence?

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Format: Create an egwugwu based on your own conception of a quality that you

feel is most necessary to being a judge. Apply concepts of the egwugwu and Ibo

culture to create your mask. You will design a mask representing your egwugwu

then decorate it with images and objects relevant to the quality it represents.You

will also write a one page description of your egwugwu and the rationale for each

of the designs or objects on it.

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Details: 1. Re-read pages 87-94 and 186-191 to re mind yourself of how the

egwugwu carry out justice in the clan.

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2. Think of a quality (for example, empathy) that you feel is most necessary for

any good judge to have. Sketch on paper a mask that you think your new egwugwu

would wear.

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3. Visit HERE (Making a Paper Mask for Kids) - Link

and read how to do a mask. You may use another technique to make

your mask, but it should yield similar results and require similar effort.

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4. Make your mask. You should be able to justify every design and object you affix

to your mask. In the novel’s setting, egwugwu masks were odd, frightening, and

other-worldly.

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Project # 3- Argumentative Essay

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Project Name: Is Okonkwo the Protagonist or Antagonist in Things Fall Apart?

Format: Argumentative Essay.

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Examine and discuss both sides of the argument to this question. Evidence should

be presented in support of both positions in the forms of argument and counter-

arguments. Please ensure that you include all the elements of an argument in your

essay Explanation of the evidence should be presented to support this conclusion.

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