All too many Africans in his time were ready to accept the European judgment that Africa had no history or culture worth considering.
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A "New English" in Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart": A Common Core Exemplar | EDSITE... - 0 views
History of English - 0 views
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History of English (Source: A History of English by Barbara A. Fennell) The English language is spoken by 750 million people in the world as either the official language of a nation, a second language, or in a mixture with other languages (such as pidgins and creoles.) English is the (or an) official language in England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand; however, the United States has no official language. Indo-European language and people English is classified genetically as a Low West Germanic language of the Indo-European family of languages. The early history of the Germanic languages is based on reconstruction of a Proto-Germanic language that evolved into German, English, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish, and the Scandinavian languages. In 1786, Sir William Jones discovered that Sanskrit contained many cognates to Greek and Latin. He conjectured a Proto-Indo-European language had existed many years before. Although there is no concrete proof to support this one language had existed, it is believed that many languages spoken in Europe and Western Asia are all derived from a common language. A few languages that are not included in the Indo-European branch of languages include Basque, Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian; of which the last three belong to the Finno-Ugric language family. Speakers of Proto-Indo-European (PIE) lived in Southwest Russia around 4,000 to 5,000 BCE. They had words for animals such as bear or wolf (as evidenced in the similarity of the words for these animals in the modern I-E languages.) They also had domesticated animals, and used horse-drawn wheeled carts. They drank alcohol made from grain, and not wine, indicating they did not live in a warm climate. They belonged to a patriarchal society where the lineage was determined through males only (because of a lack of words referring to the female's side of the family.) They also made use of a decimal counting system by 10's, and formed words by compounding. This PIE language was also highly infl
IA4: Things Fall Apart | BetterLesson - 0 views
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart - 0 views
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Students, do you agree with this statement? How would you use textual evidence to support this author's claim?
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hroughout the novel he shows how African cultures vary among themselves and how they change over time. Look for instances of these variations as you read.
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Africa: Names And Nations Of Note | Free Lesson Plans | Teachers | Digital textbooks an... - 0 views
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Look at the names in Things Fall Apart.
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Now divide the class into groups of four, and have each group select an African nation to investigate. Explain that each group will be creating a poster on its country. The poster should be divided into four sections, with a small map of the country (with the capital labeled) in the center. The group will be responsible for creating the map, but each member of the group will provide information for each of the four sections: Name origin and information Colonization information Current data and statistics Significant historical events
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Regions of Nigeria for Things Fall Apart. Regions in South Africa for Cry, the Beloved Country.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How To Do 11 Techy Things In the New School Year - 10 views
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A quick-start guide for teachers who want to try something new in the 2010-2011 school year.
Main Page - FreeReading - 0 views
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Good thing for teachers of K-3rd grade
Digital Storytelling in the Classroom - 0 views
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wiki by teacher Mike Fisher about all things related to storytelling in the web 2.0
Huffduffer - 4 views
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"The power is in taking audio content - in podcast form or not - and creating something useful, a soundscape of the things you like or you think others would - and then using the ubiquitous RSS format to distribute that information." - http://portagemedia.com/socialcommentary/2009/12/21/what-the-heck-is-huffduffer/
22 Things You Don't Know About Your Customers | Internet Marketing Strategy: Conversati... - 2 views
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Useful as tutorial for students who are over enthusiastic about using colours and fonts in PowerPoints.
Safety Mode: giving you more control on YouTube - 0 views
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Diversity of content is one of the great things about YouTube. But we know that some of you want a more controlled experience. That's why we're announcing Safety Mode, an opt-in setting that helps screen out potentially objectionable content that you may prefer not to see or don't want others in your family to stumble across while enjoying YouTube. An example of this type of content might be a newsworthy video that contains graphic violence such as a political protest or war coverage. While no filter is 100% perfect, Safety Mode is another step in our ongoing desire to give you greater control over the content you see on the site. It's easy to opt in to Safety Mode: Just click on the link at the bottom of any video page. You can even lock your choice on that browser with your YouTube password. To learn more, check out the video below. And remember, ALL content must still comply with our Community Guidelines. Safety Mode isn't fool proof, but it provides a greater degree of control over your YouTube experience. Safety Mode is rolling out to all users through out the day, watch for the new link at the bottom of any YouTube page.
How to Create Nonreaders - 11 views
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all a teacher can do – is work with students to create a classroom culture, a climate, a curriculum that will nourish and sustain the fundamental inclinations that everyone starts out with: to make sense of oneself and the world, to become increasingly competent at tasks that are regarded as consequential, to connect with (and express oneself to) other people.
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I once sat in on several classes taught by Keith Grove at Dover-Sherborn High School near Boston and noticed that such meetings were critical to his teaching; he had come to realize that the feeling of community (and active participation) they produced made whatever time remained for the explicit curriculum far more productive than devoting the whole period to talking at rows of silent kids. Together the students decided whether to review the homework in small groups or as a whole class. Together they decided when it made sense to schedule their next test. (After all, what’s the point of assessment – to have students show you what they know when they’re ready to do so, or to play “gotcha”?) Interestingly, Grove says that his classes are quite structured even though they’re unusually democratic, and he sees his job as being “in control of putting students in control.”
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The first is that deeper learning and enthusiasm require us to let students generate possibilities rather than just choosing items from our menu; construction is more important than selection.
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Fall 2010 article by Alfie Kohn about things that don't work, and things that do for encouraging a real LOVE of reading. Includes some challenging comments about motivation and traditional methods for teaching reading.
New e-book export feature enabled on Wikipedia - Wikimedia blog - 4 views
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Create e-pub books from Wikipedia articles for mobile devices
The Easiest Way To Earn From Your Books - 1 views
Being a book author, I already know that I could not easily get rich with this career because it takes time to have my books sold. Good thing that I have learned about Kindle Book Publishing and I ...
6 Things Big Japanese English Schools Look for in an English Teacher. - 0 views
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For beginning teachers who want to go over seas. This site help teacher to go to Japan or anywhere be prepared.
The Handbook of Cheating Changed The Way I Want My Marriage to Work - 1 views
My hubby and I were married for 2 years but we have been with each other for seven years before we got married. So, it was devastating when I discovered he is cheating on me with his co-worker. I r...
The Handbook of Cheating Changed The Way I Want My Marriage to Work - 1 views
My hubby and I were married for 2 years but we have been with each other for seven years before we got married. So, it was devastating when I discovered he is cheating on me with his co-worker. I r...
Was Dickens's Christmas Carol borrowed from Lowell's mill girls? - Ideas - The Boston G... - 0 views
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Dickens had encountered that narrative trope in the stories written by the Lowell mill girls, who typically published either anonymously or under pseudonyms like “Dorothea” or “M.” In one anonymous story called “A Visit from Hope,” the narrator is “seated by the expiring embers of a wood fire” at midnight, when a ghost, an old man with “thin white locks,” appears before him. The ghost takes the narrator back to scenes from his youth, and afterward the narrator promises to “endeavor to profit by the advice he gave me.” Similarly, in “A Christmas Carol,” Scrooge is sitting beside “a very low fire indeed” when Marley’s ghost appears before him. And, later, after Scrooge has been visited by the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future, he promises, “The spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.”
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That’s not how the scholars see it. Literary borrowing, even quite detailed borrowing, was accepted practice at the time—“It was just a different way of looking at things back then,” says Archibald. (“American Notes,” for instance, includes many pages of writing by the famed 19th-century physician Samuel Gridley Howe, all without attribution, and apparently without any thought by Dickens that he was doing something improper.)