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=== Key Elements === Category: Weaving Concept: Visual Awareness Components: Color, Pattern Objectives: • Recognize Kente cloth as an African ceremonial cloth, hand woven in strips on a loom. • Define pattern as lines, colors, and shapes that repeat or alternate. • Make a paper weaving using a Kente cloth design.=== Materials/Resources === • rulers or 2" cardboard strips • scissors • glue sticks • 12" x 18" construction paper (variety of colors) • 2" strips of colored construction or fadeless paper • 1/2" strips of colored construction or fadeless paper • strip of Kente cloth (optional) • Kente reproductions and/or posters • Video: Kente Cloth Weaving Demonstration • Ofori-Ansa, Kwaku (1993) Poster: Kente Is More Than A Cloth • Meyer, Louise (1998). How Children Learn to Weave.=== Evaluation Criteria === Students will: • identify Kente as African ceremonial cloth. • describe where and when Kente is worn and by whom. • describe how.Kente cloth is made. • create a paper weaving with a Kente cloth design which includes: - symbolic colors. - pattern created by repeating and altemating lines and colors. - a cut paper stylized symbol of personal or class identification.=== Terminology === • Kente • pattern • warp • weft • loom • strip • weaving • symbol • stylized
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