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Coup Timeline
Kind of Activity:
Technology
Objective:
To visualize major political events in Nigeria history from 1960 - 2000 and predict how they will influence the characters in the book
Common Core Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.11-12.7, CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.6
Structure:
Purple Hibiscus takes place in a turbulent Nigeria of the 1990s, when the country is rocked by see-sawing coups and counter-coups. Have students set up an account on Tiki-Toki (www.tiki-toki.com) or another timeline software, and create a timeline about Nigerian history from 1960, when the country became independent from Britain, to 1999, the date of the last military coup (to...
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