3/17 Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Students finished and turned in their completed essays for the final assessment for the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.  If a student was absent on either Thursday 3/13. Friday 3/14, or today, 3/17, then they have until tomorrow at the end of the day to get me their essay.

3/12-3/14

For this lesson, we used a powerpoint presentation that illustrated things from the novel Things Fall Apart.  We discussed the culture here in our United States, and compared and contrasted it to the culture of the Igbo tribe in Umuofia before English colonization in the 19th century.  Students completed a graphic organizer which included 3 similarities and 3 differences in each of the societies.  Students will then use this graphic organizer tomorrow to write their final assessment for this unit.  They will be writing a four paragraph essay to show the differences.  They must use specific examples from the novel and from their own life experiences.

If you did not finish here is a link to the book:

http://kathystefanides.escuelacampoalegre.wikispaces.net/file/view/things-fall-apart-chinua-achebe+(1).pdf

3/10-3/15

We finished reading Things Fall Apart.  We did not read the play at the end of the book.  We then watched a powerpoint presentation that included pictures of many of the African things that were described and included in the novel.  We discussed some of the similarities and differences between our culture and the Igbo Tribe culture portrayed in the novel.

On Thursday and Friday, we will be completing the final assessment for the novel.  Students will be collaboratively working with another student to find textual evidence in the book that supports some similarities and differences between our society and the Igbo Tribe society in pre-colonial Africa, before England began to colonize the country.

Students will then compile these similarities and differences into a four paragraph essay.  

3/3-3/5

As a class, we continued reading "Things Fall Apart."