November 29 th – December 3rd

1. November 29th – December 3rd

2. Please find your seat, take out your HW, and copy down today’s objectives on your Do Now sheet. Objective: SWBAT… 1. Describe and illustrate the vocabulary term subaltern. 2. Identify and explain how subaltern relates to colonialism, post-colonialism, and the novel, Q & A.

3. Please find your seat, take out your HW, and copy down today’s objectives on your Do Now sheet. Objective: SWBAT… 1. Describe and illustrate the vocabulary term subaltern. 2. Identify and explain how subaltern relates to colonialism, post-colonialism, other unit vocabulary, and the novel, Q & A.

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5. Monday, November 29th: Objective: SWBAT… 1. Describe and illustrate the vocabulary term subaltern. 2. Identify and explain how subaltern relates to colonialism, post-colonialism, other unit vocabulary, and the novel, Q & A. Do Now: Agenda: Do Now Subaltern lesson Finish Venn Diagram chart Connecting subaltern to class concepts Exit Ticket Homework: to be given later in the day. • Look over your notes to remind yourself what colonialism and post-colonialism mean. • How does colonialism relate to transgress/transgression and agency? • How does post-colonialism relate to transgress/transgression and agency?

6. Objective: SWBAT Describe and illustrate the word subaltern. Unit Two Vocab #6: SubalternMy Understanding 1 2 3 4 Describe: Draw: Further Understanding: How does this word connect to agency? To post-colonialism? To the novel?

7. Announcements • Last day to make-up the Unit 2 test is Wednesday! • Make an appointment with me to make it up! • After Wednesday, those who have not taken the test receive a ‘0’.

8. Objective: SWBAT Describe and illustrate the word subaltern. Subaltern (noun) • just a classy word for oppressed, for somebody who's not getting a piece of the pie.... • the term began to be used in relation to colonized people in the South Asian subcontinent (India). • The word is used to provided a new perspective on the history of a colonized place from the perspective of the colonized rather than from the perspective of the colonizer (European power). • Subaltern is now regularly used as a term in history, anthropology, sociology, human geography, and literature • Some thinkers use it in a general sense to refer to marginalized groups and the lower classes—a person without agency. • Official Definition: a person who has a subordinate position. • How is the subaltern represented in this photo?

9. What does oppressed/oppression mean? • People who are oppressed? Objective: SWBAT Describe and illustrate the word subaltern.

10. What does oppressed/oppression mean? • Refers to a person or group of people who are not allowed to express their agency. • A person who does not have a choice to make a decision. They are not allowed to. • A person who does not have fundamental basic human rights. Objective: SWBAT Describe and illustrate the word subaltern.

11. Oppress [official definition] • 1. to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism. • 2. to lie heavily upon (the mind, a person, etc.): Care and sorrow oppressed them. • 3. to weigh down, as sleep or weariness does. • 4. Archaic . to put down; subdue or suppress. • 5. Archaic . to press upon or against; crush. Objective: SWBAT Describe and illustrate the word subaltern.

12. How does oppression relate to colonialism? Objective: SWBAT Describe and illustrate the word subaltern.

13. What does oppressed/oppression mean? • Refers to a person or group of people who are not allowed to express their agency. Objective: SWBAT Describe and illustrate the word subaltern.

14. Venn Diagrams – Colonialism, Post-colonialism, and Subaltern Directions: Complete the Venn Diagram by referring to your class notes/vocabulary graphic organizers on colonialism, post-colonialism, the subaltern voice. You should replicate this Venn Diagram on the next page of your Interactive notebook. In each circle, describe what each term means. In the space that overlaps, describe the relationship between each of these three terms. Then, next to each of the three lines on the outside, write words, names, phrases the remind you of these three concepts (either from history class, or from the novel, or from your knowledge of the world). Objective: SWBAT Identify and explain how subaltern relates to colonialism, post-colonialism, other unit vocabulary, and the novel, Q & A.

15. How does colonialism relate to Q & A? • How is post-colonialism apparent in Q & A? Objective: SWBAT Identify and explain how subaltern relates to colonialism, post-colonialism, other unit vocabulary, and the novel, Q & A.

16. Connecting the Subaltern to other Class Concepts Directions: Answer the following questions on the next available page of your Interactive Notebook. Answer each question in 2-3 complete sentences and use your notes on subaltern, agency, transgress, colonialism, and post-colonialism. • Explain how Ram represents the subaltern voice in the novel. • What is the connection between agency and subaltern? 3. How might a subaltern person or group need to transgress in order to have agency? 4. What is the relationship between subaltern, colonialism and post-colonialism? Objective: SWBAT… Identify and explain how subaltern relates to colonialism, post-colonialism, other unit vocabulary, and the novel, Q & A.

17. Objective: SWBAT Identify relationships between three unit two vocabulary words and connect their understanding of these two words to the themes in the novel. Relationships between Vocab. word subaltern, other vocab. words and the novel • Subaltern and agency are connected because sometimes Ram felt he had to transgress and break moral codes and he had to use agency to do that. • Ram is sensitive to the suffering of others and this sensitivities is a flaw– He thinks about his people (the poor, the oppressed, the subaltern) before he thinks of himself. • In the novel Ram encountered many problems that were hard to deal with and therefore Ram was a subaltern-- these problems caused him to be oppressed, or related to the oppression of people in India. • Ram represents the subaltern voice in the novel– Example– he is treated as a subaltern when he is accused of cheating and no one believes that he could have won the game show and had that kind of knowledge because he is poor. • Subaltern, colonialism and post-colonialism all lead into each other– the colonization of a country leads to silence and colonial power is used against the colonized people which leads them to be a subaltern group– the colonizers had a bad effect on them and this has negative effects– post-colonialism examines these effects. • Connection between subaltern and agency: being subaltern means you have no agency because it has been taken away from you because of rules that prevent you from doing things. • Ram represents the subaltern voice in the novel because he speaks for people of India who have been colonized and live in the slums. • A lot of places that have been colonized have more oppressed or subaltern people than before colonialism.

18. Exit Ticket • What is subaltern? • How does subaltern relate to agency? Explain. • How does subaltern relate to colonialism? Explain.

19. Homework Directions: Complete the Venn Diagram by referring to your class notes/vocabulary graphic organizers on colonialism, post-colonialism, the subaltern voice. You should replicate this Venn Diagram on the next page of your Interactive notebook. In each circle, describe what each term means. In the space that overlaps, describe the relationship between each of these three terms. Then, next to each of the three lines on the outside, write words, names, phrases the remind you of these three concepts (either from history class, or from the novel, or from your knowledge of the world).