Excerpt from Kaffir Boy

Introduction Notes

Dialogue:

• ___________ Dialogue- the _________ words spoken by a person

• Uses quotation marks and dialogue _______.

Ex. “This time next fall, you will be in school,” __________my mother.

“Why would I go to _____________? You’ll never see me wasting my time at school!” I vowed.

• ___________Dialogue- __________of what is said by a _______ or _______

Ex. When my mother began dropping _________ that I would soon be going to school, I vowed never to go to school because it was a waste of time.

Mark Mathabane:

• Grew up in ______________________________

• Spent childhood in a unheated shack with no electricity or running water

• Learned to love school and received a scholarship for high school

• Received a tennis scholarship to a ___________________________ college

Kaffir Boy and Apartheid

• His story about his childhood living under apartheid

• _________________- racial segregation and in South Africa between 1948-1991

• Began with The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949

• Immorality Act of 1950

• Population Registry Act of 1950- classified _________________- “black” “white” “couloured” “Indian”

• 1960-1982-3.5 million “nonwhite” residences were forced into ______________________ neighborhoods

Vocabulary:

• Benzene- element of crude oil

• Pilchards-small oily fish

• Shebeens- illicit “_____________________” bars

• Scropbrush- scrub brush

• Kaffir- an insulting term for a ___________________________

Questions for reading:

Paragraph #1:

1. What does Mathabane mean when he says that he “revered” the gang of boys so much that their words were as important as an “oracle’s” words?

Paragraph #2:

2. Why was the lifestyle of these gang boys exciting to Mathabane?

3. How did the gang boys feel about school?

Paragraph #3:

4. What did the gang boys learn to do first?

5. Why does Mathabane see an advantage in staying in the gang?

Paragraph 4-7:

6. How does Mathabane feel about baths?

Paragraph 8-15:

7. Why is Mathabane afraid when he hears a knock at the door?

Paragraph 16-25:

8. What are 3 details in this section show the reader that Mathebane’s family is poor?

Paragraph 26-35:

9. What is Mathebane’s reaction when his Granny says he is going to school?

10. How do Granny and his mother finally get Mathebane to go to school?