“The American Embassy”

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

An Interactive Notebook

Week 14
 TedTalk
“The Danger of a Single Story”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Directions: First, watch the following TedTalk. Take notes and pay close
attention. Second, complete your response in the space below. Click
HERE to be directed to the TED Talk

What was your biggest takeaway from this TED Talk? Write three to
five sentences and mention a specific part that stuck out to you.

Enter your response here

Type your response here...
 “The American Embassy”
Learning Target RI.1: I can cite strong and thorough textual
evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as
inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves
matters uncertain.
Click HERE to access your short story

EMOTION TEXTUAL EVIDENCE WITH

A CITATION

Sad

Scared

Angry

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 Asynchronous
Wednesday

Add a SCHOOL APPROPRIATE photo that

represents one of your happiest memories. This could
be a destination, food, etc. When you choose this
photo, consider WHY this photo evokes happiness.
What was going on at the time?
“The American Embassy”
Meeting the Husband
Learning Target RL.3: I can analyze a set of ideas or
sequence of events and explain how specific individuals,
ideas, or events interact and develop over the course of the
text.
As the reader, you never meet the narrator’s husband, but you learn a
lot about him through her memories and feelings while waiting in line.
Citing textual evidence how would you characterize the fleeing
husband? What do you know about him through her?

Type your response here……

 All about YOU
Learning Target W.3: I can use
narrative techniques to develop
experiences, events, and/or
characters.
Write about the photo you posted for Wednesday’s Asynchronous
activity. Why was it one of the happiest moments in your life? Who was
there with you? Where were you? Again, be school appropriate in
your response.

Type your response here……