AFL2603 Assignment 1 Semester 1 2023

AFL2603 Assignment 1 Semester 1 2023 Answers, guidelines, workings and references ................................................................. Question 1 a. How did people in the olden days prior formal education, transfer knowledge and skills to their children? Support your answers with relevant examples. (15) b. Folksongs and praise poems are always regarded as old fashioned and outdated. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Support your answers with relevant examples. (10) /25/ Question 2 a. Define the term ‘character’. (2) b. Authors use characters and different strategies to portray the theme. Choose any novel of your choice in one of the indigenous languages of South Africa and indicate how the author successfully used characters and different strategies to portray the theme. (23) /25/Question 3 Read the following poem and answer the following questions: I was born into the language, I drank it. I never just heard it Or learned it from someone. I drank it from my mother’s breast. Soon as I got some sense, I heard language N │uu language. I heard N │uu from my pa and my mom And my grand and my grandpa. N │uu we spoke at home. Afrikaans I learned to speak from those farmers. That language, we had a hard time of it with the white people and that language. But N │uu was the language of the heart. When I heard N │uu, many people spoke it. But they all died off into time, and so we weren’t allowed to talk N I uu. We had to speak Afrikaans. 14 That is why N │uu has died out. Personally, I feel heartsore and sad about it, And so I teach it to people So N │uu can stay a while longer. It’s the language of my parents and great-grandparents. (By Ouma Geelmeid. Poem extracted from the book titled I wish I’d Said: A product of the AVBOB Poetry Project,) extracted from Pg 315.) (a) Give the content of the poem. (10) (b) What is the poet’s tone and intention? Extract the entence from the poem to support your answer. (3) (c) Comment on the external structure of the poem. (7) (d) Write ONE figure of speech that you can identify from the poem and say wether it suit to be used in the poem or not. (2) (e) Can you give the above poem a title? In addition, why? (3) /25/ Question 4 a What are picture books? Write five types of picture books and give their value to children. (11) b Briefly indicate the educational value of children’s games. (4) c. What is the difference between children’s literature and adult literature? Give three answers and support each answer. (6) d. In your own opinion, what could be the reasons of having a limited number of published children’s literature books in most African languages? Give two reasons. (4) /25/ TOTAL: [100