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Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

 

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Author Biographies

 

http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=1396 

http://www.bookrags.com/notes/tfa/BIO.htm 

http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_chinua_achebe.html 

http://www.unc.edu/~hhalpin/ThingsFallApart/achebebio.html 

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/achebe.htm 

 

   
Background Information

 

Nigeria: http://www.unc.edu/~hhalpin/ThingsFallApart/history.html 

Map: http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/countries/Nigeria.html 

Ibo Art & Culture: http://www.unc.edu/~hhalpin/ThingsFallApart/links.html 

Art & Culture Photos: http://www.siu.edu/~anthro/mccall/jones/ 

African Art: http://www.picardbeads.com/visit.html 

Historical Background:

     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmThingsFall17.asp 

Author Timeline: http://www.ivcc.edu/lockwood/Lig_201/Achebe/time_line.html 

Igbo:

     http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Igbo.html 

     http://www.stfrancis.edu/en/student/achebe/chinua/igbo.htm 

     http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3629/igbo.html 

     http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/imperial/nigeria/religion.htm 

     http://www.chiamaka.com/igbonames.htm 

 

   
Lesson Plans and Activities

 

Plot Summaries:

     http://www.bookrags.com/notes/tfa/SUM.htm 

     http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/things/fullsumm.html

     http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/things/summary.html  

Characters:

     http://www.bookrags.com/notes/tfa/CHR.htm 

     http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/things/charlist.html 

     http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/things/canalysis.html 

Objects/Places: http://www.bookrags.com/notes/tfa/OBJ.htm

Key Facts: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/things/facts.html  

Theme:

     http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/things/themes.html 

     http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/things/themes.html 

     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmThingsFall60.asp 

Quotes:

     http://www.bookrags.com/notes/tfa/QUO.htm 

     http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/things/quotes.html 

Questions:

     http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebtfa.htm

     http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/things/study.html  

     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmThingsFall63.asp 

     http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/things_fall_apart.asp#discuss 

     http://www.addison.lib.il.us/6achebe.asp 

     http://www.asmilan.org/teachers/jstoner/eng12/tfa/achebewsuquest.doc 

     http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/teacherguides/things_fall.html#discussion 

     http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/teacherguides/things_fall.html#themes

     http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/teacherguides/things_fall.html#structure 

     http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/teacherguides/things_fall.html#character  

     http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/teacherguides/things_fall.html#setting  

     http://www.efa.nl/onderwijs/2000/ethnicity/Questions%20on%20Things.htm 

Quizzes:

     http://www.gradesaver.com/cgisys/cgiwrap/readers/quiz.cgi?book=

          things&q_start=1&total_q=40

     http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/things/quiz.html 

     http://www.asmilan.org/teachers/jstoner/eng12/tfa/quiz.html 

     http://www.asmilan.org/teachers/jstoner/eng12/tfa/oraltest.html  

     http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1298/tfatest.html   

Book Notes: http://www.unc.edu/~hhalpin/ThingsFallApart/plot.html 

Selected Proverbs: http://www.unc.edu/~hhalpin/ThingsFallApart/Proverbs.html

Study Guides:

     http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/achebe.html

     http://www.northern.edu/hastingw/achebe.htm  

     http://www.fundus.org/pdf.asp?ID=2629 

Tragic Faults:

     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmThingsFall61.asp 

Tribe Life: http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmThingsFall62.asp

Oral & Literary Strategies: http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=343 

Web Quest:

     http://www.nths.newtrier.k12.il.us/academics/english/TFA/tfawebquest.html

Ibo Glossary:

     http://www.cx.unibe.ch/ens/cg/africanfiction/nigeria/achebe/ibogloss.html 

Author Concept Map:

     http://collaboratory.nunet.net/goals2000/eddy/Achebe/Influences.html 

Language is Power:

     http://www.chatham.edu/PTI/Diversity_Resistance/Amos_01.htm 

Imagery & Language:

     http://www.randomhouse.com/acmart/teacherguides/things_fall.html#imagery

Class Assignments:

     http://nweb.pct.edu/homepage/staff/evavra/Enl121/Novels/Achebe_Things.htm