TFA 3.4 FRIDAY

TFA 3.4 FRIDAY

DO NOW: Please respond to one of these in a paragraph in google doc (10 minutes):

1-You are a Christian missionary visiting the land of the Igbo in the 1890s, the same time period as Things Fall Apart. Describe your mental processes throughout a day of spreading your religious beliefs to the native peoples of Igbo-land  OR...

2-You are an Igbo teenager who is exposed to Christianity for the first time. Describe your mental processes throughout a day in which you witness Christian missionaries spreading their religious beliefs to your friends/family in the village.  

Objectives:
---write from different perspectives;
---analyze the influence of missionaries on Igbo village life

Agenda:

1. do now
2. Take notes on his points as Achebe discusses TFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHF_w0gkyiI
3. Discussion: 17-19 – groups. (10)

- discuss the last three lines on p 153.

- What does the old man of Mbanta fear for the next generation? (167)

- How is the church winning converts? What about Igbo society is making this possible? Why does Nwoye convert, knowing his past experiences?

4. Summarizer: reflect on the problems inherent in missionary work.

HW = ch 20-22 + 3-2-1 Discussion Journal; download Soc. Seminar poems to your TFA folder in notability