Thursday

Journal Entry 7

Pages 202-232

5 Comments
  • Bantu Education has just be overthrown and replaced with people's education.
  • Under this new education reform nobody has to repeat a class for fighting in the liberation struggle.
  • Under this new reform now kids have become lose under no guidance.
  • Kids in the classroom are now hurting teachers by either stabbing them, shooting them or beating them.
  • Miriam is not becoming interested in Sex because of the AIDS virus which has become a epidemic in the ghetto.

4 Questions

  • What is to be " necklaced"
  • why arent children being placed under order?
  • why arent the kids being held accountable for their crimes against the teachers?
  • what is a IUD?

3 Vocabulary Words

  • Apartheid (Pg. 203)-
  • Quake (Pg, 202)-
  • Admonition (Pg. 203)-

2 Literacy Techniques

  • Metaphor (pg 207)- " had instituted various townships as a mean of pacifying africans in the wake of protests"
  • Man vs Man: (Pg.208)- " during one week police and soldiers kill nearly two dozen comrades, most of them youngsters"

1 Sentence Summary

  • War is now official between the comrades and poice and soldiers. A all out battle has now begin in the streets of Alexandra.

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