Assessment - week 7

TOPIC: Assessment
OBJECTIVE: At the end of the week, students answer the following questions.
1. Comment on the setting of the drama book, The Lion and the Jewel.
2. Discuss the theme of betrayal in the drama book.
3. Analyze the storyline of the drama book.
(10 marks each)

SUBJECT: Literature In English (LIE) week 8 and 9.
TOPIC: Techniques in the drama book, The Lion and the Jewel.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: By the end of the lesson, the students should be able to
1. Identify the techniques: simile, language,use of music and dance, rhetorical question,proverb,humour,flashback, allusion,irony, forshadowing, aside, sarcasmetc in the drama book.
2. Illustrate the use of the aforementioned techniques in the drama book.
NOTE:
MEANING OF TECHNIQUE: It is the manner or way a work of art is presented by the writer. It is also referred to as style.The techniques mentioned in the objectives are the dramatic style or techniques used in the drama book.
HOW TO ANSWER ANY QUESTION ON TECHNIQUE: Define the technique.State ample instances of events and or statements where the technique is seen. The examples or instances given is to buttress your point.
For example: illustrate the use of irony in the drama book.
Irony occurs when a person states opposite of what is meant. Irony could be verbal, situational or dramatic.
In the drama book,there is irony when Lakunle pecks Sidi.She tells him that his action of pecking her deceives her,making her think that he wants to whisper something in her ear but she finds out that he licks her lips with his, which is so unclean and rude.
It also ironical that Lakunle who wants to marry Sidi in the modern way without bride price still calls her uncivilized and primitive bush girl.
It ironical that Lakunle who sees himself as an educated and civilized man is seen as a madman and a clown by the villagers.
Another irony is seen when Sidi agrees to marry Lakunle when he stated that he still wants her for marriage after her relationship with Baroka, Lakunle declares himself unprepared for marriage that he must prepare for marriage before marrying her. Sidi on her part is ready to marry Baroka the old and experienced who is matured to pay her bride price instead of a youth who is carried away by modernity.
Finally, ironically,the secret Baroka shared with his first wife on him being impotent is cunningly meant to bring Sidi his prey closer to himself.
EVALUATION:
1. Identify the techniques in the drama book.
2. Illustrate the use of flashback in the drama book.
ASSIGNMENT: Look out for twenty similes in the drama book. Write them down in your notebook.