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Sharing African Culture

• Arts and Humanities
  Language Arts, Literature, Visual Arts
• Social Studies
  Geography, History, U.S. History, World History, Regions and Cultures, Sociology

Grades

Pre-K, K-2, 3-5

Brief Description

Students listen to an African American folk tale and draw pictures to illustrate the story.

Objectives

Students

• learn about the history of African Americans.
• listen to an African American folk tale
• draw pictures to illustrate the story.

Keywords

Africa, African American, black, black history, folk tales, literature, slavery, sequence

Materials Needed

• online or printed pages of Afro American Folk Tales
• drawing paper
• crayons or markers

Lesson Plan

Tell students that February is African American History Month.

• Explain to students that many African Americans in the United States today are the descendents of slaves who were brought from Africa hundreds of years ago.
• Show students Africa on a map or globe and trace the route of early slave ships.
• Tell students that Africa is a continent with a rich cultural heritage.
• Read aloud to students a selection from an online or print volume of Afro American Folk Tales.
• Discuss with students the meaning of the story.
• Provide students with paper and crayons or markers and ask them to draw a picture illustrating the story.
• Invite students to share and describe their illustrations.

Assessment

Students use their illustrations to create a book or a bulletin board that retells the folk tale. The teacher might create a simple comprehension quiz to confirm that students understood the sequence of events in the tale.

Lesson Plan Source

Education World

Submitted By

Linda Starr

National Standards

FINE ARTS: Visual Arts

• GRADES K - 4
  NA-VA.K-4.1 Understanding and Applying Media, Techniques, and Processes
  NA-VA.K-4.3 Choosing and Evaluating a Range of Subject Matter, Symbols, and Ideas
  NA-VA.K-4.4 Understanding the Visual Arts in Relation to History and Cultures
  NA-VA.K-4.6 Making Connections Between Visual Arts and Other Disciplines

LANGUAGE ARTS: English

• GRADES K - 12
  NL-ENG.K-12.3 Evaluation Strategies
  NL-ENG.K-12.4 Communication Skills
  NL-ENG.K-12.5 Communication Strategies
  NL-ENG.K-12.6 Applying Knowledge
  NL-ENG.K-12.7 Evaluating Data
  NL-ENG.K-12.9 Multicultural Understanding
  NL-ENG.K-12.11 Participating in Society
  NL-ENG.K-12.12 Applying Language Skills

   

SOCIAL SCIENCES: Civics

• GRADES K - 4
  NSS-C.K-4.4 Other Nations and World Affairs

SOCIAL SCIENCES: Geography

• GRADES K - 12
  NSS-G.K-12.1 The World in Spatial Terms
  NSS-G.K-12.2 Places and Regions
  NSS-G.K-12.5 Environment and Society

SOCIAL SCIENCES: U.S. History

• GRADES K - 4
  NSS-USH.K-4.4 The History of Peoples of Many Cultures Around the World
  NSS-USH.K-4.3 The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage

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