4 Tools for Teaching "The Danger of a Single Story" Google Slides and Form

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Danger of a Single Story" Ted talk is an incredible speech to watch with students 6-12. I watch the talk and read the transcript with my tenth graders, and the discussion and reflection after each view are consistently impressive.

To help my students discuss the talk meaningfully, I developed these four printable tools:

• two listening guides,
• a text-connection tool, and
• a SOAPSTone analysis.

The listening guides work together to walk students through the talk, providing prompts before, during, and after viewing. Each prompt could also work as the lead-in to a discussion or Socratic Seminar.

The text connection tool asks students to apply the concepts from "The Danger of a Single Story" to another book they've read in class. I use this with my unit on Things Fall Apart, but you could also use this with The Hunger Games, The Giver, Divergent, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, 1984, or Animal Farm.

The SOAPSTone analysis asks students to consider Adichie's rhetorical position and works well as a lead-in to persuasive writing or speaking.

To make this resource as flexible as possible, I've included a Google Form and a Google Slides. In the Google Slides, teachers can edit the directions, listening guides, and text-connection tools.

Since this is a Google Resource, when you purchase this resource, TPT will create a file in your Google Drive where you will find the Google Form and Google Slides.

BUT WAIT...you can save more with my Things Fall Apart Synthesis Bundle, which includes all the supplemental text questions and resources I pair with my novel unit! All together that's over 100 questions and 50 pages! Purchasing each item individually would cost $22.71, but this bundle will save you $5.98. That's just like getting two resources for free. Save time, money, and sanity with this bundle! Bundle includes:

• 20 Things Fall Apart Journals
• Things Fall Apart Context Clues
• Things Fall Apart Anticipation Guide
• "Words and Behavior" Analysis Questions
• "The Second Coming" Analysis Questions
• Crash Course Things Fall Apart Listening Guides
• "Shooting an Elephant" Reading Analysis Questions
• 4 Tools for Teaching "The Danger of the Single Story"
• excerpts and questions from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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