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Welcome to the 9th/10th grade African Literature class here at HSPS! Check out the information below to see the different units that we are working on in class.

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Copper Sun: The Middle Passage

In Part I of Copper Sun by Sharon Draper, we see the protagonist go through the experience of being captured into slavery and enduring the horrors of the Middle Passage. Check out the links and images below to learn more about the Middle Passage and what it was like for enslaved Africans.

Each link comes from a different source and has different infomation! I suggest that you take time to look at them all.

• The Middle Passage (PBS)
• The Middle Passage (U.S. History)
• The Middle Passage (Slavery & Rememberance)

"The Danger of a Single Story": TED Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Please watch the video posted below and answer the questions in your notebooks:

1. What was the single story that was told throughout Adichie’s childhood reading?
2. What do you think is the significance of Adichie’s story about her family’s “houseboy from a poor family”?
3. What is the single story that is told about Africa and its people?
4. Why is a single story “dangerous”, according to Adichie?

UNIT 1: Postcolonialism

Postcolonial Literature is literature written in English by authors from countries that were once colonized.

Colonialism is the policy of acquiring political control over another country by establishing a colony and occupying it with settlers.

• Successful colonialism depends on a process of "othering" the people colonized. That is, the colonized people are seen as dramatically different from and less than the others.

Colonialist Images: