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Listen: "The Danger of a Single Story"--Many of the ideas that she expresses will work as a framework for our class material for this year. We are in the business of disrupting single stories and working to find, as Adichie relates, a "balance of stories" around the people/places we read about. Chimamanda Adichie https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story

Discuss: What is a single story? According to Adichie, what is the "danger of a single story"? What quotes from her talk stood out to you? Why?

Vocabulary: Please create a section of about 3 or 4 pages in your reading/writing journal just for academic vocab. We'll add to it all year.


 * Theme: ** A major idea or unifying subject that can be found throughout a reading. A theme is more than one word; it is an idea that an author reveals through his/her choices. This idea is central to an author’s goals in writing his or her piece. A topic=one word/short phrase. A theme=a full idea about a topic

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 * “Love”=not a theme
 * “All is fair in love and war”=closer to a theme, but is weak
 * “While the cliché states that all is fair in love and war, this narrow focus does not consider the pain that these actions, completed in the name of love, might cause to innocent parties in the lovers’ peripheral.”=a theme

Theme list for "The Danger of a Single Story" https://docs.google.com/a/apps4pps.net/document/d/1TTUDWSn-nHJ4K6SM1c6oSVWQsUWajt_NqUA0bvUVwUs/edit?usp=sharing

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