Introduction
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Read and answer the questions for The Wise Sayings of Saadi
Timeline of important events:
2000 BC - Judaism emerges
1750 BC - Hammurabi's Code
700 BC - Zoroastorism spreads throught the region
500 BC - 657 AD - Persian Empire (during this time, both Alexander the Great and the Roman Empire take over)
490 BC - Battle of Marathon - Persian Empire looses to the Grreks
480 BC - The 300 Spartans make their stand against the return of the Persian Empire
50 AD - Christianity emerges
622 AD - Islam emerges
1000 - 1200 AD - the crusades
1299-1914 - Ottoman Empire
1948 - Israel gains independence
1967 - Six Day War - Israel defeats and attack by Egypt, Jordan, and Syria and claims the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Golan Heights
The Frame Story:
This book is a frame story. What is a frame story? It is a story that exists only so that you can tell several short stories that don't go together. The frame story for Arabian Nights is this:
The Sultan does not trust women. He hates them. However, he must get married. So he marries a woman every so often and then kills them the next morning.
Scheherazade decides she can stop this madness and places herself into a position to get married. That night, she begins to tell the Sultan a story. At the most exciting part, she says she is sleepy. The Sultan wants to hear the rest of the story, so he lets her live. She does this every night for 1001 nights. Finally she runs out of stories. The Sultan has long decide he loves her and decides she will not die. They live happily ever after.
The Tales:
This story is adapted from Candlelight Tales and used with permission. I encourage you to go there and read more tales from Arabian Nights if you are interested.
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Persepolis
Extra Credit Assignments
There are three possible assignments with this link.
In Chapter 2, Satrapi mentions that her favorite comic book was Dialectic Materialism. This book is available in English as Marx for Beginners. The ironic thing is that this book is not available for free here. You must buy it. Marx would be proud...
Click on the pictures to see them larger. It's no Spider-Man, so don't get your hopes up to high...
In chapter 5, Satrapi mentions her favorite author as being Darvishian. She calls him a local Charles Dickens. You probably recognize the name of Charles Dickens. He wrote A Christmas Carol (Scrooge). He was known for writing about the plight of the poor and lower class. This is why Darvishian is compared to him. Look at the types of stories that he wrote.
Darvishian
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return
If you like the first book, you may be interested in the sequel.
Questions
The questions require you to answer some before doing any reading. You have two choices. You can answer them on Google Docs / Driveby making a copy and placing it in your personal English II collection (this is preferred if you can do it), or you can download an Open Office version, save it with your name, and e-mail me the one you wrote your answers on.
My e-mail is marcus.alford@orange.k12.nc.us
You can click the logo to go to the Google Docs version of the chapter. It shoudl already be in your Google Docs shared collections (inside World Literature Texts / Middle East)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
