Things Fall Apart Vocab

Click on comments for this post and let the class know that you have created a Thinking Map for your vocabulary word. Tell us the blog to visit to see the Thinking Map on the word that you did.

Create the Thinking Map with the thinking maps software (download the software for free from Edline--see blog post below). Once your map is created in Thinking Maps software, export the image as a png or jpeg file (see the file pulldown menu for the export option). Once you have the file exported/saved, then post the Thinking Map as a small image on your blog. If you post as a small image, the blog reader can then click on the image to bring it full screen to see the Thinking Map. Click on my kola nut double bubble map to see it full screen.

Remember that you can use any Thinking Map you want that illustrates or expands on your assigned vocab word. Perhaps you can made an analogy on a bridge map, define the word with a circle map, describe your word with adjectives in a bubble map, analyze the causes and effects of your word in a multi-flow map. Be creative!!

Here are the vocabulary words:

egwugwu, p. 4, a masquerader who impersonates an ancestral spirit

kola nut, p. 6, (same as cola) a nut from an African tree that contains caffeine

proverb, p. 7, a short saying that expresses some obvious truth

Oracle, p. 12, any person or place believed to be in communication with a Deity (God)

agbala, p. 13, a woman; or a man who has taken no title

malevolent, p. 13, wishing evil or harm to others, “nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw.”

incipient, p. 13, just beginning to exist, “incipient laziness” of Nwoye

chi, p. 18, personal god

abomination, p. 18, something hateful and disgusting

tapper, p. 20, someone who taps trees to get the sap or oil

share-cropping, p. 22, a farmer who gives part of his profits to the landowner

cassava, p. 23, tuber (root starch) often used for tapioca

Ibo (Igbo), p. 27, an African people of Southeast Nigeria

bride-price, p. 40, the money paid by the groom’s family to the bride’s family

harbingers, p. 56, a person or thing that comes before to indicate what follows

effeminate, p. 58, having characteristics usually attributed to females; unmanly

plantains, p. 63, banana

ogbanje, p. 77, a child who repeatedly dies and returns to its mother to be reborn