Etymology of names This lesson features an introduction to etymology and sources of first names in different cultures Greek names are first analyzed and then names of foreign students immigrants in our school in an attempt to share our roots ID: 278992
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English
Etymology of names
This lesson features an introduction to etymology and sources of first names in different cultures.
Greek names are first analyzed and then names of foreign students (immigrants) in our school in an attempt to share our roots.
Students understand how names reveal our identities in an attempt to foster respect for individual worth and human dignity. Through analyzing primary source documents students discuss what it means to be renamed when immigrating to another country, and also the difference between cultural assimilation and multiculturalism.
Lesson Plan
Activity 1: Learning About Your Own Name
Activity 2: What’s In a Name – Foreign names: their sources and meanings
Activity 3: Losing a Name, Choosing Another
Activity 4: Discuss the difference between
cultural assimilation vs. multiculturalism
Homework
PPPs with the etymology and history of names.Slide2
Greek Language
Cross-cultural fables
This lesson explores parallel fables and folktales from various cultures. While each culture and geographic region of the world has its own body of folk tales and fables that considers "its own," certain themes, plots, characters and motifs tend to be repeated across many countries and time periods.
Fables-as-culture-models tend to take on the ‘color’ of the location
they are told
while trying to teach universal lessons about human emotions such as love, hate, courage, kindness, and foolishness. Activities:Activity 1: Listening to a Greek fable and answering general comprehension questionsActivity 2: Reading two fables and filling in a Storyboard. Retelling the fables.Activity 3: Filling Idea Wheels for three fables. Comparing and contrasting.Activity 4: Answering questions about the cultural features of the fablesActivity 5: Looking at the stories through the Feminist and the Marxist perspectiveActivity 5: Writing an original modern fable to go with a moral.Air Castles:Folktales about daydreams of wealth and fameThe Milkmaid and Her Pail (Greece, Aesop)The Broken Pot (India, The Panchatantra). The Dervish and the Honey Jar (Jewish).The Barber's Tale of His Fifth Brother (1001 Nights). The Lad and the Fox (Sweden, Gabriel Djurklou).The Peasant and the Cucumbers (Russia, Leo Tolstoy).Homework: An Anthology of fables, Famous Fabulists (PPPs)Slide3
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