📚 Activity 1: Cause and Effect Challenge
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🎯 Goal: Understand the key historical events that shaped Marji’s life and explore how these events appear in Persepolis.
⏱ Time: 15–20 minutes
🔗 Cross-Curricular Link: History and Citizenship
Cause & Effect Event Set 
🧠 What You’ll Do:
🧠 What You’ll Do:
📋 Step-by-Step Instructions
📋 Step-by-Step Instructions
1️⃣ Get Ready
1️⃣ Get Ready
You will work in a small group (3–4 students).
You’ll receive a set of cause and effect cards.
2️⃣ Walk & Match
Around the room, you will see 7 posters of major historical events from the Iranian Revolution.
Each poster represents a big moment in Iranian history that affected Marji’s life.
3️⃣ Match the Cards
3️⃣ Match the Cards
Your group must match one cause and one effect card to each major event.
Use magnets, tape, or Blu Tack to stick your card under the event poster.
Discuss as a group: Which cards fit best with each event?
4️⃣ Check Your Thinking
4️⃣ Check Your Thinking
Once your cards are placed, look around at the other groups’ choices. Do you agree with them?
Be ready to explain your group’s choices in class discussion.
Activity 2: Growing Up Safe vs. Growing Up in Revolution
🎯 Goal: Activate students’ prior knowledge and connect childhood experiences to life under political regimes.
⏱️ Time: 10 - 15 minutes
Main Question:
Main Question:
What does it mean to grow up during a revolution?
🔹 Step 1: Reflect on the Image
🔹 Step 1: Reflect on the Image
🟦 What do you notice about these two children?
🟦 What kind of world are they growing up in?
🟦 How might their dreams and fears be different from yours?
🔹 Step 2: Quick Class Poll (Mentimeter Word Cloud)
🔹 Step 2: Quick Class Poll (Mentimeter Word Cloud)
👉 Instruction:
Look carefully at the two girls in the image.
Imagine what it feels like to grow up during a revolution.
In just ONE word, describe what childhood would feel like.
Be creative!
Who will come up with the most powerful word?
🔹 Step 3: Think–Pair–Share (3 min)
🔹 Step 3: Think–Pair–Share (3 min)
In pairs, briefly discuss:
"What word did you come up with and why?"
Do you think childhood can still be “innocent” during political unrest?
What role do parents or teachers play in shaping what kids believe?
Two contrasting images
A child living in a safe country.
A child living during a revolution.
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