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    This document provides a lesson plan about the work and education of African immigrants in Philadelphia. It includes objectives, key terms, background readings and maps. Activities are outlined for different grade levels and include pretending to be storeowners, learning an African language, and writing diaries as immigrant workers. The lesson also suggests inviting African immigrant business owners to speak and arranging exchanges with English language learning students. The goal is for students to understand the diverse jobs African immigrants have, their varied educational backgrounds, and challenges they face with work and education. Supplementary reference materials and activities are included.

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    This document provides a lesson plan about the work and education of African immigrants in Philadelphia. It includes objectives, key terms, background readings and maps. Activities are outlined for different grade levels and include pretending to be storeowners, learning an African language, and writing diaries as immigrant workers. The lesson also suggests inviting African immigrant business owners to speak and arranging exchanges with English language learning students. The goal is for students to understand the diverse jobs African immigrants have, their varied educational backgrounds, and challenges they face with work and education. Supplementary reference materials and activities are included.

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    IV.

    WHAT KINDS OF WORK ARE AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS DOING


    IN PHILADELPHIA? EDUCATION AND WORK

    4A. Lesson Plan


    Objectives: Students will learn:
    1) The diverse types of work African immigrants perform
    2) Diverse educational backgrounds of African immigrants
    3) Some work and educational challenges that African immigrants face and overcome

    Key Geography/Locations Terms: Baltimore Avenue, Germantown, Greater Northeast, West


    Philadelphia, and Southwest Philadelphia, (Grades K-12)

    Key Terms: brain drain, credentials, ESOL, literate, niche (teachers may include terms from other
    lesson plans (Grades 4-12) See appendix for glossary of terms

    Map(s): Map of Philadelphia and surrounding areas See www.mapquest.com or www.yahoomaps.com

    Background Readings:
    Extending Occupations, Expanding Education, in Extended Lives: The African Immigrant Experience in
    Philadelphia: A Balch Institute Community Profile Available with educational materials

    Case Studies: Coming to Philadelphia: Seven Stories See appendix

    Africans as a New Immigrant Population, in African Immigrants Directory: A Guide to Community


    Resources in the Greater Philadelphia Area See appendix

    Directory of African Community Resources in Listings, in Extended Lives: The African Immigrant
    Experience in Philadelphia: A Balch Institute Community Profile Available with educational materials

    Fast Facts About Africa and African Immigrants in Philadelphia See appendix

    Activities

    Grades K-3
    African Immigrant market
    A) African immigrants in Philadelphia have many different occupations, such as doctors, taxi drivers, hair
    braiders, and storeowners. Ask students to pretend that they are African immigrant storeowners.
    Explain that many of their customers are African immigrants. These customers have moved to the
    United States from many different African countries. Ask student to answer the following questions:
    What types of things would they want to buy in your store? (Newspapers about their home
    countries, spices and foods from their home countries, calling cards to call family in their home
    countries)
    What types of things would people from the United States want to buy in your store? (Clothing,
    food and spices, artwork from African countries)

    B) Ask students to decide what types of things they would sell in their store. Using the store outline, have
    students draw some of the items that they would sell in their store. Instruct students to decorate their
    store to make everyone welcome. Ask students if they and their family moved to another country and
    became immigrants, what would they like someone to sell to remind them of the United States? See
    appendix for store outline

    Grades 4-8
    Starting Over
    Ask students to following questions:
    How many years have you been in school?
    What have you had to learn? List the subjects and some specifics about those subjects.
    What do you like/dislike about your educational experience?
    Now, imagine that suddenly there is a deadly epidemic in your country and you and your family must
    move to another country. In this new country, you do not know the language. All of the signs,
    television programs, even the fast food restaurant menus are in this new language. When you enter
    your new school, you do not know anyone who speaks your language and you do not understand the
    teacher. You must take a special class to learn this new language. Do you think this experience would
    be hard? If so, why? If not, why not?
    How would you handle it?
    How might the list of subjects that you learn change if you lived in another country?
    Grades 9-12
    NKo Lesson
    Guide students as they use a tutorial to learn numbers and greetings in NKo, a Manden language. Students
    may experience some of the frustrations that many African immigrants experience when trying to learn the
    English languageperhaps these frustrations will cause them to be more understanding of fellow ESOL
    students. For the tutorial see www.fakoli.net/nko/tutorial Option: Have students study and memorize the
    NKo numeral system. Give students a basic math assignment using NKo numerals. Require students to
    complete the entire assignment using the NKo numerals, with or without reference to the tutorial.

    Assessment:
    1. Name three types of work African immigrants perform
    2. Name three work challenges that some African immigrants face when they come to the United States
    3. Name three educational challenges that African immigrants may face
    4. Name three ways in which African immigrants choose to positively respond to these work and/or
    educational challenges
    5. How did reading the background material affect your thoughts on African immigrants education and
    work?

    4B. Supplementary activities for students


    Grades K-3
    Occupations
    African immigrants in Philadelphia have many different occupations, such as doctors, taxi drivers, hair
    braiders, and storeowners. Ask students to pretend that they have one or more of these types of
    occupations. Have students share what one would have to know to work in each of these occupations. Do
    they know anyone that works in these occupations? If so, encourage them to find out more about their
    occupation.

    Classroom Visit
    Teachers could arrange for an African immigrant businessperson or group to visit their classroom (Grades
    K-12) Ask her/him:
    How did you come?
    With whom did you come?
    What did you go through to get here?
    What did you bring with you?
    When did you come?
    Why did you come?
    Whom/what did you leave behind?
    What did you like about your home country?
    What language(s) does your family speak at home?
    What type of business do you own?
    Why did you decide upon this type of business?
    What services do you provide, and to whom?
    What would you like people to know about your country and African immigrants in general?

    Share your findings and/or experience with your class and/or school. The visit can culminate with students
    and guest(s) sharing in foods and music from that home country. For contact information, see Directory of
    African Community Resources, in Listings Extended Lives: The African Immigrant Experience in
    Philadelphia: A Balch Institute Community Profile Available with educational materials
    Grades 4-12
    Community Involvement
    Visit local businesses, centers, and gathering places, or events in local African immigrant communities;
    Some options for involvement include: contacting and or volunteering at local agencies that serve African
    immigrant communities; visiting a store to purchase CDs, tapes or videos; downloading African music
    from the web.

    ESOL Exchange
    Have one or more ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) students come talk to your class, share
    their experience, where they are from, why the came, what has life been like for them here. Option:
    Teacher may arrange for older African immigrant students to come to his/her school and share their
    experiences. Some local schools have growing African immigrant student populations and organizations.
    i.e. Bartram High School has an African Student Association whose members may be willing to come for a
    visit. See listing for Bartram High School African Students Association in Directory of African
    Community Resources, Extended Lives: The African Immigrant Experience in Philadelphia: A Balch
    Institute Community Profile Available with educational materials

    Grades 9-12
    Workin for a Living
    Reread Extending Occupations, Expanding Education, in Extended Lives: The African Immigrant
    Experience in Philadelphia: A Balch Institute Community Profile and Coming to Philadelphia: Seven
    Stories. Have students choose a niche occupation and write a diary as an African immigrant about their
    work experience in the United States. Some reflection questions include: How do you feel about the work
    you do? How does this work relate to the training you did or did not receive in Africa? How do you think
    African immigrants feel about their work challenges here in the United States? Can you relate? If so, why?
    If not, why not?

    4C. Reference Materials


    Immigrants the Answer, Council Told, by Monica Rhor, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 17, 2001, page B2.
    Locate an article summary by title at www.philly.com/newslibrary/text_pi.asp (entire article is available for
    purchase)

    Two Sought in S. Phila Killing, by Rasmi Simhan, Philadelphia Inquirer August 1, 2001, A1. Locate an
    article summary by title at www.philly.com/newslibrary/text_pi.asp (entire article is available for purchase)

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