Which is West? How do you know? <from looking at map>
What if you were on the ground in Africa? <slide with sun>
<print outs in folders>Find Liberia <color blue>. Ghana? <color yellow> Which is further West? East? <label, add your own compass>
<Journal/Tribal Meeting—Can the setting be a character in the story? Why/How or why/how not?>
Read Introduction + Waist—note characters, setting + specific descriptions. Discuss + note on table on wb.
<wkst, wb or tribes?> If this is East Village and this is West Village, please put Anasi in the middle.
Choose a question: Can setting be a character? Specifically describe a setting or a character.
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