Wednesday, September 27 ~ South Africa and Apartheid

Warm Up:

Prefix

• federis - league, pact
• frater - brother

Suffix

• ion, sion, tion - act, result or state of
• ish - origin, nature, resembling

Root

• fac, fact, fic, fect - do, make 

The Power of One 
Finish Chapter 1

HOMEWORK

• J8 - Answer the following questions:

1. Do you have a place like Inkosi-Inkosikazi's waterfalls where you can go in your mind when you're in trouble? Why do you think that it's important for the young boy to be able to comfort himself in this way?
2.  How would this story be different if the narrator were fifteen, or twenty-one, or fifty when it begins? What is it about childhood that is important to the novel?
3.  Do you identify with any of the characters so far? (Pisskop? Judge? Mevrou? Nanny? Granpa Chook? Inkosi?) Are you able to look at events in the book through their eyes—even if you don’t like or approve of them? Do they remind you of people in your own life? Or yourself?
4. Title Drop! The title, The Power of One is mentioned on page twenty-one.What is the significance of the title in regards to the young lad? Regarding South Africa?