Watch the video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHF_w0gkyiI
Answer the following questions in your OneNote notebook:
1. Who originally wrote stories of Africa?
2. Why would this be considered a bias point of view? (Inference- not in the video)
3. When did African writers begin to tell their own stories?
4. How did this become possible?
5. Where is the novelThings Fall Apart set?
6. When was it written?
7. What did Chinua Achebe set out to do fifty years ago?
8. How can fiction be true, according to Achebe?
9. Why is religion an important focus in the novel?
10. Why can Korean women relate to this novel?
Quiz Date |
Pages |
Chapters |
1/22/18 |
3-25 |
1-3 |
1/29/18 |
26-45 |
4-5 vocab quiz ch. 1-5 on 1/30/18 |
2/5/18 |
46-62 |
6-7 |
2/12/18 |
63-86 |
8-9 vocab quiz ch. 6-9 on 2/13/18 |
2/20/18 |
87-109 |
10-11 |
2/26/18 |
110-125 |
12-13 vocab quiz ch. 10-13 on 2/27/18 |
3/5/18 |
129-147 |
14-16 |
3/12/18 |
148-167 |
17-19 vocab quiz ch. 14-19 on 3/13/18 |
3/19/18 |
171-191 |
20-22 |
3/26/18 |
192-209 |
23-25 vocab quiz ch. 20-25 on 3/27/18 |
A full version of the text is online at: http://l-adam-mekler.com/things-fall-apart.pdf You may borrow the text from the library, download it on iBooks, or purchase it at any bookstore.