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=Lesson Two, Art in Celebrations and Ceremonies=

Part One: Discussion of "special clothes," creation of Google Spreadsheet from student discussion
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Part Three: Students working on Venn diagram comparing and contrasting Adinkra and our "special clothes"
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The spreadsheet list made by students during class:
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As I taught this lesson, I learned several things. One was that I had planned too much for the 45-minute period. I had to decide what to remove. I chose to keep the Venn diagram exercise as it allowed students to directly analyze and synthesize the information we had already worked with during the class. I removed the sequencing exercise because I felt that it had less relevance to the relationships between students' experiences and the art form of Adinkra.

I also was amazed at how the presentation of this new material in a way that I had never tried before really increased my students' understanding of the concepts I was teaching.