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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Oral and Literary Strategies Lesson PlanChinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Oral and Literary Strategies Lesson Plan
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National Endowment for the Humanities
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9th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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2010
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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Oral and Literary Strategies

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Readers are first introduced to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by making a map of Africa. They will better understand the novel's historical and literary contexts, European and African literary traditions, and how historical events are represented in fiction.

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CCSS: Adaptable

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things fall apart, chinua achebe, african culture, nigeria

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things fall apart, english language arts

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  • Activities can stand alone or be used to introduce Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”: Teaching Through the Novel lesson

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Common Core

RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.9-10.5 RH.9-10.6 RH.9-10.8 RH.9-10.9 RH.9-10.10 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.3 RH.11-12.5 RH.11-12.6 RH.11-12.8 RH.11-12.9 RH.11-12.10 WHST.9-10.1.a WHST.9-10.2.a WHST.9-10.4 WHST.9-10.5 WHST.9-10.8 WHST.9-10.10 WHST.11-12.1.a WHST.11-12.2.a WHST.11-12.4 WHST.11-12.5 WHST.11-12.8 WHST.11-12.10

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Things Fall Apart: Vocabulary

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Things Fall Apart: Graphic Organizer

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Can two cultures live together successfully? After reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, have your class complete the graphic organizer included. They compare different cultures and brainstorm how different pairs could live...
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Things Fall Apart: Bloom's Taxonomy of Thinking Processes

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Things Fall Apart: Bloom’s Taxonomy

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Promote critical thinking and literary analysis with a short activity. Readers of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart respond to a series of questions modeled on Bloom's Taxonomy.    
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Things Fall Apart: Problematic Situation

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Things Fall Apart: Research, Writing & Presentation Project

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A great resource for your unit on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Small groups conduct research about related topics (list included), write papers, present PowerPoint slide shows, and take a student-created test. Fill in a few...
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A “New English” in Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”: A Common Core Exemplar

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

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In this online interactive reading comprehension learning exercise, students respond to 15 short answer and essay questions based on Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Students may also access an online quiz on the selection using the link...
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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

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In this online interactive reading comprehension instructional activity, students respond to 12 multiple choice questions based on Things Fall Apart. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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