Students Will:
1. Develop an understanding of how some African-Americans remember and celebrate their African heritage.
2. Participate in a chant about the seven continents.
3. Identify Africa on the globe.
4. Understand that there are other languages in the world.
5. Develop oral language skills.
6. Encourage classroom community.
Review the significant symbols in the craft:
The three colors of Kwanzaa are green, black and red. The ears of corn represents fertility and that children are the hope of the future. Each person is responsible for the children in the community.
Learn about Kwanzaa and traditional Adinkra weaving patterns used on Kente cloth.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of how different cultures studied celebrate Winter Holidays.
Goals:
• To motivate students to want to write – building self-esteem and pride
• To integrate the Studentreasures® Classbook Publishing Project with the five step writing process
• To align the publishing process with your curriculum by incorporating your Language Arts Writing Standards, various teaching units, subjects, theme topics and genres
Objective: The students will create a full-color