Things+Fall+Apart+by+Chinua+Achebe

= = = = == Azikiwe, Abayomi. "Chinua Achebe" 2012. //Fickr Creative Commons//. = = "I was introduced to the danger of not having your own stories. There is that great proverb—that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. . . . Once I realized that, I had to be a writer. I had to be that historian. It’s not one man’s job. It’s not one person’s job. But it is something we have to do, so that the story of the hunt will also reflect the agony, the travail—the bravery, even, of the lions."  "I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there’s no way you can tell that story in one way and say, ‘this is it.’ Always there will be someone who can tell it differently depending on where they are standing … this is the way I think the world’s stories should be told: from many different perspectives.” (“Chinua Achebe: The Art of Fiction 139,” interviewed by Jerome Brooks in //The Paris Review //Issue #133 (Winter 1994-5) = Audio files =  Tapping tree for palm wine "The Second Coming" William Butler Yeats

Location of fictional Umoufia Popeski, Cara. "Lower Nigeria in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart." 2014. booma.us.

=Vocabulary List Chapters 17-15= Vocabulary Definitions - Chapters 17-25

Vocabulary Definitions - Chapters 1-16 Things Fall Apart - Reading Study Guide Questions

Reading Quiz Chapters 1-6 Reading Quiz 7- 22 Vocabulary Quiz One

Grammar, mechanics, and writing structures: = Sentence fragments and run ons=

=Using direct quotes=

Compare and Contrast Essay - Things Fall Apart