It is advisable to initially peruse through the forewords given by the professors as a sample on this website before 'skipping' to the concise teaching guide.

INTRODUCING BROKEN MIRROR THE BOOK

-Broken Mirror the book is an English Language and Literature text book meant for use in higher institutions of learning. This book can be used in high schools/secondary schools, colleges as well as universities where the language of English is used.

-Broken Mirror the book is a classic. A classic is that which does not go out of trend. It is good for the past, present and the future. Broken Mirror is made up of stories, passages, poems and songs from the scriptures. The author has employed the scriptures to teach the English Language so that the user may gain an all-round Education! One gains, physically, spiritually, socially, financially, emotionally and so forth, since the scriptures are meant to help us live well in this world in our different dealings and with our neighbor.

- A graduate of Broken Mirror the book is meant to succeed in life; that is if, of course they put into practice what they have learnt.

- All schools should have this book as a reader to help nurture the reading culture while developing our children holistically.

FOREWORD

Broken Mirror the book is the best of its kind on the market today in teaching the language of English and Literature in English. As Chairman of the Uganda Vice Chancellors' forum and director Inter-Religious Council of Uganda. (IRCU), I recommend this book for use in all institutes of higher learning in the world.

We live in a world that has confused morals with something else! All people need to get hold of this book. A good story will always ring in one's life! That is what Broken Mirror the book does for the reader-a referral/manual on life's journey. It is difficult to choose any best chapter as a sample; but out of the one hundred chapters in this book, I will talk about only a few.

Chapter One entitled The Tongue, teaches the reader how to best safeguard one of those things in life that can cause the worst of havoc.

The second chapter teaches the reader the value of fidelity in marriage and reopens our eyes to the goodness and mercy of our God.

Another beautiful example of fidelity is shown in chapter twelve. We are given the story of a man grown in years who is forced to eat pork by a pagan king. Despite the friendship and favor given him by the king's men to eat meat prepared by himself and only pretend to eat the pork which is forbidden by his faith, he refuses to pretend and chooses to die. He chooses death for fear of breaking the holy laws and for fear of giving a bad example to the young generation.

The fiftieth chapter teaches the reader all about dinner party etiquette. Despite the humor in this chapter, there's a taste of a high moral lesson that the story imparts to its readers.

In this book, we also have some great lessons given to those in business or the entrepreneurship sector. This is well exposed to the reader in chapter fifty-one. Just go ahead and open that chapter entitled: Against Swindlers and Exploiters.

For the lazy bones and those that hate to work, there's that chapter that compares them to one of the smallest creature-the ant-so wise and hardworking! This is in chapter ninety-eight. We see how organized this creature is; yet it has no supervisor or manager. (Overseer or master).

Given the following set questions that aid in the comprehension of the stories, the reader of Broken Mirror the book, is assured of growth in both knowledge and wisdom of life's secret success ways.

"In order to change the morals of our children in the world, we need to change the school curriculum." Middle East Cleric (CNN - Christiane Amanpour's program: Committed to improving the state of the World)

Ambassador Professor Badru D. Kateregga

FOREWORD II

In Broken Mirror, Stella Nankinga Alikiriza sets the reader on a journey of self-discovery, using scriptural texts attuned for addressing Humanity's unending quest for wholeness. Reading through the inspirational pages of this book has left me a richer human being in touch with my real desires for the good, the true and the beautiful. It is for this that I recommend this book, sparkling with inspiration, to all searchers like me, particularly, young adults who need guidance to travel the path of light.

(Prof. Sr. Dominic Dipio Makerere University)

CONCISE TEACHING GUIDE

The English Language Teacher can teach:

- Grammar,

- Summary Writing,

- Public Speaking,

- Composition and

- Comprehension

All the above can be done in one lesson.

The teacher can cover essential skills in Second Language Learning. These skills are:

- Speaking Skills

- Readings Skills

- Listening Skills

- Writing Skills

Grammar in linguistics is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases and words in a language. With regular reading the book of Broken Mirror, the learner of the language of English, gets used to new words, clauses and phrases and how they are used in writing. Every time the student reads this book either out of luxury or out of obligation for class work, the student grows unconsciously in their use of the language rules.

To help your students practice Summary Writing, ask them to pick a story of their choice. Let them read either out of class or during a lesson. After reading, ask the students to write a summary of whichever story they have read. In so doing, the students get used to writing summaries as they enjoy the stories.

With Public Speaking, ask the students to make a class presentation. This class presentation can be adopted from the story that the students have read privately. When a student stands before the class to present before fellow students, they are practicing public speaking.

• If the students are so many in a class, ask them to form discussion groups and then choose a group leader who will make the presentation.
• Awarding marks to the best group presenters is a good way of encouraging them.

Composition can be practiced every time they practice writing to prepare for class presentations.

Comprehension can be practiced when the teacher helps students practice regular reading while utilizing the guide questions given in the book of Broken Mirror for better understanding and analysis of what has been read. The teacher can help the students learn that for each set question, they can find the answers chronologically. In other words, question number one has its answer within the first paragraph and so on. The last questions will normally seek the student's opinion. It is the student's chance to express themselves intelligently. There is normally no expected answer. It is up to the student to express themselves logically. Last questions may also analyze common sense situations. The regular use of Broken Mirror the book, will help the student to pass well any other set questions in the language of English. This is because the writer 'enters the mind' of examiners in each practice question.

Speaking skills are done in class presentations especially in situations or areas where students fear or hate to speak a foreign language.

Reading is so good because we learn new words unconsciously. We also attain wisdom from our fore parents through reading and rereading. Since Broken Mirror the book contains stories, prose passages and poems, the reader is assured of a wealth of information to last a life time.

Listening skills are developed when the rest of the class listens to a fellow student who has prepared to present what they had previously summarized. The presenter is meant to ask the class questions after each particular presentation.

Writing skills are developed every time the teacher asks the students to write summaries.

The Literature Teacher:

The Literature teacher can take advantage of the given guide questions to help students analyze the various literary devices.

Set II of the questions is meant for Literature in English students. The guide questions given in the book may be a little difficult. The Literature teacher is free to formulate own questions that suit the level of understanding of his or her students.

SAMPLE OF CONTENTS IN THE BOOK

SECOND ACCOUNT OF HOSEA'S MARRIAGE

Yahweh said to me, 'Go again, love a woman who loves another man, an adulteress, and love her as Yahweh loves the Israelites although they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.'

So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver, a homer of barley and a skin of wine, and I said to her, 'You will have to spend a long time waiting for me without playing the whore and without giving yourself to any man, and I will behave in the same way towards you.'

Questions: 

1. What does the word 'whore' in the passage mean?

2. If you are a man, would you love a whore with all your heart, even if she continued to despise you? If yes, why and how? If no, why and how?

3. If you are a woman, would you love a husband who suddenly becomes promiscuous, goes out with other women even with your knowledge? If no, why and how? If yes, why and how?

4. In this short passage can you see the analogy of how we treat our God?

God continues to love us, provide for us and protect us even when we misbehave! What lessons can you derive from the above statement and passage?

5. Do you know anyone in an abusive or bad marriage? What advice can you give them?

PETER'S ARREST AND MIRACULOUS DELIVERANCE

It was about this time that King Herod started persecuting certain members of the church. He had James the brother of John beheaded, and when he saw that this pleased the Jews, he went on to arrest Peter as well.

As it was during the days of Unleavened Bread that he had arrested him, he put him in prison, assigning four sections of four soldiers each to guard him, meaning to try him in public after the Passover.

All the time Peter was under guard the church prayed to God for him unremittingly.

On the night before Herod was to try him, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, fastened with two chains, while guards kept watch at the main entrance to the prison.

Then suddenly an angel of the Lord stood there, and the cell was filled with light. He tapped Peter on the side and woke him. 'Get up!' he said, 'Hurry!' -- and the chains fell from his hands.

The angel then said, 'Put on your belt and sandals.' After he had done this, the angel next said, 'Wrap your cloak round you and follow me.'

He followed him out, but had no idea that what the angel did was all happening in reality; he thought he was seeing a vision.

They passed through the first guard post and then the second and reached the iron gate leading to the city. This opened of its own accord; they went through it and had walked the whole length of one street when suddenly the angel left him.

It was only then that Peter came to himself. And he said, 'Now I know it is all true. The Lord really did send his angel and save me from Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.'

As soon as he realized this, he went straight to the house of Mary the mother of John Mark, where a number of people had assembled and were praying.

He knocked at the outside door and a servant called Rhoda came to answer it. She recognized Peter's voice and was so overcome with joy that, instead of opening the door, she ran inside with the news that Peter was standing at the main entrance.

They said to her, 'You are out of your mind,' but she insisted that it was true. Then they said, 'It must be his angel! 'Peter, meanwhile, was still knocking. When they opened the door, they were amazed to see that it really was Peter himself. He raised his hand for silence and described to them how the Lord had led him out of prison. He added, 'Tell James and the brothers.' Then he left and went elsewhere.

When daylight came there was a great commotion among the soldiers, who could not imagine what had become of Peter.

Herod put out an unsuccessful search for him; he had the guards questioned, and before leaving Judaea to take up residence in Caesarea he gave orders for their execution.

The death of the persecutor

Now Herod was on bad terms with the Tyrians and Sidonians. Yet they sent a joint deputation which managed to enlist the support of Blastus, the king's chamberlain, and through him negotiated a treaty, since their country depended for its food supply on the king's territory. A day was fixed, and Herod, wearing his robes of state and seated on a throne, began to make a speech to them.

The people acclaimed him with, 'It is a god speaking, not a man! 'and at that moment the angel of the Lord struck him down, because he had not given the glory to God. He was eaten away by

worms and died.

Questions:

         

• Who persecuted the church in the short story?
• Give an account of how he persecuted it.
• How was Peter freed from prison?
• What was the name of the servant girl who answered the door?
• Why did she not open the door for Peter?
• What did the people inside say of the servant girl?
• What happened to Peter after the miraculous deliverance?
• What happened to the soldiers who were supposed to keep Peter guarded?
• Why was Herod in the short story struck to death by the angel of the Lord and immediately eaten away by worms?
• Write down three (3) lessons that you have drawn from the short story.

NABOTH'S VINEYARD

This is what happened next: Naboth of Jezreel had a vineyard close by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria, and Ahab said to Naboth, 'Give me your vineyard to be my vegetable garden, since it adjoins my palace; I will give you a better vineyard for it or, if you prefer, I will give you its value in money. 'Naboth, however, said to Ahab, 'Yahweh forbid that I should give you my ancestral heritage!'

Ahab went home gloomy and out of temper at the words of Naboth of Jezreel, 'I will not give you my heritage from my ancestors.' He lay down on his bed and turned his face away and refused to eat.

His wife Jezebel came to him. 'Why are you so dispirited,' she said, 'that you refuse to eat? 'He said, 'I have been talking to Naboth of Jezreel. I said, "Give me your vineyard either for money or, if you prefer, for another vineyard in exchange." But he said, "I will not give you my vineyard." 'Then his wife Jezebel said, 'Some king of Israel you make! Get up, eat and take heart; I myself shall get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. 'So she wrote a letter in Ahab's name and sealed it with his seal, sending the letter to the elders and notables of the city where Naboth lived. In the letter, she wrote, 'Proclaim a fast, and put Naboth in a prominent place among the people. There confront him with a couple of scoundrels who will accuse him as follows, "You have cursed God and the king." Then take him outside and stone him to death.' The men of Naboth's city, the elders and notables living in his city, did what Jezebel ordered, as was written in the letter which she had sent him. They proclaimed a fast and put Naboth in a prominent place among the people. The two scoundrels then came and confronted him, and the scoundrels then publicly accused Naboth as follows, 'Naboth has cursed God and the king.' He was then taken outside the city and stoned to death. They then sent word to Jezebel, 'Naboth has been stoned to death. 'When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned to death, she said to Ahab, 'Get up! Take possession of the vineyard which Naboth of Jezreel refused to sell you, for Naboth is no longer alive, he is dead. 'When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth of Jezreel and take possession of it.

Then the word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, 'Up! Go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, in Samaria. You will find him in Naboth's vineyard; he has gone down to take possession of it. You are to say this to him, "Yahweh says this: You have committed murder and now you usurp as well. For this and Yahweh says this -- in the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, the dogs will lick your blood too." 'Ahab said to Elijah, 'So you have caught me, O my enemy!' Elijah answered, 'I have caught you! For your double dealing, and since you have done what is displeasing to Yahweh, I shall now bring disaster down on you; I shall sweep away your descendants and wipe out every manjack of the House of Ahab, fettered or free in Israel.

I shall treat your House as I treated the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat and of Baasha son of Ahijah, for provoking my anger and

leading Israel into sin. (Against Jezebel too Yahweh spoke these words, "The dogs will eat Jezebel in the Field of Jezreel.")

Those of Ahab's family who die in the city, the dogs will eat; and those who die in the open country, the birds of the air will eat.'

And indeed there never was anyone like Ahab for double dealing and for doing what is displeasing to Yahweh, urged on by Jezebel his wife.

He behaved in the most abominable way, adhering to idols, just as the

Amorites had, whom Yahweh had dispossessed for the Israelites. When Ahab heard these words, he tore his garments and put sackcloth next to his skin and fasted; he slept in the sackcloth; he walked with slow steps.

Then the word of Yahweh came to Elijah the Tishbite, 'Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Since he has humbled himself before me, I shall not bring the disaster in his days; I shall bring the disaster down on his House in his son's days.'

Questions:

• Who is Naboth in the passage?
• Why did the king desire Naboth's vineyard?
• What made Ahab gloomy and dispirited?
• Who plotted the death of Naboth and why?
• Do you know any people in this generation who have acted like Jezebel in the passage? If no, what would you do if you were Ahab and your wife suddenly told you of her ordeal; to help you acquire your wish? If you know any people like Jezebel today, what incidents have they done that you can co-relate with the events in the passage?
• What advice would you give to today's leaders who think they are invincible? In other words, leaders who think they can do anything to destroy and harm others to acquire and hound wealth endlessly?
• Suggest another title for the passage.
• What happened when Ahab heard Elijah's prophecy against him?
• What did Yahweh do after Ahab's repentance?
• Write five (5) lessons in five (5) sentences that you have learned from the passage.

VARIOUS SINS

My child, have you sinned? Do so no more,

and ask forgiveness for your previous faults.

Flee from sin as from a snake,

if you approach it, it will bite you;

its teeth are lion's teeth,

they take human life away.

All law-breaking is like a two-edged sword,

the wounds it inflicts are beyond cure.

Terror and violence make havoc of riches,

similarly, desolation overtakes the houses of the proud.

A plea from the mouth of the poor goes straight to the ear of God,

whose judgement comes without delay.

Whoever resents reproof walks in the sinner's footsteps;

whoever fears the Lord is repentant of heart.

The glib speaker is known far and wide,

but the wary detects every slip.

To build your house with other people's money

is like collecting stones for your own tomb.

A meeting of the lawless is like a heap of tow:

they will end in a blazing fire.

The sinner's road is smoothly paved,

but it ends at the pit of Sheol.

Questions:

There are two sets of questions for this poem

Choose and answer only one set and not both.

SET I

• Give reasons why you think the poet compares sin to a snake.
• 'A two-edged sword,'- Explain the phrase as given in the poem.
• Do you think it is really true that a plea from the poor goes straight to the ear of God? How?
• What does the writer mean by 'resenting reproof?'
• 'To build your house with other peoples' money is like collecting stones for your own tomb.' In about one paragraph, explain what you have learnt from the quotation.
• What is 'sheol?'

SET II

1. Identify any poetic devices and give their effect.
2. What is the effect of the use of rhyme in the poem?
3. Describe the tone in the poem.
4. What is the effect of the use of imagery in the poem?
5. State five (5) lessons drawn from the poem.