Learning Goals
Students will be able to analyze cultural disruption in Things Fall Apart by citing textual evidence to explain how rapid outside change affects family structure, identity, and authority.
Students will be able to investigate Nigerian history and colonization by comparing primary and secondary sources to determine how Western technology and imperial expansion changed indigenous communities.
Students will be able to evaluate source credibility by identifying perspective, purpose, and reliability in texts, images, audio, and community testimony about Indigenous experiences of cultural disruption.
Students will be able to formulate and refine an investigable question about how colonization and industrialization reshape indigenous communities and family systems.
Students will be able to synthesize evidence from Things Fall Apart, Nigerian history, and Grand Ronde or other Indigenous perspectives to construct a defensible claim about adaptation to outside forces.
Students will be able to participate in prepared academic discussion by posing questions, challenging ideas, and responding to diverse perspectives using evidence from research and texts.
Students will be able to defend a historical argument about the impact of rapid technological and colonial change on indigenous societies by explaining methodological choices, limitations, and unanswered questions.
Products
Investigation Notebook on Cultural Disruption in Things Fall Apart
A research notebook documenting the student’s question, source selection, note-taking, evidence analysis, and personal conclusion about how outside forces reshaped a chosen community or character. It must show raw evidence, source evaluations, and a reflection on limitations and unanswered questions.
Digital Historical Investigation Presentation on Indigenous Community Change
A collaborative presentation that synthesizes team members’ evidence into a shared, defensible claim about how colonization and rapid technology adoption affected indigenous societies. It must include methodology, corroborated evidence, visuals, contradictory findings, limitations, and next questions.
Compare Disruption Responses
Students collaborate with their counterparts in Nigeria to create something which reports on how they have experienced disruption differently.
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