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1st step: let's become aware and learn about "the danger of a single story"...

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1st step: let's become aware and learn about "the danger of a single story"...

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Study this list of rhetorical devices and answer the fourth question in the "Think" section.
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Additional references
Half of a Yellow Sun - AmazonIn Nigeria, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun has helped inspire new, cross-generational communication about the Biafran war. In this and in her other works, she seeks to instill dignity into the finest details of each character, whether poor, middle class or rich, exposing along the way the deep scars of colonialism in the African landscape.
The Thing Around Your Neck - AmazonAdichie's newest book, The Thing Around Your Neck, is a brilliant collection of stories about Nigerians struggling to cope with a corrupted context in their home country, and about the Nigerian immigrant experience.
To read more about the dangers of a single story and Adichie's work. check out this article.
To learn more about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, check out her other TEDxTalks called, " We should all be feminists."

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Let's deal with Stereotypes and the danger of a single story - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

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2nd step: let's analyse Ms Adichie's speech in detail...

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2nd step: let's analyse Ms Adichie's speech in detail...

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3rd step: let's define and describe 'a kind of Paradise'...

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3rd step: let's define and describe 'a kind of Paradise'...

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After watching Adichie's thought-provoking video and analysing the Nigerian novelist's inspiring speech, Students post a comment and give their own personal definition of 'a kind Paradise' we might regain by rejecting 'single stories'...

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4th step: let's discuss and deepen our awareness...

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4th step: let's discuss and deepen our awareness...

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Students post their own answers to the following questions to this Padlet wall:

What are examples of "single stories" in your personal life?
What are examples of "single stories" in your education?
What are examples of "single stories" in the news?
How might we begin to "reject the single story" - at School/in Education - in our lives to regain Adichie's so-called "paradise"?

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5th step/Literature Talk: let's reflect and talk ..

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5th step/Literature Talk: let's reflect and talk ..

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Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning: the most famous early Victorians narrated stories - in and through  their novels and poems - that are still well known nowadays: what was (and still is) the impact and value of these stories? Are they 'single stories', and are they dangerous?

Joseph Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Edward Morgan Forster and other Modernist authors also told stories that had an impact...

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7. Analysing, synthesising, discussing the Language as a vehicle for biased communication and cultural conditioning

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7. Analysing, synthesising, discussing the Language as a vehicle for biased communication and cultural conditioning

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8. Education as a key to success: about the 2022 UN Transforming Education Summit

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8. Education as a key to success: about the 2022 UN Transforming Education Summit

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https://www.un.org/en/transforming-education-summit/about

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10. Youth Declaration on Tranfosrming Education

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10. Youth Declaration on Tranfosrming Education

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