Day 6: Achebe & Community Day Prep

45 mins
Inquiry: What do you picture when someone says Africa? Why?

Discussion

In triads:

1. What is Achebe’s argument? What is his thesis? (eventually get thesis statements on board)

2. Cut-up work: Discuss your passage as a group. What thesis statement does your piece of evidence support?

3. Large group --> Do you buy Achebe's argument? Why or why not? SAS triangle.

4. Back to triads: Find connections between “Heart of Darkness” and “An Outpost of Progress”. Where do we see the same language in Outpost? (pushing to make connections to Makola)
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30 mins
Inquiry
Define each term and comment on its connotation and meaning.

• Charity
• Community Service
• Service Learning
• Community Day

(How does it relate to our English curriculum?)

Discussion

Review systems and individuals → what’s the relationship between the individual and the systems?

Systems we’ve seen impacting characters and the self?

• What systems is Makola operating in? (black identity but craves white privilege)
• What systems is Kayerts operating in? (lacks white consciousness)

You → feel equal in term of system. People you meet are shaped by a system and so are you. When you’re interacting and looking around, how does the system impact others and the self? Even though the systems impact us differently, we’re all shaped by the system. Lived experience … how is it shaped by larger systems?

Community Day = connect and understand. Service is giving us a reason to be together. Everyone has a story. Humanizing the other.

Systems (family, teams, classes, school → who you are, how you see the world, what impacts your experience?)

Writing (individual, then discuss triad and then share out)

• What barriers might exist between you and the people you will meet at these places? Be realistic.
• What are our comforting myths? (Conrad = purveyor of comforting myths, example “We are not like Branson”)
• What value might this experience have?
• What apprehensions might you have?

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