Africa++Day+Seven


 * Due: "An Image of Africa" topic prepared for discussion **

**Group Share:** Each student was given a card inviting them to start preparing their opinion on one of five topics regarding the reading. Each group will take the center of the room while the rest of the class watches as they have a conversation about this topic. Students earn credit for their contribution to the group discussion.

Watch [|“The Danger of the Single Story”] 18:46 minutes


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"To open to civilization the only part of our globe

which it has not yet penetrated, to pierce the darkness

which hangs over entire peoples, is, I dare say,

a crusade worthy of this century of progress."

King Leopold II


 * Introduce Synthesis Paper **

this point in our Africa unit, we have read and analyzed a number of works that shed light on the development of Africa's image over the last four hundred years. Much of this image is accredited to the images and writings of very few people and the voices that did matter were largely not included in the story of Africa. In the video we watched, Chimamanda suggests that there is a danger in the single story, especially when it generalizes a continent and it's hundreds of millions of people. Now, it is time to digest all of these great resources and use your knowledge disprove the following statement:

**Africa is a place that needed to be saved. **


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Synthesis Paper: Africa is a place that needs to be saved.
 * Synthesis Paper Details: **Imagine that you, like Achebe, were caught in a conversation with someone who makes a claim like this. Knowing how important it is to stop the spread of ignorance, you decide to engage with this person and so you tell him to wait right there as you speed home to start a strongly worded synthesis paper that will cut down the ignoramus's narrow-mindedness and help educate him on the truth about saving the 'dark continent'. In only 2-3 pages, you successfully thwart his claim with direct quotes from 5 of the sources we reviewed in class and even further, explain to your now enlightened friend why it is so important to debunk this antiquated and factually untrue rumor.

We will work in groups to make connections with the texts and develop your synthesis paper.

Watch [|“The Danger of the Single Story”] 18:46 minutes