Remarkable Journey: Founding the Asian Indian Community in North Carolina is a documentary that illustratesthe history, culture, lives, and contributions of Indian-Americans in North Carolina. The film explores the 'pioneer' generation of Indian immigrants to North Carolina who helped the expansion of science and business in our region, as they met the challenge of passing the "essence of India" on to their children. With Indian music, dance, food, meditation, yoga, spiritualism, and natural, Ayurvedic medicine all having a growing impact on the West, Remarkable Journey offers a lively portrait of one of the world's great cultures - now our neighbors across North Carolina.

Unique in that it offers not only a global but a very relevant state perspective on Asian Indians, Remarkable Journey is an excellent way to engage 6th – 9th grade students in a broad range of issues and topics, including immigration, Asian Indian history, the religious and cultural diversity of India, cultural exchange and acceptance, Asian Indian contributions to North Carolina, and more.

The activities contained in this guide have been developed so that teachers can implement as much or as little as their time allows. Each lesson contains multiple activities (the topic/theme of which are highlighted in grey headings throughout this guide) that can be done individually or in totality, can be combined in any way the teacher chooses, and can be taught in any order. Each lesson references specific clips of the film for teachers who do not have the class time for viewing the entire 54 minute documentary.

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