October 2010
EQ: How does literature help us connect to and understand the world?
Our Question: What did The Mzungu Boy teach me about colonial Kenya?
Our Question: How do the boys’ different backgrounds influence their experiences in colonial
Kenya?
Guidelines and Deadlines
Guidelines:
When you demonstrate your understanding of the issues in The Mzungu Boy, be sure to address:
• the essential questions
• the readings about colonial Kenya
• You can also refer to what you learned during the last Socratic Seminar.
Deadlines:
The assessment is due 20 minutes after the bell rings for your Humanities class on
Friday, 8 October.
• A crucial element for this assessment will be your time management skills.
Project Requirements:
Written
Project is clearly
Project represents simplistic Project is connected to
EQ: connected to essential
or concrete thinking; difficult and supports the
question; complex,
to connect to essential essential question;
What did Mzungu creative, and original
question; project distracts includes critical and
Boy and other metaphoric and abstract
from meaning; extensive, metaphoric thinking;
texts teach me thinking; no further verbal
extra explanation required to may require minor
about colonial or written explanation
understand project and explanation to
Kenya? needed to demonstrate
demonstrate learning. demonstrate learning.
learning.
Project is clearly
EQ: Project represents simplistic Project is connected to
connected to essential
or concrete thinking; difficult and supports the
question; complex,
How do the boys’ to connect to essential essential question;
creative, and original
different question; project distracts includes metaphoric &
metaphoric and abstract
backgrounds from meaning; extensive, abstract thinking; may
thinking; no further verbal
influence their extra explanation required to require minor
or written explanation
experiences in understand project and explanation to
needed to demonstrate
colonial Kenya? demonstrate learning. demonstrate learning
learning.
Completed required
Learning Completed required
Did complete required number of journal entries.
Reflection number of journal
number of journal entries. Thoughtful reflections of
Journal: How Do I entries. Thoughtful
Missing more than two ALL elements of: “How do
Know I’m reflections of most
thoughtful reflections. you know you’re
learning? elements of: “How do
learning?”
you know you’re
learning?”