1. Day Five
English 10

2. ECA Question of the Day
My favorite author, a Novel Prize winner, will be speaking at the local university this weekend, so I plan on attending with my mother and sister.
A) will be speaking
B) My favorite author
C) a Novel Prize winner
D) with my mother and sister

3. Add to vocabulary notebook*
An archetype is a pattern, symbol, image, or idea that recurs in literature.
Who was the archetypal character in the story?
Hero vs. Villain

4. Video
To 6:45

5. Culture Wheel
Place the words in the correct section of the Culture Wheel organizer.
Work with your partner!

6. Add to vocabulary notebook*
An epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or novel. It may help direct the reader to the author’s purpose or theme.
*Achebe’s novel has an epigraph. Achebe takes lines from W.B. Yeats’ poem “The Second Coming”.

7. Epigraph in Things Fall Apart
Turning and turning in the widening gyre (1)  (gyre=spiral) The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world (anarchy=chaos)
With your partner, summarize what you believe this means. Make a prediction about the book based on the epigraph.

8. Objectives
Analyze how a complex character interacts with other characters.
Analyze how a complex character’s motivation advances the plot.

9. How are father/son relationships complicated
How are father/son relationships complicated? What might fathers and sons have in common? What might make them different?
Discuss

10. Things Fall Apart: Chapter One
Fill out your Venn Diagram as we read.
Audio
Okonkwo
His Father
Unoka

11. Check Your Understanding
What conflicts already existed in the Ibo culture before the arrival of the colonists?
How is Unoko (Okonkwo’s father) set up as a foil to Okonkwo?
Predict how father/son tensions could be a motif in this novel.

12. Independent Practice: Double-Entry Journal
Look for examples of Okonkwo’s feelings and fears, the reasons for those fears, and the effect they have on his actions. Also look for a motif or foil.
Include textual evidence from each chapter in the left-hand column.
Write your personal response or interpretation in the right-hand column.
Feelings and Fears: Passage from the Text
Personal Response or Interpretation

13. Writing Prompt #1
How is Okonkwo’s character influenced by his complex relationship with his father? Be sure to:
Include a topic sentence that compares or contrasts the two characters.
Use specific details and quotations from the novel as support.
Use active voice.