Spring Break Homework Due Monday April 5

Read the excerpt from Racism and Colonialism as Praxis and Process by Jean-Paul Sartre (1960) and choose five questions to answer from the following:

1. How is the colonized reduced to sub-human?
2. What kind of economic and soical systems does France have?
3. What kind of economic and social systems does Algeria have?
4. What kind of relationship did the nineteenth-century colonials wars produce between the colonialists and the natives?
5. How is this relationship carried out?
6. What does France use to pacify the Algerians?
7. How did the natives respond to pacification?
8. What is the Muslim (native Algerian) considered by the French colonialist? Why?
9. How did the French transform the Algerian feudal structure? Into what did they transform it?
10. What determined the "class" that ruled Algeria? Of whom was this class composed?
11. How did this class establish its system?
12. Define pauperization and explain what role it played in colonizing Algeria.
13. What was the colonial goal?
14. Identify two main French institutions that worked to colonize/pauperize Algeria.
15. What is the main purpose of Algerian colonization?
16. What are the three direct levels of action of the colonialists to achieve their goals?
17. What do the children of the colonialist and those of the colonized share in common?
18. Where do you think this relationship will lead?
19. Define the French bourgeois. Why could they not conceive of the Algerian as anything but a dog?
20. What is the pauperization of the community actually a result of?
21. Where does the violence return to when there is a lull in the colonial war?
22. What examples does Sartre provide to support this assertion?
23. Who must the colonialis discover the native to be? What does this provide for the colonialist?
24. What literary parallel does the author use to illustrate the necessary perception of colonial power?
25. What is the necessary perception of the colonized?
26. Can the colonialist exist without the colonized?
27. What is the purpose of racist progaganda?
28. Why does the colonialist need the status quo?
29. What is the raison d'etre of the colony/metropolis relationship?
30. How does the colonialist keep the native in a state of "sub-humanity"?
31. What does the colonial oppressor recognize in violent rebellion against him?

Earn extra credit by answering more than five questions.
Source: Steven Avalos, Franklin High School

Introduction to Existentialism

This week we are reading the short story The Guest, by Albert Camus, as an introduction to existentialism. There will be a test on Thursday. On Friday, we will pass out copies of Camus's novella The Stranger.

Existentialism: a modern European philosophy emphasizing the meaninglessness of the outer world. Camus believed humans are free to make moral choices and that what gives meaning to life.

Bring Your Writer's Choice Book

We will be doing grammar the rest of the week.

Poetry Trilogy Assignment

1. Choose three poems (by two or three poets) with the same theme. At least one of the poets should be one that we read in class. Write a five-paragraph essay comparing and contrasting the poems in terms of theme.
Possible themes: love, death, nature, loneliness, alienation, routine of life How does each poet deal with the theme?

2.Write one to two paragraphs on each poet in your own words. (Plagiarism will be punished by receiving a zero on the assignment and notification of college counselor Judy Campbell. Three instances of cheating disqualifies a student from scholarship opportunities.)

3.Reproduce each of the three poems and annotate by highlighting or underlining at least two literary terms and making a note in the margin.

DUE MONDAY MARCH 8 TYPED