1. Things Fall Apart
By : Chinua Achebe

2. Today, each group is assigned an article to read and annotate.
1. Read the article.
2. Annotate the article.
3. Answer the questions at the end of the article.
4. Prepare a lecture based on your topic. Each group member MUST present!
You may use one notecard.

3. Do Now:
Answer the following questions in your journal:
How might a culture change when it encounters new ideas and members?
How can an author use a fictional character to make a statement about a culture?
Brainstorm some movies/books that you have read or have viewed that are historical in nature:

4. Vocabulary:
Go to quizlet
User name: bweyhrauchshs
Password: sentinels
STUDY these words!

5. Proverbs vs. Folk Tales -- Turn to page 175
Copy the definition of a the following words in your notebook:
Proverb
Folk tale
Archetype
In your group, fill in the chart on page Read the proverb and then explain the proverb in your own words.
African Folk Tale:
Watch
Fill out the chart as you write on page 176 as you watch the video.

6. Answer the questions on page 176 under Check Your Understanding and turn in for a homework grade!
Also, glue the proverb that I gave to you into your notebook and tell me what you think of it!

7. Learning Target: Reliability and Validity of Sources
World Map:
KWL Chart: Copy a chart into your notebook, jot down notes that we collect as a class
# off 1-6
On page 178, your group # coincides with the following topics (not the ones in the book…we already discovered these topics)
#1 Igbo Language and Funeral Rites
#2 Igbo Housing and Clothing
#3 Igbo Justice and Weddings
#4 Igbo Food and Farming
#5 Igbo Religion and Sport

8. Brainstorm a list of possible questions about your topic
Grab a laptop, and find research that is VALID and RELIABLE based on your topic/questions
Use the chart on page 177 to evaluate the Sources
Go to Google Drive
Create a document for your url’s
Share with me:

9. Folk Tales
Each GROUP is responsible for a folk tale.
Read your tale together.
Create a chart like the one on page 175 on separate paper.
Present your folk tale to the class. Listening and Speaking Standard

10. Read the EPIGRAPH in Things Fall Apart
In your journal:
Predict what you think the novel will be about.
Explain the EPIGRAPH in your own words
We are now going to make a BOOK MARK!
Turn to page 179
Copy the names and pronunciations onto your bookmark

11. Turn to page 180
With your group, practice pronouncing the words on page Go around your table THREE times, pronouncing each word!
Page 181
Culture Wheel!
See the wall!
You will receive one aspect of culture.
In your group, you will write three RESEARCH questions based on your cultural aspect.
PRESENT to the class!

12. Do Now:
In your journal…
How are father/son OR mother/daughter relationships complicated?
What do they have in common?
How are they different?
Read Chapters 1-4
Fill in the Venn Diagram on page 182
Timed Write:
How is Okonkwo’s character influenced by his complex relationship with his father?
See the directions on page 183!

13. Do Now…
Make a T chart in your notebook
Look for examples of Okonkwo’s feelings and fears and reasons for his fears and the effect they have on his actions. Look for MOTIF and FOIL.
Feelings and Fears: Passage from the Text Personal Response or Interpretation

14. Read Chapter Four
In your table groups, you have two jobs!
Create a map of Okonkwo’s compound.
Create a BIG HEAD of Okonkwo
Inside his head, write what is happening INTERNALLY, the things he does not let other see
Around his head, write what he allows others to see.
You may use symbols or images!
PRESENT!

15. DO NOW!
In your journal, respond to this prompt:
Achebe presents Okonkwo as a man of high status in his village despite some of his less admirable traits. Is it common for powerful leaders to have flawed characters? Why? How might this affect the community?
Make a T chart.
One the left, make a list of Okonkwo’s achievements and status.
On the right, make a list of Okonkwo’s negative traits and actions.
Read chapters 5 and 6

16. Do Now:
Make a list of Okonkwo’s wives and children.
Beside each name, write what you know about each character as well as your reaction to the character.
Read page 186
Timed Write #2
How do Okonkwo’s family relationships make him a sympathetic or unsympathetic character?
Write a CLAIM that compares and contrasts at least TWO relationships and explores their effect on characterization.
You need supporting details and QUOTES with your ANALYSIS
Organize
Transitional words!

17. Do now….
Get out your Timed Write #2
Trade with someone at your table.
Read and mark the timed write for the following:
Intro with a hook and TAG
Claim
Character 1 plus textual evidence
Character 2 plus textual evidence
Conclusion
SELECT THE BEST ONE FROM THE TABLE!

18. READ CHAPTERS 7 AND 8
SOCRATIC SEMINAR!
You will be assigned a question from page 187.
Create a visual and come up with talking points to present your response to the group
As each group presents, fill in the graphic organizer
Write 2 interpretive questions
(Has more than one answer that can be reasonably supported with evidence from the text. they are always the focus of a great books reading discussion)
Write 2 universal questions
(Are open-ended questions that are raised by ideas in the text. They are intended to provoke a discussion of an abstract idea or issue)
Socratic Seminar

19. EA 3.1 Research Topics:
Igbo (Ibo) language Igbo(Ibo) Housing
Igbo (Ibo) laws Igbo(Ibo) War
Igbo (Ibo) sports & games Igbo(Ibo)Medicine
Igbo (Ibo) gender roles Igbo(Ibo)Festivals/Holidays
Igbo (Ibo) religion
Igbo (Ibo) political/government structure
Igbo (Ibo) food
Igbo (Ibo) music
Igbo (Ibo) art
Igbo (Ibo) dance
Igbo (Ibo) clothing 
Chinua Achebe
History of Nigeria (precolonial) 
History of Nigeria (British Colonization)
History of Nigeria (Independence/Post-colonization)
Nigeria: Current Events
Missionary Involvement in Africa​

20. Turn to page 194
Read Making Connections, Essential Questions, and Unpacking Embedded Assessment 2
In your journal, write in your OWN words what the embedded assessment is going to be about.
NOW…with your table group, create a graphic organizer that represents the skills and knowledge you need to complete the task

21. DO NOW…
Brainstorm a list of all the important characters thus far in the book.
With your partner(s) create a TABLEAU of your assigned character.
Write their name of the index card
Review the basic facts about your character
Write a short statement about your character, “I am…”
Reveal interesting facts about your character
Explain how the characters are related
Find what you consider to be the most important lines/quote from the book that reveal who this character is…

22. In your journal, write what a civilized society is…
Do now….
In your journal, write what a civilized society is…
Discuss
Turn to page 196 and work together to fill out the graphic organizer that answers this question:
Is the IBO culture, as presented in the novel, a civilized society?
Get some sticky notes.
As you read Chapter 10, annotate the text using the sticky notes to reflect on aspects of the IBO culture represented in the chapter that DO or DO NOT reflect a civilized society
Timed Write!
SEE PAGE 197 WRITING PROMPT

23. Take notes on the power point – allegory.
Read from pages
Complete the work on Allegory
Finish the chapter
Read Chapters 11-12
Turn to page 198
Complete the DURING READING activity—what inferences can you make from the characters thoughts, feelings, and actions?

24. Learning Target: Outline an essay about violent tendencies and consequences
Do Now:
Fill out the chart on page 200
Complete the Writing Prompt on page 200
Consider Okonkwo’s acts of violence throughout the course of the novel.
Explain how do the actions of this complex character advance the plot or develop the theme
Thesis
Details/textual evidence from different chapters
Conclusion

25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJe1W_HIW mA
Watch the video on Imperialism in Africa and answer the video guide questions mA

26. John Green and Things Fall Apart
WATCH THIS! It will help you understand the book!
Complete 3.13 Acts of Violence
Complete the Chart
Complete the Writing Prompt on page 200

27. Tragic Hero Read the handout together
Highlight the key components of a tragic hero
Work together on the backside of the worksheet

28. Target: Analyze views of gender
Turn to page 201 in your SB book
Complete the chart on Ideas About Gender in Part 1 of Things Fall Apart
As you read Chapter 14, use sticky notes and write down examples of the roles that men and women have in Okonkwo’s mother’s land
Timed Write:
How and why do the views of gender shift from Part 1 of the novel to the first chapter of Part 2?
How do you feel about the attitudes toward gender that are expressed in the novel? Do you agree or disagree with them?
How are ideas of gender expressed in the novel similar to and different from your own culture?

29. A Tragic Hero?
Apply the concept that we learned on Tuesday and work with an elbow partner to fill out the chart on page 203.
Read Chapter

30. Writing Prompt on page 204.
To what degree does Okonkwo fit Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero? What flaw leads to his downfall?
You may write this with a partner. READ CHAPTERS 17-19
Outline:
Introduction with TAG and definition of a tragic hero
Textual evidence – at least 3 – from different chapters that proves your claim.
Topic Sentence
Introduce a quote
Quote with page number
Analysis (this is the most important part!)
Repeat
Conclusion

31. Finish reading the book!
Chapters 20-END

32. Learning Target: Analyze how different characters and conflicts advance the plot
Make connections to the cultural misunderstandings in the novel
Do Now:
Complete 3.17 Before Reading and During Reading activities. Also, complete #5 on page 208.

33. Poetic Connections:
Target: Conduct a comparative analysis between texts with similar themes.
Tables 1 and 3 will analyze the poem, “Prayer to the Masks”
Tables 2, 4, and 5 will analyze the poem, “The Second Coming”

34. Read your assigned poem three times.
Annotate! Circle words you do not understand. Look up their meanings.
Make connections and write them down – how is the poem connected to Things Fall Apart?
What is the TONE of the poem?
What is the TOPIC and THEME of the poem?
Fill out the TPCASTT form to turn in for a grade.
Prepare a CHORAL READING of the poem to present to another group – everyone reads, but you decide how. For example, boys read first stanza, girls the second.
As the group reads the poem to you, annotate it to compare and contrast the two poems.
Answer this question: Which side of the cultural conflict is represented by each poem? What do they have in common? Why did the author choose Things Fall Apart as a title?

35. Homework for the weekend!
Read and annotate the Interview, “An African Voice.”
! Something that surprises you
Comment on things – talk to the text.
? Something you have questions about
STAR Things your think are important
Write 5 questions for discussion on the notecard I provide
Socratic Seminar on “An African Voice”