Things Fall Apart
“People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's [viewed as] a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.”
--Chinua Achebe
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to practice the necessary elements of research on a small scale before beginning the research process on a large scale for the third quarter writing assignment which is a literary research essay. This assignment requires you to locate and evaluate sources, to locate and evaluate data, to practice with research note-taking strategies and citations using MLA documentation, paraphrasing, summarizing and direct quotes, to formulate an arguable and provable theme statement, to integrate evidence and to write commentary which reflects analysis of research. The assignment also requires you to synthesize researched information with reading of a fictional text and to create a proper MLA formatted works consulted page.
Assignment: You will write a brief, concise paragraph that addresses how your assigned social, cultural or political aspect of the Ibo tribe contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. You will also be expected to turn in an MLA formatted “Works
Cited” page listing all sources used during the research process. The “essay” needs to address the following:
How your topic reveals a theme of the novel
Format: The format is quite specific, but is designed intentionally to ensure that you exhibit understanding of the basic elements of research without going beyond the expectations of the assignment. You may vary sentence order, but you must use one of each type of researched concrete detail (paraphrased, summarized and directly quoted). Essay should be in MLA format (Times New Roman, double spaced, 1” margins with the proper heading) and be
--Chinua Achebe
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to practice the necessary elements of research on a small scale before beginning the research process on a large scale for the third quarter writing assignment which is a literary research essay. This assignment requires you to locate and evaluate sources, to locate and evaluate data, to practice with research note-taking strategies and citations using MLA documentation, paraphrasing, summarizing and direct quotes, to formulate an arguable and provable theme statement, to integrate evidence and to write commentary which reflects analysis of research. The assignment also requires you to synthesize researched information with reading of a fictional text and to create a proper MLA formatted works consulted page.
Assignment: You will write a brief, concise paragraph that addresses how your assigned social, cultural or political aspect of the Ibo tribe contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. You will also be expected to turn in an MLA formatted “Works
Cited” page listing all sources used during the research process. The “essay” needs to address the following:
How your topic reveals a theme of the novel
Format: The format is quite specific, but is designed intentionally to ensure that you exhibit understanding of the basic elements of research without going beyond the expectations of the assignment. You may vary sentence order, but you must use one of each type of researched concrete detail (paraphrased, summarized and directly quoted). Essay should be in MLA format (Times New Roman, double spaced, 1” margins with the proper heading) and be