Drama -My Children! My Africa!

Introduction

My Children! My Africa! is set in South Africa toward the end of apartheid, the period of white supremacist rule that lasted from 1948 to 1994. The apartheid government reserved virtually all political, economic, and social power for white people through a system of forced racial segregation.

However, the play suggests that building a democratic South Africa requires telling the nation’s history from the perspective of all its people, and especially its Black majority, whose ancestors have lived in the area for thousands of years. In particular, the play implies that writing history for a democratic, multiracial South Africa requires emphasizing the long and bloody struggle against apartheid.

Milestones in this struggle include the 1955 Congress of the People, when major political groups came together to form a multiracial coalition against apartheid, and the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, when the police murdered dozens of Black protestors, setting off a wave of further protests.

The uprising that forms a central plot point in My Children! My Africa! was part of a long wave of violent revolts that shook South Africa. Along with an international boycott campaign, these protests and revolts played a crucial role in building political momentum to end the apartheid regime, which gradually transferred power to a new democratic government from 1987 to 1994.

Task

reading students -will interpret texts with attention to ambiguity, complexity, and aesthetic value.

2 Genre and Rhetorical Situation-Students will evaluate genres of writing and write in appropriate genres and modes for a variety of purposes and audiences

3 Culture, History, and Power-Students will read diverse texts within their historical and cultural contexts, developing a critical understanding of how literature can both uphold and resist existing structures of power.

4 Critical Approaches- Students will deploy ideas from works of criticism and theory in their own reading and writing.

5 Manage the work on a daily basis

Process

In order to complete the task, you'll have to access the pdf version of the drama . once you completed that, you're required to reflect on your knowledge about the apartheid regime, what was it? and how did the system operate and so on.

your responses should be shared with me using your google drive in a mp4 format .

Evaluation

1. link to the pdf/softcopy of the book

https://gifs.africa/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Grade-12-English-FAL-My-Children-My-Africa-Mind-the-Gap-Study-Guide.pdf

2. link to detailed summary and analysis

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/my-children-my-africa

2. share using

218170408mangxolas@gmail.com

Conclusion

Because drama is largely concerned with the examination of human issues and behavior in specific social contexts, the classroom would appear to be an ideal setting for devising dramatic situations in which children engage in different language modes to make discoveries about themselves and the world in which they live in. In this point of time it was quite a challenge because we are leaving in a very abnormal times of Covid-19. so students do not get to freely express themselves without having a selection of words online.