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Summer Institute 2009 Lesson Plans

These lesson plans were developed by some of the teachers who participated in our annual week-long Institute. We offer a big 'thank you' to all our teachers for their tremendous enthusiasm and engagement, evidenced by these excellent lesson plans.

Please click the titles below to download lesson plans.

Adinkra Printed Textiles from Ghana (9th - 12th grades) - Deborah Strother, Brown County Senior High School

• Adinkra Textiles Powerpoint

African Women: Their Roles and Music (Middle School) - Amy Smith, Brown County Junior High School

Annotated Bibliography Lesson Plan (7th - 12th grades) Karen Davis, Center Grove High School

• Annotated Bibliography - Africa, specifically Senegal
• Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart: for the classroom

Culminating Activities for Sharon Draper's Novel Copper Sun (10th - 12th grades) - Madeline Garvin, Independent Journalist/Educator, Fort Wayne, Indiana

Elements of African Oral Literature (Language Arts, 8th grade) - Rita Willis, Dunbar-Pulaski Middle School

Human Rights Violations (Grades K - 12th) - John Fuller, Arsenal Technical High School

Kanga Patterns (6th - 8th grades) - Maggie Olivo, University Elementary

Local African News Stories (9th - 12th grades) - Lindsey Hood, Central Middle School; Jacinda Lettau, Southside High School; Dan Warkentien, Lebanon High School; and Micky Emily, Corydon High Central High School

Musical Myths (Middle or Elementary School) - Cora Phillips, Bloomington Montessori School

World Literature: Africa & the Middle East (English, 10th grade) - Amy Holston-Hesting & Rita Whitman, North Side High School

Curriculum Units

Francophone Africa: Lessons from Cameroon

These LESSONS FROM CAMEROON are brought to you by the African Studies Program at Indiana University. They are the product of a Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad (GPA). During the summer of 1996, eleven middle school and high school French language teachers spent five weeks in Cameroon, studying about Francophone Africa, and about Cameroon in particular. As a result of the trip, the teachers developed curriculum units on a variety of topics.

The lessons are meant to be adapted to suit your class or teaching needs and are only select extracts from the original curriculum units. The hard copy versions of the original curriculum units are available from the Indiana University African Studies Program Outreach Library.

Click on a title below to go to a lesson plan.

• Exploring Foods and Dining Patterns of Cameroon by Thomas Bastin
• African-American Traditions: Cameroonian and African-Amerian Folktales by Kyra Beaver
• Examples of Cameroonian Clothing by France Knable
• Incorporating Cameroonian Cultures Into French Classes by Katrina Seibert