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Activities
Remembering:
What is adoption ?
Where are some places children can be adopted from ?
At what age can children be adopted?
Do you have any friends that are adopted?
Understanding:
RAFT Chart.
Write a paragraph on each of the following topics:
Role of the Writer: Who or what are you as the writer?
-Write as if you were the child who was or has been adopted or who is living in an orphanage and wants to be adopted.
Audience: To whom are you writing? A friend? Your teacher? Readers of a newspaper?
-Write to whomever you feel to.
Format: In what format are you writing? A letter? A poem? A speech?
- Choose a format to clearly express your feelings and emotions.
Topic: What are you writing about? Why? What's the subject or the point?
Applying:
Gallery Walk
- Get into groups of three or four.
- Take three to four minutes and write down any questions you have about adoption.
-Write down what you think adoption is.
- What are some of your assumptions about adoption?
After writing down some questions you have, each person will ask the group a question and the group will discuss what each of them thinks.
Analyzing:
Do some research with the link below and answer these questions.
-Why do you think some people are adopted ?
- How does adoption work ?
Evaluating:
Watch the Youtube video below and write five questions you have and answer them based on this video. Make sure to use complete sentences.
Creating:
Make a quilt by having each student draw a different family from a different country and "sew" the quilt together
You and all of your classmates are going to take a blank piece of paper and draw what a family is to you. After everyone is done tape the pictures together and hang them up. How many different families do you see ?
What is adoption ?
Where are some places children can be adopted from ?
At what age can children be adopted?
Do you have any friends that are adopted?
Understanding:
RAFT Chart.
Write a paragraph on each of the following topics:
Role of the Writer: Who or what are you as the writer?
-Write as if you were the child who was or has been adopted or who is living in an orphanage and wants to be adopted.
Audience: To whom are you writing? A friend? Your teacher? Readers of a newspaper?
-Write to whomever you feel to.
Format: In what format are you writing? A letter? A poem? A speech?
- Choose a format to clearly express your feelings and emotions.
Topic: What are you writing about? Why? What's the subject or the point?
Applying:
Gallery Walk
- Get into groups of three or four.
- Take three to four minutes and write down any questions you have about adoption.
-Write down what you think adoption is.
- What are some of your assumptions about adoption?
After writing down some questions you have, each person will ask the group a question and the group will discuss what each of them thinks.
Analyzing:
Do some research with the link below and answer these questions.
-Why do you think some people are adopted ?
- How does adoption work ?
Evaluating:
Watch the Youtube video below and write five questions you have and answer them based on this video. Make sure to use complete sentences.
Creating:
Make a quilt by having each student draw a different family from a different country and "sew" the quilt together
You and all of your classmates are going to take a blank piece of paper and draw what a family is to you. After everyone is done tape the pictures together and hang them up. How many different families do you see ?