Mapping exploration
Learners rotate through mapping stations, starting to define their understanding of space and place through different modalities including geography and art literacies.
Unit:Geographies of HomeIncludes
Lesson slides, Heart-map handout, My Map Book, Sarah Fanelli
We Went Looking for Home
Learners begin to understand the idea of home is hard to contain. Learners brainstorm all the feelings, sensations, images, and memories that come up when they think of home.
Unit:Geographies of HomeIncludes
We Went Looking for Home but We Found… (Al-Bustan camp multimedia book)
Oral Storytelling
Learners will explore different examples of oral storytelling practices like Zajal, hekaye, and harvesting songs.
Unit:Food & StoriesIncludes
Food and Stories unit vocabulary, Examples of oral storytelling, Oral storytelling observation tool
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
Rotation of the Earth
Learners are introduced to the rotation of the Earth through a video and the thinking routine ‘see, think, wonder.’ Learners read a short informational text about the rotation of the Earth and the patterns it creates.
Unit:AstronomyIncludes
Informational text about the rotation of the Earth, Astronomy unit vocabulary, Timelapse of the sun’s movement across the sky
Al-Jawza’ Folktale
Learners are introduced to the Al-Jawza’ folktale. Learners complete a gallery walk of the thinking routine “What do you already know? What do you wonder about? What have you learned today?”
Unit:AstronomyIncludes
AlJawza constellation images (slides 1-3), AlJawza folktale, Astronomy unit vocabulary
Memories for Sale
Learners read ذكرى للبيع by سارة عبدالله to explore the narrator’s emotional world as she tries to process difficult memories. Learners then engage in a social-emotional role play exercise to explore the concept of forgiveness.
Collection:Arabic Language Arts Mentor Text LessonsIncludes
Scenario cards
Community Maps
Learners understand that people make home and create their own community maps of the people they hold near.
Unit:Geographies of HomeIncludes
Winti Hon (وانتِ هون), Ruba Shamshoum and Amy Chiniara — animation, Community map example
Home is a Foreign Place
Learners take inspiration from Zarina Hashimi’s Home is a Foreign Place and create block print symbols of home.
Unit:Geographies of HomeIncludes
Zarina Hashimi slides, MoMA audio: Zarina Hashimi’s Home is a Foreign Place (English)