Students are required to submit at least 2 thought-provoking questions about this week’s readings. This week readings includes: 12th, “A Raisin in the Sun.”
Below you will find a “Leave a Reply” section please reply by submitting your two questions based upon your reading, “A Raisin in the Sun.”
- Your questions should be “Thought Provoking.”
- Please note that EVERY Sunday there are (2) thought provoking questions due.
- Use standard conventions of English in your questions.
Ms. Lewis' English 
1. What was so special about the sky-world?
2. In this story, what did the wife did that filled with curiosity?
1. What where Mandelas beliefs and how did those beliefs effect president Obama and the United States?
2. What are some similarities u see in Obama n Mandela?
1. What effected Obama the most with the passing of Mandela?
2.With the passing of Mandela should the world look back at his story to change the way people think about life itself?
“World on a turtles back revise”
1.what the main purpose of the right and left handed twin?
2. Why were the twins born out of an armpit?
“World on a turtles back revise”
1.what was the main purpose of the right and left handed twin?
2. Why were the twins born out of an armpit?
What effect did Mandela have on Obama?
What do obama and Mandela have in common ?
1. Why did the muskrat survive after diving in the ocean?
2. Why do you think the birds broke the woman’s fall?
1. Did Mandela actually make a change in the United States?
2. Did Mandela change how people thought and what they believed in the United States?
1.Do you think Mandela was a very big influence on some of the movements Obama want to make?
2.if Mandela didn’t meet Obama would u think Obama have different ideas on certain things?
1. What impact did Nelson Mandela have on the United States?
2. What are some similarities and differences between Nelson Mandela and President Obama?
1. Why is Nelson Mandela so important to the United States?
2. Do you think that Nelson Mandela’s life and death changed other’s view of racial equality and fighting for what is right and just?
1. How did the twins creations affect society today?
2. What big idea could you learn about iroquois culture from this reading?
1. How would the world be, if Mandela didn’t fight for freedom?
2. Do people actually appreciate Mandela or just follow the crowd?
1. How did Mandela make a change despite his 27 year imprisonment in South Africa?
2. Would Obama be president, had it not been for someone like Mandela, an african-american leader?
1. Obviously Mandela impacted the world due to his deaths media attention. How great was the impact?
2. What will be the future of South Africa after his death?
(1) why did the good twin kill the evil twin?
(2) why does the iroquois refer to the place in the story as the sky world?
How did he tend to gain so much power, considering his 27 year imprisonment?
Was there a direct affect on America, from Nelson Mandela?
1. Why did the twin kill his brother?
2. Why did one twin kill there mother?
1.Why did the right-handed twin pick up the body and cast it off the edge of the earth.
2. Why is he called “He Holds up the Skies”?
1.What made the right-handed twin beseeched the left-handed twin?
2.What made the right- handed twin go in a direction where he saw light?
1. What really happened to the wife when she looked down the hole, did she slip or did the husband really push her?
2. Why did the grandmother favor the left-handed twin even though he killed his mother with his stubbornness?
1. What philosophy did the myth portray?
2. Who did the left-handed twin resemble? Right-handed twin?
1. What was the main point of people writing myths?
2. Did the myths expand people imagination?
1. when someone has a myth did it actually happen or they are just thinking it .
2. Why were the twins born out of a mouth ?
in the reading, why doesn’t the author elaborate on the meaning of the sky world?
what was the left handed brothers reasoning for killing the innocent grandmother?
1. Why did the twins continue to duel with each other if neither one had won?
2. If the left-handed twin knew how his brother was going to kill him, why did he use a stick that would do him no good?
1. Why was the Left handed twin so evil?
2. Why did the right handed twin kill his grandmother?
1.Did this story take place on a different planet ?
2.why couldn’t anyone help the left handed twin believe in the same thing as the right handed twin?
!. what was special about the roots from the great tree?
2. why were the two children born so differently?
(1) why was the left handed so stubborn??
(2) why was the lady so curious about what was under the sky world??
1. What would have happened had the woman not been given help from the turtle and other animals?
2. Why couldn’t the left handed twin simply believe and receive what the right handed twin had?
1. What made the mother Dig So Deep under the sky world?
2.why do you think the Twin Wanted to come out the armpit ?
1. name two differences between the left and right handed twins.
2. How was the ledt hand twin born?
Ryan,
These are not thought provoking questions, they are direct questions where no thought is required.
The ppl around me asked the same kind of questions if i get a zero they have to get one too thts crazy
1. How did the twins bring balance to the world?
2. Why do you think it was so easy to break a hole in the spirit world?
1. Why wasnt the left handed twin born the right way?
2. If both of the twins was born the right way would the world be balanced?
1. how was the left twin created ?
2. why did the twin kill its mother ?
1. Where was the setting in the story? Was it even on Earth?
1. How come the brothers were twins but so different in many ways?
1. How does the earth on the turtle’s back explain the origin of earth?
2. The events that took place in “The World on a Turtle’s Back” have the strongest resemblance to what biblical account?
1. What would the sky-world be without the right hand twin?
2. If turtles are slow, why did the author choose to use this character in a story like this?
1.Would the sky-world be so much better without the left-handed twin ruining everything?
2.Why would the author name the right-handed twin the good and the left-handed twin the bad?
1. What was so special about the tree?
2. What is the moral of this mythical story?
1. Why did the woman walk in a circle on the turtles back?
2. How did the twins balance the world?
Very Good Ryan!!!!!
1. What is the significance in each character?
2. What is the moral of or meaning of this story?
1. Describe the making of man from “The World on a Turtle’s Back”.
2. Why is the balance between good and evil significant?
Great question John!
1. what was the big difference between the two twins?
2.Dose a myth consist of creativity ?
1. When the woman fell from the sky world, why didn’t any one help her?
2. Why did they choose the turtle’s back to grown the world on?
1. How does the story show the perspective of the author?
2. How does the story show symbolize the balance of the world?
Great question!
If the animals never helped the woman what kind of twist would that be on the story?
Did the grandmother see more of her daughter in the left handed twin to favor him more?
Great question in regards to the grandmother.
was each character born with supernatural powers or did they develop over time?
did his parents have supernatural powers?
(for week of January 2)
1. what is the significance of the great tree?
2. why was it forbidden among the habitants of skyworld?
1.So if the woman never fell from the sky and walked around as the direction as the sun the earth would not grow?
2.How was the left handed twin able to be birthed out of a armpit?
1. How would the world be if the woman only had one child?
2. What happend to the man ? Did he die?
1. What hppened to the grandfather, what his significance after his wife fell down the hole?
2. Was the grandfather so annoyed, that he didnt want to fall down with her and his unborn child?
1. After he knew what he was doing why did the grandmother still favor the left handed twin after he killed his mother, her daughter?
2. Why were the animals so willing to help a stranger?