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Lesson Title: Exotic Gifts from the East Become Essential
Western Staples
Name: Judith Lambert-Winfield, Dale Williams, Debbie
Davis
School: Martin Luther King Middle
Grades taught: 7th /8th grade
Grade appropriate: 7th grade
Discipline taught: Foreign Language
Disciplines appropriate: FLEX and Japanese
Duration: 2 days. Classes meet daily for 45 minutes.
Big idea: Cultural Ambassadors.
MD Content Standard Connection:
English
Students will demonstrate effective listening to learn, process and
analyze information
Students will communicate effectively in a variety of situations with
different audiences, purposes and formats
Foreign Language
Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship
between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied
Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture
through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
Lesson Objectives: Students will read scenarios about
different products from the East and research pertinent information in
order to trace the path of eastern products to the western world
Abstract: This lesson will teach students how to identify
the gifts of the East, to trace the origins of these gifts, and to present
their findings to the class in the form of a writing activity (shape writing).
Lesson Components:
- Motivation/Warm Up - Students will define the following terms: archaeologist,
artifact, cultural ambassador, exotic
- Modeling – The teacher introduces a map of the Middle East
and explain to students that they will examine the gifts and determine
the origin of each one.
- Students will then receive their scenario cards, read, and write their
response to the scenario cards.
- Guided Practice –Teacher will present power point presentation
about the gifts from the East along with the corresponding scenario
and review the requirements for each.
- Independent Practice – Each group leader will select one gift
to take back to their group and complete the attached activity. They
will then cut the shape of the gift out of construction paper and use
this shape to write their answers/ report their findings.
- Assessment – Students report their findings to the class. A
rubric may be used to evaluate the groups’ efforts.
- Closure/Summary – Students display their shape writings on
a bulletin board. Students will find examples of gifts in their own
homes and share the information with their family members.
Materials/Resources:
- Braudel, Ferdinand. The Structures of Everyday Life. Volume
1. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1979, p. 256-260.
- “Coffee,” Microsoft Encarta, 1996 encyclopedia,
Microsoft Publication.
- Web Sites
- Student information sheets
- Scenarios
- Map of the Middle East
- Objects – Teacher will provide a variety of objects with eastern
origins
Plans for Lesson Assessment:
- Students are able to identify products with eastern origin.
- Students are willingly and cooperatively working with their groups
to trace the path of their products from East to West.
- Students present their projects in an enthusiastic way and place
their shape writing on the bulletin board with pride.
Keywords: Artifacts, Transference, Islamic Influence,
Scenario, shape writing, products from the East
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