TFAJournal+Joe

April 5, 2010
1. Read through Ch 14 (pg 135) 2. Do journal entry related to chapters 12-14 including these things: a) Paragraph of Text-to-Text/Self/World Connection b) Predictions about what's to come in the remainder of the book. c) A question related to either of the previous two paragraphs in today's journal 3. Begin thinking about traditions and a possible person (15+ years older than your parents if possible) whom you would like to interview for the project that is coming up.

a. I thought that the death of Ogbuefi Ezeude's death isn't that bad knowing that Ogbuefi was the one who wanted Ikemefuna dead. I think anyone can relate the death of Ogbuefi's son. Everyone has some sort of bad accident, I once dropped a dumbbell on my brothers foot. It looked really gross. Although, his punishment did seem harsh. I could have just been banished or something, but they burned everything he had. Even Obierika thought it was too much, and then he questions why his twins were killed.

b. I think that now Okwonkwo cannot become a lord like he previously wanted. He will become lazy like his father or ended running away to some far off place.

c. How can people so passionately believe in gods and stuff without any proof?

April 2
====1. Read Chapters 9-11 2. Do journal entry related to chapters 9-1 including these three things: a) Paragraph of Text-to-Text/Self/World Connection b) An interpretive or evaluative question stemming from the first paragraph of your journal. c) Respond to someone else's question on his/her journal page. Then write a line on your own page saying, "I responded to _'s question" so I will know where to find your response.====

====a. I thought it was very sad that all of Ekwefi's children have died over and over again. They are born then they die, nine times. It would be a horrible thing for a mother. I hear giving birth is very painful and that when a baby is born, there's some sort of connection that would make the mom give her life to protect the baby. I would hate to grow up and die at an early age. I don't really see the point in the tortoise story, maybe it was to prove that the medicine man is so good he can fix a turtle shell, but why couldn't they have just said that instead of telling this weird, and useless story.====

b. What is the point of the tortoise story?
c. I answered Kyu's question

March 31
1. Read Chapters 7-8 2. Do journal entry related to chapters 7-8 including these three things: a) Paragraph of Text-to-Text/Self/World Connection b) Do a close reading of one paragraph coming from any of the chapters we've read somehow; post that somehow (diigo, scanned image, voice thread, or other option) c) An interpretive or evaluative question stemming from the first paragraph of your journal or your close reading activity.

a. In the beginning of chapter 7, it explains how Ikemefuna has been living with Okwonkwo for about three years, and that the elders of Umuofia were forgetting about him. I can totally relate that to myself. I have this feeling that my friends, and not very close family members, in America are starting to forget me a little bit. I can see it too, we talk less frequently online, and when we do talk it's very boring and stuff. I slowly feel more at home here in Korea, and think of it as my home. Although I prefer America, I feel as if I went back to America, part of me would miss Korea. I feel like Okwonkwo was wrong to kill his "child." He treated him like his own and Ikemefuna even called Okwonkwo a dad. I think Okwonkwo is a bad father.

b. "Obiako has always been a strange one," said Nwakibie. "I have heard that many years ago, when his father had not been dead very long, he had gone to consult the Oracle. The Oracle said to him, 'Your dead father wants you to sacrifice a goat to him.' Do you know what he told the Oracle? He said, 'Ask my dead father if he ever had a fowl when he was alive,'" Everybody laughed heartily except Okonkwo, who laughed uneasily because, as the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb. Okonkwo remembered his own father. dead very long,

underline - alliteration Oracle is repetitive

c. What drove Okwonkwo to kill his hypothetical son?

March 27 1. Read Chapters 3-6 2. Do journal entry related to chapters 3-6 including these three things: a.. Paragraph of Text-to-Text/Self/World Connection b.. Paragraph regarding an Ibo cultural tradition mentioned in Ch. 3-6 c. A question in relation to either paragraph one or two 3. Continue filling out character chart and looking for proverbs/sayings/stories as you read

They eat yams with everything, like Koreans eat sweet potatoes with a lot of different stuff. I noticed that their culture consists of may yams, multiple wives, I was wondering why it is ok to hit wives and children so violently without punishment.