Americanah Lesson Plan

Point of View Exercise

Kind of Activity:

Individual Writing

Objective:

Students will be able to consider the use of perspective in the novel

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.3; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.4; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.5; CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.6

Structure:

Although Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes using the third-person limited perspective, she switches her point of view between Ifemelu and Obinze. Ask students to list other characters who have a significant impact on the story: Kosi, for instance, or Blaine, or Shan, or Ranyinudo.

Ask students to pick a particular time or incident in the book and to write about it from the first-person point...