Thursday, May 16 2019

76 minutes

1.   SSR / take survey in classroom

Read up to the end of chapter 17 (page 153)

     2.   Groups: complete chapter 15-17 questions

     3.   Review the poem “The Second Coming” by W. B. Yeats

     4.   Discuss imagery in poem and connect to the novel’s epigraph and title.

Homework in Google Classroom: Write a 150-200 word response to the following question: Keeping in mind the damage caused by colonialism, and the novel's focus on pre-colonial traditions, explain why both the epigraph and the title of Things Fall Apart are taken from the English-language poem “The Second Coming?”

Also, DUE MONDAY, MAY 20: Read chapters 18, 19, and 20