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Chinua Achebe                         

Chinua Achebe                                                                                                                 Writing  Help

Explication of the first paper

first paper assignment

elements of fiction  

lab one: close reading exercise

Second complab

lab3

better ways to write your story response

how to write a paper for this class

checklist for essays

sample student essay

sample student essay

help constructing your thesis

peer response form

revising strategies

revising checklist

revising: advice from Harvard College

WAYS TO ANALYZE MORAL CONFLICT IN LITERATURE

WAYS TO TALK ABOUT ETHICS AND MORALS IN YOUR PAPER

ASSIGNMENT TWO

lab 4

view some examples of  moral analysis

how to do a close reading advice from Harvard

CLOSE READING step by step

what goes in an argument

starting to write

critique for paper 2

third paper prompts

questions to probe for assignment 3

about black humor

terms used to analyze humor

 how to analyze humor

third paper critique form

animationinterview with Achebe

about women in the Nigerian Civil War

A brief history of the Biafra War

and a briefer history

BBC Africa Site

Culture Through Language in the Writing of Achebe

 

Nadine Gordimer

a history of apartheid in South Africa

questions to consider when reading "Country Lovers"

about kibbutz

an understanding of kibbutz life

about bedouins

 

a brief history of the Lodz Ghetto

photos from the Lodz ghetto

Interview with Arnost Lustig

What makes us human: physical traits (slide show)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Isabel Allende's own website

California mudslide story

emergency mudslide procedures

about Isabel Allende

Another Translation (easier?) of Report to an Academy

lots of LOUISE ERDRICH links

Minnesota Chippewa website

About Indian Boarding schools