EDU230 Multicultural Lesson

Course: 6th Grade English Materials Needed:

Title of Lesson: Family Traditions -Writing Journal
Instructor: Kathryn Hoerger -Loose leaf notebook paper
-Pencils
-Ball
-White board
-White board markers

Goal(s) & Outcome(s) outcomes must be tied to course competencies, standards, curricular requirements
Goal(s):
- To demonstrate the multiple ways family’s display and celebrate family traditions.

- To lead students through a sharing activity of their own family traditions.

- To lead students through the basic essay format, step by step.

- To have students determine how a teacher/friend/family member’s tradition and their

own family tradition’s are important and relate together in essay format.

Outcome(s): Students will interview a teacher/friend/family member about their own family
tradition. They will understand what family traditions are and how they are passed down from
generation to generation. They will write an essay on someone’s family tradition, that they
learned and a family tradition of their own and why family traditions are important.

Arizona’s English Language Arts Standards – 5th Grade:

5.W.2
-Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information
clearly.
a. Introduce a topic clearly, provide a general observation and focus, and group related
information logically; include formatting (e.g., headings), illustrations, and multimedia when
useful to aiding comprehension.
b. Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information
and examples related to the topic.
c. Link ideas within and across categories of information using words, phrases, and clauses
(e.g., in contrast, especially).
d. Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section related to the information or explanation
presented.

5.W.4
-Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are
appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
5.W.7
- Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through
investigation of different aspects of a topic and to answer a specific question.

Rationale: Family traditions help build family unity and provide feelings of security. Traditions
allow families to spend time together having fun, promote a feeling of closeness, and
strengthen the family unit. It’s important to recognize that all families have their own
traditions. Some may be passed down from generation to generation or some may be started
without reason. However, all have meaning in their own way and impact families, communities,
and cultures.

Measurable Objective(s):
-Students will be able to write an informative essay using a teacher/friend/family member’s
family tradition and their own family tradition and answer why family traditions are important.

Lesson
Anticipatory Set (hook): Talk about how Thanksgiving just passed, and Christmas is coming up.
Ask students what they plan on doing for Christmas.

Learning Concept: Topic= Family Traditions, all families celebrate and share their own family
traditions and have great importance to families, communities, and cultures.

Direct Instruction: Begin by sharing a family tradition of my own.

Instructional Activity Time of Activity: 5-10 min

Guided Practice / Process:
After, have students stand up and push in their chair. Start by throwing a ball to a student and
ask them a family tradition of their own. When they are done, have the student chose someone
else to throw to and have them share their family tradition. Have them continue this process
for a couple of minutes, until six to ten students share.

Check for Understanding

Learning of “concept” will be determined by: At the end of the “game”, have students write
down something that they heard/learned from a classmate during the activity.

Link to Unit
This lesson or content leads students to: This lesson will lead students to the transition
between 3 paragraph essays to 5 paragraph essays and how they can get others
perspective/story and use in in their own essay.

Closure closure must include a formative assessment tied to measurable objective(s)

Formative Assessment:
Students will go home and interview a friend/teacher/family member on a family tradition that
they celebrate now or when they were little. They will then gather all of their findings and
submit a 5 paragraph essay on their own family tradition, a friend/teacher/family members
family tradition, and explain how they relate and are important.