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The Thing Around Your Neck
The title story from the collection follows a young Nigerian woman, Akunna, who moves to American and grapples with the complexities of adapting to a new culture while also trying to maintain her own...
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Jumping Monkey Hill
'Jumping Monkey Hill' follows the journey of Ujunwa, a young Nigerian woman who attends a writers' workshop at Jumping Monkey Hill, a resort in South Africa. The workshop is facilitated by a well-known...
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Cell One
The first story in the collection, Cell One is told from the perspective of a young Nigerian girl whose brother gets arrested and put in prison. The story depicts the family's visits to him in prison...
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The Thing Around Your Neck Study Guide
"The thing that wrapped itself around your neck, that nearly always choked you before you fell asleep, started to loosen, to let go." Welcome to this unit of study on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's short...
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Fun Home Study Guide
Welcome to this Study Guide for Fun Home, written specifically with IB Literature students in mind. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel is a rich and rewarding text, exploring themes of identity, memory, family,...
Getting started: Teachers
Creating student accounts
Allowing students to access this site The information below explains how to provide your students with the means to use the site; if there are particular pages that are not currently available to them,...
Getting started: Teachers
About the site
If you are new to this site and/or the course, you will find it useful to read brief explanations of its different components, detailed below. The site is designed to provide you and your students with...
DP essentials
Introduction to DP Core Free
Central to the working practice of the Diploma Programme are the 3 components that comprise what is known as 'The Core'. These are: the Extended Essay (EE), Theory of Knowledge (TOK) and Creativity,...
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W B Yeats' poetry
W B Yeats is perhaps Ireland's most famous poet and a popular choice of author. Although some of his work - particularly in the latter part of his life - is quite abstruse - there is a great deal that...
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Margaret Atwood's poetry
Margaret Atwood's poetry can be studied in Part 2, 3 or 4 of the course and an accessible, enjoyable and challenging collection can be created from the many poems she has written over the last fifty plus...