"The thing that wrapped itself around your neck, that nearly always choked you before you fell asleep, started to loosen, to let go."

 

This week we have published the first few pages for a unit of study on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck.  Further pages based on other stories from the collection will follow shortly. 

Adichie is on the Prescribed reading List (PRL) and this is a beautifully written and powerful collection of stories which students find engaging and rich for exploration. 

This unit has been written specifically with IB students in mind, and makes connections to the areas of exploration, the concepts, global issues and the requirements of IB examinations. Each page focusses on a different story and includes before, during, and after reading sections, although you may prefer students to read each story first before engaging in any activities.

As ever with our resources, this unit it is not intended to be prescriptive and of course you may supplement our materials with others, and you may select from and modify them to meet your own requirements. In addition, it is important that you read the stories and any materials we publish to ensure that they are appropriate to your own local context. We hope that you and your students enjoy working with this unit.

Before embarking on the short story collection you may want to show your students Adichie's talk, The Dangers of a Single Story which can be found linked from the Identity page.