Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart:
An independent reading
Students, you will engage in an independent reading of Things Fall Apart. One of the new Common Core Standards is that students will read and comprehend literary texts independently and proficiently. Each Monday, we will engage in classroom discussion of the previous week’s reading assignment. There will be questions to accompany each week’s reading assignment. These questions must be completed and brought to class on Monday. You need to read the material and do the questions! If at any time in class you finish the assigned work Tuesday through Friday, you will be expected to read the assigned portion of Things Fall Apart. Since the text is on the computer, there is no excuse for not reading …show more content…
Who participated in it? What were the results of it?
*****Questions to accompany your first week’s reading of TFA: (chapters 1-7)
1. Describe the narrator’s voice. You know, the “voice” telling us the story of Okonkwo, Umuofia, and the Igbo world. How would you describe this voice, its values and perspectives?
2. Essayist Simon Gikandi suggests the storyteller is a witness. What does this mean? What do you think about his suggestion? What might he bear witness to?
3. Describe the setting(time, place, culture) of the novel. Pay attention to the details of everyday village life ways, values and beliefs of people, importance of rituals, ceremony, personal achievement in their culture. Social life? Role of war? Religion? (6-8 sentences)
4. Compare/contrast that setting to our setting, the “now” audience of the text. (5-6 sentences)
5. What effect does “night” have on the Igbo people? What do they fear? How do they deal with fear?
6. Okonkwo is our main character, the protagonist. He fears, also. What does he fear? Why?
7. Describe him thus far. Be complete. What are his virtues? Faults? What values does he associate with …show more content…
It is said the world is made of two kinds of men: thinkers and doers. What are your thoughts on that suggestion? Which one does Okonkwo most resemble? Why? Which one are you? Explain. Which kind makes good leaders? Why?
9. Consider Ikemefuna. Who does he foil? ( a character in a literary work who parallels or contrasts another character: Tybalt and Romeo in R&J, for example) Why would Achebe put these two characters together in scenes from the
An independent reading
Students, you will engage in an independent reading of Things Fall Apart. One of the new Common Core Standards is that students will read and comprehend literary texts independently and proficiently. Each Monday, we will engage in classroom discussion of the previous week’s reading assignment. There will be questions to accompany each week’s reading assignment. These questions must be completed and brought to class on Monday. You need to read the material and do the questions! If at any time in class you finish the assigned work Tuesday through Friday, you will be expected to read the assigned portion of Things Fall Apart. Since the text is on the computer, there is no excuse for not reading …show more content…
Who participated in it? What were the results of it?
*****Questions to accompany your first week’s reading of TFA: (chapters 1-7)
1. Describe the narrator’s voice. You know, the “voice” telling us the story of Okonkwo, Umuofia, and the Igbo world. How would you describe this voice, its values and perspectives?
2. Essayist Simon Gikandi suggests the storyteller is a witness. What does this mean? What do you think about his suggestion? What might he bear witness to?
3. Describe the setting(time, place, culture) of the novel. Pay attention to the details of everyday village life ways, values and beliefs of people, importance of rituals, ceremony, personal achievement in their culture. Social life? Role of war? Religion? (6-8 sentences)
4. Compare/contrast that setting to our setting, the “now” audience of the text. (5-6 sentences)
5. What effect does “night” have on the Igbo people? What do they fear? How do they deal with fear?
6. Okonkwo is our main character, the protagonist. He fears, also. What does he fear? Why?
7. Describe him thus far. Be complete. What are his virtues? Faults? What values does he associate with …show more content…
It is said the world is made of two kinds of men: thinkers and doers. What are your thoughts on that suggestion? Which one does Okonkwo most resemble? Why? Which one are you? Explain. Which kind makes good leaders? Why?
9. Consider Ikemefuna. Who does he foil? ( a character in a literary work who parallels or contrasts another character: Tybalt and Romeo in R&J, for example) Why would Achebe put these two characters together in scenes from the