Dead+Men's+Path+Revision

**Recall**

 * 1a.** What source prompts Nancy to say "A penny for your thoughts, Mike"? What idea does she have to beautify the school compound?
 * 2a. ** What does the teacher who has been at the school three years remember?
 * 3a. ** How does the priest explain the importance of the path to the village?

**Interpret**

 * 1b.** Is Nancy more influenced by modern Western culture or by traditional African culture? Are her views different from her husband's? What character traits do the garden reveal about Nancy?
 * 2b. ** Is Obi willing to learn from others? What adjectives describe him?
 * 3b. ** Is Obi or the priest more tolerant of the other's beliefs?

**Analyze**

 * 4a.** Analyze Obi's motivations in valuing the flowerbeds and hedges more than the villagers' beliefs.

**Synthesize**

 * 4b.** What does the path mean to the villagers?

**Evaluate**

 * 5a.** Evaluate whether the Ani community was justified in destroying the flowerbeds, hedges, and school building.

**Extend**

 * 5b.** One way that the destruction of the school property might have been avoided is if the priest and Obi had compromised. Describe a conflict in your personal life, in government, in fiction, or in the movies. Tell what each side wanted and explain how the conflict was resolved.

Understanding Literature

 * Narrator. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Whose opinion is presented in the sentence "Ndume School was backward in every sense of the word"? How reliable is the narrator of "Dead Men's Path"? With whom do the narrator's sympathies lie?
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">Foreshadowing **