Holiday Lesson Plans kwanzaa Unit on AfricanAmerican History- A complete unit for elementary grades. teach-nology- The Art and Science of teaching with Technology is a registered http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/holidays/
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Kwanza, Kwanzaa Lesson Plans Your kwanzaa Workbook A hands-on project. All rights reserved. teach-nology -The Art and Science of teaching with Technology is a registered trademark. http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/holidays/kwanza/
Extractions: Free Sites ... Professional Development Enter your email address for FREE weekly teaching tips! Home Teacher Resources Lesson Plans Holidays ... - "In this study of Kwanzaa, students will learn how this holiday affirms African-American culture and heritage. They will examine how the different days of Kwanzaa are linked together and why this holiday has gained popularity." Kwanzaaa Activities - A series of lessons applicable to many December Holidays. Kwanzza: An African-American Celebration - A thorough exploration of this holiday. Kwanzaa Information Center - An online guide to the Kwanzaa celebration, including information about its principles and purpose. Kwanzaaa, What Is It? - A college article. Kwanzaa Recipes Multicultural Holiday Celebrations - Provides downloadable video clips. Talk about these Kwanzaa facts - Facts about Kwanzaa.
REACH: Lighting The Kwanzaa Candles Unitarian's guide to celebrating kwanzaa.Category Society Holidays kwanzaa Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Even if we are not African American, thereis a lot that the candles of kwanzaa have to teach us. The http://www.uua.org/re/reach/worship/kwanzaa.html
Extractions: This is the time of the year when Kwanzaa comes, followed closely by the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The message spoken quietly in African American homes at Kwanzaa is shouted to the world two weeks later at the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. Even if we are not African American, there is a lot that the candles of Kwanzaa have to teach us. The Kwanzaa candles are seven - three red, a black, and three green. The black candle is a celebration of being black, of the unique and special qualities each person brings to the whole family or community. It is a candle of the present, of today. The green candles are vision candles - candles of hopes, dreams, and promises for the future. The red candles are struggle candles, past candles, candles the color of blood, candles the color of courage. All seven candles help African Americans to remember a long struggle against injustice, against unfairness, and to promise each other that they will continue to work together against injustice. As a white person, I can't be a part of the remembering or the promise. I will not light the candles, for they are not mine to light. I will, however, honor the struggle for justice by speaking a history - the story of a people which is not often enough told in our society.
Kwanzaa Resources - Educational Resources For Kwanzaa Very useful site. The International kwanzaa Exchange. kwanzaa Colorfulsite with great resources to help teach about and celebrate kwanzaa. http://7-12educators.about.com/cs/kwanzaa/
In Focus -- November 2002 So far her biggest success has been with the AfricanAmerican cultural celebration,kwanzaa, which she uses to teach everything from writing and computer http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0211/infocus.html
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African Americans - Kwanzaa - What Is It? virtual treasure trove of ideas and activities in this full unit on kwanzaa. of resourcesand key curriculum ideas for teachers wishing to teach about Africa http://www.africanamericans.com/Kwanzaa.htm
Extractions: festival for African Americans as a response to the commercialism of Christmas. In fact one might say that Kwanzaa has similarities with Thanksgiving in the United States or the Yam Festival in Ghana and Nigeria. The word "kwanza" is a KiSwahili (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania) word meaning "first."
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ALFY - TLC - Thematic Units You are here teach Thematic Units December Holidays. RelatedResources for December Holidays. Books for kwanzaa http://alfy.lycos.com/Teachers/teach/Thematic_Units/December_Holidays/DH_4.asp
Holidays teach your students about Israel, Jewish heroes, and holiday celebrations by studying Introduceyour students to kwanzaa and help them discover African folk http://www.paducah.k12.ky.us/curriculum/holidays.htm
Extractions: Holiday Web Sites Christmas Web sites, Kwanzaa, Hanukah, New Year's Day, ... Veterans Day For a quick injection of holiday spirit during the winter months, check out these sites. Earth Calendar: Do you know what is being celebrated today? This calendar is not centered on the U.S., but on the nations of the world. Find holidays by nation, or by date, or by religion. Also keep up with the phases of the moon. Easy to use. Holidays on the Net Web Holidays World Public Holidays Database Holiday Lesson Plans Mrs. Lin Donn has created this excellent and homey index of holiday lesson plans and activities. This Web site has everything! Find materials for national holidays, fun holidays, religious holidays, and more. Thanksgiving Web Sites Thanksgiving from Yahooligans Thanksgiving from My Virtual Reference Desk Plymouth History Virtual Tour of the 1627 Pilgrim Village Thanksgiving Traditions and History Virtual Tour of the Mayflower Thanksgiving: Teach kids the story of Thanksgiving. This website provides lesson plans for helping kids understand the importance and meaning of Thanksgiving.
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A Girl's World Presents: Pajama Party: Christmas99: Our Kwanzaa Celebration One girl tells about her family's celebration of kwanzaa. Readers are encouraged to share their own Category Kids and Teens People and Society kwanzaa music instead of nursing.) Her big plan for the future right now is to learn howto teach neonatal nursing. The sixth principle of kwanzaa, kuuma, is creativity http://www.agirlsworld.com/amy/pajama/winter/Kwanzaa.html
Extractions: Welcome to "A Girl's World" Holiday Happening! Up Close and Personal: Christmas Traditions A Classic Story, The Bird's Christmas Carol Holiday Activities Christmas on the Web Miriam's Festival of Lights Kwanzaa: My Celebration Have a Cool Yule A time of prayer and family: Ramadan Click the arrow for a drop-down list of holiday fun. Pick an area, then click go!! Kwanzaa Kwanzaa starts the day after Christmas December 26 and goes until January 1st. The word, Kwanzaa, means "first fruits" in Swahili. Dad says that means we're celebrating the fruit of our hands and spirits. So, every night of Kwanzaa, after dinner, we do something special to celebrate one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa. My older brother, Mike, does wood work. He's an architect. So he made us a kinara. That's a wooden candle holder with seven candles in it one for each day of Kwanzaa. There's a black candle in the middle, and three red ones on the left and three green ones on the right. Every night, Lauren starts the celebration by lighting one of the candles. We let her do it because she's the youngest.
Kwanzaa Book from Cartwheel Books Price $8.76 Customer Review Ford managed to teach aboutthe kwanzaa in an interesting way to children, and was not stereotypical. http://www.vepoware.com/cgi-bin/inc/bob.pl?type=browse&mode=3087
Education World® : Holidays Center: December 2002 Included A Hanukkah game, a kwanzaa recipe, and an activity that involves CrossCurriculumActivities Across-the-curriculum activities that teach skills while http://www.education-world.com/holidays/archives/december_1999.shtml
The Official Kwanzaa Web Site - The Founder's Message 1998 They teach us the good that is created and shared by the principles and of liftingof the light that lasts that people will again this kwanzaa light candles http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/message98.html
Extractions: Dr. Maulana Karenga December, 1998 Kwanzaa, a festival of the first harvest, is a celebration of family, community and culture and the social and moral principles which give ground and growth to these, especially, the Nguzo Saba , the Seven Principles. The holiday also celebrates the creating, harvesting and sharing of good in the world and for the world. Each day of Kwanzaa, when we light a candle in honor of one of the Seven Principles and organize our discussions and activities around it, we reaffirm the good in the world and stress our need to cultivate harvest and hold on to the good in the world and not let any good be lost. The Nguzo Saba , the Seven Principles, are the hub and hinge on which the holiday turns. They teach us the good that is created and shared by the principles and practice of
The Official Kwanzaa Web Site - The Founder's Message 1995 And thus the ancestors teach in the Yoruba Ifa Texts (104) Hold on to this Dr. MaulanaKarenga is the creator of the holiday of kwanzaa; Professor and Chair http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/message95.html
Extractions: Dr. Maulana Karenga is the creator of the holiday of Kwanzaa; Professor and Chair of the Department of Black Studies, California State University at Long Beach; Chairman of The Organization Us and The National Association of Kawaida Organizations; and author of the African American Holiday of Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Family, Community and Culture, The Million Man March/Day of Absence Mission Statement and co-author of The Million Man March/Day of Absence: A Commemorative Anthology.
Kwanzaa 2000 Unity Banquet He will give us information on the meaning of the 7 principles, the historyof kwanzaa, and teach us how to create our own kwanzaa celebrations. http://www.nsbeaes.org/events-photos/UnityBanquet2002.htm
Extractions: Sponsor We are currently seeking sponsorship for this event. If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please complete our sponsorship packet Check out the WINNERS of our Essay Contest The Unity Banquet will feature a networking social before the formal program begins. Dinner will be available during the networking hour. The program will feature spoken word and dramatic readings from local artists, winning essays from our Elementary School participants, African dance performances, spiritual enrichment and songs based on the seven principles of Kwanzaa. We will also be offering art activities for the children and a silent auction for the adults. You won't want to miss this year's event!!! What is The Unity Celebration?
Tucson Weekly: Kwanzaa Quandary (January 3 - January 9, 2002) I looked kwanzaa up on Encarta and there was this glowing entry on the festival islike some of those pretentious Spanish teachers in Tucson who teach kids to http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/2002-01-03/danehy.html
Extractions: Why would anyone celebrate such a bogus holiday? By Tom Danehy Could somebody please tell me exactly when it was that we went from striving to be culturally aware and sensitive to accepting just about any load of crapola that comes down the pike? I'm betting that it was some time after 1966, when a college professor made up a holiday and, because he's black, no one in the past 35 years has had the nerve to say that it's the festival version of The Emperor's New Clothes . There's no there, there. I'm talking about, of course, Kwanzaa, that glorious weeklong festival celebrated by tens of people around the country and given more fawning media attention than the entire cast of Friends . It's not that it's a bad holiday, per se; it's just that it seems ... well, forced. According to the official Kwanzaa Web site (named, oddly enough, www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org ), the festival was just made up by a guy named Maulana Karenga. I looked Kwanzaa up on Encarta and there was this glowing entry on the festival, but then I noticed that the passage had been written by Karenga himself. He claims that the festival is based on an African harvest celebration known as matunda ya kwanza, which is Swahili for "first fruits." Here's where problems start to pop up. First off, I've never understood why the Afrocentric movement in the U.S. focuses on Swahili. It's a nice language and even the name sounds cool, but Swahili is spoken by people in the eastern and central parts of Africa. If learning an African language is an attempt to maintain a link to the distant ancestors who were brought to America against their will under the bonds of slavery, then people should speak one of the more indigenous Bantu tongues, like Fulfulde or Mande, from which comes the term "Mandingo."
Kwanzaa - Joan Jones The Mkeke holds seven candles called Mishuma Saba, which representthe seven principles of kwanzaa that teach us how to live. A http://bbi.ns.ca/Newsletters/Fall 1997/kwanzaa.htm
Extractions: Joan Jones Thirty years ago, Dr. Maulanga Karenga created a very spiritual, family and friends-oriented observance that harmonizes with the Christmas season. While struggling withthe unrest in Watts during the '60s, Dr. Karenga became involved in the creation of a number of positive organizations, schools, and conferences that addressed rebuilding the Black community physically and spiritually. Dr. Karenga has made many contributions to the survival of the Black community, however, he will be best remembered for Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is an innovative, fast-growing celebration in African American and Canadian communities. Steeped in the traditions and ceremonies of original African cultures, it was originally a harvest celebration enabling African Americans to 'reaffirm our culture and bonds between us as a people'. Although focusing on African American communities, Kwanzaa is a non religious, spiritual way to spend the week after Christmas. Kwanzaa is celebrated by millions of people world-wide, including Canadians. According to Dr. Kerenga, it has "inspired a regathering of the diaspora." The unique and very special aspect of Kwanzaa is that it was conceived in North America by an African American. It is one of many observances or traditions originating in North American African communities that continue to grow.
Decatur Middle School Teachers Learn About Kwanzaa From UAB Professor American Studies program at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, conducted aKwanzaa workshop last week for the three teachers who teach AfricanAmerican http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/021216/studies.shtml
Extractions: cstancil@decaturdaily.com "Koo-gee-cha-goo-lee-yah," said 'Niyi Coker Jr., as he corrected Sylvia Tiggs, a Decatur teacher, on the pronunciation of Kujichagulia, a Swahili word that means self-determination. It also is one of the seven principles of a nearly three-decades-old African American and Pan-African heritage celebration named Kwanzaa. Translated, the word means "First Fruits of the Harvest." Practitioners celebrate one principle a day from Dec. 26 to Jan. 1. Coker, the director of the African-American Studies program at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, conducted a Kwanzaa workshop last week for the three teachers who teach African-American studies at Decatur's middle schools. "It was founded in the '60s when there was a strong movement to establish a cultural identity for African- Americans based on African heritage," Coker said. The celebration is centered on Kwanzaa's Nguzo Saba, or seven principles.
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