We continued our discussion on Part Two of K Boy.
We had a vocabulary check on the first page of the third vocabulary list.
We began to write in our journals on the subject of poverty.
Below is the handout that served as a springboard for your journal writing, which must be at least a page long and is due on or before Thursday. The handout is printed in red for your ease of reference.
Springboard for Journal Writing about Poverty
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa
I think that’s how Chicago New York
Richard Jeni
It is a tragic mix-up when the United States
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Laziness travels so slowly that soon poverty overtakes it.
Benjamin Franklin
The mother of revolution and crime is poverty.
Aristotle
Love conquers all except poverty and toothache.
Mae West
Remember the poor – it costs nothing.
Mark Twain
The prevalent fear of poverty among our educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
William James
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of; in a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucious
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
Zora Neale Hurston
There was never a war on poverty; maybe there was a skirmish on poverty.
Andrew Cuomo
Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn’t commit.
Eli Kamarov
“For Those Who Need a True Story”
The landlord told Raymond’s mother that twelve dollars
would be deducted from their rent for every rat killed.
She sends her son to the store for a loaf of Wonder Bread
and five pounds of ground beef. Young Raymond
returns with bread & meat that she tears and mixes inside
a metal bowl. Mama seasons this meatloaf with rat poison
pulled from the cabinet beneath the sink. Well done,
meat sits steaming in the middle of the kitchen floor.
Then the scratching scurries. The squeaking begins
And screeches its toward the bowl.
Raymond describes the wave of rats like a tidal crash
covering the bowl, leaping over each other’s bodies,
then the dropping, the stutter kicks.
A chorus of rat screams rambles through Raymond’s ears.
Keening, furry bodies tense paws against churning guts
as they hit cracked linoleum until an hour passes.
Silence sweeps away the din in death’s footsteps.
The mother’s voice quivers in her next request.
Raymond, help me count them.
They waded through these small deaths with rubber gloves,
listened to the thump of each dead rat as it rustled against
the slackness of plastic bags.
Raymond wanted to stop counting,
but mama needed to save a dozen dollars
wherever she could
if they wanted to finally leave the rats behind.
After the last rat was counted, Raymond handed
the bag to the landlord as proof. Here.
Enough rats to skip the rent for three months.
Enough rats to avoid the fear of sweet sleeping
breath leading to bitten lips.
Healthy children wrapped in designer dictates
cannot describe Raymond’s fear of rabies,
the smell of poison rotting from the inside out,
the scratching inside the walls at night.
Those children
should find soft lives
that drop pendulums in their dreams
and never tell another story
about the ghetto
until they’ve had to count rats
with their hands.
Tara Betts
For your test on Monday, you will write an essay on South Africa. You will be able to use your NYT article and your knowledge of South African history as well as your knowledge of K Boy. The South African history that you will need to know is listed in blue below:
Boer Wars
Apartheid
Pass laws
Sharpeville Massacre of 1960
Bantu Education Act
Soweto Uprising of 1976
Steve Biko
Donald Woods
Nelson Mandela
Bishop Desmond Tutu
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission
You will also need to know the following sentence patterns, printed in bright colors for your ease of reference:
IC; IC.
IC, [fanboys] IC.
SC (or DC), IC.
IC SC.
Finally, you will also need to know the definitions of the words from all three vocabulary lists, which are printed below with a brown background for your ease of reference:
Incoherent | ||
Blatant | ||
Aside(s) | ||
Affected, affectation | ||
Condescending | ||
Vituperative | ||
Patronizing | ||
Sardonic | ||
Meek | ||
Petulance end of WH #1 | ||
Fawn (verb) | ||
Censorious, censure | ||
Ambivalent | ||
Chide | ||
Deprecate (end of WH #2) | ||
Mollify | ||
Philosophical | ||
Servile | ||
Peremptory | ||
Pernicious | ||
Didactic | ||
Cynical | ||
Wistful | ||
Imperious | ||
Pragmatic | ||
Altruistic | ||
Incongruous | ||
Bemuse | ||
Ambiguous |
First Kaffir Boy List and Exciting Vocabulary Assignment
WORD | DEFINITION | P.O.S. |
Inaudible | ||
Cower (8, 15) | ||
Din | ||
Taut | ||
Writhe (12) | ||
Impregnable (11, 17) | ||
Ominous (11) | ||
Surly | ||
Spent (adj.) | ||
Unscathed (19) | ||
Flail | ||
Truncheon (8) | ||
Plaintive | ||
Incredulous | ||
Brandish (21) | ||
Contrite, contrition | ||
Impassive | ||
Dispassionate | ||
Gape, gaping | ||
Oblivious | ||
Semblance | ||
Indelible (28) | ||
Incessant | ||
Pittance (30) | ||
Precipitous (30) | ||
Precarious | ||
Innate (31) | ||
Congenital | ||
Deviance, deviant | ||
Sporadic | ||
Wreak (37) | ||
Fulcrum | ||
Curry (verb) | ||
Nemesis | ||
Emaciated (38) | ||
Lethargic (38) | ||
Tenacity, tenacious (39) | ||
Commensurate (39) | ||
Portent, portend (40) | ||
Harbinger | ||
Vigil, vigilant, vigilante | ||
Inexorable | ||
Sumptuous |
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) |
Have a great weekend!
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