1. Finish your rough draft for the writing assignment in which you were asked to corret a misconception about an aspect of your culture (ethnicity; socio-economic; gender; age group). Your essay may include quotes/anecdotes/description. You may use first person (sparingly).
2. Finish reading and annotating Things Fall Apart. Complete the Major Works Data Sheet.
3. Write a thesis statement or theme statement for each of the following subjects: success/failure/sacrifice/redemption/insecurity/powerlessness/power/favoritism/social acceptance/balance or temperance.
4. Answer the following short study questions: Why is it significant to the village that the missionaries builds its church on the Evil Forest?
Define the word "disenfranchisement". Who were the disenfranchised in Things Fall Apart? Why is it important that a society takes care of this group?
Define the following literary tems and provide examples from Things Fall Apart: verbal irony; dramatic irony; situational irony; foreshadowing; internal conflict.
AP Prep Schedule: When we return we will devote one week to discussing themes from Things Fall Apart and making connections to Oedipus and The Kite Runner.
Week 2- April 16 through Weeks4 April 23 we will read one novel or play per week. The novels are relatively short (no more than 250 pages). Get ready to have fun!!!!!
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