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Nyumba Activity Objectives

Nyumba Activity Objectives. Content Objective: Construct a Maasai nyumba out of karatasi with a kuta, milango, and pa’a. Language Objective: With a partner, compare and contrast your nyumba and write a paragraph using nyumba, kuta, milango, and pa’a. Does that help?. Nyumba Activity.

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Nyumba Activity Objectives

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  1. Nyumba Activity Objectives Content Objective: Construct a Maasai nyumba out of karatasi with a kuta, milango, and pa’a. Language Objective: With a partner, compare and contrast your nyumba and write a paragraph using nyumba, kuta, milango, and pa’a. Does that help?

  2. Nyumba Activity Discuss: Analyze what made the project difficult, and what could be done to make the directions more comprehensible. Complete the following sentence frame in writing: "If__________________, then___________________." Example: If you had shown me a sample nyumba, then I’d have known what you wanted me to make.

  3. Nyumba Activity, the SIOP Way Building Background: In Africa, what kinds of houses do people live in? (Discuss with a partner.) In Tanzania, the Maasai people live in a round one-room house made of tree branches covered in cow dung. It is called a nyumba. The roof is a pa’a, the walls are kuta, and the door is a milango. Let me show you what they look like.

  4. Nyumba Vocabulary pa’a tawi kuta milango mbuzi nyumba

  5. A Maasai Village in Tanzania

  6. Nyumba Activity Objectives Content Objective: Construct a Maasai nyumba out of karatasi with a kuta, milango, and pa’a. Language Objective: With a partner, compare and contrast your nyumba and write a paragraph using nyumba, kuta, milango, and pa’a. Now do they help?

  7. A Sample Nyumba • This is a nyumba that was made by a student last year.

  8. How to Make a Nyumba We are going to make a Maasai village by making nyumbas out of paper instead of branches and cow dung. • Cut one piece of paper into a long rectangle. • Cut another piece of paper into a circle and cut out a small triangle.

  9. How to Make a Nyumba • Cut one piece of paper into a long rectangle. • Cut another piece of paper into a circle and cut a small triangle out of it. • Draw tawi on both pieces and a milango on the long rectangle. • Tape the short ends together. • Form the circle into a cone to make the pa’a and tape it. • Place the pa’a on top of the kuta. • Find a partner who is finished and compare and contrast your nyumba, using the words nyumba, tawi, kuta, pa’a, and milango.

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