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This Unit Plan was Developed While Participating in Teachers For Global Classrooms. c reating space to explore global issues in a culturally isolated, rural classroom. Jennice McCafferty -Wright North Callaway R-1 Social Studies. An Emerging Unit.
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This Unit Plan was Developed While Participating in Teachers For Global Classrooms creating space to explore global issues in a culturally isolated, rural classroom JenniceMcCafferty-Wright North Callaway R-1 Social Studies
An Emerging Unit Hip Hop, Street Art,and Arab Spring Media of the Masses Creating Space for Conversations about Justice-Oriented Citizenship
Create a bridge/ for students to connect with a global issue Frame Arab Spring through the intersectionalityof youth, global democratic movements, and popular art Flex and strengthen budding global competencies Goals
What kind of citizenship does this lesson promote? If People Were Starving • Personally Responsible Citizen • Acts Responsibly in his/her community • Works and pays taxes/obeys laws • Recycles, gives blood • Volunteers in a crisis • Participatory citizen • Active member of community organizations • Organizes community efforts for those in need • Knows how government agencies work • Justice-oriented citizen • Critically assesses social, political, and economic structures • Seeks out and addresses areas of injustice • Knows about democratic social movements and how to effect systemic change (Westheimer and Kahne, 2004)
Hip Hop, Street Art, and Arab Spring the Media of the MassesGuiding Questions • 1. What are popular forms of communication, hip hop and street art, telling us about Arab Spring? • 2. Whose voices do they represent? • 3. So what? Members of the Free Syrian Army chant as one of them plays the guitar near Nairab military airport in Aleppo Feb. 26, 2013. (photo by REUTERS/Hamid Khatib)
Days 1-3. What are popular forms of communication, hip hop and street art, telling us about Arab Spring? • Responding to video- reflective writing, discussion • Text analysis of lyrics- Text analysis protocols, primary source analysis work sheets, word clouds, literary devices, AND MORE • Visual thinking strategies and responses to street art • Cross walk between the two
Responding to video-reflective writing, discussion It’s been a long time coming And there's no turning back now Voices are the weapons In these military crackdowns Millions on the streets In defiance of your gat sounds Look who's got you shook Doctor don't know how to act now... -Omar Offendum, “#Syria”, 2012 • #Syria • Omar Offendum • Read article “Syria’s Music Wars” for background on Hamwee Ibrahim Qashoush’s story.http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/05/music-syria-war-pop-rap-dabke-regime-rebels.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=7140#ixzz2ScNCKMto • Video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXjEWrhkb6g
In the light of day you are more than just a knight seeking for a right of way asking is it just to fight... I feel the winds of change, but everything is still the same Even Though I fear the sun, I can only see the reign... -The Narcicyst, “Fly Over Egypt”, 2012 • Fly Over Egypt • The Narcycist, aka Narcy • Video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqBt2vkVO5I • Article, “What Happened to the Arab Spring?” http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/what-happened-to-the-arab-spring/266778/ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/16/arab-spring-year-of-protest
Street Art fromThe Smithsonian • The Smithsonian. “Egypt’s Murals Are More Than Just Art, They Are a Form of Revolution: Cairo’s artists have turned their city’s walls into a vast social network.” http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Egypts-Murals-Are-More-Than-Just-Art-They-Are-a-Form-of-Revolution-204114911.html#ixzz2ezp35NdS
Other Sources of Street Art http://animalnewyork.com/2013/egyptian-women-street-artists/
http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/07/16/in-pictures-walls-of-freedom-documents-egyptian-street-art/http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/07/16/in-pictures-walls-of-freedom-documents-egyptian-street-art/
http://news.msn.com/world/egyptians-speak-out-through-street-art#image=7http://news.msn.com/world/egyptians-speak-out-through-street-art#image=7
Days 4-6. Whose voices do they represent? Self-selected research teams • Hip hop, the creators- biographical research: comparing and contrasting Narcy and Omar Offendum, comparing and contrasting US popular artists • Street art, the creators- biographical research: same comparing and contrasting exercise • The audience- demographic research: Egypt, Syria, Morocco, and other Arab Spring countries by age, education, and economic indicators • Bringing it all together… reflection, discussion, analysis
So what? • Days 7- __. • Application and extension opportunities: • Exploring other examples of youth and social change • Outcomes of Arab Spring- Case studies, specific countries • Cross-curricular collaboration with art and music • Refugees and internally displaced peoples • Other media and revolution- social media • Infographics and mapping Arab Spring • Soundtrack of a Revolution project • Guest panel • US popular art and social justice • Other revolutions... http://www.albanyassociates.com/notebook/2012/03/the-arab-spring-and-the-impact-of-social-media/egypt-facebook/
More Resources • NBC . The Soundtrack of a Revolution. http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/44508127 • Portland State University. Music and the Arab Spring. http://www.middleeastpdx.org/resources/original/music-and-the-arab-spring/ • Primary Source. The Modern Middle East. http://www.resources.primarysource.org/content.php?pid=425088&sid=3476396 • Matthew Machowski. The Arab Spring on Maps • http://www.matthewmachowski.com/2011/05/arab-spring-maps.html