<p> Course: 2nd Grade Social Studies Davis Essentials: Recognize and describe how people within their community, DESK state, and nation are both similar and different L e s s o n Skills and Knowledge: Recognize and describe the contributions of different cultural groups in Utah and the nation. Title Family Cultural Traditions Author / Source UEN – 2nd grade Family Cultural Traditions lesson revised by Monica Murdock Submitted by Monica Murdock, DSD Objectives Students will learn about and explain ways American Indians and immigrants have What will students shaped both Utah’s and American’s culture. And they will explain how traditions and know and be able to customs have been passed on or borrowed from other cultures in their families and do at the end of this community. lesson? Lesson Description Read about pilgrim immigrants and American Indians gathered together to feast in gratitude for the harvest to promote how Thanksgiving began and traditions and customs have been passed through families and communities. Lesson Materials This is the Feast by Diane Z. Shore and Resources Standard 1 Vocabulary cards (see UEN link) Family Cultural Traditions Vocabulary Book per child 2 (See UEN link) Family Interview page per child (Attached & see UEN link) http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=25971 Instructional Day 1: Activities  Briefly introduce or go over the vocabulary words and definitions with the picture cards. Discuss specific words that will relate to the story. (Community, tradition, custom, immigrant, celebration, contribution, culture, group, nation)  Explain you will be reading about how Thanksgiving came about while having students focus on the way the two groups of people lived in the community. Read This Is The Feast and have students look for ways the vocabulary words might be demonstrated within the book.  After reading, draw attention to a few examples from the book of how specific vocabulary words can be demonstrated by the information in the story. Select a couple of key words to begin students’ understanding. (i.e This book describes a community of people living in a new place.) Using the vocabulary card, write a sentence that uses the word and information from the book to put the word in context. Have the students help write similar sentences for other words together as a class or in pairs. Discuss information from the book to help create sentences as needed. Examples: Community – Pilgrims built a new community in America. Tradition – Eating a Thanksgiving feast is a tradition we all enjoy. Custom – It was the Pilgrim’s custom to give thanks to God. Immigrant – Pilgrims were immigrants that came to America for freedom. Celebration – The three-day feast was a celebration of the harvest. Contribution – The feast had contributions of food, singing and dancing. Culture – To fish, trap, and hunt was part of the American Indians’ culture.</p><p>© 4/7/2018 Davis School District, Farmington, UT 84025 All Rights ReservedPage 1 of 3 Group – The Paxuxets were a group of American Indians. Place – The pilgrims sailed to a new place to live. Nation – Our nation has Thanksgiving each year to remember the pilgrims. Compare – The pilgrims wore more clothes compared to the American Indians. Contrast – The American Indians gathered most of their food in contrast to the pilgrims who planted many of their foods.</p><p>Bonus: Create a sentence using as many of the vocabulary words to describe the story details. Ex: Our nation has a tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving to remember a group of pilgrim immigrants who built a community in a new place to live their culture and customs in freedom.</p><p> As a review, discuss some of the traditions, customs, or cultures of the two groups and how they compare to families and communities today.  Explain the Family Interview page and how students will talk to a family member about traditions. They will write their answers on the page and bring it back for another lesson. Students can also draw a picture on the back of a family tradition they want to explain to others. </p><p>Day 2:  Quickly review the vocabulary words by having students write a few (8) of the words and a simple definition in the Family Cultural Traditions vocabulary book.  Share and compare traditions in the community by modeling how to present information from the interview page. Then demonstrate how to compare and contrast family cultures within a community. Divide students in small groups (4-5) to share about their family interview and picture of a tradition. Have students compare and contrast a couple of traditions or customs among their families. They can verbalize this as a group to the class, or write it down for a whole class chart.  Have students think of examples from their family or community that will demonstrate the meaning of the vocabulary words. Students will write simple sentences and pictures in their vocabulary booklet using the vocabulary words and information about their family just as they did with the book previously. Formative Students will be able to identify traditions and customs of pilgrim immigrants and Assessment American Indians that have contributed to our nation’s culture by writing sentences How will I check for using vocabulary in context while describing examples from the book. understanding? How will students Students will demonstrate their knowledge of how traditions and customs are passed show what they down or borrowed within families and communities by comparing and contrasting know? them in discussion and writing contextual examples in sentences. Extending the Students can give class presentations about their family traditions or cultural Lesson comparisons. They might include an artifact that is used or represents a tradition in a What are ways to culture. reteach the Students can read about or research other cultural traditions and customs that are in objectives? Utah and the Nation. What are ways to Practice vocabulary cards while playing charades or Pictionary in small groups. enrich the lesson? Family Interview </p><p>My name is ______</p><p>There are ______people in our family. Here are some interesting facts about our family. </p><p>______</p><p>We speak the following language(s) in our home: ______</p><p>An ancestor is a relative who lived before you. My ancestors came from: </p><p>______. </p><p>Our family has some interesting cultural activities, events and beliefs that are passed down from generation to generation. These are called traditions. Some of the traditions that I especially enjoy are: ______</p><p>B o n u s : A tradition that I think would be fun to start in my family would be: </p><p>______</p><p>© 4/7/2018 Davis School District, Farmington, UT 84025 All Rights ReservedPage 3 of 3</p>