English

1. 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.

2. 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 questions • Activity 2: Reading two fables and filling in a Storyboard. Retelling the fables. • Activity 3: Filling Idea Wheelsfor three fables. Comparing and contrasting. • Activity 4: Answering questions about the cultural features of the fables • Activity 5: Looking at the stories through the Feminist and the Marxist perspective • Activity 5: Writing an original modern fable to go with a moral. Air Castles:Folktales about daydreams of wealth and fame • The 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)

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