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A Consideration of Ethics in Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart Joanna Johnson, M.A. Development Team Click Here for Lesson Plans
	Introduction Making ethical choices comes from both understanding the values that are behind moral decisions, and from developing critical thinking skills. The aim of this module is to develop and encourage that process of critical thinking through consideration of the ethical dimensions within Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe’s 1958 ground-breaking tale of the white man’s arrival in an African village at the turn of the century. View More
	Key Concepts and Vocabulary Colonialism, primitivism, law and order, group/societal rules, and universality. View More
	Background for for Teachers As the editor to the MLA guide on teaching Things Fall Apart comments, “[o]n the surface, Things Fall Apart may seem a simple, uncomplicated story, but it has subtle and profound dimensions that those coming to it for the first time might easily miss” (Linfors 18). View More

	Core Subject Areas and Grade Level		Description of Classroom Activities
	Objectives from Competency-Based Curriculum		Assessment for Activities
	Correlations to Language Art Benchmarks (Sunshine State Standards)		Bibliography and Web Resources
	Core Values Emphasized in this Learning Module
	Suggested Time for Instruction

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