Guiding Questions
- Essential Questions:
- What are your perceptions of the Arab world and how accurate are they?
- What makes a person, particularly an artist, successful?
- What are major similarities and differences between Arab culture and “western” culture?
- How can a figure from different time and place be relevant to our lives today?
- What are important events in the history and shaping of the 20th century Arab world?
- Enduring Understandings:
- Studying individuals can be an entry point into other peoples’ culture and history
- Umm Kulthum’s life can teach us about Arab cultural expression, and major events in Egyptian history
- There are parts of Umm Kulthum’s life that are connected and relevant to the lives of young people living in America today
- There are major similarities and important differences between Arab culture and “western” culture in the 20th century
- Studying individuals can be an entry point into other peoples’ culture and history
- Women in the 20th century Arab world could play powerful, public roles
- Umm Kulthum is a role model of a public figure who was a shrewd businesswoman and a popular entertainer
- Umm Kulthum pursued excellence through command of Arabic language and careful attention to diction
- Egypt played a central role in the history of the Arab world; both in ancient times and the modern era
Standards Alignment
- Common Core College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading
- RL 3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text –
- Lesson #2
- RL 3. Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text –
- Common Core Reading Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies
- RH 1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources –
- Lesson #1, Lesson #2, Lesson #4, Lesson #6, Lesson #7, Lesson #8, Lesson #9
- RH 2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions –
- Lesson #2, Lesson #3, Lesson #4, Lesson #5, Lesson #7, Lesson #10
- RH 3: Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies –
- Lesson #10
- RH 4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies –
- Lesson #1, Lesson #6, Lesson #8, Lesson #9
- RH 5. Describe how a text presents information –
- Lesson #4, Lesson #5, Lesson #6, Lesson #8
- RH 6. Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose –
- Lesson #2, Lesson #10
- RH 7. Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts –
- Lesson #1, Lesson #2, Lesson #3, Lesson #7, Lesson #9, Lesson #10
- RH 8. Distinguish among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment in a text –
- Lesson #1, Lesson #8
- RH 1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources –
- National Standards for Foreign Language Education
- Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures through analysis of lyrics –
- Lesson #4, Lesson #5
- Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
- Lesson #1, Lesson #3, Lesson #6, Lesson #7, Lesson #8
- Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures through analysis of lyrics –