AZUR AND ASMAR
Suggestions about activities to carry out with students:
PRIMARY SCHOOL
LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES
- ask children to tell the story of Azur and Asmar using their own words, expressing their feelings about the two kids’ adventures.
- divide the story into sequences and make a synthesis of it in order to emphasize the meaning of the film.
LIVE TOGETHER
- analyse why Asmar refuses Azur and why Rospu’ criticizes the country that welcomed him. Let children say their opinions about it.
- Underline the values of welcome and of the respect of differences. Link them to the school life : listening to others, mutual respect, non-violence, understanding of difficulties…
DISCOVER THE WORLD
- find the Magreb on the map. Use the film and some pictures to discover its characteristics and its inhabitants’ lifestyle: climate, territory, food, traditions, clothes…
- think about the historical period in which the story takes place
ART
- make drawings of the sequences of the story.
- describe the scenery of the film: monuments, colours…
- make drawings referring to some aspects of the Islamic art, analysing pictures that show clothes, objects…
SECONDARY SCHOOL
FIRST LANGUAGE
- Analysis of the story of Azur and Asmar: description of places and characters.
- Activities on the topic of fantasy: fantastic characters, magic objects and powers, the heroes’ challenges, etc.
- Reading of other tales taken from the Arabian literature, such as the “The Thousand and One Nights”.
- Invent and write down the continuation of the story.
EDUCATION TO CITIZENSHIP
- Talk about the values of welcome and respect, found in the film.
- Analysis of daily situations of comparison/quarrel/exchange among people of different cultures, referring particularly to the teenagers’ experiences. Are there any values or behaviours through which it’s possible to conciliate the differences? Is it possible to let difference become a value and not a space of misunderstanding and prejudice?
- Analysis, in the Declaration of Human Rights and in the Italian Constitution, of the articles about liberty and equality without any distinction of race, sex, language, colour or religion and discussion about the topic.
HISTORY
- Locate Mohammed’s and Islam’s birth and the Arabian- Muslims’ conquests in the correct space and time. Compare these events with the history of our country from the 6th to the 10th century.
- Compare two maps of Europe, Northern Africa and Middle East before and after the Arabian expansion in the Middle Age.
- Talk about quarrels and exchanges between Christians and Muslims.
- Point out the scientific, artistic and cultural conquests carried out by the Arab people over the centuries.
GEOGRAPHY
- Look for the geographic characteristics of the countries on the South of the Mediterranean (climate, vegetation, cultures..).
- Study their inhabitants’ lifestyles (houses, food, clothes, traditions..)
SCIENCE
- Point out the Arabian-Muslim’s world contribution to mathematics (introduction of numerals and of zero in the Western world, invention of algebra), to astronomy or to medicine.
ART
- Look closely at the representations of the Islamic art in the film (architecture, decorations, handicrafts). Do some researches on the topic, studying the typical monuments of that architecture (mosques with arches, minarets, palaces..) and the decorations of buildings.
- Carry out activities such as paintings, drawings, collage, trying inspiration by the Islamic art.
- Find out the steps and the techniques of the film making
Suggestions about activities to carry out with students:
PRIMARY SCHOOL
LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES
- ask children to tell the story of Azur and Asmar using their own words, expressing their feelings about the two kids’ adventures.
- divide the story into sequences and make a synthesis of it in order to emphasize the meaning of the film.
LIVE TOGETHER
- analyse why Asmar refuses Azur and why Rospu’ criticizes the country that welcomed him. Let children say their opinions about it.
- Underline the values of welcome and of the respect of differences. Link them to the school life : listening to others, mutual respect, non-violence, understanding of difficulties…
DISCOVER THE WORLD
- find the Magreb on the map. Use the film and some pictures to discover its characteristics and its inhabitants’ lifestyle: climate, territory, food, traditions, clothes…
- think about the historical period in which the story takes place
ART
- make drawings of the sequences of the story.
- describe the scenery of the film: monuments, colours…
- make drawings referring to some aspects of the Islamic art, analysing pictures that show clothes, objects…
SECONDARY SCHOOL
FIRST LANGUAGE
- Analysis of the story of Azur and Asmar: description of places and characters.
- Activities on the topic of fantasy: fantastic characters, magic objects and powers, the heroes’ challenges, etc.
- Reading of other tales taken from the Arabian literature, such as the “The Thousand and One Nights”.
- Invent and write down the continuation of the story.
EDUCATION TO CITIZENSHIP
- Talk about the values of welcome and respect, found in the film.
- Analysis of daily situations of comparison/quarrel/exchange among people of different cultures, referring particularly to the teenagers’ experiences. Are there any values or behaviours through which it’s possible to conciliate the differences? Is it possible to let difference become a value and not a space of misunderstanding and prejudice?
- Analysis, in the Declaration of Human Rights and in the Italian Constitution, of the articles about liberty and equality without any distinction of race, sex, language, colour or religion and discussion about the topic.
HISTORY
- Locate Mohammed’s and Islam’s birth and the Arabian- Muslims’ conquests in the correct space and time. Compare these events with the history of our country from the 6th to the 10th century.
- Compare two maps of Europe, Northern Africa and Middle East before and after the Arabian expansion in the Middle Age.
- Talk about quarrels and exchanges between Christians and Muslims.
- Point out the scientific, artistic and cultural conquests carried out by the Arab people over the centuries.
GEOGRAPHY
- Look for the geographic characteristics of the countries on the South of the Mediterranean (climate, vegetation, cultures..).
- Study their inhabitants’ lifestyles (houses, food, clothes, traditions..)
SCIENCE
- Point out the Arabian-Muslim’s world contribution to mathematics (introduction of numerals and of zero in the Western world, invention of algebra), to astronomy or to medicine.
ART
- Look closely at the representations of the Islamic art in the film (architecture, decorations, handicrafts). Do some researches on the topic, studying the typical monuments of that architecture (mosques with arches, minarets, palaces..) and the decorations of buildings.
- Carry out activities such as paintings, drawings, collage, trying inspiration by the Islamic art.
- Find out the steps and the techniques of the film making
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