WORLD LITERATURE
Week 3
DO NOW: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER
8TH 2014
• In the Do Now’s/Word Work Section of your World Literature Journal:
Below are three words from Things Fall Apart Chapter 7.
prosperous
p. 53
feigned
p. 54
rebuked
p. 55
Copy down the sentences from the text in which they are used.
Give or guess a definition for the words.
Create your own sentence using the words.
SWBAT REVIEW COMMA RULES
• In the English Exercises Section:
• Brainstorm all of the different ways you can use
a comma.
COMMA USE
• SWBAT apply types of conflict to TFA
Chapter 7.
• SWBAT explain the role of conflict in TFA
Chapter 7.
TYPES OF CONFLICT IN LITERATURE
MAN vs. SELF
MAN vs. MAN
MAN vs. SOCIETY
THINGS FALL APART CHAPTER 7
• There are several examples of this literary
device in TFA Chapter 7
• Who/What/When/Where/Why of Chapter 7
POSTER ASSIGNMENT
• In your groups:
• Create a poster for your type of conflict from
TFA Chapter 7
• REQUIREMENTS:
• Visual element
• Explanation of your Conflict + Connection to
text
• Direct textual evidence to support
POSTER SHARING
• Audience Expectation: Level 0, taking notes
• Presenter Expectation: Level 3, articulate, show
confidence!
SYMBOLISM
Dual Symbolism:
• Igbo association
• Christian association
EXIT TICKET
• On a half-sheet:
• What role does conflict play in Things Fall
Apart Chapter 7? Cite textual evidence to
support your claim.
HOMEWORK
• Read TFA Chapter 8 + Guiding Q’s
• Theme: Masculinity vs. Femininity
DO NOW: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
9TH, 2014
• Parenthetical phrases
• Commas
• Feedback /Discussion on TFA Chapter 8 – Main Idea & Significant details
• Read TFA Chapter 9 in class – Characterization: Ekwefi
EKWEFI
DO NOW: WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2014
• 1. Do Now (Word Work)
• 2. Commas and non essential causes lecture
• 4. Main Idea, supporting details, and summary
• 3. Read Aloud of Ch. 10
• 5. Exit ticket
DO NOW: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
11TH, 2014
SWBAT PUNCTUATE SENTENCES
WITH PARENTHETICAL PHRASES
• A parenthetical phrase is a phrase that is not
essential to the meaning of the sentence.
• When a parenthetical phrase occurs in the
middle of a sentence, it needs a
______________ on either side.
IN YOUR ENGLISH EXERCISES
SECTION:
• The sentences from Things Fall Apart Chapter 11
include parenthetical phrases.
• Rewrite the sentences with the correct punctuation.
• After, create three of your own examples of
sentences that use parenthetical phrases.
• the world was silent except for the shrill cry of insects which was part of the
night and the sound of wooden mortar and pestle as Nwayieke pounded
her foo-foo
• low voices broken now and again by singing reached Okonkwo from his
wives’ huts as each woman and her children told folk stories
• Ekwefi and her daughter Enzinma sat on a mat on the floor
CHAPTER 11’S FOLK STORY
• On the hand-out:
• Summarize the folk story told in Chapter 11
• Prepare to workshop your summary!
CHAPTER 11 FOLK STORY ANALYSIS
• Lecture Notes in your Reading/Novels
classwork
CHAPTER 11 FOLK STORY ANALYSIS
EXIT TICKET
• Turn in your revised
summary.
DO NOW: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
12TH, 2015
TFA Chapter 12 check!!!
IS THIS COMMA CORRECT?
• Ms. Mann one of the nicest teachers in
the world, gave her class extra reading.
• However, she let them begin in class.
• One student told Ms. Vanden Branden
how happy she was and, she was going
to read even more than what was
assigned.
PLOT STRUCTURE
• While listening to the Chapter 13 audio, create a plot structure of the
chapter in your notebook.
CONFLICT (MAN VS. MAN VS.
SOCIETY)
Are you for or against what happened in chapter 13?
Write down your answer on a post-it, and hang it in the designated area.
Walk around and see the differing opinions.
EXIT TICKET
• On a half sheet:
• In your opinion, why did Achebe choose to end Part One the way he did? What
aspects of the funeral ceremony make it possible for dangerous accidents to
occur? How is this accident related to the infiltration of Western technology into
a traditional culture?
HOMEWORK