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Additional Lessons 1 - 10 of 188 for Jamaica
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1. Activities to use with story "Jamaica Tag Along"
Title - Activities to use with story "Jamaica Tag Along" By - Scott Dan Subject - Social Studies Grade Level - 2nd Jamaica Tag-Along Goals: 1. To promote social awareness among the students. 2. To encourage children to think about how others may feel before they act 3. To provide the students an opportunity to develop speaking/performing skills 4. To p...
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Grade Level: K-12
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2. Africans in the Caribbean
...h materials, computer access, library, pens, paper, Caribbean literature book - Afro-American Folktales by Roger D. Abrahams Procedure: 1. Begin the lesson by reading a selected short story or tale from Afro-American Folktales. A suggestion would be "Anansi Climbs the Wall." This short tale is from Jamaica and was told among Africans stemming from their culture in Africa. Colorful reading will help the students become interested. 2. When you finish reading one (or more) stories, ask the students to write down what they think the story means to them. Then ask them what it might have meant to Africans in the Ca...
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Grade Level: 6-8
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3. The Caribbean - Variety of Explorative Active Learning
...to have fun and experience different aspects of the Caribbean. 2. The goal is that students will have a first hand experience and then allow feedback at the end of the lessson. Time: 3-3 1/2 hours Resources/Materials: Transportation to museums, game boards, TV/VCR, informational videos on nations - Jamaica, Bahamas, documentaries discussing wildlife in the Caribbean - National Geographic, treasure maps, rewards for activities - food/beverages Procedure: 1. Begin this lesson by offering the students choices of activities that they would like to participate in ( or describe the activity(s) that they will be par...
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Grade Level: 6-8
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4. The Caribbean - Resources and Letter Writing
...and where to stay. 4. Explain to the students the standard format of a letter requesting information from a professional organization - date, to whom and what they represent, introduction, body, conclusion, from whom and placement of these elements. 5. Next give a list of places in the Caribbean - Jamaica, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Cayman Islands. This is to get them thinking of where they might want to write to. Give a list of travel agencies and touring companies for the students to write their first letter requesting information about the Caribbean in general. 6. Divide t...
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Grade Level: 6-8
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5. Objectives and Topics for Caribbean Unit
...the Caribbean?" 3. Ask the students "Why would it help to know some of characteristics of the Caribbean?" The idea here is to facilitate a class goal to go to the Caribbean. The instructor may choose some appealing travel brochures of the Caribbean to generate excitement among the students such as Jamaica, Bahamas, and Puerto Rico. NOTE: This is assuming that a real class trip is actually possible, otherwise the intention of the unit is to plan an imaginary trip or plan a trip outline for future use. 4. Stemming off of student ideas, include ideas and topics that will be covered - people/culture, maps/locati...
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Grade Level: 3-5
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6. Travel
...re. The Cay. New York: Avon Books, 1993. Taylor, Theodore. Timothy of the Cay. New York: Avon Books, 1969. A map that includes the U.S. and the Caribbean Possible book sources for research Broberg, Merle. Barbados. Chelsea Honse, 1989. Hanmer, Trudy J. Haiti. Watts, 1988. Lye, Keith. Take a Trip to Jamaica. Watts, 1988. Morris, Emily. Cuba. Steck-Vaughn, 1991. Possible folktale sources: Berry, James. The Future-Telling Lady and Other Stories. Harper Collins, 1993. Frane, Lessac. Caribbean Canvas. Lippincott, 1989. Part II: History and Culture Information on Caribbean culture and history; for example: Sample t...
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Grade Level: K-12
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7. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft; Mrs. Adolphus Ssmith Sporting the Blue Stocking - Fanny fern
...ght from cultural, historical and feminist perspectives. Poetry and short stories by the following authors are also included in the curriculum: Anne Bradstreet, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Dorothy Wordsworth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gertrude Stein, Hilda Doolittle, Zora Neale Hurston, Bharati Mukherjee, Jamaica Kinkaid and more. In choosing texts for this class, I selected works that cover a large span of time, distance and subject matter. I also wanted to cover some authors and works that are usually overlooked in a lot of survey literature courses in high schools. For example, William Wordsworth is always taught...
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Grade Level: 9-12
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8. Fiction Lesson on Point of View (Approximately 50 minutes)
...uding plot structure, setting, characterization, symbols, and theme. It is designed as part of a first year college level introduction to literature course. The entire unit would consist of five weeks of classes, three days a week. The stories that would be studied in this lesson would be "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid" and "Why I Live at the P.O." by Eudora Welty. Student Learning Goals: Students will understand how point of view influences the effectiveness and understanding of short fiction. Students will understand how point of view affects the plot and characterizations in short fiction. Students will analyze...
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Grade Level: 9-12
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9. Bronte and Rhys' Potrayal of Bertha
...laims from non. During the final 20 minutes of class time, this character discussion should segway into a discussion of Rhys. Students should be encouraged to consider: Why would Rhys' write a revisionist text? Why did Rhys find it necessary to tell Bertha's story? What new understanding of Bertha, Jamaica, Dominica, and England is the reader left with having read Wide Sargasso Sea? Is Wide Sargasso Sea an attack on Charlotte Bronte, on Jane Eyre? Extension and Assessment (Follow-up creative writing assignment): Have you ever read a novel or watched a film and wondered about the background of a minor characte...
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Grade Level: 9-12
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10. Sig Proj - Greenfield - Bringing Justice Home ~First Steps toward Community Action
...eract with several community organizers at DSNI. * Record reflections on careers related to community justice. * Interview teacher about prior experience in non-profit sector. * Discuss how workers in social services & health, use math & English for presenting data. * Interview representatives from Jamaica Plain Environmental Initiative on asthma in community. * Explore careers dealing with distributive justice in the private, public & non-profit sector (e.g. trial attorney, probation officer, community organizer). * Research health & social service careers that bring justice to the community. * Consider volu...
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Grade Level: 6-8
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