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Recommended for: Grades 3-12

Resource: Nanavi 2003

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Length: 2m 59s
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In this video segment from Wide Angle, Nanavi is a nine-year-old girl who lives in a remote village in Benin, West Africa. Typically, girls her age would be initiated into the traditional voodoo cult and readied for marriage. However, Nanavi has been selected to take a different path in her life. She has been recruited to attend school as part of a nationwide effort to educate the girls of Benin. As a country, Benin has one of the worst literacy rates and biggest educational gender gaps in the world. For more about Nanavi, see the video segment "Nanavi 2006.”

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Teachers' Domain, Nanavi 2003, published October 8, 2008, retrieved on ,
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/vtl07.la.rv.text.nanaviWA/

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The following Frame, Focus and Follow-up suggestions are best suited for elementary or middle school students using this video in an English language arts or social studies lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.

What is Frame, Focus and Follow-up?

Frame (ELA) What are character traits? What clues tell us what a character is like in written text? What clues tell us what a character is like when watching a film or video?

Focus (ELA) What clues in the video segment help describe or define Nanavi’s character?

Frame (SS) Are all children in countries around the world able or allowed to attend school?

Focus (SS) In the country where Nanavi lives, many people cannot read or write. Often girls are not offered the opportunity to be educated. Note some of the reasons for this practice.