PPT-“The Voter” by Chinua Achebe

92111 Proverbs Vocabulary Practice Complete your word families chart Conversation Activity Help Participation Movement Be an active listener and copy down the notes Ask and answer questions. Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart. by Chinua Achebe. Written: . 1959. , Nigeria. 3. rd. person omniscient point . of . view. Setting: . 1890s in.  Lower Nigerian villages. , especially . Iguedo. Conflicts. by Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe remains the most read African author in . the world. . Things Fall Apart. enormously successful first novel, published in 1958. has sold millions of copies and has been . Student Competition. September 28—October 2, 2015. College . students are facing many . challenges. rises in college tuition and student debt. reduced financial aid packages. a decrease in basic college courses offered. THINGS FALL APART. "Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive." . THINGS FALL APART. LQ: . Can I . analyse. how Achebe presents women through his language choice, structure and form?. . TERMINOLOGY: . onomatopoeia, . repetition. , alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, . Ohio Voter Integrity Project. Purpose. To provide preliminary training to both Republican and Democratic poll workers. Competent, responsible election officials . Knowledgeable about the election process. --Chinua Achebe Nigeria Size 823,770 km 2 (about twice the size of California) growth 2.9% Infant mortalit y 69.46 per 1,000 births Life expectancy 53 Literacy 47% Major religions 50% Muslim An introduction to a most celebrated African novel. Setting. . Novel is set in the 1890s. Africa is being colonized by the British and other European countries. It’s a mad scramble for land, resources and labor. Famous Nigerian author – best known for ‘Things Fall Apart’ (1958). This was a reaction to Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’. (The inspiration for Apocalypse Now). Vultures. This is the name of the next poem you are going to study. . Chinua Achebe - Goodreads. Chinua Achebe was a novelist, poet, professor at Brown University and critic. He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely read book in modern African literature. Today, each group is assigned an article to read and annotate. . 1. Read the article.. 2. Annotate the article.. 3. Answer the questions at the end of the article.. 4. Prepare a lecture based on your topic. Each group member MUST present!. Things Fall Apart. Born Albert . Chinualumogu. Achebe in 1930 in Nigeria. Born to Ibo parents who were deeply Protestant; he was raised in the Protestant denomination. Highly educated, often wrote about world religion and traditional African culture. . English 12. Mr. Brown. Mr. . Baun. Warm up Question. Name a couple of things that come to mind when you think about Africa.. http://. www.wordle.net/create. The Story. Mapping Africa Activity. On the blank map fill in all of the African countries that you know of. . La gamme de thé MORPHEE vise toute générations recherchant le sommeil paisible tant désiré et non procuré par tout types de médicaments. Essentiellement composé de feuille de morphine, ce thé vous assurera d’un rétablissement digne d’un voyage sur .