Thursday, September 24, 2015

TFA 1.3 THURSDAY

TFA 1.3 THURSDAY
Do now: take out your annotations HW and discuss your thoughts on the Conrad excerpt with your group.

Objectives:
  • identify problems with the colonialist single story of Africa.

Agenda:
  1. Do now
  2. Class: popcorn group discussion points
  3. TFA ppt
  4. Import the transcript of the “Dangers of a Single Story” TED talk into notability.  Read through it.
  5. Group discussion: What is or could be problematic about people only knowing the “single story” of Africa? Have your views on Conrad’s excerpt changed after re-reading Adichie’s lecture?
  6. Begin reading and annotating Achebe’s Essay on Conrad- read aloud in groups and discuss as you go.
  7. Summarizer

HW: READ & (with detail) ANNOTATE: Achebe’s Essay on Conrad (3-8)

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