Constellation Tour
Learners will investigate the seasonal appearance of stars in the night sky using movement and storytelling.
Unit:AstronomyIncludes
Well bucket constellation, Pictures of Seasonal Stars, Constellation tour student roles, Constellation tour script
Can a Picture Tell a Thousand Words?
Learners begin to understand that storytelling is multimodal. Learners experiment in creating a wordless story inspired by a mentor text.
Unit:Food & StoriesIncludes
Storytelling scaffold: people and places
How Can I Bring My Stories to Life?
Learners will brainstorm different special moments with a loved one and create a comic strip/storyboard to represent it. Learners experiment with figurative language to bring their writing to life.
Unit:Food & StoriesIncludes
Comic book template, Ten Ways to Hear Snow (Arabic excerpt)
Passing Down Stories
Learners explore hakawatias like Fida’a Ataya as they learn how kharareef are passed down from generation to generation.
Unit:Food & StoriesIncludes
Slides on Fida’a Ataya, Folktales from Hakaya Stories on SoundCloud (Arabic), Timeless Tales (English)