Gender Identity & Gender Roles
The Kugel Valley Klezmer Band
Author(s): Joan Stuchner
Links:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2TTYyU1
Indigo: https://bit.ly/2OwBVzF
Social Justice focus: Gender roles
Synopsis: The Kugel Valley Klezmer Band is a group of travelling musicians who play at weddings, parties, dances, and bar mitzvahs in Maritime Canada. Ten-year-old Shira longs to be a fiddler but her father objects since a girl has never been in a klezmer band. Nevertheless, the star fiddler Isaac notices Shira watching him and makes her a fiddle. She practices and practices, and when the chance comes, she takes over for Isaac. Her parents relent and present her with her own fiddle. Rich illustrations.
Lesson Plan: Daniel Du
Primary/Junior/Intermediate Lesson Plan (Abbreviated Template)
Consecutive and Concurrent Programs
Unit/Topic: Language Arts – Reading & Writing
Grade: 4
Lesson: The focus of the lesson will be the use of a cultural lens to bring to light a social issue while also increasing the interpretation and writing skills of the students. (45 mins)
Lens: Cultural and Inclusive Education
Curriculum Areas: Social Studies: Heritage and Identity: Communities in Canada 1780-1850
Curriculum Expectations:
Reading
2 – recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning
2.1 – explain how the particular characteristics of various text forms help communicate meaning, with a focus on literary texts such as a diary or journal
2.3 – identify a variety of text features and explain how they help readers understand texts
Writing
1 – generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience
1.1 – identify the topic, purpose, and audience for a variety of writing forms
1.2 – generate ideas about a potential topic using a variety of strategies and resources
Learning Goal(s): What are students expected to know, do and understand? We are learning to….
- As a group, read the picture book as a group and identify the conflict that is occurring within the characters.
- Identify a prevalent social issue that occurs in the book that is also prevalent in the lives of students in the present day.
- Generate ideas and examples of relevant personal experiences based on prompts.
- Produce a written product that organizes a unique set of novel information and present it in a creative way.
Success Criteria: How will students know they have met the learning goal? I can….
I can understand how a written piece is created for a specific audience based on its components (i.e. visuals, back cover summaries, pacing)
I can compare and contrast the social justice issue that occurs in the book to some present-day experiences.
I can create a creative written product that introduces a brand-new culture based on a unique set of cultural characteristics.
MODIFICATIONS / ACCOMMODATIONS
Oral group reading will be able to accommodate students with a lower reading level.
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