About this Story:
This story is about how intercultural communication brings people together. This is a lovely story about how Tamar and Yu, two friends from a different country, get closer and become better friends after Yu tried food from Tamar’s home country.
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Culture:
People around the world have different habits, including eating habits. People should respect and participate in others’ culinary cultures. Understanding and awareness help us bridge cultural differences.
Connections (Subject Area):
Science: Food materials come from everywhere (underground, above ground, sea, river, sky), methods of preserving and cooking food (curing meat, pickled vegetables, fried food, raw food)
Math: Reading numbers, graphs, recipes and multiplications for servings
Social Studies: Food materials affected by geography/climate, food from different cultures, different ways to keep foods by different cultures, different table manners and geographic locations of countries
Music/Art: Chants and songs about food and three meals, chants to reinforce language chunks, illustrating the dish (advertisement and recipe)
Language Arts and Literacy: Read aloud story, sequencing cooking steps, interview, and persuasive writing/advertising
Comparisons:
Students will be able to compare food materials affected by geography/climate, food from different cultures, different ways to keep foods by different cultures, different table manners and geographic locations of countries
Community:
Students will have a field trip to Chinese and Israeli market/grocery stores to know more about Chinese and Israeli culture.
Communication:
Language Functions & Forms:
Students will be able to identify and compare meals around the world, describe flavor and smell of meals around the world, express feelings and emotions, sequencing cooking steps, ask for permission, offer invitation and label and identify food materials
Grammatical Structures: 请问…我可以…吗？(May I please…?), 来自…(come from…), 用…吃…(use…to eat…), 你想…吗？(Would you like to…?), …有…也有/没有…(…had, while…also had/does not have…), XX有点…,XX一点也不…(XX was a bit…, XX was not at all…), 我看见(I see…), 我闻到…(I smell…), 我觉得…(I think….), 我希望…(I hope…), 我好奇…(I wonder…)
Vocabulary: Names of countries, names of typical dishes from the story and popular food materials used for these dishes, names of utensils, types of cooking, feelings, adjectives of flavor and smell, sequential words, measurements, and modifiers, landform
Character & Word Study:
Culminating Assessment:
Interpretive Task: Expressing feelings and emotions through story-telling, field trip to Chinese and Israeli market/grocery stores, creating a Venn Diagram, doing research and creating a “cuisine profile” identifying the popular dishes around the world, filling out a scavenger hunt to identify objects, repairing recipe and preparing food materials, identifying the type of advisement, advertising students’ own dishes to their friends
Interpersonal Task: Group discussion, interview, jigsaw, and advertising
Presentational task: Sharing reactions of trying new goods, presenting Venn diagram and their storybook, acting skits demonstrating ways showing friendship in different cultures, presenting cuisine profiles in groups, presenting findings from expert groups in jigsaw activity, advertising dishes from different cultures