A complete 30-day unit plan discussing the question "How can fiction discuss truth?" I usually taught this unit second semester, after students had already had some experience with poetry, rhetorical analysis, and research. We review many of these
10 slides used to generate a discussion on what students know about Africa and Africans before reading Things Fall Apart. Includes an embedded TedTalk and facts about the author. Slides are in a PDF format, but can be presented through that.
Microsoft Word document that helps students organize their ideas on the essay topic "How do TWO characters of Things Fall Apart respond to colonialism, and how those characters help Achebe comment on that historical moment in Nigeria?"
Microsoft Excel Rubric for the Things Fall Apart Essay "How do TWO characters of Things Fall Apart respond to colonialism, and how do those characters help Achebe comment on that historical moment in Nigeria?"