Lesson Plan: The Arrival by Shaun Tan and Multiculturalism
Teacher: Art, English, or Social Studies teacher
Subject Area: Art, Creative Writing, or Social Studies
Grade: Seventh and Eighth
Name of lesson: Reading the Wordless Text and Multiculturalism
Overview:
The Arrival
provides a good impetus for discussions about multiculturalism, pluralism, and
diversity in addition to developing interpretation skills. The text offers
opportunities to apply multiple critical perspectives to a single text and
engaging student discussions.
Description:
Students discuss and learn about multiculturism, pluralism,
and diversity
Students
Time needed for lesson:
90 minutes
Procedure:
Lesson one
Teacher gives a visual presentation of The Arrival.
Lesson two
Teacher reads quote
from Shaun Tan and asks the students for their opinions. The teacher shows a
couple of pages and students practice tuning their fine literacy skills
together. Simulates visual literacy. From Shaun Tan’s Essay “PICTURE BOOKS: Who
Are They For?”- “This is perhaps what reading and visual literacy are all about
- and what picture books are good for - continuing that playful inquiry we
began in childhood, of using imagination to find significance and meaning in
those ordinary, day-to-day experiences that might otherwise remain unnoticed. The
lessons we learn from studying pictures and stories are best applied to a
similar study of life in general - people, places, objects, emotions, ideas and
the relationships between them all. At it’s most successful, fiction offers us
devices for interpreting reality, and imagining how many such interpretations
might be possible.”
Lesson three
Students work in
small groups looking at a couple of pages from the graphic novel.
Lesson Four
Individually or in small
groups students develop their own thematic wordless storyline and put the
sketches on a poster board.
Lesson Five
Students present
their story posters.
Alternative lesson for Writing and interpretation skills:
The Arrival can be used for high school creative writing and senior English
classes. The graphic novel can help
teach students how to identify formal literary devices, perspectives (feminist,
cultural, historical, Marxist, etc), analyzing themes, et cetera.
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