Jigsaw Grouping: You will be assigned a color and a number.

• Color Group (Home Group) -- Vocabulary assignment: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/crossword/ 
• Number Group -- Become an expert! FIND IT! WRITE IT! USE IT!
• Expert Group -- Consult with other experts and prepare a newspaper: PrintingPress
• Home Group -- Clarify what you have learned and discuss what you read!

Pre-Reading:

Author Experts

• http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-08-02.htm
• http://www.theparisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/1720
• http://www.postcolonialweb.org/achebe/achebebio.html 
• http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/igbo/achebe/speechintro.html#account 
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/achebec1.shtml

Cultural Context Experts

• http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/
• http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Igbo.html
• http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Nigeria
• http://www.igboguide.org/index.php?1=chapter1
• http://www.postcolonialweb.org/nigeria/precolwon.html
• http://motherlandnigeria.com/people.html#Traditional
• http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/country/content.country/nigeria_206
• http://africa.si.edu/index2.html

Geographical Context Experts

• http://www.africa.upenn.edu/AS.html
• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html
• http://www.betzmaps.com/images/af-245b.jpg
• http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/countries/country_nigeria.html
• http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ngtoc.html

Historical Context Experts

• http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/countries/Nigeria.html
• http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/people/Igbo.html
• http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/history/giblinhistory.html
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section11.shtml
• http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofEnglish/imperial/nigeria/nigeria.htm