Arabic Alphabet etc.

[maeve66]

So. In my classes, during the 7th grade World History portion (which I am not really even supposed to be teaching the beginners in my afternoon class, but whatever), we are exploring The Rise of Islam. We look at the life of Muhammad, the Five Pillars, the Sunnis and Shi'ites, and the first four caliphs. We also look at the role of literacy in the spread of Islam, and at cultural forms. So right now in class we're doing a mini art project where students design repeating patterns after looking at examples of Islamic art, and as part of it, they incorporate their names, spelled phonetically in Arabic. Which means they have to get familiar with the Arabic alphabet. Therefore, I made a simplified version, and here it is. People with expertise can feel free to correct me severely, but I'll tell you that I already know I haven't included all the letters or ALL the forms of all the letters, or the other non-alphabetic marks. Believe me, it's an advance that I got two forms of the letters. I'm actually slowly starting to recognize and be able to sound out SOME of the letters, and write them without consulting this chart. I'm good at A, R, M, N, S, L, Ayn, Sh, Wow, Yay, one of the Ts, (the one that looks like a lowercase italic B, sort of), and K.



I like this. I want to learn Arabic. I also want to learn Farsi and Hindi, but for starters, Arabic.