- 50 minutes
- Grades 2-5
OVERVIEW
01. Engage: Intergenerational Generosity - 25 MIN
- Highlight: Generosity is expressed in different ways across cultural heritages. You will interview a grandparent or parent to understand more about how he/she learned generosity in his or her cultural settings, and how he or she expresses generosity to others. Let’s listen for how one grandfather expressed generosity toward his granddaughter.
- Engage–Read: A Morning with Grandpa by Sylvia Liu and Christina Forshay
- Explore–Discuss:
- How did the grandfather show generosity to his granddaughter? [Sharing his cultural heritage of Tai Chi with her.]
- How did the daughter also practice generosity? [By receiving the grandfather’s cultural tradition with gratitude, the granddaughter is also giving, or practicing generosity with her grandfather.]
- Elaborate: Invite class to stand to practice Tai Chi and/or Yoga moves at the back of the book, like “Cloud Hands” and “Tree."
02. Explore: Inquiry Attitudes and Interview Questions - 25 MIN
- Explain: During an interview, the attitude of the interviewer is important. Attitude is particularly important when we interview others across generations.
- Explore–Ask: What are attitudes you will practice during the interview? Why are they important?
- Evaluate–Write: Invite students to complete the attitude chart included below this lesson.
- Explain:
- Open-ended question: Requires more than a one-word response, such as a description or even an essay.
- Closed-ended question: Answer with either a “yes” or a “no” or other one-word response.
- Model:
- Open-ended question.
- What did you buy at the grocery store?
- Describe your favorite memory from summer break.
- Closed-ended question.
- Did you buy cabbage at the grocery store?
- Did you like your summer break?
- Open-ended question.
- Practice: Students develop open-ended and closed-ended questions to ask their grandparents/parents in the student interviews.
- Homework: Intergenerational Generosity Interview