Exploring Diversity Through Holidays

Essential Question

How can culture Holidays influence how we view each other?
Why is the history of cultural Holidays important? Does it affect how people live today?

Texts

Literature

Miami by Fujian

Mariel visits her birthplace in China with her adopted parents. Although she struggles to fit in at times in her school in Miami, visiting her old orphanage helps her learn about where she comes from and opens her eyes to how lucky she is.

David Kwee

Grade Level

3-5

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Topic

Immigration

November 30, 2017

Teaching Strategies

Community Inquiry

Fishbowl

Fishbowl is a strategy for organizing medium- to large-group discussions. Students are separated into an inner and outer circle. In the inner circle, or fishbowl, students have a discussion; students in the outer circle listen to the discussion and take notes.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

RL.3-5.1, RI.3-5.1, SL.3-5.1, SL.3-5.2, SL.3-5.6

July 13, 2014

Student Tasks

Do Something

Community Mural / Poster Campaign

Students create a large-scale artistic depiction in a community space. As an alternative to the community mural, students can create a set of informational posters that reflect a diversity topic or social justice theme.

Grade Level

3-5

July 13, 2014

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Exploring Diversity Through Holidays

Miami by Fujian

Fishbowl

Community Mural / Poster Campaign

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