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Unit 5 Characters and Celebrations: LP1 - Tet

Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009Teacher Name(s): Alida MaraviGrade Level(s): 2nd GradeContent Areas: Math, English/Language Arts, Social StudiesTimeline of theLesson:

1:00pm 2:10pm

Description/ Abstract of theLesson:

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the holiday celebrations for the new year across many cultures. In particular, the lesson will focuson the Vietnamese New Year (Tet) and the Chinese New Year.

Goals of the LessonContent Objectives/ goals: Social Studies - Students will be able to recognize that the lunar New

Year is celebrated not only in Vietnam, but in China as well, and thatsome of the traditions surrounding this holiday are the same and someare different by comparing online photo series and videos with scenesfrom each celebration.

ELA - Students will be able to chart a characters traits throughout astory as well as what he or she is doing.

Math Students will be able to solve basic addition word problems byrecognizing that the word and indicates that they should add.

Language Objectives: Social Studies Students will be able to use their English Languageskills to state what people do during Tet and the Chinese New Year after looking at pictures and videos online.

ELA Students will be able to listen to a picture book read aloud andthen complete a T-chart about what a character in the book is doing andhis or her character traits using a phrase bank.

Math Students will be able to restate or paraphrase basic operationsread in addition word problems, referring to pictures of everyday objects(e.g. Ten pencils and ten more are twenty.)

Links to Standards: WIDA ELP Standard 2: The Language of Language Arts

o Match Visuals of characters, places or objects with oralstatements form illustrated pattern or predictable books

o Describe people or objects in titles and illustrated coversof fictional stories with a partner in L1 or L2.

o Describe people or places depicted in story pictures or wordless picture books in small groups or pairs.

o State actions of characters or describe events depicted instory pictures of wordless picture books in small groupsor pairs.

o Describe characters or settings of stories from picture books.

ELP Standard 3: The Language of Mathematics

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o Restate or paraphrase basic operations from oralstatements, referring pictures of everyday objects (e.g.Ten pencils and ten pencils more are twenty).

DCPS Social Studies

o 2.1.2 Locate the continents, regions or countries fromwhich students, parents, guardians, grandparents, or other relatives or ancestors came to Washington, DC.

o 2.5.1 Distinguish traditional food, customs, sports andgames, music from other countries that can be found inthe U.S. today.

o 2.5.2 Describe beliefs, customs, ceremonies andtraditions of varied cultures, drawing from folklore.

English/ Language Artso 2.LT U.1 Identify major and minor characters in

several stories.o 2.LT F.7 Describe the characters traits in a storyo 2.LT C.4 Make relevant connections between earlier

events and later events in texto 2.IT E.2- Answer questions about text heard or read

Matho 2.NSO-C.11 Demonstrate the ability to use

conventional algorithms for addition and subtraction.

Essential Questions Social Studies How do people celebrate holidays around the world?

ELA How should beginning readers think and talk about characters?

Math How do we know when to add two (or more) numbers?

Essential Vocabulary dance make music fireworks buy cook He/She and

Learning Connections We will start the lesson by discussing the Vietnamese holiday, Tet.Because all of the students in this class are Vietnamese, this willhopefully trigger their prior knowledge of a holiday that they havecelebrated at home, as well as increase engagement. After having thisgeneral baseline understanding of what holidays and celebrations are(both difficult concepts/ vocabulary words in English to understand for Level 1 ELLs) students will hopefully be able to recognize that there aremany different holidays and traditions celebrated all over the world (wewill refer to a world map to help students grasp this concept). Becausewe have already started talking about characters I will refer to picture

books we have read in the past (with similar predictable patterns) inorder to remind students of comprehension strategies we have alreadylearned about. We will work on math everyday (as a warm-up) so thatcomprehending basic word problems becomes routine and students can

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feel confident when they see these word problems in their generaleducation classrooms. We will integrate all content areas covered ineach lesson with the unit theme (celebrations) by using the samevocabulary throughout different points in the lesson. For example, whenworking on math word problems, we will use vocabulary from the bookswe will read during that lesson. This will hopefully make all aspects of the lesson relevant and reinforce the learning of new vocabulary.

AssessmentContent Assessment(s) Social Studies Check for Understanding After reading picture books

together and looking at pictures online, can students tell the teacher where each celebration takes place? (In this case we will be talkingabout Vietnam and China).

ELA Students must complete a T-Chart, of events on one side andcharacter traits on their other, independently, after having filled in acouple of the lines together as a class.

Math Students will be given one basic word problem with the wordand to be completed by themselves.

Language Assessment(s) Social Studies Check for Understanding Determine if students cantell teacher what people are doing in different pictures of peoplecelebrating the lunar new year.

ELA Check to see if students are using proper sentence frames, pronouns and character trait vocabulary, provided in wordbanks withvisual support, to fill in their T-Charts (ex: He is lonely).

Math Give students a series of mathematical operations pictures (ex:an addition sign, a subtraction sign, a division sign, etc.) and ask students to hold up the operation they should use when they see theword and.

Learning Activities or Tasks Warm Up

o Read objectiveo Date ask someone to raise their hand and dictate the full date while teacher writes it on the board.o Popcorn reading Students and teachers will do a popcorn reading of the book Ten Mice for Tet by

Pegi Deitz Shea. This easy to read picture book shows many of the different traditions from theVietnamese holiday and will get students warmed up for social studies, reading and math (since it isalso a counting book).

o Math practice Read Adding poem together, asking students to help fill in the blanks with two digitnumbers (this poem is printed in a large poster format which is laminated so blanks filledwith dry erase markers).

Today Im adding __ and ___,Its ____, its ______.Today Im adding _____ and ______,Its _______, its ______,Today Im adding ____ and ____,

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Adding numbers is so much fun,Today Ive learned that ____+______ is ______.

Point out that in the poem the words and and the + sign are used interchangeably. Givestudents post-its with different mathematical operations (including the plus sign for addition)and then ask them to hold up the operation that they are supposed to do when they see theword and.Have the following addition problem printed on poster paper On Tet, An eats 4 rice cakes

(bnh chung) and Ms. Maravi eats 11 rice cakes. How many rice cakes do they eataltogether? Work through the problem together and have a student write the addition equation on

the board then ask all students whether they think their peer is wrong or right. Then,make any necessary corrections.

Have this word problem also printed on poster paper (or white board): On Tet, Vuhas 19 red envelopes and An Khanh has 17 red envelopes. How many red envelopesdo they have in total? Ask students to write the equation and answer on white

boards. Check answers and make any corrections necessary. Theme work/ front loading for Read Alouds

o Technology connection: In order to introduce the lunar new year holiday, students will view videos

of new year celebrations in Vietnam and China online. Teacher will stress that the lunar new year iscelebrated in many Asian countries. Before showing each clip, teacher will show students on a mapwhere each clip takes place (for Vietnam, student volunteers can show teacher, since they knowexactly where it is).

Fireworks, Chinese New Year - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/jan/26/chinese-new-year-fireworks Tet, dragon dance -http://www.metacafe.com/watch/801359/vietnam_lunar_new_year_dragon_dance/

o Discussion teacher will ask students what the people are doing in each video. After they respondteacher will introduce important vocabulary for the lesson (which will be depicted in pictures).

Character Analysis (ELA Standards):o Introduction to new material:

Teacher will show students the T-Chart graphic organizer on the board and tell them that thecolumn labeled events asks the reader to write what the character is doing. Teacher willfurther explain that the column labeled Character Traits asks students to refer to their list of words that describe characters (each student has an individual laminated board with wordslike happy lonely curious along with visual representations of these words) and writesentences such as He is lonely.Teacher will show students how to fill in the graphic organizer using the book Ten Mice for Tet, read during the warm-up.

o Guided Practice:Teacher will read aloud the book The Runaway Rice Cake by Ying Chang Compestine,stopping during reading to check for students understanding.After reading the book teacher will ask students what holiday the characters are celebratingand where they are celebrating (the answers are respectively, the Chinese New Year andChina).Students will identify the main character of the book and teacher will write the charactersname on the board.Teacher will show students one picture at the beginning of the book and will ask studentswhat the main character (Da) is doing. Once they respond, teacher will write this as a correctcomplete sentence in the events column. Teacher will then ask students to choose a wordfrom their Character Traits boards (laminated sheets with character traits and graphic

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/jan/26/chinese-new-year-fireworkshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/jan/26/chinese-new-year-fireworkshttp://www.metacafe.com/watch/801359/vietnam_lunar_new_year_dragon_dance/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/jan/26/chinese-new-year-fireworkshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2009/jan/26/chinese-new-year-fireworkshttp://www.metacafe.com/watch/801359/vietnam_lunar_new_year_dragon_dance/

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representation of that word see LP1, WS1 ) that describes the character in that specific picture. Teacher will write their responses in a complete sentence in the Character Traitcolumn of the T-chart.

o Independent Practice and Assessment:Teacher will hand out a worksheet with the T-chart on it (in the same format) and ask students to fill the example on the board in on their worksheets. There will then be 2 blank rows that students will be asked to fill in independently. Because there is only one copy of the book read aloud, students will each have a timed 2 minutes with the book initially andcan ask to see it again throughout the independent work time.

Materials and Resources Adding poem poster Books:

o Ten Mice for Tet by Pegi Deitz Sheao The Runaway Rice Cake by Ying Chang Compestine

Poster paper with printed math word problems Individual white boards Technology: laptop and desktop computers, head phones Vocabulary picture wordcards Worksheet with T-chart on it ( LP1, WS1)

Lesson Evaluation and Teacher Reflection (for completion after the lesson) What were some successes and challenges of this lesson? What may you consider modifying in the future?