1. DECEMBER 8, 2014 Honors World Literature

2. Do Now Complete the OUC 603 Handout.

3. Objectives: SWBAT explain Achebe’s purpose in writing Things Fall Apart. SWBAT understand the historical setting of Things Fall Apart. SWBAT define and understand the meaning of colonization. SWBAT interpret Yeats’ “The Second Coming”.

4. Agenda Do Now The Second Coming Share Out Introduction to Chinwe Achebe Things Fall Apart Exit Ticket

5. “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats (10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEunVObSnV M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEunVObSnV M With your groups discuss how you analyzed the poem.  Be ready to share out.  Imagery, Summary, Themes, Questions.

6. Chinua Achebe Born 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria (Africa) The most widely-read African novelist Achebe's work is primarily interested in:  African politics,  The depiction of Africa and Africans in the West, and  The effects of colonization on African societies.

7. Colonization Colony: an area that is controlled by or belongs to a country and is usually far away from it It is a set of unequal relationships between the colonial power and the colony and often between the colonists and the native population.

8. EXAMPLE

9. CHINUA ACHEBE Famous for attacking Western views of Africa. One goal was to teach his readers that Africa’s history was “not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God's behalf delivered them.”

10. Map of Nigeria

11. Most populous country in Africa, twice the size of California Under British rule from 1890 until 1960 when independence was finally achieved

12. Things Fall Apart Achebe’s purposes in writing the novel:  Inform the outside world about Ibo cultural traditions  Remind his own people of their past & declare that it had value  Address the Western perception of Africa as “the Dark Continent”

13. The Ibo/Igbo Culture Almost all Nigerians are black Africans. The country has more than 250 different ethnic groups which differ from one another in language and in some of their customs and traditions. The Ibo are one of the three largest ethnic groups.

14. Ibo Village

15. Farm

16. Ibo Warriors

17. Ibo Wrestler

18. Ibo Dancers

19. Egwugwu

20. Exit Ticket (5) On a half-sheet: Explain the background knowledge to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. What were Achebe’s purposes in writing the novel?

21. Homework Read and annotate chapter 1 of TFA

22. Thursday December 11, 2014 SSR!

23. Journal Pick a character from TFA. If he or she was place in your group how might that particular character add or change the story?

24. Objectives SWBAT analyze and make connections to the theme of masculinity and femininity in chapter 5 of TFA using double entry journals.

25. Agenda Do Now Grammar Practice Group Read of Chapter 5 TFA

26. Grammar Review COU 702/COP 604/ COP 501/OUC 601

27. Exit Ticket On a half-sheet/ post-it-note list one analysis or connection to the text regarding the theme of masculinity and femininity that you have made while reading in your groups.

28. Homework Read and annotate chapters 5 & 6. Write a paragraph on the theme of masculinity and femininity in TFA so far. Cite evidence.