Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence, and Other Stories Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Layla Abu Zayd
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 98 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence, and Other Stories Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Layla Abu Zayd
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 98 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
Buy the Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence, and Other Stories Lesson Plans

Introduction

• Introduction

• Elizabeth Fernea provides the introduction.

• This book is the first book written by a woman in Arabic to be translated to English.

• The book deals with issues relating to Morocco's struggle for independence.

• Abu Zayd was born in 1950 to a middle-class family

• Her father was involved in the Moroccan resistance efforts.

• She attended journalism school,

• Moroccan forces had battled French and Spanish forces for most of the 19th century.

• The Year of the Elephant makes reference to the year in which the Prophet Muhammad was born.

• In 1956, when Morocco was freed, the popular Sultan returned to the country from exile

• In the mid 1950s, Morocco had an educational crisis. People wanted to have schools taught in Arabic, not French. The schools became bi-lingual.

• The Year of the Elephant was written with both classic Arabic and a vernacular dialect for dialogue.

The Year of the Elephant, Chapter 1

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