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:
- Do now
- Class: respresentatives from each group describes what they discussed
- TFA ppt
- Import the transcript of the “Dangers of a Single Story” TED talk into notability. Read through it.
- 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?
- Begin reading and annotating Achebe’s Essay on Conrad- read aloud in groups and discuss as you go.
- Summarizer
HW: READ & (with detail) ANNOTATE: Achebe’s Essay on Conrad (3-8) REQUIREMENTS: 2/3 annotations per page. Annotate for: identification of thesis and/or evidence, agreement/disagreement, questions for understanding, summarizing
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