The Thing Around Your Neck (materials and lesson plan)

This comprehensive lesson plan for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s The Thing Around Your Neck is perfect for high school literature classes. Designed to engage students and enhance their understanding of important themes like identity, immigration, and cultural conflict. This resource provides everything you need for 11 lessons (of which the last 4 lessons are dedicated to oral exams in pairs).

What’s Included:

• 8 detailed lesson plans (LP) (45 minutes each) for pre-teaching and teaching The American Embassy from the collection.
• PowerPoint presentation (PPP) that will guide you through the lessons.
• Handout for students (Word-doc). 
  
• Recommendation for oral exam setup, allowing students to choose different short stories from the collection to be assessed on.

Perfect for teachers who want to introduce students to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s work while fostering a deeper understanding of literature and global perspectives.