SHoliday’s Around the World

A- To begin the lesson, students will watch 2 short videos on the different types of holidays that are celebrated in each continent. This video will give a short example of a major holiday from each country. Since there are students from various religious backgrounds, it is important to incorporate those.Videos used:

https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=K9KGHPFCgd8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Burc- fCcajI

S- My students will discover different holiday traditions by discussion based on videos of other holiday’s traditions, reading a book that has children discussing the holidays (Children Just Like Me; Celebration), bringing in three holidays/ festivals to share with the class, practicing how to say holiday phrases in other languages, incorporating traditions into art lessons by making crafts for a holiday/ festival that is in the week we begin, making a class calendar with the holidays/ festivals we find, illustrating postcards with a scene representing a holiday then photo shopping themselves into the photo, and then creating a short presentation using storytelling to portray the holiday the end of the 2 month with a 95% accuracy. There will be a class Facebook page

and wiki page to keep the class and parents up to date on the activites.

S- The technology that will be used throughout this lesson will be the television, computers, Zello App, photoshop, cameras for storytelling activity and overhead projectors. Students will also receive a blank postcard that will be used for them to create a scene from the holiday that they choose.

U- Prep time will be given to the students before presentations to make sure everything is working properly. The video will be on before the class enters on the first day of this lesson. Students will have enough time to prepare for their storytelling productions that they will focus on.

R- There will be many opportunities for students to become involved in classroom participation. The post cards will allow students to really analyze the holiday/ festival characteristics so they can illustrate it properly. By photoshopping themselves into the photo, it will create a sense of meaning. Learning the language of other countries can help students connect in the future. Throughout the year, there will be discussions and hands on activities that correlate with the calendar. In those activities we will try/ discuss the food, making more crafts, and then having a lesson that integrates that holiday. The calendar will be uploaded to the wiki space account and this will show the

class what events are coming up and give the students a heads up on the events that will be explored throughout that week.

E- Evaluations will be made through observing group discussions, making the class calendar, the scene drawn on the postcard, and the material in their short presentation of the holiday they find interesting.