Best Books Study Work Guide: My Children! My Africa!. Peter Southey

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СКАЧАТЬ dialogue and stage directions by underlining the stage directions in this extract from p. 44 of your copy of the play:

      All those in favour raise a hand. [Mr M, Thami and Isabel count hands] Seventeen? [Thami and Isabel nod agreement] All those against? [They all count again] Twenty-four? [Reactions from Thami and Isabel] The proposal is defeated by twenty-four votes to seventeen. (4)

      2.The following terms are defined on p. 6 of your copy of the play: Setting, Plot, Conflict, Climax and Character. Write each of them next to the paraphrase that corresponds to it in the table below:

Paraphrase	Term
a.The role-players and what we learn about them during the play
b.The events in the story and how they shape the dramatic structure of the play
c.Where and when the story unfolds
d.The struggle between opposing forces
e.The point in a story when the tension reaches a peak

      (5)

      The drama performance (p. 7)

      This section at the top of p. 7 points out that reading the text of a play is very different from watching a performance. The reader has to rely on his or her ____________________________ in order to picture ____________________________ and ____________________________ and to imagine each character’s, ____________________________ and ____________________________. (6)

      Important dramatic features of My Children! My Africa! (p. 7)

      1.Skim through the play (pp. 41−103) and fill in the number of scenes in each of the acts.

      •Act 1: ________________________ scenes

      •Act 2: ________________________ scenes (2)

      2.In a monologue the character shares his or her ____________________________ with ____________________________, not with ____________________________ . (4)

      Historical background to My Children! My Africa! (p. 7)

      1.Using the notes on the 3 September 1984 Constitution given here, explain the cartoon at the top of p. 8 by filling in the blank spaces below:

      1.1The tri-cameral parliament is likened to ____________________________ in which the spacious bottom floor is ____________________________ while ____________________________ use a ladder to climb through a window into ____________________________. Blacks look on from __________________________________, signifying that _______________________________. (10)

      1.2Black South African resistance began with ____________________________, to which the apartheid government responded with ____________________________ and ____________________________. This in turn provoked ____________________________, to fight back. (5)

      The State of Emergency (p. 8)

      1.The difference between the two states of emergency was that the first affected __________________________________, whereas the second applied to __________________________________. (3)

      2.Both states of emergency aimed to prevent people from ____________________________ or ____________________________, to prevent the media from ____________________________ and to neutralise leaders and intimidate other opponents through _________________________________ and ____________________________. (6)

      The dawn of democracy (p. 8)

      1.The kinds of pressure on the apartheid government to negotiate with the African National Congress (ANC) were ____________________________ from within the country and ____________________________ from the international community. (2)

      2.In June 1990 the only thing clouding the dawn of democracy was conflict between ____________________________ and ____________________________ in ____________________________. (3)

      3.The ____________________________ was finally lifted across the whole of South Africa ____________________________ months later. (2)

      The education crisis of the eighties (p. 9)

      Photograph: Cape Town school students demand free and equal education. (Used with permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement Archive, photographer unknown.)

      Photograph: Soweto school students protesting against being forced to study in Afrikaans. (Used with permission of the Anti-Apartheid Movement Archive, photographer unknown.)

      The Bantu Education Act, which was passed in 1953, established a separate and inferior education system for blacks. The resentment this caused in the African community simmered until 1976, when the government decreed that certain subjects were to be taught in Afrikaans. On 16 June 1976 about 20 000 students took to the streets in Soweto in protest. At least 176 of them were killed by the police during the Soweto Uprising itself and more than 400 other people died in the ensuing unrest across the country. Anger at the inferiority of black education flared up again in the school boycotts that provide the context for My Children! My Africa!

      1.Unequal government spending and poorly qualified teachers in black schools lay behind _________________________________ on 5 and 6 November 1984 and the _________________________________ in 1985. This in turn led to the establishment of the ____________________________ in 1986. (3)

      2.Infrastructure in this context refers to “the stock of fixed capital equipment” in schools. Give four of your own examples of what this refers to.

      •__________________________________

      •__________________________________

      •__________________________________

      •__________________________________

      (4)

      Extract 1: Revealing Mr M’s opinion (p. 10)

      1.Choose three of these words for the gaps in the sentence below:

      resigned angry anxious frustrated confused

      In the first paragraph Mr M sets out feeling _________________________________ at the thought of being late for school. He feels _________________________________ at finding all roads leading to the school are blocked, and ends up feeling ________________________________ as he watches his “world go mad”. (3)

      2.In the second paragraph Mr M tells himself to “wait till you wake up”, thus linking the second paragraph to the word ____________________________ in the first paragraph. (1)

      3.The children throw ____________________________ at the police vehicles and the police respond by throwing ____________________________ at the children. (2)

      Extract 2: Revealing Thami’s opinion (p. 10)

      1.Thami’s “head … refuses to remember” dates when ____________________________ or when ____________________________, СКАЧАТЬ