Kevin Creedon

New York

High School

Teach Science/Homeroom Advisory

Social Studies placement for next year.

History/Social Science standard:

Standard 2 Key Ideas 1 2 3 4 Alternate Assessment for Students with Severe Disabilities

World History use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.

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Key Idea 2: Establishing timeframes, exploring different periodizations, examining themes across time and within cultures, and focusing on important turning points in world history help organize the study of world cultures and civilizations.

Objective: Students will familiarize themselves with family traditions in religious Jewish and Christian families.

Motivation: Students will view internet websites on the overhead.

Materials: Computer

Projector

Internet access

Paper

Writing tools

Chalkboard

Chalk

Procedure

1) Students will view a website showing pictures of Jewish family traditions

http://pro.corbis.com/search/searchFrame.asp

NOTE TAKING SKILL:As each image is viewed, students will write notes about what they see. They can list questions, comments or just feelings that are invoked as they view the graphics.

2) Students will then view a website showing picture of Christian family traditions http://pro.corbis.com/search/searchFrame.asp Once again, as each image in viewed, students will write notes about what they see.

3) Using a Venn Diagram, Students will note similarities and differences in the pictures detailed in the website.

4) Students will also list the number of the images that are unclear to them( images that are not familiar, images they don’t understand, images they wish to learn more about) In pairs, students will access the website and copy and paste the pictures into a word document.

5) Students will print pictures. (These picture will be used for follow-up lessons)

6) Students will write a comparitive essay based on the pictures viewed.

What are some Jewish family traditions?

What are some Christian family traditions?

How are these traditions similar? How do these traditions differ?

Evaluation/Conclusion: Essays will be evaluated to gear further instruction. Follow up lessons will include discussions on current tensions between religious groups and an analysis of articles written by various religious writers on the topic.