Week 4: How can an author use a fictional character to make a statement about a culture?

Day 1: Springboard, journal, Things Fall Apart, writing utensil
Learning Objective:

• Evaluate a culture as represented in a novel
• Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly and draw inferences from the text.

1. JOURNAL:  What is your definition of a civilized society?
2. Dialectical Journal: YES/NO- Igbo Chapter 10
3. Language and Writer's Craft: Using Precise Language
4.Defs- tragic hero, hamartia, folk tale, archetype
5. Target Practice: How did today's discussion change your idea of a civilized society

Day 2: Springboard, journal, Things Fall Apart, writing utensil
Learning Objective:

• Evaluate a culture as represented in a novel
• Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly and draw inferences from the text.

1.JOURNAL: We know that colonialism will come to the Igbo.  How do you predict Achebe will present it in the novel?

2.Aspects of Igbo Culture Affected by Colonialism

3. Research Questions and Annotated Bibliography

4. Setting Up Dialectical Journal and Chapter 11

5. Target Practice: How will your selected topic be affected by colonialism? (Share out)

Day 3: Springboard, journal, Things Fall Apart, writing utensil

Learning Objective:

• Evaluate a culture as represented in a novel
• Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly and draw inferences from the text.

1.JOURNAL: Decide as a group if you want to read chapter 12 silently or as a group.

2. Reading of Chapter 12 and notes (page 199)

3. Masks

4.Target Practice: Share out's of Masks in mini-seminar