Things Fall Apart Lesson Plan

W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming"

Kind of Activity:

Long-term Project

Objective:

Students will be able to analyze poetic language and apply it an analysis of the novel's themes and plot.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.4, CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.9 , CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.5

Structure:

Things Fall Apart takes its title from a line in the Irish poet W. B. Yeats's poem "The Second Coming", written in 1919 and first published in 1920. This long-term project has three major parts, including a classwide discussion of the poem on Day 1, an artistic project utilzing technology on Days 3 and 4, and an individual writing component on Day...