Lesson 4-Activities

• Show the third (gathering wood and washing clothes) and fourth (preparing food) pictures to the students and follow the same procedure as in the previous activity;
• Begin a T-chart of the work the people in the pictures are doing.
• Ask students to draw a picture or to create computer-generated images of the kind of work they and their family members do and to write 3-5 sentences about it.
• Begin a telling-chain activity in which one student shares one sentence about her or his picture, the next student repeats the previous sentence(s) and adds a sentence, etc.
• Have a student scribe add this information to the right side of the T-chart as the sharing continues. Highlight any work that is the same on both sides.

Assessment

• Put the pictures on the wall and have the students assess their peers' work using criteria previously defined by them such as, if the picture is interesting, if it shows time and effort, if the sentences include detail; etc.
• Can the students repeat their peers' sentences with good pronunciation and intonation?

Additional Activities:

• Prepare quinoa with the students. Quinoa is an ancient grain grown by the Incas. It is full of vitamins and is being used again today in many cereals and breads. Have the students go to a health food store and report on the products they find there made from quinoa. Can they discover any other grains grown by the Incas?

Objectives Students will:

• describe a picture;
• provide information for a T-chart;
• draw a picture of the work they and their family members do and describe it in several sentences;
• Participate in a telling-chain activity;
• Add information to the T-chart;
• Create criteria and assess their peers' work

Language

• TPR commands and questions pertaining to pictures
• Vamos a completar una gráfica de T del trabajo que hace la gente en la escena y el trabajo que hacen ustedes. ¿Qué hace la gente en la escena? La mujer lava la ropa. ¿Qué trabajo hacen ustedes y sus familias? En mi familia, mi mamá es medica y trabaja en un hospital. Yo lavo los platos después de cenar y saco la basura.
• Yo limpio mi dormitorio.
• Iris, ¿puedes escribir las frases en la gráfica de T por favor?

Materials

• T-chart on chart paper
• Highlighter
• Student peer assessments

Standards Students:

• Communication 1.1 provide information for the T-chart and obtain information from their peers' sentences and pictures;
• Communication 1.2 understand and interpret written information on the T-chart and spoken information during the telling-chain activity;
• Communication 1.3 present information to the class about the work they and their family members do;
• Culture 1.2 understand the concept of culture when they compare the work the people in the story do with the work they and their family members do.