Yam Festival
- Objectives
- Learn about Ghana - geography, people and festivals
- Improve reading, speaking and listening
- Participate in drama activity
- Learn to play rhythms from Ghana
- Programme
- Crops
- Food crops and cash crops of Ghana
- How they grow and what they look like
- Harvest Festivals
- Harvest festivals in Ghana and what it means to Ghanaians
- Remembrance of people who are no longer alive
- Migratory anniversaries
- Thanks giving and religious celebrations
- Fixing the date
- Preparations for the festivals
- Rituals and bans imposed
- Discuss the similarities and differences of the children's experience and knowledge of harvest festival in England and Ghana
- Discuss crops that are harvested in Britain and foreign crops they come across in supermarkets
- Workshops
- Drama, reading and drama dance
- Rhythms and drumming
- Learn about the drums and the part they play in festivals
- Learn to make body rhythms
- Learn to apply the rhythms to the drums
- Create polyrhythm for performance
- Bringing all the information gathered together for a performance
- Cooking
This may be carried out by another class, left out or treated separately
- Cooking utensils and food in Ghana
- Eating habits
- Staple foods and snacks
- Development education and fair trade
- Performance
- Introduction to harvest festival in Ghana
- The story read or told with some drama
- Drumming
- Dancing
- Criteria
- Age Range 6 years and above (drumming will be modified for 6/7 year Olds they may not provide the music for the dancers in which case appropriate recorded music will be used)
- Resources
- Most of the resources will be supplied by Miso'shi
School to provide hall or prepared classroom and cassette tape player
High-backed chairs
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