Things Fall Apart Novel Guide Book

Okonkwo is a great man in his Igbo village, until the world he knows begins to fall apart.

Teach Chinua Achebe's classic with a complete guide.

This Novel Guide™ helps students understand the literary techniques of Things Fall Apart, from proverbs and folktales to tragic structure, while exploring tradition, change, and colonialism, and building reading comprehension, critical thinking, and analytical skills.

Novel Guide Includes:

• CCSS alignment
• Prereading activities
• Vocabulary exercises
• Background information
• Chapter summaries
• Discussion questions
• Literary devices lessons and activities
• Reflective, expository, and analytical writing
• Character and plot analysis activities
• Whole novel project assignments
• Depth of Knowledge end of novel writing prompts
• Grading rubrics
• Final test

Bonus: Differentiated activities designed for struggling readers, PLUS extra activities for each chapter, including selected activities for accelerated learners.

The center cannot hold, but the discussion will.

About the Author

Leslie Spurrier holds a bachelor's degree in English from Wake Forest University and a master's degree in Reading and Language Arts from Millersville University. She taught middle school English and reading for over seven years and lived to tell the tale. Her favorite literary character of all time is Anne Shirley, which made giving birth to a red-headed little girl all the more glorious. Leslie currently resides in Lititz, PA, with her husband and two children. When she's not voraciously devouring books of all sorts, she creates educational materials for her online business, Story Trekker, and desperately tries to keep her cat Shadow from scratching up her favorite chair.

Print Book (4S2838): Spiral-bound, 8 x 11 inches, 98 pages plus bonus activities, reproducible.
Book Download (4S2838DL): PDF, 98 pages plus bonus activities, reproducible. We recommend Foxit PDF for viewing or editing PDFs.
Middle school, high school. ©2017.