1a. What source prompts Nancy to say "A penny for your thoughts, Mike"? What idea does she have to beautify the school compound?
2a. What does the teacher who has been at the school three years remember?
3a. How does the priest explain the importance of the path to the village?
1b. Is Nancy more influenced by modern Western culture or by traditional African culture? Are her views different from her husband's? What character traits do the garden reveal about Nancy?
2b. Is Obi willing to learn from others? What adjectives describe him?
3b. Is Obi or the priest more tolerant of the other's beliefs?
4a. Analyze Obi's motivations in valuing the flowerbeds and hedges more than the villagers' beliefs.
4b. What does the path mean to the villagers?
5a. Evaluate whether the Ani community was justified in destroying the flowerbeds, hedges, and school building.
5b. One way that the destruction of the school property might have been avoided is if the priest and Obi had compromised. Describe a conflict in your personal life, in government, in fiction, or in the movies. Tell what each side wanted and explain how the conflict was resolved.
Narrator.Whose opinion is presented in the sentence "Ndume School was backward in every sense of the word"? How reliable is the narrator of "Dead Men's Path"? With whom do the narrator's sympathies lie?
Foreshadowing.Review the cluster chart you made for Literary Tools. What events do the sentences you found foreshadow?
1. Imagine you are a student reporter at Ndume Central School. Write a newspaper article describing the destruction of school property and explaining why it happened. You may want to include an interview with one of the villagers.
2. Write a dialogue in which Michael and Nancy discuss the destruction of school property and the superintendent's report.
3. Imagine you are Michael Obi. Write a journal entry after the Supervisor's report, explaining what you have learned about yourself and the village.
Irregular Verbs. Read the Language Arts Survey 3.41, "Using Irregular Verbs." Then rewrite the following sentences, putting the irregular verbs into the past tense.
1. Michael Obi feels confident about his abilities to improve Ndume Central School.
2. His wife sees herself as the admired wife of the young headmaster.
3. Villagers sometimes run through the flower beds of the compound.
4. The village priest brings a new perspective about the old village footpath.
5. Obi makes a mistake by ignoring the desires of the villagers.
Researching Nigeria. With several students, research the population, religion, language, education, health, and employment in Nigeria. Prepare a fact sheet about the topic you select.
Research Log
Research Findings on Nigeria:
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