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Lesson Plan Title: Traditions
3.9 Identify historic buildings, monuments, or sites in the area and explain their purpose and significance**.**
 * State Standards:**

Third
 * Grade Level:**

How did immigrants try to fit in in America, while at the same time try to preserve their old traditions?
 * Essential Question:**

What does it mean to be American? What is a settlement house? What kinds of classes would be important to teach at a settlement house today? How could a settlement house help immigrants become American and also allow them to keep some of their old traditons?
 * Lesson Question:**

Imagine you have just moved to another country. In this new country everything is different. People talk different. They dress different. They eat different things. They have different holiday traditions.
 * Introduction:**

Between 1890 and 1910 many, many immigrants from all around the world came to the United States. They left their countries to come to America and went through the things we just discussed. Some of these immigrants participated in classes and activities at places called settlement houses. At these settlement houses many classes were offered such as art, lacemaking, how to do laundry, and many more. Were these classes helping the immigrants become American? Were these classes allowing the immigrants to keep their own traditions?

It is your job to investigate these questions and then come up with classes and activities you think would be important for immigrants coming to America today.

Your goal is to design a brochure that will persuade new immigrants to come to your settlement house. Your brochure should describe how your settlement house will help them become "American", and also allow them to hold on to some of their own, important family traditions.
 * Task:**

We are going to talk about family traditions today. What is a tradition? Does your family have certain traditions that they do? Turn to the person next to you and take two minutes to share some of your family's traditions. Of your family's tradtions, which things are "American" and which things come from other countries?
 * Lesson Experiences:**
 * __Day One: Discussion about family traditions__**

Now we are going to watch a clip from a video about an Italian family's holiday traditions. []

media type="custom" key="12080423" What traditions do you think came from Italy that are still in America today?

We are going to end our discussion today with an important question. What does it mean to be American? Talk with the people at your table about what it means to be American and then we will share out as a group.

Today we are going to read some excerpts from a book called __Foods of the Foreign Born in Relation to Health.__ [|http://books.google.com/books?id=uHACAAAAYAAJ&ots=yEz4_KEN79&dq=Foods%20of%20the%20Foreign%20Born%20in%20Relation%20to%20Health&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false] I am going to put you into partners, and different groups may be reading different excerpts. There will be three questions on the board for you to discuss with your partner after you finish reading. We will come back together as a group to share what we read.
 * __Day Two: Keeping and giving up traditions__**


 * 1) What did you learn about Italian food traditions that related to the video from yesterday?
 * 2) Why might Americans want to change these traditions?
 * 3) How would you feel if someone made you change traditions you had grown up celebrating?

I am going to put you into groups of five to look at primary sources dealing with Denison House. You will work together to fill out a Clues, Problems, and Wonderings graphic organizer for the two primary sources. We will then come together as a whole group to talk about what you noticed.
 * __Day Three: Introduction to settlement houses__**
 * Part A:**
 * [] Denison House schedule of classes


 * [] Denison House brochure

> Center for Americanization: [|ps11-jpowers-centre-americanization.pdf]

Let's read this article from the Bolletitino, a newspaper in 1910 for Italians. Part of this newspaper is in English and part is in Italian. We are going to read through the English part together and see what we can find.
 * Part B:**

Bolletitino: [|ps11-jpowers-bolletitino.pdf]

Now I want you to go back into your groups and look at various pictures from Denison House classes. Use your Clues, Problems, and Wonderings graphic organizer to write down what you are noticing as you look at the pictures. We will discuss what you noticed at the end of the lesson. > Seven boys in a woodworking class > Kindergarten class at Denison House girls and boys seated at tables with pegboard games and teachers > Girls preparing food and washing up in a cooking class at Denison House > Photograph of children listening to storytelling in the green room > Boys in a gymnastics class > Girls and boys, holding flowers and Italian flags, posed in the backyard of Denison House
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What kinds of things were people being taught at the Denison House? Do you think these things would be important to teach to new immigrants coming to America today? What kinds of things do you think would be most important to teach new immigrants? How could we help the immigrants also keep their old family traditions from their old country?

Has anyone ever heard the word brochure? Here are a few brochures I picked up to show you as some examples. Today you are going to design a brochure for your own pretend settlement house. Think about what we talked about yesterday.
 * __Day Four: Designing the brochure__**
 * What kinds of things would you want to teach at a settlement house today?
 * What tradiitons might people want to hold on to?

Your brochure should be trying to persuade a new immigrant in America to come to your settlement house. Tell what would be offered there. How would your settlement house help them become "American" while at the same time allow them to keep some of their old traditions?


 * Conclusion:** We have spent many lessons talking about immigrants who traveled between 1890 and 1910 from other countries to move to the U.S. These immigrants could choose to be a part of the various activites at Denison House, such as woodworking and storytelling. Were these immigrants being taught how to become American? Were they given opportunities to keep their old country traditions too? Explain.

Class discussions on days one-three will be used as assessments. The overall assessment will be on day four with the brochure. Were students able to use the knowledge they gained to design a brochure that would persuade immigrants to come to their settlement house? What kinds of things were students finding important to teach and were they able to explain why?
 * Assessments:**

Assessment Rubric

settlement house that includes classes and activities to help immigrants become "American" and also hold onto their old traditions. || Students create a neat, organized brochure that describes more than three classes they would offer at their settlement house. They are also able to explain their reasoning for each class. || Students create a neat, organized brochure that describes at least three classes they would offer at their settlement house. They are able to explain their reasoning for each class. || Students create a brochure that is unorganized, but describes three classes they would offer at their settlement house. They are able to explain some of their reasoning. || Students create a brochure that is unorganized and messy. They have less than three classes described for their settlement house. They are unable to explain their reasoning. ||  ||
 * You will be able to.... || Strong || Good || Adequate || Inadequate ||  ||
 * create a brochure for your

[] Lydia Celebrates America video
 * Resources:**

[|http://books.google.com/books?id=uHACAAAAYAAJ&ots=yEz4_KEN79&dq=Foods%20of%20the%20Foreign%20Born%20in%20Relation%20to%20Health&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false] __Food for the Foreign Born__ p. 18-38

[] Denison House schedule of classes

[] Denison House brochure

[|misc/via|olvwork20002896&imageid=RAD.SCHL:340677&embed=false&q=(Denison] House classes) Girls and boys, holding flowers and Italian flags, posed in the backyard of Denison House

[|misc/via|olvwork20002861&imageid=RAD.SCHL:340377&embed=false&q=(Denison] House classes) Lacemaking class at Denison House with teacher and four girls [|misc/via|olvwork20002995&imageid=RAD.SCHL:340110&embed=false&q=(Denison] House classes) Six girls doing laundry in a housekeeping class at Denison House

[|misc/via|olvwork20002996&imageid=RAD.SCHL:340113&embed=false&q=(Denison] House classes) Girls preparing food and washing up in a cooking class at Denison House

[|misc/via|olvwork20003105&imageid=RAD.SCHL:339181&embed=false&q=(Denison] House classes) Two children in an art class at Denison House

[|misc/via|olvwork20002898&imageid=RAD.SCHL:340683&embed=false&q=(Denison] House classes) Boys in a gymnastics class

[|misc/via|olvwork20002895&imageid=RAD.SCHL:340674&embed=false&q=(Denison] House classes) Boys holding flowed and Italian flags, posed outside Denison House