Teacher guide
This week we'll visit:
The GUIANAS
Your lesson plans/printouts/videos from the Guianas:
– The Guianas country introduction (in this pdf)
– The Guianas take-home printout for students (in this pdf)
– The Guianas hello/goodbye printouts (in this pdf)
– The Guianas lesson plan
– The Guianas “experience” info ("Wandelmars")
– The Guianas “experience” teacher training video
– The Guianas “experience” classroom video
Hello in Sranan Tongo =
Odi Odi!
Goodbye in Sranan Tongo =
Tan bun
In class we sing a song from
Suriname: “Wang Boto”
Wandelmars
for teachers
Wandelmars
for classroom
Your AATW--Latin America general resources:
– Latin America teacher overview
– Latin America country-by-country overview
– Latin America song-by-song overview
– Latin America lesson plans
– Latin America hellos and goodbyes
MUSIC:
– Latin America CD online (you can stream the songs)
– Latin America song list and categories
– Latin America song lead sheets
– Latin America song lyrics and chords
– Latin America lyrics printouts for classroom
– Latin America lyrics cheat sheet
– Latin America non-English lyrics
VIDEOS:
– Latin America teacher training videos
– Latin America song videos for students
– Latin America "sing-along" videos
MAPS:
– Latin America "Everywhere!” map
– Latin America Musical Map
To learn more and more . . . and MORE
visit http://www.AllAroundThisWorld.com/TheGuianas
All Around This World: Latin America Country-by-Country Overview:
THE GUIANAS
The overarching history of the Guianas for the last five hundred years is that of struggle
against Europeans to maintain control over their rich natural and cultural resources.
Despite their remaining Colonial attachments, all three Guianan countries have extremely
heterogeneous populations that are a mix of Caribbean Amerindians, Maroons
(descendants of escaped African slaves), a high percentage of Indian immigrants (over 40%
of Guyanans are Indo-Guyanese and over 25% of Surinamese are Indo-Surinamese), and
even some Jews.
While Americans are likely most familiar with Guyana as the site of the Jonestown Massacre,
those at Guyana.org would probably rather promote the country’s biodversity (80% of the
land is still rainforest), and its under-appreciated African heritage and its once-thriving
industry of harvesting natural latex from the sap of the balatá tree. (From Wikipedia’s entry
on Guyana: “Folk uses of balatá included the making of cricket balls, the temporary filling of
troublesome tooth cavities, and the crafting of figurines and other decorative items
[particularly by the Macushi people of the Kanuku mountains.]“)
Suriname is an ethnically, cultural and religiously diverse (25% are Hindu) nation which is
still very much a colonial outpost of the Netherlands. In the 1667 Treaty of Breda, the Dutch
chose to maintain their plantations in what is now called Suriname, declining the British
offer to exchange
them for the recently captured city of New Amsterdam [now New York]. Whoops.
French Guiana is still a French “overseas department,” and therefore ruled by a French
prefect. French is the official language, the official currency is the Euro, and the country is
host to an important French spaceport.
Hello in Sranan Tongo =
Odi odi!
This week we visited:
THE GUIANAS
We Learned About: Wandelmars
The Guianas consist of three small
nations in the northeast of South
America on the Caribbean coast:
Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana.
Guianan music features several styles that blend African,
European and Caribbean influences, such as Suriname's bigi
pokoe and kaseko. Suriname's large South Asian population also
contributes to its unique Hindi-Surinamese music.
Language in the Guianas offers three colonial tongues—English
in Guyana, Dutch in Suriname and French in French Guiana, a
smattering of Hindi and several local forms of Creole, like Sranan
Tongo, which is a local mix of English, Spanish and Dutch.
Wandelmars is a Surinamese,
Dutch-inspired four day “walking
festival.” Community groups
dress colorfully and walk proudly
through the streets of
Paramaribo.
Goodbye in Sranan Tongo =
Tan bun
To learn more and more . . . and MORE
visit http://www.AllAroundThisWorld.com
Hello in Garifuna
(good morning)
Buíti bináfi
Goodbye in Garifuna
Ayó!