The students learn the seven principles of Kwanzaa. Students are challenged to apply the principles to their everyday lives in a way that enhances the communities to which they belong. They demonstrate their understanding through the arts and relate it to some aspect of their own lives.

Service Experience

Starting on Day One of Lesson Three: Habari Gani: The Last Four Principles, students choose to help a local food bank or organization that feeds the poor in the community. The students make a plan for helping and carry out their plan. Optional Culmination: Display the seven principles of Kwanzaa along with explanations and examples on a school bulletin board. The goal of the bulletin board would be to encourage the other school community members to apply the principles. Hold a Karamu feast and invite another class, parents or senior citizens. At the feast, students will demonstrate their projects and music, and teach what they have learned.

Lessons in This Unit

What Is Kwanzaa?

Unit:

Kwanzaa: Unity Within Community

Lesson 1 of 3

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Students are introduced to the origin and purpose of Kwanzaa and make a kinara, or candle holder, to use for the rest of the unit as they learn about the seven principles of Kwanzaa.

Subjects

Habari Gani (What Is the News?)

Unit:

Kwanzaa: Unity Within Community

Lesson 2 of 3

Grades:

Through the integration of the arts, the learners will develop an understanding of the seven principles of Kwanzaa. Students are challenged to apply the principles to their everyday lives in a way that enhances the communities to which they belong.

Subjects

Habari Gani: The Last Four Principles

Unit:

Kwanzaa: Unity Within Community

Lesson 3 of 3

Grades:

Subjects

Arts Education