Final Project 2024-2025 MOOC
By Madeline Dagnes
About Me.
In the little village where my students live, it is our responsibility as educators to demonstrate to them that there is much to discover and that not all places are the same and not all people live the same way. Holidays are just one aspect of this. In order to teach students about a nonreligious celebration with a rich history, I chose Thanksgiving as the holiday topic.
My final assignment is a lesson plan I made on an American holiday that honors gratitude and appreciation. The lesson's goal is to have students investigate and understand the significance of other cultures' holidays, such as Thanksgiving represents. This lesson's goal is to guide students in discovering a world outside of their community. In addition to teaching children about a holiday I grew up celebrating, this will also help them comprehend the significance of expressing thanks and various ethnic tales and viewpoints.
Although the children should enjoy and learn about other important cultural distinctions, we believed that teaching them how to express gratitude would inspire them to live with this lesson for the rest of their lives. For this reason, the bilingual coordinator, myself, and the English teacher for the second grade determined that a Thanksgiving lesson plan would be appropriate for the students.
Education Information
Class:
Level:
This is a second grade classroom in a Bilingual school.
For the students, this is a basic user level at the A2 range. They are familiar with popular phrases and sentences. Additionally, they are able to adapt their level of comprehension to everyday situations.
Topic:
The subject at hand is American Thanksgiving. This decision was made by my bilingual coordinator three weeks before the holiday was celebrated. The purpose of this was to encourage children to show respect and understanding for the other cultures in their surroundings. She requested that I write a lesson outlining the holiday's meaning for both my family and I as well as for the nation.
Timing:
This is a 45 minute class session so this will be a 45 minute lesson.
1.) Introduce topic and flashcards (5 Minutes)
2.) Show slideshow (10 Minutes)
3.) Review flashcards again (5 Minutes)
4.) Play word search (10 Minutes)
5.) Show answer key for the word search (2 Minutes)
6.) do feather activity (10 Minutes)
7.) Wrap it up with sharing what we are grateful for (3 Minutes)
Students will be able to comprehend and use the new Thanksgiving vocabulary through exercises like word search and the feather printable activity.
Working together with the teacher and coordinator during the lesson will accomplish this. The intention is for the students to learn the material and retain it over the long run, not just remember it.
Objectives:
Materials For Lesson
Flash cards
The flash cards used for this lesson are
- feathers
- Pumkin Pie
- Turkey Dinner
- Pilgrims
- Cornucopia
- Turkey
- Thanksgiving Meal
- Harvest
- Indian
- Gravy
The objective of these is to provide age and level-appropriate vocabulary terms for students to learn and to assist in explaining what Thanksgiving is.
Slide Show
This serves as the introduction to the class presentation. After the flashcards are shown, this will be read.
This serves as a brief explanation of the lesson's subject. The coordinator and teacher will collaborate to assist clarify the subject. This is to assist students who struggle to fully comprehend what is being discussed in English.
Here is a brief history of how the holiday got started. The coordinator and teacher will collaborate to help clarify the subject. This is to assist students who struggle to fully comprehend what is being discussed in English.
These images, which are taken from Canva, show a variety of Thanksgiving delicacies. This section is entertaining and highlights the holiday's history while demonstrating how we commemorate it with cuisine.
Family images shot on holidays over the years were used to create the final slide. This slide was shown to the class but was not posted on this website for privacy reasons. This clarifies my personal interpretation of the holiday.
Student's Materials
Roles
Bilingual Coordinator
It is the coordinator's responsibility to oversee and assist. They are responsible for assigning the topics, ensuring that the knowledge is accurate, and assisting in the presentation of the information to the students in a way that is beneficial.
Language Guide/Assistant
The person in charge provided a language guide for creating the lesson and resources. They must personalize this lesson and adapt it so that students can study the same topic in different ways.
Teacher
Since it is the teacher's classroom, they should regularly circulate among the students, offering extra support to those they know require it and assisting in the explanation of the ideas being covered.
Activities
1
Slide Show and Flash Cards
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The teacher will provide the topic of the lesson to the class
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The Flash cards are presented and gone through after introducing the topic and first slide of the slideshow
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The rest of the slide show will be explained by the assistant
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the teacher will go around and assist helping the students that might be confused
2
Word Search
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After the slide show is over the English guide will go through the flash cards one more time and ask the students to explain hat they are
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After the flash cards the students will be paired into groups of two and will complete a word search
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after they complete it the teacher will go over the answer key and show where the words were
3
Thankful Feathers
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The final activity is each student will be given a paper with an image of a blank feather
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they will be asked to write one thing they are grateful for and then color in the feather
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at the end of the class there will be a big paper cut out of the turkey but no feathers on it
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there students will attach their feathers to the turkey making it one big thankful turkey and express to others what they are thankful for
What worked
Methods of learning
- They learned more ways to understand vocab through
-Flash cards
-Identifying words
-Practicing to write on their own
3, 2, 1 method
3: The students worked together in class when learning the slide show
2: They worked in pairs identifying the new vocab
1: They worked on their own practicing their writing skills and handwriting skills
Working in teams
- They worked in teams to listen, speak, and practice their language skills.
- With the help of the teachers in the room they were able to ask and receive help when asked and needed