Grade+12,+Unit+4

== =UNIT 4: WORLD LITERATURE: AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST= = = =ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How does the literature in this unit offer insight into African and Middle Eastern cultural conflicts?= = = =LITERARY TEXTS--= =DRAMA:= =NIGERIA--= =SOUTH AFRICA--= = = =NOVEL:= =AFRICA--= =EGYPT--= =KENYA--= =LEBANON--= =NIGERIA--= =SENEGAL--= =SOUTH AFRICA--= =TURKEY--= =UNITED KINGDOM--= = = =POETRY:= =IRAN--= =ISRAEL--= =PALESTINE--= = = =SHORT STORIES:= =BOTSWANA--= =EGYPT--= =ISRAEL--= =MOZAMBIQUE--= =SOUTH AFRICA--= = = =INFORMATIONAL TEXTS--= =CREATIVE NONFICTION:= = = =AUTOBIOGRAPHIES:= =AFRICA--= =IRAN--= = = =NONFICTION:= = = =SPEECHES:= = = =ART, MUSIC AND MEDIA--= =ART:= =AFRICA--= =MIDDLE EAST--= = = =FUNDAMENTALS--= =WRITING:= = = =GRAMMAR AND USAGE:= = = =MECHANICS:= = = =TERMINOLOGY:= = =
 * =//Death and the King’s Horseman: A Play// by Wole Soyinka (E)=
 * =//King Baabu// by Wole Soyinka (EA)=
 * =//"Master Harold"... and the Boys// by Athol Fugard (E)=
 * =Woza Albe//rt!// by Percy Mtwa, Mbongeni Ngema, and Barney Simon=
 * =//Chandra’s Secrets// by Allan Stratton=
 * = //Heart of Darkness// by Joseph Conrad =
 * =//The Thief and the Dogs// by Naguib Mahfouz=
 * =//The River Between// by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o=
 * =//Beirut Blues// by Hanan al-Shaykh=
 * =//The Joys of Motherhood// by Buchi Emecheta=
 * = //Things Fall Apart// by Chinua Achebe (E) =
 * =//So Long a Letter// by Mariama Ba=
 * = //Cry, The Beloved Country// by Alan Paton =
 * =//Waiting for the Barbarians or Life and Times of Michael K// by J. M. Coetze=
 * = //My Name is Red// by Orhan Pamuk =
 * =//Martha Quest// by Doris Lessing=
 * =//Poems of Black Africa// by Wole Soyinka, ed. (selections)=
 * = //The Epic of Gilgamesh// (ancient epic poem from Mesopotamia) =
 * =//The Conference of the Birds: A Sufi Allegory// by Farīd al Dīn Attār or Attar of Nishapur=
 * =//The Illuminated Rumi// by Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Michael Green, and Coleman Barks, trans. (selections)=
 * =//Open Closed Open: Poems// by Yehuda Amichai (selections)=
 * =//The Butterfly’s Burden// by Mahmoud Darwish=
 * = //The Arabian Nights// (short story collection) translated by Sir richard Burton, 1850 =
 * =//The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales// by Bessie Head=
 * = "The Answer is No" by Naguib Mahfouz =
 * =//The World Is a Room and Other Stories// by Yehuda Amichai=
 * =//We Killed Mangy-Dog and Other Mozambique Stories// by Luis Bernardo Honwana=
 * =//Tales from a Troubled Land// by Alan Paton=
 * = //Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela// by Nelson Mandela =
 * = //Out Of Africa// by Isak Dinesen =
 * =//An Ordinary Man// by Paul Rusesabagina=
 * =//Persepolis// by Marjane Satrapi=
 * =//Ethics of the Aristocrats and Other Satirical Works// by Nezam al-Din Obeyd-e Zakani=
 * =//Living in Hope and History: Notes From Our Century// by Nadine Gordimer=
 * = "Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech 1993" by Nelson Mandela =
 * =Burkina Faso, hawk mask (no date)=
 * =Congo, power figure (nineteenth – twentieth centuries)=
 * =Gabon, mask for the Okuyi Society (late nineteenth century)=
 * =Ivory Coast, leopard stool (twentieth century)=
 * =Mali, standing female figure (late nineteenth or early twentieth century)=
 * =Nigeria, //House of the Head Shrine: Equestrian, Yoruba// (nineteenth to twentieth century)=
 * =Yinka Shonibare MBE, //Air// (2010)=
 * =Yinka Shonibare MBE, //Earth// (2010)=
 * =Yinka Shonibare MBE, //Fire// (2010)=
 * =Yinka Shonibare MBE, //Water// (2010)=
 * =Yinka Shonibare MBE, //Water// (2010)=
 * =Iran, antique Kurdish rug (no date)=
 * =Shirin Neshat, //Soliloquy Series// (Figure in Front of Steps) (1999)=
 * =Shirin Neshat, //Untitled, (1996) //=
 * =Syria, Qur'an manuscript (late ninth – early tenth century)=
 * =Turkey, dish (second half of sixteenth century)=
 * =Informative/explanatory essay discussing the ways in which a unit author explores a changing social structure in a Middle Eastern or African society.=
 * =Write a narrative monologue from the point of view of one of the secondary characters in Things Fall Apart or The Lion and the Jewel.=
 * =Antagonist=
 * =Colonialism=
 * =Denouement=
 * =Extended metaphor=
 * =Foreshadowing=
 * =Irony=
 * =Mysticism=
 * =Paradox=
 * =Persona=
 * =Point of view=
 * =Post-colonialism=
 * =Rhetoric=
 * =Satire=

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