TFA 2.3 THURSDAY

TFA 2.3 THURSDAY

DO NOW: review your 3-2-1 reading journals in preparation for discussion.

Objectives:

• identify problems with the colonialist single story of Africa, and identify whether they believe people have a right to morally criticize other cultures’ practices.

Agenda:

1. do now
2. Socratic  Seminar- ch 6-8; appoint a Facilitator to keep the discussion going (10 min) (please include a discussion of the “narrative voice”- how would you describe it?)
3. Sharing main topics of interest/ observations
4. Class Discussion, Part 2: can we judge morality objectively?  (small groups, then large group discussion)

• Can/should we criticize another culture’s practices as strange/wrong?  e.g. execution of non-violent drug offenders in Asia; child marriage or arranged marriages of children
• How are the villagers seen as mainly peace-loving rather than war-like? Why is this significant in the context of colonialist writing about Africans, like that seen from Conrad?
• How is Okonkwo a complex character, and why is it important that he is so complex?

5. ORB Book CLubs- 1 mod

6. Summarizer-: write whether you believe that there is an objective version of morality by which people can and should critique other cultures’ practices as good or bad/right or wrong. Why do you think this? Where does this morality come from?

HW: Rd ch 9-10 + 3-2-1 Discussion Journal ; read ORB