Practiced multiple choice questions using Nelson Mandela's Nobel Peace Prize speech. Your test on Monday will follow the same format.
Wrote in journals about apartheid or any form of oppression. I have copied and pasted the springboard quotes below in red for your ease of reference.
Springboard for Journal Writing about Apartheid and Oppression
Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
Edward Heath
Apartheid does not happen spontaneously, like bad weather conditions.
Jonathan Kozol
I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.
Zola Budd
It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
Oliver Tambo
It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt – in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure – to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.
Harry Openheimer
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression from majorities (and the smallest majority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Carl T. Rowan
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nobokov
Never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land shall again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela
No oppression is so heavy or so lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph Addison
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody’s business to interfere when they see it.
Anna Sewell
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Simone Weil
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.
Malcolm X
Racial discrimination, South Africa
Oliver Tambo
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
Rise like lions after slumber
In unvanquisable number –
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Poet to Bigot”
I have done so little
For you,
And you have done so little
For me,
That we have good reason
Never to agree.
I, however,
Have such meager
Power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
Langston Hughes
Monday, your green vocabulary sheet is due, which I have copied and pasted below in green for your ease of reference.
K Boy, Vocabulary, Pt. II
WORD | DEFINITION | P.O.S. |
Oracle (123) | ||
Wizened (126) | ||
Admonish (126) | ||
Inscrutable (127) | ||
Notoriety(127) | ||
Peruse (128) | ||
Paradox (129) | ||
Accosted (130) | ||
Belligerent (132) | ||
Vehemently (132) | ||
Mores (132) | ||
Beacon (134) | ||
Chronic (137) | ||
Bedlam (137) | ||
Pandemonium (138) | ||
Audacity (138) | ||
Rampage (138) | ||
Atrocity (139) | ||
Placidly (143) | ||
Akimbo (146) | ||
Pugilism (153) | ||
August (156) | ||
Dastardly (156) | ||
Mitigate (161) | ||
Flout (161) | ||
Acrimonious (163) | ||
Supine (164) | ||
Ensconced (164) | ||
Limpid (164) | ||
Unintelligible (165) | ||
Lurid (165) | ||
Recapitulate (165) | ||
Mire (166) | ||
Implacable (166) | ||
Enervated (166) | ||
Succumb (167) | ||
Voracious (170) | ||
Augment (173) | ||
Panacea (177) | ||
Enigmatically (182) | ||
Capitulate (184) | ||
Abject (191) | ||
Paternalistic (198) | ||
Contrite (200) | ||
Fusillade (200) | ||
Maverick (203) |
Also, you may complete and use during the test Monday the following reference sheet, which is printed in blue for your reference.
Cheat Sheet for Monday’s Test
Word | Definition | POS |
Pervades | ||
Reprobation | ||
Ostentation | ||
Avow | ||
Fain | ||
Panegyrist | ||
Manifest | ||
Enervated | ||
Sepulcher | ||
Oligarchy | ||
Theocracy | ||
Meritocracy | ||
Plutocracy | ||
Xenophobia | ||
Deductive reasoning | ||
Adage | ||
Ad hominem argument | ||
Emulate | ||
Paradox | ||
Non sequitur | ||
Euphemism | ||
Invective | ||
Audacity | ||
Venerable | ||
Chastisement | ||
Disaffection | ||
Vengeance | ||
Parchment | ||
Conscript | ||
Culpable | ||
Nefarious | ||
Conflagration | ||
Garrison | ||
Eradicated | ||
Machinations | ||
Impious | ||
Auspices | ||
Brazen | ||
Elegiac | ||
Nonchalant | ||
Apostrophe | ||
Omniscience | ||
Omnipresence | ||
Scapegoat | ||
Profane |
Monday, it may be wise to bring your Kaffir Boy to class. You may have time to read Part II, which is approximately 100 pages and is due Thursday.
Finally, please let me know on Monday if you would like to order a copy of Zeitoun from either Barnes and Noble or Border's through me at a teacher discount.
Have a great weekend!
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