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This Module is a for a Novice Mid to High, high school class. It will be completed over the course of 2 class sessions, aproximately 3 hours. It is a summative module in a unit which focuses on learning about the family and family relationships in the Middle East. There are two activities in this module which will allow students to demonstrate their ability to understand family relationships from a comedic video by a popular Egyptian Youtube comedian and via writing, reading, speaking, and listening activities.
The comedic video features a mother's sister and her daughter (Suzie) visiting a young, single man (Shaadi)'s family apartment. Shaadi's mother and aunt are very interested in having him marry his cousin Suzie. Cousin Suize is as enthusastic as her mother and aunt for the match. Shaadi is more interested in escaping the house to go play PlayStation or drink coffee at the local ahwa with his friends. Forced by his father to appropriately greet the guests (his cousin Suzie and her mother), Shaadi grudgingly politely greets them and then escapes to his room only to be followed by cousin Suzie. Suzie forces her way into Shaadi's bedroom room and esentially entraps Shaadi by getting caught alone with him by Shaadi's father. Angered and distrusting of his son's actions, Shaadi's father insists that Shaadi and Suzie marry much to the delight of Shaadi's mother and aunt. In the end it proves to all be a bad dream and Shaadi wakes up from his nightmare repeating to himself, " I will not marry" to find his mother and father staring at him. Worried by Shaadi's declaration that he will not marry, his parents immediately declare their intent to set him up with an eligiable girl.
The is a humerous exageration of common issues regarding marriage and family relationships in Egypt. The parents are shown threatening to physically discipline a university aged student. The university aged student is shown to be living with his parents, which is the norm. Children to not normally move out of the family home until marriage. Cousin marriage is common, prefered by both men and women in some cases, and women in the family are very involved in matchmaking. It is not socially acceptable for unmarried men and women should not be alone together before marriage in a private space. Well to do families will often offer financial support for a young couple, particularly if it is a family match, so couples marry younger than in the US and may be slightly immature. Marriage is jokingly seen by young men as the end of their freedom.
Standards
Standards
Learning Targets:
Learning Targets:
- Students should be able to understand and describe family relationships in speaking, reading, and writing
- Students will understand the cultural norms for behavior between unmarried men and women, behavior during courtship, and perspectives of different ages, genders and generations on cousin marriage.
- Students should demonstrate full command of the terms used to describe family relationships in Arabic, attached pronouns, nisba adjectives and gender noun adjective agreement.
ACTFL:
ACTFL:
Interpersonal Communication
Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spoken or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings and opinions.
- Students will achieve this by discussing the motivations of the video characters with each other and asking clarifying questions of their partners while drawing their partner's family tree based on their partner's oral description.
Interpretive Communication
Learners understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
- Students will achieve this by analyzing the video, maping the relationships of the people in the video, writing descriptions of the actions, feelings and motivations of the people in the video.
Presentational Communication
Learners present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers.
- Students will achieve this by presenting their version of an alternative ending to the video if the main character had not worken up.
ISTE:
ISTE:
Cultural Comparisons
Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
- Students will analyze and compare flirting/courting behavior and acceptable behavior for unmarried men and women in Egyptian society with that of American society via discussing and analyzing the actions and motivations of the characters in the Egyptian comedic video "When Your Aunt Visits".
Intercultural Competence:
Intercultural Competence:
What intercultural competencies will students be able to demonstrate with what they know?
Products
Products
- Egyptian apartments have a formal sitting area for recieving guests.
- Most Egyptians live in apartments, like the one depicted in the video,
- Most Egyptians lives in urban areas inside cities. Egypt does not have a rural urban population distribution that at all resembles the US or Europe.
Practices
Practices
- Reception of guests and being respectful towards guests has certain rituals and it is important they are followed in the Arab world. Hosting a guest is not a casual, unstructured experience like in many American homes.
- Older members of a family may encourage marriage matches between younger members, unmarried men and women should not be alone together, women in a family often take more interest in arranging and encouraging marriage matches between cousins than men
- Family members are much more involved in the process of getting married, from the first meeting to after the wedding than in the west. In the west men and women are responsible for finding their own romantic partners and do not expect their parents to provide them with potential spouses.
- Most men and women marry in their mid twenties. The average age for a frist marriage in American in contrast is getting higher and higher.
- Cousins marry and are often happy to marry one another.
Perspectives
Perspectives
- Women are often percieved as more eager to marry in the Arab world than men.
- Families feel that it is best for children to marry at a younger age than children in America and sometimes strongly encourage both young men and young women to marry as soon as possible.
- Children are expected to obey their parents and are not viewed as independet decision makers until they leave the family home and establish their own home. In contrast many Americans are expected to move out of the house at age 18 and be functioning independent adults who never return to the family home to live again.
Activity # 1 - A Family Comedy
Activity # 1 - A Family Comedy
Step # 1: Working in pairs students will watch the video and create a family tree diagram that includes all of the characters in the video's names and relationships. (Interpretive Listening)
Step # 2: Students will compare their results with their classmates. As well as come to consensus with the whole class about the relationships between the people in the video, using Jamboard to collectively create a relationship chart labeled with names and relationships, as well as 2 sentences about each character describing their actions and motivations.(Interpersonal Writing & Speaking)
Step # 3: Students will engage in a classwide discussion about each of the characters in the video, the characters actions, motivations, points of view and relationships with each other. (Interpersonal Speaking)
Activity # 2 - Write & Present an Alternative Ending
Activity # 2 - Write & Present an Alternative Ending
Pairs of students will write and act out a scripted alternative ending for the video. They must decide if the main characters marry, divorce, get engaged willingly or unwilingly, does he marry a different cousin...?
The teacher will grade students using the rubric at the bottom of the page. Additionally, the class will vote on the best new ending using this survey which will evaluate them on the following criteria:
- Comprehensibility
- Creativity
- Cultural Accuracy
- Linguistic Accuracy
Modes of Communication: Presentational Speaking & Writing, Interpretive Listening
Activity # 2 - Presentational Task Rubric
Activity # 2 - Presentational Task Rubric
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