Catch the Spark
Kasalina Maliamu Nabakooza
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Appendix on Implementing District Standards
This visual art unit meaningfully implements the school district’s academic standards because students will through creation of wearables, clay sculpture, dioramas and use puppets explore other identities and express their unique voices through art. The objectives of this unit are to teach students how to tell stories visually through model making and sculptures. Students will reflect on how to analyze and deconstruct folktales, myths and legends through visual art. Students will also learn how interviewing family members can generate new connections for storytelling about origins. This unit is centered mainly around the collection of African folktales by Ernest Balintuma Kalibala that was first published in 1946. In Wakaima and the Clay Man (1946), the sociologist Ernest Balintuma Kalibala introduces the African folktales with a dedication “for the children of America from whose racial inheritance these stories are taken.” The performance of stories empowers students to make meaningful connections to their work and to communicate their ideas with other students through playacting. Students will gain understanding of other cultures through learning new animal folktales and storytelling.
