Language
Arabic Clotthing and Colors
Produced by: Aleta Dryall
Regional Focus: Middle East, Egypt
Intended Audience: Middle School
A unit naming at least two articles of clothing and three colors in Arabic
In this unit students will learn the names of colors in Arabic. They will also learn the names of clothes people living in Egypt wear and the types of clothing they could buy at a traditional market in Egypt, like the Khan el-Khalili and Yemama Center in Zamalek. With the use of a slide show, students will practice pronouncing the Arabic words for colors and name articles of clothing.
The unit consists of one lesson in 12 parts. Seven sample vocabulary lessons are also included.
This is one of 6 units from the 2004 Egypt Seminar held at the Center for Middle East Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
Link: http://www.outreachworld.org/resource.asp?curriculumid=1112
Egyptian Symbols and Figures Learning about writing, art and religious beliefs in ancient Egypt through hieroglyphs
Produced by: National Endowment for the Humanities
Regional Focus: Africa, Middle East, Egypt
Intended Audience: General
This lesson introduces students to the writing, art, and religious beliefs of ancient Egypt through hieroglyphs, one of the oldest writing systems in the world, and through tomb paintings. Hieroglyphs consist of pictures of familiar objects that represent sounds. They were used in ancient Egypt from about 3100 BC to 400 CE.
In the first part of this lesson, the class creates a pictorial alphabet of its own and then learns and uses the symbols of the Egyptian hieroglyphic alphabet. In the second part of the lesson, students identify and represent in their own drawings figures from the Book of the Dead, a funereal text written on papyrus and carved on the walls of tombs to help guide the deceased through the afterlife.
Link:http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=34
UPenn's "Marhaba"
Produced by: University of Pennsylvania
Regional Focus: Middle East
Intended Audience: General
A resource on the teaching of Arabic and the Arab world, including lesson plans.
Link: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/mec/resources/marhaba