Things Fall Apart

Essential Questions:

1. How does the literary text, explicitly or allegorically, represent various aspects of colonial oppression?
2. What does the text reveal about the operations of cultural difference - the ways in which race, religion, class, gender, sexual orientation, cultural beliefs, and customs combine to form individual identity - in shaping our perceptions of ourselves, others, and the world in which we live?
3. What is culture and how does it affect who we are and the decisions we make?
4. Who shapes the narrative of a given culture?
5. What is the moral obligation of an outsider who attempts to create a narrative for a foreign country?
6. What is a single story? What is the danger of a single story?

Homework:

Things Fall Apart Active Reading Assignment

Supplemental Handouts:

1. understand and practice using four types of evidence
2. Sherman Alexie Analysis Exercise
3. Horace Miner and Body Rituals of Nacirema
4. An African Voice
5. An introduction to Post- coloniaism, Post-colonial Theory, and Post-colonial Literature
6. Post-colonial theory application exercise
7. TED Talk:The Road to Synthesis Exercise
8. TED and Alexi synthesis project mind mup template