Arabic-L:K-16:Needs materials help for 6th grade students at Khalil Gibran Academy

[Dilworth Parkinson]

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Arabic-L: Tue 21 Aug 2007
Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <dilworth_parkinson at byu.edu>
[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l at byu.edu]
[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to
listserv at byu.edu with first line reading:
            unsubscribe arabic-l                                      ]

-------------------------Directory------------------------------------

1) Subject:Needs materials help for 6th grade students at Khalil  
Gibran Academy

-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------
1)
Date: 21 Aug 2007
From:"A. Ferhadi" <af3 at nyu.edu>
Subject:Needs materials help for 6th grade students at Khalil Gibran  
Academy

Dear all,

Could those of you who are familiar with the issue that Danielle is  
inquiring about respond to  her directly? She is not a member of this  
list. The Khalil Gibran International Academy is brand new experiment  
in teaching Arabic at high school and deserves all the help we can  
provide.

Ahmed Ferhadi
New York University
---------------------------------------

Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:22:50 -0400
From: Danielle Jefferis <Danielle at aafscny.org>
Subject: Arabic resources / materials

Dear Professor Ferhadi,

Hello! I hope you are enjoying the remainder of the summer and are  
ready for classes to begin. I have been keeping myself busy trying to  
organize everything to open Khalil Gibran International Academy on  
September 4th. It seems as though things are getting harder and  
harder by the day, but we are almost there – two weeks from today  
(inshallah).

I am writing to see if you may be able to help me or direct me to the  
right direction. I have now joined the Arabic teaching team at this  
school and will be co-teaching the classes twice per day and helping  
in lesson planning. Anyway, we are having understandable difficulties  
locating Arabic teaching materials that are appropriate for sixth  
graders. Al-Kitaab, as we know, is the most widely used but is  
written for university students. It is being used in some high  
schools now but I find it completely inappropriate for introducing 11  
and 12 year olds to Arabic. Do you know of any books, materials,  
websites, etc. that would be suitable for us?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Danielle

Danielle C. Jefferis
School Coordinator, Khalil Gibran International Academy

The Arab American Family Support Center
150 Court Street, 3rd Floor; Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel. 718.643.8000 ext. 12 Fax. 718.643.8167

<http://www.aafscny.org>www.aafscny.org

------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
--
End of Arabic-L:  21 Aug 2007