Week 3

You need to continue reading Chapters 11 to 15 of Things Fall Apart but I am not going to ask you to respond in writing because you need to start putting time into your short story assignment. You will receive the task sheet on Wednesday and should begin to look for a fairy tale or traditional story on which to base your assignment. I am at a conference on this day but I will discuss the task in detail on Thursday. You can then begin to analyse the ideolgy and to construct a pick-a-path to challenge this. As you work through these activities in class and for homework, remember that your aim is to be able to produce a short story which challenges the ideology of the original story.

Week 2 Chapters 6-10

In these chapters we gain an insight into Okonkwo's relationships with Nwoye, Ikemefuna and Ezinma. Why does Okonkwo feel and behave as he does towards each of these characters? What was your response to Okonkwo as a result of these revelations?

Starting Term 2

During the first part of Term 2, we will be focussing in class on the way fairy tales and short stories promote ideologies. However, as part of your homework during this time, you need to read the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe which will form the basis for our class work during the second half of the term. To help you with this, you will find a reading guide on Blackboard. By Monday of next week, you need to have read the first five chapters and have posted on your blog the answers to the questions about Ibo culture at the end of the questions on the first five chapters. (You do not have to post the answers to the chapter questions.)