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PRE- reading activity: ( this activity is designed to work with primary school children) In this activity we would like to work with primary children.
We would start by sharing with them this literary text and some different pictures of many people across cultures, and the task would be " ask children to reflect on how important looks such as the hair or the clothes they were are to reflect who they are or from where they come from? "
Ana Paula Pino- Micaela Mira

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"Curlfriends": Poetry by Kyla Jenée Lacey.

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"Curlfriends": Poetry by Kyla Jenée Lacey.

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Pre-watching activity

Speaking activity:

The idea of this pre-activity is to generate a debate with our students in order to know their thoughts, behaviors and experiences related to the topic.

The teacher will write on the board the title “equality” and ask students what they understand about the word “equality”,  some keywords and pictures illustrating the topic will also be  on the board in order to scaffold students' oral development.

The teacher will add the following questions on the board, too.

1. What do you understand about beauty stereotypes?

2. What is racism? Have you ever suffered any kind of discrimination? Would you like to share your experience?

3. What is white privilege? What comes to your mind when you think about it?

4. Why is feminism important to? Do you agree with being a rights activist? Why/Why not?

Once the questions are read, students will share their answers,  in an oral way so the whole class will listen to the different opinions and thoughts. The teacher will mediate the conversation for 5/6 minutes and then she will present the activity “"Curlfriends": Poetry by Kyla Jenée Lacey.

Dina Waidatt & Cecilia Ramirez

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B).  We can mention that the main valuable themes presented in this story that can be introduced in our lessons through the use of this piece of literature are family, diversity, the importance of identity and the uniqueness in every human being concerning their personalities and appearance (in this case it is shown in each member of the family). This story allows the readers to have a better understanding of diversity and the appreciation of uniqueness or even of themselves.

C). Before watching activity:

The teacher will ask students to draw a picture of their own family and after that they will describe the physical similarities and differences among the members. Moreover, she will ask students to think of a smell or noise that reminds them of each person. She will provide some examples on the board for them to understand the task.

My brother = the sound of a car’s engine

My grandma = the smell of pasta

My aunt = Jazmine's fragrance

After watching activity:

They will receive a chart with the name of the family members in the story and a picture of them. They will be asked to write down any word or sentence they hear to describe their hair and after finishing we will discuss their notes. Each description will be written on the board and a reflection about the themes of the story will be proposed by asking questions such as: Do we all look identical? Is that something good or bad? Do you like being unique and different from others?, etc.

Cintia Cores & Mariana Montero

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Hair Love | Oscar®-Winning Short Film (Full) | Sony Pictures Animation We’ve chosen this short film as the literary text to work with. We believe that it brings up important themes such as Acceptance, love and respect, stereotypes and identity.

As a pre-watching activity we thought about grouping students and giving each group one word (respect, stereotypes, acceptance, race, gender, age, physical aspect, hobby). We will give some time to each group for thinking and discussing how that word is connected to the construction of identity. Once discussion is over students will briefly share their ideas and we will display the short film; having them pay attention to the way in which those aspects are represented or not in the film.

Camila Ferrer & Leticia Armella

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1) Starting question: “Is there any special activity or interest that you share with your family?”
Look at the examples and then share your thoughts and experiences.
Here we show four pictures in which there are people doing different activities with their families and a short description. E.g: Naty does her sister’s nails.

2) Video: Read the title “Hair love” and look at the picture. Predict what the video may be about.

We show a picture where the girl from the video's hair is messy and her dad is trying to fix it.
Some questions to help you:
- Who are the people in the picture? Do you think they are family?
- What are they doing?
- Do you think they are happy? Angry? Concentrated?
- Do you think there will be a problem in the video?
- Why do you think that the little girl’s hair is messy?
- Do you think the people in the picture are getting ready for something? If so, what do you think it is?

Sofia Fernandez and Luján Roumec

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Hair Love | Oscar®-Winning Short Film (Full) | Sony Pictures Animation

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Before starting with the lesson I will present “Addam’s family” so I will describe each member of the family, at the same time I will write the vocabulary on the board connected with their hair (colour and type). Then I will ask them “what is your hair like?”. Finally we will read the text.
Silvana Kruger

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This activity had been planned for the “diversity day” (12th october). After many years this date changed the name “el descubrimiento de América” for “diversity´s day”. So we think this date is suitable to work and reflect  about diversity with the help of this resource. We could start activating their background knowledge by asking them if they can mention any indigenous people from Argentina, we can also show students photos of the native american people who actually suffer social prejudices in our society. Tell them the importance of these people in the territory and that many of our costumes are from them, for example ‘el mate’ and ‘el chipa’. Besides, we could tell them shortly how they were killed during some centuries for having different cultures and being considered animals. The idea is to transmit empathy and other values so students can understand that they must be tolerant and respectful with the differences. 

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This activity had been planned for the “diversity day” (12th october). After many years this date changed the name “el descubrimiento de América” for “diversity´s day”. So we think this date is suitable to work and reflect  about diversity with the help of this resource. We could start activating their background knowledge by asking them if they can mention any indigenous people from Argentina, we can also show students photos of the native american people who actually suffer social prejudices in our society. Tell them the importance of these people in the territory and that many of our costumes are from them, for example ‘el mate’ and ‘el chipa’. Besides, we could tell them shortly how they were killed during some centuries for having different cultures and being considered animals. The idea is to transmit empathy and other values so students can understand that they must be tolerant and respectful with the differences. 

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Adriana Anchorena
Luján Tito

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“Hairs/ Pelitos” by Sandra Cisneros.

b)    In the story “Hairs/ Pelitos” by Sandra Cisneros a young girl introduces us to her family and describes the hair of every member of her family and how different it is among them.

This book can be used to discuss themes of diversity, and our unique features as individuals. It also allows us the possibility to explore how identity is revealed through hairstyles.

c)    The lesson will begin when all of the students are gathered in a circle (they can also be seated on the floor)

I will stand up next to the board and ask the students to tell me anything about hair.  I will allow them to shout out any answer that comes to mind when they think about hair.  I will write all of their answers on the board.  If the students need prompting to help them think about hair, I will ask them questions such as, “What color can hair be?”, “What shape can hair come in? ”Why is  our hair not the same? ,etc.  I will let the students shout out answers for a couple minutes.

Then, I will place big, colorful images/pictures of people’s faces and hair on the board. The idea here is to invite students to talk about what they see.

After we finish generating our list of characteristics of hair, I will sit down on the chair and tell the students that I am going to read them the book “Hair / Pelitos” by Sandra Cisneros.

Ana Paula Iemme.

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The themes that we can introduce in our lessons are : love, care, self esteem, empathy, motivation, family.

Before watching activity
Before  watching, we will show  some pictures from  the video and stick them on the board. The students have to discuss the following questions orally  and then we write about them together on the board. Then we will give to them the same pictures and stick them on their notebook and write their predictions:

1. How is the girl?

2. What does the girl want?

3. Who is the man in the photo? What is he doing?

4. Is she happy?

5. Who is the woman in the wheelchair?

6. How is she?

7. How are they feeling?

Cari  Soto and Ceci Martinez

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Hair Love | Oscar®-Winning Short Film (Full) | Sony Pictures Animation

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"Hair Love" : Story Oscar®-Winning Short Film

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"Hair Love" : Story Oscar®-Winning Short Film

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Before watching activity:

Students: Second grade (7 years old)

Speaking activity: The students will be shown the scene of the short film “Hair love” and ask them what they think these people are doing, and who they are. As students answer back, their answers will be written on the board, such as dad, daughter, or brother, or actions such as comb her hair, wash your face, etc. Then, we can ask our students how they get ready for school, if they get ready by themselves,or if they have a person who helps them. It can be to get dressed or to get their hair done, or to prepare their school bag for example. So everybody can share a little about themselves, their families and even their routines before going to school.

Kisses

SUYAI NAVARRO
LUCÍA VASQUEZ
CAMILA SANDOVAL

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We decided to prepare an oral before-watching activity, in which the teacher will deliver pieces of paper (such as post-it) to each student and they will write anonymously about a frustrating situation and how they deal with it. The teacher will also write about her own disappointing situation and every comment will be stuck on the whiteboard as a reminder of the importance of expressing our own emotions. Then, the teacher will ask if any of the students would like to pick a comment randomly in order to share it with the class, creating a safe environment in which students are not obliged to share their experience if they don’t want to. We designed this activity to last between 10 and 15 minutes. After that, the video “Hair Love: Story” will be shown to the class.

Sara Acuña & Victoria Stenvers

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We are going to work with secondary school students. ( 16 years old approximately). As we have studied before we are going to introduce the video, and the topic using the image above. It shows different women wearing their hair in different ways. We are going to ask the class to look at the image for a few seconds. Pay attention to the colors, the length of the hair, their faces’ expressions, etc.

What we, as teachers, pretend is to make them visualize, to create through this image a mental reflection, thoughts in their minds.

After that, we are going to give them a photocopy with the following prompt

“ In this poster you can see different women from different parts of the world. Pay attention to their hair styles, and answer.

Do you think that hair represents their personality?

Do you think that physical or external appearance represents your personality and /or represents the place where you come from?

Do you think that women struggle with some prejudices about how they wear their hair or how their hair is naturally?

After that, we are going to ask them if they can imagine what the video is about. (this way we as teachers are going to make them infer and connect ideas)

Finally, we are going to project the video.

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Hair Love | Oscar®-Winning Short Film (Full) | Sony Pictures Animation

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Hair Love | Oscar®-Winning Short Film (Full) | Sony Pictures Animation

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Before watching activity: making predictions.

The activity is meant to work with lower secondary students.
The teacher will write the title of the short movie on the whiteboard: “Hair Love” and she will ask them: “What is the movie about…?” and students will make predictions. She can help asking some more questions like: “ who are the characters? ages? gender?”

First of all, they will do a brainstorming and the teacher will take note of their prediction, writing words on the whiteboard, next to the title.

Finally she will give them a worksheet where they will write down their predictions. Once they finish watching the film, they will check if their predictions were right, writing down differences or similarities.
You can see the worksheet uploaded.
Dadin Luciana & Pedone Smith Jesica