Vultures by Chinua Achebe

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Vulturesby Chinua Achebe
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Vultures

• Use the word Vultures as the basis for your mind
  map. What words
• you associate with Vultures?

Birds of Prey
VULTURES
Cunning
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• Read the poem Vultures by Chinua Achebe. Now
  use the word Vultures
• again to create another mind map. This time write
  down as many ideas
• about Vultures as you can from the poem.

perching high
Vultures
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Bergen-Belsen (or Belsen) was a Nazi
concentration camp in Lower Saxony, southwest of
the town of Bergen near Celle. Between 1943 and
1945, an estimated 50,000 people died there, up
to 35,000 of them dying of typhus in the first
few months of 1945
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What words do you associate with concentration
camps?
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Josef Kramer (November 10, 1906 December 13,
1945) was the Commandant of the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp. Dubbed "The Beast of Belsen"
by camp inmates he was a notorious Nazi war
criminal, directly responsible for the deaths of
thousands of people. He was convicted of war
crimes and hanged in Hameln prison after World
War II.
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Vultures

• Create another mind map based on the commandant.
  What does it say in
• the poem about him?

Commandant
Ogre
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• Hunt down the following words in the dictionary
  and write down their
• meanings next to the word in your book.
• Despondent-
• Harbingers-
• Ogre-
• Charnel House-
• Encapsulated-

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• Focus Questions
• 1)How does the poet use language to describe the
  Vultures? What images of the vultures are
  created?
• 2)How does the poet use language to describe the
  Commandant at Belsen? What images of the
  Commandant are created?
• Write down your answers and get ready to
  feedback!