Curriculum

Elementary School

Sitti's Bird: A Gaza Story

Lesson based on "Sitti’s Bird: A Gaza Story", a beautiful children’s book by Malak Mattar.

Middle School

Borders & Walls

Using a Borders and Walls Gallery Walk to spark curiosity and conversation.

High School

Teaching Gaza (2023/2024)

The events that have unfolded in Gaza since October 7th, 2023 are part of the longer history of Palestine/Israel.

 

Elementary/Middle School

Youth Incarceration and Resistance in Palestine

Drawing connections, comparing, and contrasting peoples’, considering geographic and political contexts.

Elementary/Middle School

Power and Perspective in Palestine

Using book Determined to Stay as a way to look at what is happening currently in that part of the world

High School

Palestine in English Class

For use in English class – critical thinking on the reading and writing of history and narratives.

High School

Stolen Land

An Introduction to the Middle East for young elementary school students.

Elementary School

“Why Isn’t Palestine on Our Map?”

An Introduction to the Middle East for young elementary school students.

High School

Uprooted: How Exile, Community, & Trauma Shape Cultural Identity

This instructional unit invites students to conduct a comparative study of Palestinian and Native American experiences.  Using literature and the visual arts, students will examine how Palestinians and the indigenous peoples of North America attempt to renegotiate their collective identity in the face of physical and political obstacles.

High School

The Expression of Exile

This lesson uses Palestinian art and poetry to introduce students to the process of reading a visual text in isolation, with background information about the artist, and in response to another text.

Middle/High School

Determined to Stay

These lessons are based on the young adult book Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village.

Middle/High School

Teaching Palestine/Israel

Teaching Palestine/Israel from a multiple narratives approach.

High School

Poetry and Identity

This Language Arts unit on identity examines how personal, cultural, and social factors shape who we are.