The Global Diversity Literature Lesson
                                   Kwela Jamela African Queen!!
                                                                       
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   Jamela's Dress
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Niki Daly,  author and illustrator of Jamela's Dress, wrote this elaborate story which is inspired
                                in part by the unique characteristics of the local fabrics of his local native South Africa. This book
                                       will be a good literature book for introducing and discussing other cultures to children that are
                                different from their own. It's vibrant and full of wonderful autumn like colors  with lots of           
                                                                                that children can count.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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1. How many different colors are in the girl's dress      
    and what are they?
2. What animals do you see in the picture?
3. Why do you think the girl is looking happy?                   

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                       This story is about an African girl named Jamela whose mother has bought new dress material
              for a wedding. Because the fabric is so beautiful, Jamela can't resist the temptation of putting
              the dress on and strolling through town to show off  her  make believe dress. Jamela is having so
              much fun and getting so much attention from people on the streets that she forgets to be                       careful and ends up ruining her mother's dress. Jamela is sad and upset, as well as                                    her mother, but something good happens in the end.

                                                                   

                                                     Below is a picture of students with their drawings of the events in the story.

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Lesson Title: Global Diversity Through Literature and Technology

 Name: Tammy Jones

School/Mentor Teacher: Hallmark Heights, Mrs. Brown

Grade Level: Pre-K

Subject Areas: Technology Integration, Social Studies (Multicultural Understanding)

Date Taught: March 23, 2007

Total Duration of Lesson: 55 minutes. (This lesson can be presented in 2 sessions)

 

Primary Learning Outcomes (PLO)

The primary learning outcomes to be achieved with this lesson include:

  1. Student will be able to respond to questions about diverse cultures.
  2. Student will be able to use the mouse while operating the computer.
  3. Student will listen to a children’s story to learn about another culture.
  4. Student will work cooperatively in small group to make a story picture account of events in the story.

 Related Georgia PRE-K Standards for Bright From The Start

LD1. Children will develop skills in listening for the purpose of comprehension.

SS2. Children will develop a respect for differences in people.

SS3. Children will express beginning geographic thinking.

 Related GPS Standards

  1. Grade K

Technology Integration

Strand: Basic Skills

5Topic: Basic Skills

Standard: Operates basic technology tools and applications

B, C, D Grade: K

Social Studies Georgia Performance Standard

Geographic Understandings

SSIG1: The student will describe American culture by explaining diverse community and family celebrations and customs (this also includes the cultures represented by children from other countries represented in children’s literature and those who are enrolled in our schools.

 

Materials and Equipment:

  1. Computer with Internet connection
  2. My Global Diversity Web Page: http://www.valdosta.edu/~tajones/global.html
  3. Map or globe
  4. Colored markers, crayons
  5. paper for individual drawings.

 

I will also need:

1. Pencil and paper for to make assessment notes and reflection.

2. Copy of lesson rubric 1 for each group member.

 

Technology Connection:

Technologies that will be used in this lesson include:

Computer with Internet connection, a picture developed using a computer drawing program, and adesigned website that includes a computer painted picture related to the book Jamela’s Dress.

 

Procedure:

Part I Step One: Introduction

  1. Work with a small group of students (2-5).

Introduction Questions/ I will show the children a globe and ask them questions such as:

What is this called?

What colors do you see on it?

What does the blue represent? I will tell them that the big blue areas are oceans and the small ones are lakes, or rivers, etc.

What do these many colors represent?

Can anyone point to our country; to Georgia?

We are going to learn about a person who lived in Africa.

Does anyone know where Africa is?

I will point to Africa on the map and then ask a child to point to Africa on the map.

Do you think Africa is far away or near from us in Georgia?

Do you have to go over water to get to this place from our place?

Estimated time: 10 minutes

 

Step Two: Teaching the Primary Learning Outcomes Language Experience Activity

  1. I will go to the computer and my lesson I Global Diversity Activity website at

http://www.valdosta.edu/~tajones/global.html

Students will be grouped around the computer with me so they can see the screen, and have access to using the mouse.

  1. I will allow them to take turns pointing to things in my picture. They can also try pointing to certain words on the screen.
  2. I will read each question under my paint drawing and ask them to respond to them.
  3. I will have a large piece of chart paper or separate sheets with each question, already prepared with the questions listed with spaces to write the children’s responses underneath.
  4. As each child responds to the questions, I will write exactly what they are saying when they make their responses.

Questions:

  1. How many colors do you see in the girl’s dress and what are they?
  2. What animals do you see in the picture?
  3. Why do you think the girl is looking happy?

Part 2

  1. I will read the paragraph under the questions to the children and then show them the book.
  2. I will do a BRIEF picture walk and talk about the book
  3. I will tell them the title, author, and illustrator of the book.
  4. I will now read the story to the children.

(10-15) minutes

 

Closure:

1. They will each have only one chance to answer a question. The questions that I will ask

    them are:

      1a. Is Jamela from Africa or is she from America where we live?

1b. Whose dress did Jamela tear in the story?

1c. Was Jamela sad or happy at the end of the story?

  1. I will then give them an opportunity to tell me what they learned or remember about the story.
  2. The activity that they will do is to make their own picture on construction paper that relates to what they told me they learned/remember about the story.
  3. I will display their work by taking individual and group pictures of them and show the drawings they made to the other students.
(Estimated Time 15 minutes)

Rubric 

Level III

Level II

Level I

Student is able to control the mouse while operating the computer w/ little or no assistance.

Student is able to control the mouse while using the computer with much assistance.

Student is not able to control the mouse while operating the computer.

Student responded to all the critical thinking questions about the story and was able to compare his/her predictions w/ the events in the story.

Student responded w/ accuracy to two of the critical thinking questions from the story and was able to compare his/her responses w/ the events in the story.

Student responded with accuracy to 1 or none of the prediction questions about the events in the story.

Student worked collaboratively with others in the group and understood the importance of contributing and working positively to complete the project.

Student worked with others in the group, but did not understand the importance of contributing and working positively to complete the project.

Student was not able to work with others and the group and had difficulty understanding the importance of contributing to the overall project.