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Life of Soyinka
Kind of Activity:
Research
Objective:
Students will be able to contextualize the life of an author about whom they likely know very little
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.7; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.8
Structure:
First, ask the class if they are familiar with the author. It is likely, in a western classroom or a classroom composed primarily of westerners, that very few will be. Tell students that Wole Soyinka was a very famous and prominent playwright; why do they think they might not have heard of him before?
Create a collective timeline for the class spanning the years of Wole Soyinka's life—either a physical timeline on chart paper or an...
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