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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. September 22, 2011. Vocabulary Fakebook Pages. Create a Fakebook page for your assigned word. You may work alone or with a partner Pages will be posted. You have 20 minutes to complete. William Butler Yeats: "The Second Coming" (1921).

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Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

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  1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe September 22, 2011

  2. Vocabulary Fakebook Pages • Create a Fakebook page for your assigned word. • You may work alone or with a partner • Pages will be posted. • You have 20 minutes to complete.

  3. William Butler Yeats: "The Second Coming" (1921) The poem was written after the catastrophe of World War I and with communism rising. Yeats believed that history in part moved in two thousand-year cycles. The Christian era, which followed that of the ancient world, was about to give way to an ominous period represented by the rough, pitiless beast in the poem.

  4. "The Second Coming" Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. A Gyre is a Spiral, making the figure of a cone.

  5. Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is at hand;The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desertA shape with lion body and the head of a man,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,Is moving its slow thighs, while all about itReel shadows of the indignant desert birds.The darkness drops again; but now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at lastSlouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

  6. Things Fall Apart • 1958 • Nigeria • Ibo Culture • Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930 • Story based on events of Achebe’s grandfather- Okonkwo

  7. Three Parts • 1. The life of the Ibo people before the arrival of white people • 2. Okonkwo’s seven years of exile and the arrival of the colonial culture. • 3. How the white people’s law, education, power and economics strangle and destroy the whole Ibo culture.

  8. Character Charts • Create a character chart in your notebook: Name Description Quote pg # Include: Amalinze, Okonkwo, Unoka, Okoye, Ikemefuna, Ezeugo, & Nwoye

  9. Read Chapter 1 • What does “proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten” mean?

  10. Read Chapter 2 • What effect does the night have on the people? • What do they fear? • What is the conflict with Mbaino?

  11. Read Chapter 3 • Who is Agbala? • How is awareness of rank observed in the drinking of the palm wine? • How does share-cropping work? • What is women’s relationship to agriculture?

  12. Homework • Study for test tomorrow- • Vocabulary • Kaffir Boy in America • “The Voter”

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