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Community - Celebrating Diversity and Heritage
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Title - Community - Celebrating Diversity and Heritage
By - Marie Allen
Primary Subject - Social Studies
Secondary Subjects - Language Arts, Other
Grade Level - 3-6

Community Unit Table of Contents:

Celebrating Diversity and Heritage

TSW: Learn about his or her family heritage and celebrate the diversity of our class.
TSW: Involve parents or guardians in the classroom community through family homework assignments.

Day 1: Tie to previous information. Last time we talked about everyone's different intelligences and contributions to class. What other ways are we different? One difference is that we all have different family stories. Teacher tells his or her own family story-where parents are from, how they came to the US, how they came to Phoenix. Students' homework is to go home and interview a family member about their own family story, finding out specific countries of origin, narratives, and symbols that represent their history.

Day 2: Students bring in their stories. Using the internet, look up flags from countries of origin. Students will make a heritage shield using symbols that represent their family, flags from their country/countries of origin, and a picture representing their story. Students will write out their family story in a narrative form. When class is finished, students will sit in a circle and share their heritage shields. Discuss similarities in stories: hardships, countries of origin, how families migrated here, etc.

Assessment: Students completed family interview, followed directions to make shield, and shared with the class.

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