Bob Marley

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Unit 4 The Carribean

Cultural icon

• a symbol, name, person, building, or other image.
  
• Great cultural significance to many people.
•  Presley (rock and roll icon) 

       Gandhi (civil rights icon)
       Statue of Liberty (American icon)

Cultural icon

Work in pairs:
Name four icons of the Dutch culture that all people all over the world know about

Bob Marley

Bob Marley

1945 - 1981

Jamaica

Reggae

Nesta Robert Marley

The King of Reggae

Family

• 13 children 
• 7 sons
• 5 daughters
• 9 wives 

Bob Marly and The Wailers

JAMAICA

order of merit 

Features

• Religious music from Jamaica
  
• Belief: Rastafari
• God = Jah
• Promised land: Ethiopia
• Holy person: president Haile Selassi                   (from Ethiopia)
• Hair (dreadlocks)
• Lyrics:  protest against the English (colonial past Jamaica)
• Most important singer: Bob Marley

Literature Poetic devices (page 172)

1. Stanza
   
2. Lines
   
3. Repetition
   
4. Alliteration  (no nonsense; big business; money matters
   
5. Assonance   (chip and dip; keep your eyes on the prize)
   
6. End rhyme
   
7. Theme
   

TASK

• Could you be loved (lyrics on page 173)
• Exercises 2 and 3 page 173

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