FIELA'S+CHILD

Completion of synopsis charts Individual discussion on Essay titles
 * Friday 9th March**

Supervised writing
 * Wednesday 7th March**

Interactive Oral
 * Monday 5th March**

1000 words; //Turnitin// by Monday 27th February
 * Friday 17th - Friday 24th February**
 * Read to the end of the book before Friday 24th February
 * Essay: 'How is the identity of the title character of //Fiela's Child// finally resolved?'

Chapter 21:
 * 'Why, God, why?' (226)
 * 'Horses were in his blood' (227)
 * You had to be born in that wilderness to be able to tell the difference between one turn and another' (228)

Chapter 22:
 * He always chose to be an elephant ... 'I would like to be a rock alder' (231)
 * After he had come to realize that he //was// Lukas van Rooyen and accepted it, things had been better ... In the Forest he learned that unhappiness was something you got use to ... (234)
 * The milkwoods formed a tunnel ... (236)
 * When, as a child, ... and he stood rooted to his tracks. (236)
 * 'What ship is that ... how did it get there?' (237)
 * '... there is no name on her.' (237)
 * 'I'm not your aunt, I'm //Miss// Weatherbury' ( 242) ... 'I'll decide that for myself' (243)
 * 'We get a lot of foreign seamen coming here ... I try not to think what might have happened to her ...' (243)
 * ... the restlessness had to do with the boat (246)
 * '... I'm not coming back. I'm finished with the Forest.' (251)

Chapter 23:
 * He was reaching out for something that was passing him by and he knew that if he did not grab hold of it, if he missed the opportunity ... (253)
 * 'It's no use changing your name when ill-luck is upon you already' (257)
 * Kaliel's house (259)
 * '... they changed her name ... thinking they could cheat the devil ...' (260)
 * there were things about himself he did not understand—it made him restless (264)
 * 'They say you have the evil eye if your eyes are crossed ...' (266)
 * 'The captains are always on the lookout for white girls.' (267)

Chapter 25:
 * Cain's mark ... / '... you're as marked as I am! You're a woodcutter and the Forest will cling to you for the rest of your life!' (277)
 * somewhere in the fog ... / ... For a moment his body had forgotten that she was his sister (280)
 * the fog was lying even thicker ... / ... a night of confusion ... / ... who was he? (283-4)

Chapter 26:
 * Why would a ship want to commit suicide? (289)
 * He had hoped she would say he must not go ... (290)
 * 'They don't have money and they're not as stupid as you think they are.' (291)
 * 'I did not determine my fate, Nina. It's a mystery that's destroying me.' (296)

Chapter 27:
 * the five shillings (302)
 * the prodigal son (302)
 * a wasp stirred from its nest (305)
 * 'Which one are you in your soul?' (306)
 * she wrote his name into the Bible: Benjamin Komoetie. With a pencil. ... written his name into the book of the law: Lukas van Rooyen. With ink. (308)

Chapter 29:
 * '... you handle an oar like a man from the sea. Who are you?' ... / ... 'I feel nothing.' / '... then you're dead' (323)
 * The seaman was dead but he was alive (330) ... Lukas van Rooyen had died on the footpath (331)
 * he was not looking for the ewe that had walked away from him, he was looking for the man that had acted god (339)
 * 'Who //are// you?' / 'Nobody.' (341)

Chapter 31:
 * luck that the child had been taken away from Coloured people (345)
 * could have been a rich man's child (346)

Chapter 32:
 * 'Go and put it back in the cave.' (348)
 * he was alive and he could be whoever he wanted to be (349)
 * 'It's a good name, an old Hottentot name.' (350)

Continue reading the novel ... As you read ...
 * Friday 10th - Friday 17th February**
 * continue graphic chart of plot ... (I will check periodically)
 * think about the significance of stories about animals ... especially baby animals ... in the novel ...
 * look out for 'pairs' of events ...
 * think about the references for each chapter that I shall post **here**: (we shall talk about them from time to time)

Chapter 10:
 * 'Don't be a Job's comforter, Selling! We must have faith.' (97)
 * The magistrate had said that from now on he was white again. He had always been white. (102)
 * They opened the box and ate some of the food his mother had packed. (103)

Chapter 11:
 * 'You just have to see that you don't get between a tigress and her young' (111)
 * Daniel in the lions' den. (114)
 * Prince Alfred had come to shoot an elephant in the forest. (119)


 * Homework:**
 * **Read to the end of Chapter 11 (p.119) before Monday 13th February**

Chapter 12:
 * Nina's 'secret'
 * when //he// was twelve years' old ... (130); 'When I was your age ...' (133)
 * the two children did quite well. ... with the second try they got it up ...' (135)
 * Malie: 'One would never have thought that he'd turn out to be such a handsome boy' (137)

Chapter 13:
 * You could not just kick aside the law as it pleased you. (146)

Chapter 14:
 * the wretch was scared ... he could not help but to laugh to himself ... (157)
 * with every lash the wretch screamed ... (158); For every answer he gave him a lash. 'And who are you?' (159)
 * '... she was used to playing in the Forest every day.' / '... The Forest is not a place for a girl on her own.' (162)
 * 'I'll go and look for her.' He did not know what had made him say it ... (162)

Chapter 15:
 * ... the Bible ... story about about the two women who had fought over one child (164)
 * 'You would not think it was the same bird that you got from Koos.' (167)
 * 'What he had on the day he got lost can make no difference. ... — you might even tell me you've kept the clothes and ... ' (171)
 * '... it would have happened sooner or later.' / '... because Benjamin is a //white// foundling.' (174)
 * ... the deep roar of a male ostrich getting ready to take his mate' (175)

Chapter 16:
 * ... take care with the covering, though; think poles covered with branches and leaves ... (177); compare with p.165
 * The forester turned up just before midday. (p.178)


 * Homework:**
 * **Read to the end of Chapter 16 (p.183) before Wednesday 15th February**

Chapter 17:
 * Compare with pp.98-99 and pp.118-9

Chapter 18:
 * The morning he cut the forty-first notch in the pole ... (189)
 * You did not give someone's things to him ... (200)
 * '... a dead elephant's calf ...' (205)

Chapter 19:
 * thoughts about returning to the Long Kloof (pp.207f, 219f)
 * Nina/Christina ... mouth-organ ... birds ... work in village

Chapter 20:
 * twelve sons (p.224)


 * Homework:**
 * **Read to the end of Chapter 20 (p.225) before Friday 17th February**


 * Wednesday 8th February**

Read chapters 8-10


 * Monday 6th February**

Discuss contrasting natural environments in which Elias and Fiela live. Read chapter 7 ... Benjamin's journey to Knysna Discuss the imagery used to describe the environment through which he travels


 * Homework:**
 * Draw a chart showing the two contrasting environments between which Benjamin travels; also, the more 'other-worldly' environment through which he travels


 * Friday 3rd February**

Continue with work set.


 * Wednesday 1st February**

Read chapter 6.

Complete the following activities by Wednesday 8th February

1) Construct a chart comparing the different kinds of economic activities and plans in the Van Rooyen and Komoetie households.

2) Write two 'internal monologues':
 * Elias after he receives the summons to the Magistrate's
 * Fiela after Benjamin leaves for Knysna

Include their
 * recollections of events nine years earlier
 * thoughts about how their families have changed in the intervening years
 * fears/hopes for the future

Try to use the kind of language and expressions they might have used.


 * Monday 30th January**

Read chapter 4 ... identify the different kinds of economic activity/plans in Fiela's family Read chapter 5 ...


 * Homework**:
 * finish chapter 5
 * Start to chart plot of novel using graphic organiser ... three rows: one each for Fiela, Benjamin & Elias ... complete up to chapter 5


 * Friday 27th January**

Discuss Fiela and her family

Homework: 'Compare and contrast the characters of Elias and Fiela with reference to chapters one and three.' 500-1000 words, //turnitin// by Monday 30th January


 * Wednesday 25th January**

Read chapter 1 ... identify and discuss Elias and the forest community Read chapter 2 ... identify 'Benjamin'

Homework: read chapter 3