9th Grade Comparative Cultures Assignments

Daily Homework Standing Daily Assignment: Spend 5 - 10 minutes reading the international section of a newspaper. If you do this every day you will soon find yourself able to discuss important events and devepments in other parts of the world. Every C day we will begin class with a discussion of what you have learned. Click here for a link to the NYT site. Additional Homework: For Tuesday, November 25 Prepare for a test on Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Click here for the review sheet. P.S. Have you written to your Yali Epal Lately?

Looking Ahead   We are now reading Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe. The novel, set in Nigeria at the dawn of the colonial age, is a powerful demonstration of what happens when people from different cultures meet. Click here to see the author, Chinua Achebe, talk about WISDOM alongside other prominent people from accross the globe.