2.  ANNOUNCEMENTS:
a.  RE: Assignments Past Due Dates
*Email Cora when you complete
late/make-up assignments;
*Better Late (with penalty)
than Never (= 0 points);
*Email Cora if problems arise
that I should know about;
*Cora will contact director
Frances-Anne Solomon soon...

4. TODAY - 5 Feb.:

*Discuss Discussion #2 Forum
webposted Reports & Response/Replies
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/discussions/disc2_frm.htm 

*Presentation & Discussion:
--Introduction to African Literature
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/introafricanlit.htm
--"Chinua Achebe & the
Invention of African Literature"
(see Course Plan: assigned introductory essays in
Things Fall Apart pp. vii-xvii)
--Things Fall Apart, Part I
(pp. 3-88)

2.  ANNOUNCEMENTS:
a.  New HUM 211 Webpages:
*Presentation Notes
(finish today):
--Introduction to African Literature
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/
classes/hum211/coursepack/
introafricanlit.htm

--Discussion #3 Literary Journal
Directions & Topics:
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/
classes/hum211/assignments/
Discussion3.htm

b.  Refresh / Reload in browser
--TFA Study Guide
(slight revisions to Part III Q's)
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/
classes/hum211/achebTFA.htm

3.  Assign Discussion #3:
Literary Journal - 20 points

--Individual or Collaborative

--Discussion #3 Forum
not yet ready, but
will be linked soon!

----Exercise Competencies needed
to succeed on
upcoming Discussion Paper
e.g. close reading &
interpretation;
select, interpret, & cite
well-selected textual examples
from TFA to illustrate,
support, explain points;
apply relevant background
(context) info

--DUE:  Thurs., Feb. 14
webpost by midnight
--Then read all but not required,
to post Response

--Discuss Topic Choices
(& TFA Part I):
*Each Topic choice requires 
completion of two Tasks A & B;
*Study Guide (& other)
resources referenced

1.  Okonkwo & His Story
--a. character analysis
--b. why "things fall apart"
for Okonkwo

2.  Igbo Culture/Society
--a. represented as
more complex, positive...
(Empire Writes Back...)
--b. aspects that are
questioned, criticized
(& cause it to "fall apart")

3.  Impact of European
Colonialism
--a.  Igbo attitudes toward
"white men"
--b. Impact of British
colonization by end

4.  Achebe's Achievement
in Things Fall Apart
--a.  Narrator/storyteller;
use of "African English" &
oral art forms
--b.  Achebe on role, value
of storyteller, storytelling arts