Learning Targets:
I can use media and different resources to enhance my reading of the text. (L.11-12.7)
I can make predictions and inferences based on the information I have gathered. (RL.11-12.10)
I can reflect on the author's choices and how they influence the story. (RL.11-12.6)
Coming up: We have a vocabulary quiz Death and King's Horseman 1 tomorrow, (another copy of vocabulary below)
In class: review of this week's vocabulary; a look at Wole Soyinka, author of Death and the King's Horseman.
1. raconteur:
A person skilled in telling anecdotes
2. retinue:
The group following and attending to some important person
3. divination:
The art or gift of prophecy by supernatural means
4. veneration:
A feeling of profound respect for someone or something
5. dirge:
a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person
6. alari:
a rich, woven cloth, brightly colored
7. egungun:
ancestral masquerade
8. etutu:
placatory rites or medicine
9. tryst:
a private romantic rendezvous between lovers
10. forebears:
an ancestor
11. suppliant:
making a humble plea to someone in power or authority
12. acolyte:
person assisting the celebrant in a religious service or procession
13. hearth:
the floor/front area of a fireplace
Wole Soyinka
Born July 13th, 1934 in Abeokuta, Nigeria (Age 84)
First Black Africa Nigerian playwright & political activist, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986
His activism has caused him to spend periods of time imprisoned as well as being exiled.
Attended Goverment College and University College in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo state in Nigeria; graduated in 1958 with a degree in English from the University of Leeds England
Religion of Yoruba:
- Two realms: aye ( visible and tangible world) orun ( invisible and spiritual world)
- Represented as a spherical gourd or tray (artisans) these tools help to represent the mythic events in their history. The lines and artwork on these tools allow you to see metaphoric crossroads ( orita meta), Yoruba priests use these to open up communication to the other side.
- Orun: home to countless forces such as orisa (gods), ara orun (ancestors), oro, iwin, ajogun, and egbe (various spirits)
-Olodumare: creator of existence and source of ase (the life force)
-Orisa: two categories (cool and hot) there actions differ based on their asa
-Ifa: allows for humans to interact with this spiritual world. The diviner (babalawo) use rituals and poetry of Ifa to identify the cosmic forces
- This includes the forces that come and manipulate human affairs
- "The world is a marketplace, the otherworld is home”
- Goals of long life, peace, and prosperity and those are reached by searching for ogbon (wisdom), imo (knowledge), and oye (understanding)
- Open and group decision making society because it reflects the organization in Orun.
- Part of everyone and everything
- Can learn how to use your life force (alaase)
- Shapes social action and social processAssignment: We will be looking at clips from an actual performance. Pay attention to what we see and hear. As you are watch the video you will be recording your observations. After you make your observations think about what we know about Africa, the author, and the Yoruba culture. Based on what you saw in the video and the information we learned in class what are you expecting to learn about from this unit? Think back to our discussion yesterday about culture and the different aspects that are apart of the play.
-First, write down the observations you have after watching some of the video.
-Second, use the observations and the information we have learned these past two days and reflect on what you expect to see in the rest of the unit?
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