Things Fall Apart: Getting Started

Learning Target: I can acquire the appropriate background knowledge to support my understanding of a text.

1. More Punctuation Practice!

2.  Review from last class: In what way is re-telling the past- historical events, personal stories, etc.- complicated?

Anthony Appiah

Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University:

"One of the things that Achebe has always said, is that part of what he thought the task of the novel was, was to create a usable past. Trying to give people a richly textured picture of what happened, not a sort of monotone bad Europeans, noble Africans, but a complicated picture."

3. Activity: Things Fall Apart Background

HW: Finish Part 2 of Things Fall Apart Background