BIG STEPPER SINGH

4y

Dave a legend man

FOREVA

4y

op is the teacher i wish i had, as a black kid growing up in germany

heck, my school made a white kid read the n-word (with a hard er) out loud and then suspended the black kid in class for getting offended by it

but anyways, this is a beautiful thread and I truly hope your class is able to learn something from it

best of luck to you op

Bandito

4y

One last thing. Introduce you students to the white south African author Wilbur Smith. He makes epic fiction novels that deal with history and colonialism in Africa. He has a book called cry wolf and it's about the the Italian trying to colonize Ethiopia during WW2. It's epic.

My favourite book of his is called elephant song, which is all about illegal poaching and the billion-dollar ivory trade.

Bandito

4y

Since this is Really about culture, you can talk about how modern black culture is the most duplicated culture globally.

Ask them this series of questions:
What would modern music be like with Black People and the advent of drums and rhythm?
What would sports be like Without black athletes?
What would fashion be like without hip hop
What would be dance be like without hip hop
What would popular language be without hip hop

You can even conclude that hip hop is the most culturally impacting art form ever to have existed.

You can tie this back into black people and Jamaica because the tiny island in the Caribbean has contributed everything to modern black culture. Early rap pioneers, rock musicians, blues musicians, reggae musicians often trace heritage back to Jamaica.

You can argue that Jamaican culture is in fact seen as black culture as the food, music and people are the most recognized globally.

talk about Africa being the most genetically diverse continent on the planet. There are some many f***ing tribes, cultures, languages and religion on the continent.

And finally, show them the accurate scale of the African continent on a map. The modern globe and maps are scaled-down versions of the actual size if the planet. As don't show the actual size of the landmasses. There's Interactive maps that show the right size online.

Tbh this could be an entire course.

I would love to help @op I studied anthropology in University so I could point you in the direction of research etc.

Einfinet

4y

Did you have to use the clean version?

Fam

4y

Damn, OP. ily :​ :​
Genuine teaching like this is what really contributes to making this world a better place.

All I really wanna add is f*** using the clean version tbh, even though it's beautiful live too, but I like when truth is just presented uncensored tbh. Plus, the music video is great as well with all the traditional clothing and food.

FreddieKaneTop5

4y

Love love

It’s one of the main reasons I wanted to be a teacher. Make a difference and amplify certain voices and messages.

hadji

4y

u a real one man. nice to see more teachers on KTT. before I left to focus on my music I was a high school teacher in the bronx. I put some fun s*** into my lessons too. I did a whole lesson on taxes using J. Cole’s Brackets and me and my co-teacher did a unit on violence in Chicago where we talked about Akademiks and his role in making videos about it and stuff. having young and informed teachers with a responsive curriculum really does help keep the kids engaged, ur kids will thank you!!

FreddieKaneTop5

4y

That sounds well worth a read for me. How have black audiences received his work?

FreddieKaneTop5

4y

Oh my
Word!!!! Amazing ideas for
Tomorrow’s lesson. Those thinking questions will be a great starter. I will absolutely use the actual scale of Africa on the map. Would you attribute malice to that? Like a duplicitous move to represent Africa as smaller than it really is as a slight to their culture?

Frankito Reynolds

4y

If i found out my teacher was on KTT i'd drop outta school

FreddieKaneTop5

4y

Wow man that’s amazing. Your lessons sounded awesome!

Agree on a responsive curriculum. I’ve always been a big believer that the curriculum needs to be more ‘plugged in’ to the world around them.

FreddieKaneTop5

4y

Finished the poem today. Just thought I would share the lesson due to the awesome feedback, advice and reception here:

I mentioned a lot of the stuff that you guys were saying ITT as we broke down the poem. A lot of the kids (I taught this to two classes so over 60 kids in total) felt really emotional at the end. So many great comments on how it’s time we made a change and all sorts of wholesome stuff. It was a great experience and definitely the most rewarding one of my career so far.

Thank you all again.

BlackStar

4y

you a real one for this, would've loved to have this in my english lit classes