The Islam Project: Lesson Plans
This page is dedicated to our newest video project, American Muslim Teens Talk. It offers ordering information, lesson plans, discussion guides, and support materials. For a project background, please read the Overview (downloadable Microsoft Word Document). The Overview also provides a list of the sections in the video and their lengths, as well as a list of the lesson plans.
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Use the name sheet as a handout to help identify the teenagers in the video.
African Americans and Islam: What's In A Name?
In this lesson students examine the ways in which Muslim identity is conveyed through the use of Muslim names and why this became important especially to African Americans. Through research, students begin to understand what it meant for enslaved African Muslims to be deprived of their history and identities when they were forcibly renamed by their masters. In addition, student investigate the origins of their own first and last names.
Target grade levels: Middle and High School Levels
For use with: American Muslim Teens Talk
Learning about Stereotypes: How They Form and How to Fight Them
Students investigate the ways they commonly assign identities to people based solely on their appearance. Then after listening to students in AMERICAN MUSLIM TEENS TALK describe what it feels like to have other people stereotype you and your religion, students learn strategies for overcoming stereotypical thinking through the acquisition of information and the process of dialogue.
Target grade levels: Middle and High School Levels
For use with: American Muslim Teens Talk
Sharing our Roots
This lesson fosters an appreciation of America’s ethnic and religious diversity. As students explore and share their own family roots, they learn about those of the teens in AMERICAN MUSLIM TEENS TALK. Students symbolically increase the diversity of their classroom when each student writes an imaginary letter to one youth in the video, welcoming them into their school.
Target grade levels: Middle and High School Levels
For use with: American Muslim Teens Talk
Muslim Immigration to America
This lesson uses the vocabulary and concepts commonly applied to the study of the immigrant experience in America. It begins with a look at the religious prejudice faced by other immigrant groups in America (Irish Catholics in the 1850s) as a point of comparison to Muslims. Students then choose a Muslim immigrant group to research, create an imaginary immigrant, and as that immigrant introduce themselves in a monologue before the class.
Target grade levels: Middle and High School Levels
For use with: American Muslim Teens Talk
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