Lesson Plan: "Me Soup" (5/7)​

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Applying What You Have Learned

On the following pages are lesson plans that can be used to integrate Mildred D. Taylor books  in your program planning. The lesson plans are intended to be an optional resource that you may adapt for use in your classroom.  The worksheets at the bottom of each lesson plan are part of the required coursework (not optional).

Please read each lesson plan carefully and then answer the question at the bottom of the page.

"Me Soup"

Age Group: 

• School-age​ (Grade 2)

Objectives:

• ​Students will explain the sequence of making “Me Soup”

Washington Common Core State Standard:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.3
Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

Materials: 

• White paper
• Notebook paper (or writing journals if applicable)
• Pencils
• Colored pencils, crayons, markers, etc.

Procedure: 

1. Read a book about culturally diverse people to the class. This can be any book that you want to include. Focus on what makes a person who they are. Not just traits but traditions, celebrations, language, food, etc.
2. Students will write a sequential narrative of how to make soup with ingredients that make who they are. It will be called “Me Soup.”
3. Optional: students may draw a picture of “Me Soup” to go along with their narratives.

Assessment: 

• Assess the sequence of events in the piece of writing.

This is assignment 5 of 7 .

Worksheet

Mildred D. Taylor and Cultural Awareness * Me Soup * Page 14 (5/7)​​ 

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1. Course Agenda
2. About Mildred D. Taylor
3. Author of Nine Novels
4. Pre-Assessment (1/7)
5. Cultural Awareness & Literature
6. Cultural Worldview (2/7)

​7. Reign in your Bias
8. Steps to Eliminate Biases
9. Biases & Interactions (3/7)
10. Taylor Books & Awareness
11. Bridging the Gap
12. How to Bridge the Gap

13. Silhouette  Character Portrait (4/7)
14. "Me Soup" (5/7)
15. Wax Museum (6/7)
16. End of Course Quiz (7/7)
17. Course Evaluation Form
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