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Activities
Remembering:
Are all families alike? How are some families different?
Understanding: Comprehending the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.
Quickwrites:
How do you think it feels to be adopted?
How would you feel ?
Why do you think people are adopted?
After answering a few of these questions get in groups of three or four and ask and answer some of your classmates questions.
Applying: Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the work place.
- interactive read-alouds
When the teacher raises her hand during this book repeat what she says. The teacher will pause and you will write down what you have repeated. At the end of the story, use these lines and create a poem about adoption.
Analyzing: Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences.
Collect two to three magazines and cut out different pictures of different people that all look different from one another. Paste these pictures on a blank sheet of paper. On the back of the paper write about how people can look different and still be a family.
Evaluating: Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.
What have you learned about adoption?
Write an Acrostic Poem using the letters of your name. Include these words: together, love, family, adoption/adopt, and chosen. See what you can come up with!
Creating: Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.
- create a power point about adoption
- use pictures of you and your family
- ask your parents if they ever wanted to adopt and what adoption is to them
-ask your parents what family is to them
- what does your family look like?
Are all families alike? How are some families different?
Understanding: Comprehending the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one's own words.
Quickwrites:
How do you think it feels to be adopted?
How would you feel ?
Why do you think people are adopted?
After answering a few of these questions get in groups of three or four and ask and answer some of your classmates questions.
Applying: Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the work place.
- interactive read-alouds
When the teacher raises her hand during this book repeat what she says. The teacher will pause and you will write down what you have repeated. At the end of the story, use these lines and create a poem about adoption.
Analyzing: Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences.
Collect two to three magazines and cut out different pictures of different people that all look different from one another. Paste these pictures on a blank sheet of paper. On the back of the paper write about how people can look different and still be a family.
Evaluating: Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.
What have you learned about adoption?
Write an Acrostic Poem using the letters of your name. Include these words: together, love, family, adoption/adopt, and chosen. See what you can come up with!
Creating: Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.
- create a power point about adoption
- use pictures of you and your family
- ask your parents if they ever wanted to adopt and what adoption is to them
-ask your parents what family is to them
- what does your family look like?