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World Literature Africa and the Middle East (4 weeks) Unit Plan
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Key Learning and Unit Essential Question(s)
Key Learning(s):
Students consider the beauty and craftsmanship of the works, as well as the effects of the African
and Middle Eastern colonial experience – and the subsequent challenges of the postcolonial era.
They consider religious, generational and cultural conflicts, effects of modernization, political
struggle, and other themes common to many literary works. At the same time, students
recognize that not all literary works make explicit political or cultural statements and that all
works must be approached on their own terms. In order to enrich their understanding, students
investigate the historical background of selected works, as well as author biographies.
Unit Essential Question(s):
How does the literature in this unit offer insight into African and Middle Eastern cultural
conflicts?
Standards/GLEs
ELACC9-10RL1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the
text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
ELACC9-10RL4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text,
including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the cumulative impact of specific word
choices on meaning and tone (e.g., how the language evokes a sense of time and place; how it
sets a formal or informal tone).
ELACC9-10RL6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work
of literature from outside the United States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
ELACC9-10RI5: Analyze in detail how an author’s ideas or claims are developed and
refined by particular sentences, paragraphs, or larger portions of a text (e.g., a section or
chapter).
ELACC9-10RI8: Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing
whether the reasoning is valid and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; identify false
statements and fallacious reasoning.
ELACC9-10W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization,
and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing
types are defined in standards 1-3.)
ELACC9-10W5: Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing,
rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a
specific purpose and audience. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of
Language standards 1–3 up to and including grades 9–10.)
ELACC9-10W6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update
individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other
information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
ELACC9-10W9: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis,
reflection, and research.
ELACC9-10SL6: Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of
formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See grades 9–10 Language standards 1 and 3 for
specific expectations.)
World Literature Africa and the Middle East (4 weeks) Unit Plan
ELACC9-10L5: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and
nuances in word meanings.
ELACC9-10L6: Acquire and use accurately general academic and domain-specific words and
phrases, sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness
level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or
phrase important to comprehension or expression.
KNOW UNDERSTAND DO
- history of the rise of The beauty and craftsmanship - Read a variety of
Islam and its subsequent of the works, as well as the literary works from
influences on Persia and effects of the African and Africa and the Middle
Arabia Middle Eastern colonial East, particularly from
- art, culture, people and experience – and the the postcolonial period.
society of the Muslim subsequent challenges of the - Consider the challenges
world postcolonial era. Religious, of translation, including
- principle of monotheism generational and cultural the different
- understand tales, myths, conflicts, effects of connotations that
legends, epics, songs, modernization, political various cultures attach
and proverbs struggle, and other themes are to given words.
- understand elements of common to many literary - Through analysis of
lyric poetry works. Not all literary works literary works, explore
- African Diaspora make explicit political or the changing social
- history of West Africa cultural statements and that all structures of Middle
(rise and fall of empires works must be approached on Eastern and African
and city-states, spread of their own terms; historical societies.
Islam, slave trade and background of selected works, - Explore various literary
colonization. as well as author biographies. devices in plot
- art, culture, people, and development such as
society of African suspense,
countries foreshadowing,
- cultural values of non- symbolism, and
Americans extended metaphor.
- grammar, usage and - Trace the development
mechanics conventions of an idea or argument
appropriate to grade in a work of literary
level nonfiction.
- vocabulary terms and - Offer insightful
literary devices inferences regarding the
- standards of writing themes of the text.
(e.g., MLA format, - Create a clear, original,
research) specific thesis
- Western perspectives on statement.
Africa and the Middle - Organize concrete
East evidence and supporting
textual details to support
World Literature Africa and the Middle East (4 weeks) Unit Plan
a thesis statement.
- Use precise language,
avoiding casual
language cliches.
- Write appropriate
transitions to organize
paragraphs.
- Analyze how literary
devices convey theme.
Launch:
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Vocabulary Terms:
- antagonist - paradox
- colonialism - persona
- denouement - point of view
- extended metaphor - postcolonialism
- foreshadowing - rhetoric
- irony - satire
- mysticism
Formative Assessments:
Summative Assessments:
- Appropriate vocabulary, comprehension, or review quizzes
- Multiple Choice Exam with short answer/essay options
Resources: The Language of Literature: World Literature (McDougal Littell brown text)
Modern World Literature (Nextext Anthology)
SCRIPTURE from The Koran (Ancient Middle East)
TALES from The Thousand and One Nights (India/Persia)
- “The Second Voyage of Sinbad
the Sailor”
Tales of Anansi the Spider Ashanti (West Africa)
- “All Stories are Anasi’s”
- “Anansi Plays Dead”
ANECDOTES from the Gulistan Sadi (Persia)
MYTH “How the World Was Created from a Drop of Milk” Fulani (West Africa)
World Literature Africa and the Middle East (4 weeks) Unit Plan
LEGEND “The First Bard Among the Soninke” Soninke (West Africa)
SONGS Praise Songs for Orishas Yoruba (West Africa)
- “Obatala”
- “Shango”
- “Oshun”
NONFICTION West African Proverbs Various (West Africa)
POETRY from the Rubaiyat Omar Khayyam (Persia)
“Birdsong from Inside the Egg” Rumi (Persia)
“The Grasses”
“And We Shall be Steeped” Leopold Sedar Senghor (Senegal)
“Prayer to Masks”
“Letter to a Poet”
“Black Woman”
“After the Deluge” Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
“Your Logic Frightens Me, Mandela”
“The Snow Flakes Sail Gently Down” Gabriel Okara (Nigeria)
“You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed”
“Song of War” Kofi Awoonor (Ghana)
“The Sea Eats the Land at Home”
“At the Gates”
“On African Writing” Jack Mapanje (Malawi)
“Of Three of Four in a Room” Yehuda Amichai (Israel)
“Jerusalem”
“An Arab Shepherd Is Searching for His Goat on Mt. Zion”
“Identity Card” Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine)
“On Wishes”
“I Conquer the World with Words” Nizar Qabbani (Syria)
“Equation”
“Language”
“Fragments from Notes”
The Epic of Gilgamesh (ancient poem - Mesopotamia)
The Conference of the Birds: A Sufi Allegory Farid al Din Attar or Attar of
Nishapur (Iran)
ESSAY from A Portrait of Egypt Mary Anne Weaver (Egypt)
MEMOIR from The Dark Child Camara Laye (Guinea)
FICTION “The Guest” Albert Camus (Algeria)
“Amnesty” Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)
“The Ultimate Safari”
“Half a Day” Naguib Mafouz (Egypt)
“The Answer is No”
“The Conjurer Made Off with the Dish”
“The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses” Bessie Head (Botswana)
“The Voter” Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
“Taken” Steven Chimombo (Malawi)
“There Is No Exile” Assia Djebar (Algeria)
“The Butcher” Ari Siletz (Iran)
“The Slave Fort” Ghassan Kanafani (Palestine)
“From Behind the Veil” Dhu’l Nun Ayyoub (Iraq)
“At the Time of the Jasmine” Alifa Rifaat (Egypt)
“Three Quatrains” Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Pakistan)
“Elegy”
World Literature Africa and the Middle East (4 weeks) Unit Plan
“Prison Meeting”
“Be Near Me”
NOVELS My Name is Red Orham Pamuk (Turkey)
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
The Joys of Motherhood Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria)
Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton (South Africa)
Waiting for the Barbarians or Life and J.M. Coetzee (South Africa)
Times of Michael K
The Thief and the Dogs Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)
So Long a Letter Mariama Ba (Senegal)
Martha Quest Doris Lessing (U.K.)
Beirut Blues Hanan al-Shakyh (Lebanon)
The River Between Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Kenya)
Additional Resources:
SHORT STORIES
The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales Bessie Head (Botswana)
Tales from a Troubled Land Alan Paton (South Africa)
We Killed Mangy Dog and Other Mozambique Stories Luis Bernardo Honwana
(Mozambique)
The World Is a Room and Other Stories Yehuda Amichai (Israel)
POETRY
Poems of Black Africa (selections) Wole Soyinka, ed.
The Butterfly’s Burden Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine)
Open Closed Open: Poems (selections) Yehuda Amichai (Israel)
The Illuminated Rumi (selections) Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Michael Green, and Coleman Barks,
trans. (Iran)
DRAMA
South Africa
“Master Harold”…and the Boys Athol Fugard
Woza Albert! Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema, and Barney Simon
Nigeria
Death and the King’s Horseman: A Play Wole Soyinka
King Baabu Wole Soyinka
The Lion and the Jewel Wole Soyinka
INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
Iran
Ethics of the Aristocrats and Other Satirical Works (Nezam al-Din Obeyd-e Zakani)
South Africa
Living in Hope and History: Notes From Our Century (Nadime Gordimer)
Autobiography: Out of Africa (Isak Dinesen)
Autobiography: Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (Nelson
Mandela)
Speech: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, 1993 (Nelson Mandela)
World Literature Africa and the Middle East (4 weeks) Unit Plan
ART, MUSIC, AND MEDIA
Art
Africa
Gabon, mask for the Okuyi Society (late 19th century)
Burkina Faso, hawk mask (no date)
Nigeria, House of the Head Shrine: Equestrian, Yoruba (19th-20th century)
Ivory Coast, leopard stool (20th century)
Mali, standing female figure (19th-20th century)
Congo, power figure (19th-20th century)
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Earth (2010)
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Air (2010)
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Fire (2010)
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Water (2010)
Middle East
Turkey, dish (2nd half of the 16th century)
Syria, Qur’an manuscript (late 9th-early10th century)
Iran, antique Kurdish rug (no date)
Shirin Neshat, Untitled, (1996)
Shirin Neshat, Soliloquy Series (Figure in Front of Steps) (1999)
WEB
Internet African History Sourcebook
African Postcolonial Literature in English
African National Congress
Africa South of the Sahara
WashingtonPost.com: African Lives
Art and Life in Africa Project
Reading Women Writers and African Literatures
Teaching the Middle East: A Resource for Educators
Conversations with History
Women in Africa: Tradition and Change
Al-Mizan: Sciences and Arts in the Islamic World
PBS Resources – VIDEOS!!
PBS Activity Packs
