CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APARTLQ: Can I analyse how Achebe presents the Religious struggle

through his language choice, structure and form?

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

CHINUA ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APARTLQ: Can I analyse how Achebe presents the Religious struggle

through his language choice, structure and form?

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+ search “Achebe”

CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom

STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

GOOD PROGRESS: I can articulate my analysis of the ways the language, structure and form of the novel present Okonkwo’s struggle for autonomy in

the novel

CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom

STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

EXCELLENT PROGRESS: I can articulate perceptive analysis of the ways the language, structure and form of the novel present Okonkwo’s struggle for

autonomy in the novel, using my knowledge of social and historical context

OUTSTANDING PROGRESS: I can articulate perceptive and detailed analysis of the ways the language, structure and form of the novel present Okonkwo’s

struggle for autonomy in the novel, using my knowledge of social and historical context to illuminate alternative interpretations

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

“When the missionaries came, the Africans had the land and the Christians had the Bible. They taught us to pray with our eyes closed.

When we opened them they had the land and we had the Bible” - Jomo Kenyatta (in Mazrui 149-150)

CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom

STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

“The main purpose of colonial school system was to train Africans to participate in the domination and exploitation of the continent as a whole . . . Colonial education was education for subordination, exploitation, the creation of mental confusion and the development of underdevelopment.” [263] - Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

WATCH THIS CLIP AND CONSIDER HOW CONOLIAL INFLUENCES MAY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO CURRENT UNREST IN NIGERIA

CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom

STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

Read the “critical essay on the presentation of Missionaries in TFA”.

Read the “critical essay on the presentation of Missionaries in TFA”.

CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom

STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

GOOD PROGRESS: I can articulate my analysis of the ways the language,

structure and form of the novel present the gender struggle in the novel

EXCELLENT PROGRESS: I can articulate perceptive analysis of the ways the

language, structure and form of the novel present the gender struggle in the novel,

using my knowledge of social and historical context

OUTSTANDING PROGRESS: I can articulate perceptive and detailed analysis of the

ways the language, structure and form of the novel present the gender struggle in the novel, using my knowledge of social

and historical context to illuminate alternative interpretations

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

Use the 8 extracts from Religious extracts to analyse the struggle for identity caused by the religious upheaval triggered by missionary conversionsConsider:• How are the two religions

presented through language?• How does the structure of the

novel or each chapter add to the presentation of the religions?

• How is the form relevant to the impact of how the religious struggle is presented?

EXT: How does this religious struggle fit with our wider reading?

CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom

STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

GOOD PROGRESS: I can articulate my analysis of the ways the language,

structure and form of the novel present the gender struggle in the novel

EXCELLENT PROGRESS: I can articulate perceptive analysis of the ways the

language, structure and form of the novel present the gender struggle in the novel,

using my knowledge of social and historical context

OUTSTANDING PROGRESS: I can articulate perceptive and detailed analysis of the

ways the language, structure and form of the novel present the gender struggle in the novel, using my knowledge of social

and historical context to illuminate alternative interpretations

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Read the Yeats poem from which Achebe took the

novel’s title.

What relevance does it have to our understanding of

the religious struggle?

EXT: is there a quotation worth

adding to our quotation banks?

CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom

STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

THE SECOND COMINGTurning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand;Surely the Second Coming is at hand.The Second Coming! Hardly are those words outWhen a vast image out of Spiritus MundiTroubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;A shape with lion body and the head of a man,A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,Is moving its slow thighs, while all about itWind shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again but now I knowThat twenty centuries of stony sleepWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Drawing it together Decide 5 most useful quotations to use in wider reading section of the exam. These should be added to a quotation bank set up by your teacher on the blog EXT: can any of the quotations be used for other struggles as well?

CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom

STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

GOOD PROGRESS: I can articulate my analysis of the ways the language,

structure and form of the novel present the gender struggle in the novel

EXCELLENT PROGRESS: I can articulate perceptive analysis of the ways the

language, structure and form of the novel present the gender struggle in the novel,

using my knowledge of social and historical context

OUTSTANDING PROGRESS: I can articulate perceptive and detailed analysis of the

ways the language, structure and form of the novel present the gender struggle in the novel, using my knowledge of social

and historical context to illuminate alternative interpretations

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy

GOOD PROGRESS: I can articulate my analysis of the ways the language, structure and form of the novel present Okonkwo’s struggle for autonomy in

the novel

CONTEXTUAL TERMS: colonisation, independence, missionaries, post-colonial, racism, Empire, Victorian, Igbo, traditional custom

STRUGGLES: race, cultural domination, alienation, religion

EXCELLENT PROGRESS: I can articulate perceptive analysis of the ways the language, structure and form of the novel present Okonkwo’s struggle for

autonomy in the novel, using my knowledge of social and historical context

OUTSTANDING PROGRESS: I can articulate perceptive and detailed analysis of the ways the language, structure and form of the novel present Okonkwo’s

struggle for autonomy in the novel, using my knowledge of social and historical context to illuminate alternative interpretations

TERMINOLOGY: onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, sibilance, simile, metaphor, personification, personal pronoun, feminism, rhetoric

CONTEXT TERMS: misogyny, equality, gender equality, segregation, marginalisation, segregation, discrimination, alienation, polygamy