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Outline
For a shorter version without worksheets and Content Standards, see the Summary.
 Getting Started
Introduces folklife, explains why folklife is such an effective teaching tool, describes the project and guide, adapting this guide, and project partners, demonstrates the guide's adaptability and flexibility, and explains the link to the Louisiana Content Standards.
Why Folklife? Why Louisiana Voices?
Quick Overview of the Units
Helpful Hints
Printing the Guide
Examples of Curricular Connections: The South Louisiana Boat, the Pirogue
Adapting the Educator's Guide
Unit I
Defining Terms When you research and document the culture of your communities, you are undertaking fieldwork. You might do this through interviews, photography, audiotaping, videotaping, sketching, or research. There are so many educational advantages to conducting fieldwork with your students that you won't want to pass this opportunity up! Fieldwork builds students' communication skills and enhances their analytical skills. It also builds creativity in students. Additional discussions are provided in the Louisiana Folklife Program's page, Key Folklife Definitions.
Lesson 1 What is Folklife? Students are introduced to the term folklife through a student essay, discussion, and activities. They learn that folklife is transmitted through everyday activities. They learn about variants, motifs, and cultural processes—folk, popular, elite cultures, and to connect folklife to everyday experience. For an alternate way of introducing these basic concepts using children's games and play, see Unit III Lesson 1.
Louisiana Content Standards: H-1C-E4, ELA-4-M5, ELA-4-M4, ELA-2-M5, G-1C-E4, ELA-5-M2, H-1A-M3, H-1D-M6, ELA-5-M2, H-1A-M3, H-1D-M6, ELA-7-M2.
Student Worksheets
Everyday Learning Worksheet PDF
Types of Folklife PDF
Cultural Processes in Action Worksheet PDF
Louisiana Voices Venn Diagram PDF
Music in Everyday Life Worksheet PDF
Lesson 2 Folk Groups Students understand the characteristics of a folk group, learn about themselves and their folk groups, and write about a folk group that is meaningful to them. For another way to introduce the concept of folk groups, see Unit III Lesson 2, where students identify various folk groups within the school community.
Louisiana Content Standards: H-1A-M2, H-1A-M3, H-1C-E4, H-1D-M6, ELA-5-M2, ELA-2-M1, H-1A-E2
Student Worksheets
Folk Group Inventory PDF
Family Picture Worksheet PDF
Generational Music Communities Survey PDF
Assessment Tools
Folk Group Essay Checklist PDF
Lesson 3 Folk Genres Students are introduced to different folk genres. They hear personal narratives of people in Louisiana and identify their folklife. This lesson brings together the concepts of the unit: folklife, folk groups, and folk genres.
Louisiana Content Standards: H-1A-M6, ELA-6-M3, ELA-7-M2, G-1C-E4, ELA-6-E1, ELA-1-E6, ELA-2-M6, ELA-2-M4, CE-1VA-E2, CE-1VA-M5, CE-1VA-M6.
Student Worksheets
Voices of Louisiana PDF
FOLKPATTERNS Card Game
New Orleans Folklife Bingo PDF
North Louisiana Folklife Bingo PDF
South Louisiana Folklife Bingo PDF
Bingo Worksheet (Blank)
Bingo Worksheet (Blank MSWord Version)
Online Scavenger Hunt Worksheet PDF
Word Quilt PDF
Word Quilt Template PDF
Letter from a Folklorist PDF
Seasonal Round Worksheet PDF
Life Cycle Poetry Worksheet PDF
Assessment Tools
K-W-L Assessment Sheet PDF
Creating an Exhibit Checklist PDF
Creating an Exhibit -- Group Checklist PDF
Things I've Learned About Folklife PDF
Unit I Resources
Unit II Classroom Applications of Fieldwork Basics Students learn to plan fieldwork research collaboratively and step by step to set goals, choose methodologies and technology, identify subjects, design research instruments, develop project schedules and checklists, and the importance of testing tools and equipment and practicing interviewing.
Fieldwork Basics Overview This essay provides an overview of the issues involved with students conducting fieldwork.
Lesson 1 Getting Positioned for Fieldwork Students are introduced to interviewing and fieldwork through a student essay. Other activities will help them understand the interviewer's task of examining his or her position in fieldwork through observation and questioning. Students learn about themselves and cultural stereotyping through observation and the interview process.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-1-E1, ELA-1-M3, ELA-1-M5, ELA-4-M4, ELA-5-M3, ELA-6-M1, ELA-7-M3, H-1D-M6.
Lesson 2 The Practice Interview Students are introduced to the interview process by interviewing each other in pairs using a name game.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-4-M4, ELA-7-M2, ELA-5-M6, ELA-4-M5, H-1A-M6, ELA-2-M5.
Lesson 3 Inviting a Community Guest Students conduct an interview from an outsider position.
Louisiana Content Standards: H-1A-M6, ELA-4-M4, ELA-2-M5, ELA-5-M6, ELA-5-M2, ELA-5-M4, ELA-1-M3, ELA-2-M5, ELA-2-M6, ELA-6-H4, H-1A-M3, H-1D-M6.
Lesson 4 Teams in the Field Students conduct team interviews outside the classroom, either within the school or beyond, as part of a fieldwork project.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-2-M2, ELA-4-M5, ELA-4-M4, ELA-2-M5, ELA-5-M6, H-1A-M6, H-1A-E3, ELA-5-M2, ELA-5-M6, H-1A-M4, ELA-7-M2, ELA-7-M3, ELA-1-M3, ELA-1-M4, H-1C-E4, H-1A-M6, ELA-4-E6, ELA-4-E7, H-1A-M3, H-1C-E4, ELA-6-H4, ELA-2-M6.
Lesson 5 Making Use of Fieldwork Students transcribe, analyze, and archive fieldwork and create a team project drawn from fieldwork.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-5-M6, H-1A-M3, H-1A-M4, H-1C-E4, ELA-4-E7, ELA-1-M3, ELA-2-M6, ELA-7-M2, ELA-4-M4, ELA-1-M4, ELA-2-M2, H-1A-E1, H-1C-E1.
Student Worksheets
Archive Folder PDF
Archive Folder List of Contents PDF
Conducting an Interview Evaluation PDF
Field Kit -- For Teachers PDF
Field Kit List of Contents PDF
Fieldwork Checklist PDF
How Not to Conduct an Interview Worksheet PDF
Individual Roles in the Field Worksheet (1-5) PDF
Insider / Outsider Worksheet PDF
Interview Folder -- For the Teacher PDF
Interview Folder -- List of Contents PDF
Inviting a Guest Checklist PDF
Labels and Notes Worksheet PDF
Naming Traditions PDF
Notetaking Worksheet PDF
Photograph / Special Object Worksheet PDF
Preparing a PowerPoint Presentation Worksheet (1-2) PDF
Processing Fieldwork Tasks Worksheet PDF
Questions About a Place PDF
Questions for Traditional Artists PDF
Questions for Traditional Musicians PDF
Questions Worksheet PDF
Storyboard for a PowerPoint Presentation (1-3) PDF
Students Post-Interview Review Questions PDF
Suggested Interview Questions PDF
That's a Good Question Worksheet PDF
The Reluctant Guest PDF
Transcribing an Interview Worksheet PDF
Writing About an Interview Worksheet PDF
Writing Poems Worksheet PDF
Forms
Letter to Parents and Caregivers PDF
Written Release Form PDF
Oral Release Form PDF
Tape Log PDF
Photo or Slide Log PDF
Fieldwork Checklist PDF
Folklife Interview Form PDF
Interview Checklist PDF
Naming Traditions PDF
Assessment
Tools
Fieldwork Rubric PDF
Unit
II Resources
Unit III Discovering the
Obvious: Our Lives as "The Folk" Helps students to discover folklife through their own traditions in everyday life -- their games and play, school, and family.
Lesson 1
The Child: Games and Play Today and Yesterday in Louisiana This lesson uses the study of play and games to introduce students to definitions of folklore, folklife, folk group; to an awareness of themselves as tradition bearers of folk groups; and to the idea that everyone has folklife.
Louisiana Content Standards: H-1A-M1, H-1A-M2, H-1A-M3, AP-2TH-M6, H-1C-E4, H-1D-M6, G-1B-E2, G-1C-E4, CA-4TH-M5, H-1B-E1, H-1B-E2, AP-2TH-M4, ELA-5-M2, ELA-7-M, CE-1TH-M3, AP-2TH-M5, H-1A-M4.
Student Worksheets
Adult Game List Worksheet PDF
Folk Toys Worksheet PDF
Student Game List Worksheet PDF
Assessment
Tools
Rubric for Firsthand Biography PDF
Oral Presentation Rubric PDF
Lesson 2 The School--School Culture Across Louisiana Students identify and research school customs and folk groups through discussion and interviews. They learn that traditional culture exists within other cultural contexts, such as the academic world of school, and in combination with popular culture. They investigate the name, history, and stories of their school and others' school traditions.
Louisiana Content Standards: H-1D-M6, G-1C-E4, H-1A-M1, H-1B-E1, H-1B-E2, G-1A-E3, CE-1VA-M2, CE-1VA-M5, G-1B-M4, ELA-1-E6, HP-3VA-M3.
Student Worksheets
School Customs Worksheet PDF
Assessment Tools
Rubric for Portfolio Exhibits PDF
Rubric for Portfolios PDF
Rubric for Research Papers PDF
Lesson 3
The Family: Louisiana Family Folklore
Activity 1 Naming Traditions Naming is one of many family traditions to study. Students get to know each other better and learn more about their family and community history. After the students have researched their own and their parents' names, they notice names in literature, history, and other studies and know more about these names. By starting with themselves, students see that all families have naming traditions but these traditions differ and change over time.
Louisiana Content Standards: SSH-1C-E4, CL-1-D7, CP-2-B3, ELA-5-E3, SSH-1A-E3, CL-1-D5, ELA-7-M1, ELA-7-M2, D-2-E, SSH-1B-E1, ELA-5-E3, CE-1VA-E1, HP-3VA-M3.
Student Worksheets
Name Game Worksheet PDF
Matching Name Game Worksheet PDF
Naming Traditions PDF
Assessment Tools
Anticipation Guide -- Naming Tradition PDF
Rubric for Firsthand Biography PDF
Activity 2 Family Pictures This lesson asks students to look at their families as an outsider would, to research and share the stories behind their photos. Then they look at other images of families from magazines and artwork and apply the analyzing skills they've learned from studying their own pictures.
Louisiana Content Standards: H-1C-E4, H-1A-M2, H-1B-E2, AP-2VA-E2, CE-1VA-M4, CE-1VA-M3, CE-1VA-M6, H-1A-M1, H-1D-M1, H-1C-E4.
Student
Worksheets
Family Picture Worksheet PDF
Photo Clues Worksheet PDF
Assessment Tools
Interpreting Photos Checklist PDF
Activity 3 Family Treasures Students identify family treasures and research their context. They organize artifacts into various categories and research traditional Louisiana artifacts online.
Louisiana Content Standards: CL-1-D4, ELA-7-M2, CL-1-D2, CL-1-D7, ELA-5-M3, H-1A-E2, ELA-7-M1.
Student Worksheets
Louisiana Treasures Worksheet PDF
What's the Context Worksheet PDF
Assessment Tools
Treasure Presentation Rubric PDF
Unit III Resources
Unit IV The State of Our Lives: Being a Louisiana Neighbor Emphasizes map skills and regionality and covers Louisiana's major folk cultural regions, sense of place, the environment, and geography while providing a useful framework of culutral perspectives to help students consider the many elements that contribute to "sense of place." Technology options include making spreadsheets and large maps.
Lesson 1 Louisiana's Major Folk Regions Students study the three major folk regions of the state: North Louisiana, South Louisiana, and New Orleans. Older students have the option to break these into smaller folk regions.
Louisiana Content Standards: G-1B-E4, G-1C-E3, G-1D-E2, G-1B-M4, H-1A-M3, G-1B-M3, G-1A-M2, E-1B-M7, H-1D-M1, H-1D-M6, H-1D-M4, ELA-1-M4, G-1A-M3, G-1B-M1, ELA-1-M1, E-1A-M5, ELA-5-M1, ELA-2-M2, ELA-2-M6, ELA-3-M3, ELA-5-M4.
Student Worksheets
Mapping Material Culture
Worksheet PDF
Mapping Material Culture Answer Sheet PDF
Prove It Worksheet PDF
Defining a Cultural Region Worksheet PDF
Brainstorming a Regional Culture Exchange PDF
Constructing a Cultural Map PDF
Cultural Perspectives PDF
Assessment
Tools
Rubric for Portfolios PDF
Lesson 2 Geography, Ecology, and Folklife Students investigate how geography and ecology influence a region's folklife and consider how an outsider might view their own region in this lesson. The natural world, even in urban settings, influences how we view life, what materials are available for crafts, what occupations we choose, how our homes look. Eighth graders tackle more sophisticated investigation, analysis, and mapping.
Louisiana Content Standards: G-1B-M1, G-1B-H1, G-1B-M2, G-1B-H2, G-1B-M3, G-1B-M4, G-1C-E4, G-1A-E2, G-1B-E2, G-1C-M3, G-1C-M2, E-1A-E6, E-1A-E8, E-1A-M9.
Student Worksheets
Map Facts Worksheet PDF
Cultural Perspectives PDF
Assessment
Tools
Tell Me Why Worksheet
Page 1, Page
2 PDF
Lesson 3 Sense of Place After studying the major folk regions of Louisiana and the relationship between folklife, geography, and ecology, students give deeper thought to what makes their own community unique, what their "sense of place" is. Not only are our communities and neighborhoods unique, so are our perspectives of where we live. In addition to geographic mapping of their communities, students develop conceptual maps of their sense of place.
Louisiana Content Standards: G-1B-E1, G-1B-E4, G-1A-M1, G-1A-E3, G-1A-M2, G-1A-M3, ELA-1-M3, ELA-1-M4, ELA-2-M1, ELA-2-M6.
Student Worksheets
Spirit of Place Worksheet PDF
Cultural Perspectives PDF
Assessment Tools
Things I've Learned Worksheet PDF
Rubric for Portfolios PDF
Unit IV Resources
Unit V Oral Traditions: Swapping Stories Covers a wide variety of oral traditions from local and historical legends to personal experience narratives, drawing heavily on Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana the publication, video, and website that students will explore.
Lesson 1 Introduction to Traditional Oral Narratives From nursery rhymes to advertising jingles, jokes to favorite stories, children and adults play with words, organize their thoughts and concerns through speaking. This lesson introduces students to the idea of traditional oral narrative as divided into genres, or types. They begin to explore the genres found in Swapping Stories, as well as the concepts of context, motifs, and variants.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-6-M2, H-1D-M1, ELA-6-M1, ELA-6-M3, H-1B-E2, H-1D-M6, ELA-4-M5, ELA-4-M1, ELA-4-M3.
Student
Worksheets
Motifs and Variations Worksheet PDF
Oral Narratives Checklist PDF
Assessment
Tools
Story Retelling Rubric PDF
Lesson 2 Language and Dialect This lesson tests students' listening skills as they study tellers from different parts of the state and asks them to consider their own regional dialects and insider language of folk groups they belong to. They learn that language is part of folklife and that folk groups share special "insider" terms, phrases, and dialects unique to them. This lesson could dovetail with Unit IV lessons on the folk regions of Louisiana
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-4-E6, ELA-4-E5, CT-1-D2, CL-1-B5, CL-1-B7, CL-1-D2, CL-1-D, CL-1-D5, CP-1-B7, CP-1-D3, ELA-6-M3.
Assessment
Tools
Anticipation Guide -- Language and Dialects PDF
Presentation Rubric PDF
Lesson 3 Folk and Family Heroes and Heroines Students define and learn the difference between folk heroes, held in collective memory, and family heroes or a media celebrity. They read about and find family and folk heroes and heroines in their own lives.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-7-E2, ELA-5-E3, H-1C-E1, ELA-6-M1, ELA-6-M2, ELA-5-E4, ELA-1-M5, ELA-2-E4, ELA-5-E4.
Student
Worksheets
Opinionnaire Worksheet -- Folk and Family Heroes PDF
Lesson 4 Tall Tales and Urban Legends Students learn to recognize tall tales, urban legends, and cyberlore and find them in their own lives. They practice telling and listening to these tales and explore why people tell them.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-5-E3, CL-1-D5, ELA-1-E6, ELA-7-M1, ELA-4-E3, ELA-4-E4, ELA-5-M4, ELA-7-M3, H-1C-E4.
Student
Worksheets
Oral Narratives Checklist PDF
Tall Tale Map Worksheet PDF
Assessment
Tools
Story Retelling Rubric PDF
Lesson 5 First Meeting of the Indians and the Europeans Students hear a Native American Indian point of view of Europeans' arrival in Louisiana told in Koasati. They consider how insiders, cultural perspectives, and native language shape a story, and learn about the Koasati tribe of Louisiana.
Louisiana Content Standards: H-1A-M2, H-1A-M, H-1B-E2, ELA-7-M3, ELA-1-E6, ELA-5-E2, H-1A-E, H-1B-E2, ELA-7-E1, ELA-7-E2, ELA-5-E3.
Student
Worksheets
The Rest of the Story Worksheet PDF
Assessment
Tools
Anticipation -- Point of View PDF
Response Journal PDF
Lesson 6 Historical Legends This lesson explores local and state historical legends and introduces students to one of the lesser known Louisiana cultural groups, the Isleños, who came from the Canary Islands. Fourth graders research local historical legends. Eighth graders study the Isleño variation of the Hispanic historical ballad tradition called the décima.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-6-M3, ELA-5-M2, ELA-1-M4, H-1A-E3, ELA-6-M1, ELA-4-M5, CE-1M-M7, CE-1M-M3, H-1C-E4, G-1B-E2, G-1B-E4, AP-2M-M3, CE-1VA-M4.
Student Worksheets
Isleño Folk Arts and Artists Worksheet PDF
Response Journal PDF
Story Retelling Rubric PDF
Assessment
Tools
K-W-L Assessment Sheet PDF
Lesson 7 Personal Experience Narratives Students identify personal experience narratives in their own lives through telling stories themselves and collecting stories from family members or other adults. Students study personal experience narratives in Swapping Stories and compare vernacular or everyday language in these stories with literary versions of folktales. They compare personal experience narratives with oral histories, and 8th graders read a personal experience narrative of the North Louisiana folk artist Sarah Albritton, whose paintings also tell of her life experiences.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-4-E3, ELA-4-E4, ELA-4-E5, ELA-6-E1, ELA-6-E2, ELA-6-E3, ELA-7-E3, ELA-7-E2, ELA-7-M3, ELA-6-MI, ELA-6-M3.
Student
Worksheets
Louisiana Voices Venn Diagram PDF
Louisiana Voices Venn Diagram - Blank PDF
Story Map PDF
Assessment
Tools
Personal Experience Narrative Checklist PDF
Unit V Resources
Unit VI Louisiana's Musical Landscape Explores Louisiana music and folk dance; addresses listening skills; relates music to social studies, economics, language arts, musical legends, and visual arts as well as school-based music studies.
Lesson 1 Music Around the State: Sound and Place This lesson introduces students to the styles and elements of music in the three major folk regions of Louisiana within specific traditional music genres. The lesson allows students to hear the diversity of music in the state and to identify the major genres of traditional music by how they sound and where they most often occur. This lesson will also give students a context within which to consider their own musical landscapes. They look for and listen to different versions of traditional songs.
Louisiana Content Standards: M-HP-E1, M-HP-M1, M-HP-H1, M-HP-M3, CL-1-D2, CE-H-1A-E2, G-1C-E4, M-AP-M1, M-AP-E2, ELA-6-M3, CL-1-D5, M-AP-E2, AP-2M-M5, M-CA-E2, M-CA-M3, M-CE-E4, ELA-5-M2, ELA-5-M3, ELA-5-M6, ELA-7-M1, M-HP-M1, M-HP-H1, ELA-7-M1, ELA-6-M3.
Student
Worksheets
Constructing a Cultural Map PDF
Creating Tables and Frames PDF
Louisiana Voices Traditional Musical Examples Resource Sheet PDF
Music Web Quest Resource Sheet PDF
Music Web Quest Record Sheet PDF
Key to Louisiana Music Resource Sheet: page 1, page 2 PDF
Musical Elements Chart: page 1, page 2 PDF
Musical Elements Chart Worksheet PDF
Music Prove It Worksheet PDF
Music Genres and Venues Worksheet PDF
Louisiana Voices Venn Diagram PDF
Louisiana Voices Venn Diagram - Blank PDF
Assessment Tools
Interpreting Music Data Rubric PDF
Found Poem - Found Song page 1, page 2 PDF
Lesson 2
Listening Logs Students hone their listening skills, develop tools for approaching research into their own musical traditions and those of community and state, and learn different ways of recording data.
Louisiana Content Standards: M-HP-E1, M-AP-E2, M-AP-E3, M-AP-M5, M-AP-M2, AP-2M-M1, AP-2M-M5, ELA-4-M5, M-HP-M3, M-HP-E1, M-HP-E2, CA-4M-M3, M-AP-M1, H-1D-M6, ELA-7-M1, D-1-M, P-2-M, A-3-M, A-4-M, D-2-M, D-3-M, ELA-5-M2.
Student
Worksheets
Music in Everyday Life Worksheet PDF
Sample Listening Logs PDF
Listening Log - Community Soundscapes PDF
Listening Log - Music Around Me PDF
Creating Tables and Frames PDF
Internet Music Worksheet PDF
Found Poem - Found Song PDF
Assessment Tools
Listening Logs Rubric PDF
Lesson 3
Generational Music Communities This lesson focuses on age-related generations so that students consider how traditional music is transmitted from one generation to another and how music functions for people within a generation, including their own.
Louisiana Content Standards: M-AP-E2, M-AP-M2, M-HP-E2, CA-4M-M3, M-AP-M1, ELA-6-E3, ELA-5-M3, M-HP-M6, H-1A-M4, M-HP-H2, ELA-1-M4, ELA-2-M1, M-HP-M2, M-HP-E2, CP-1-B7, M-CE-M4, M-CE-E5.
Student Worksheets
Concept Map PDF
Diamante Worksheet PDF
Discovering Generational Music Communities PDF
Generational Music Communities Survey PDF
Listening Log -- Music Around Me PDF
Louisiana Voices Venn Diagram PDF
Louisiana Voices Venn Diagram - Blank PDF
Assessment Tools
"If I Were an Apprentice" Checklist PDF
Things I Know About Generational Music Communities PDF
Things I Learned About Generational Music Communities PDF
Sources of Generational Music PDF
Lesson
4
Moving to Music This lesson helps students understand how they themselves use movement and dance and the many ways that people move and dance in different contexts. Close observation and imitation of folk movement and dance improves decoding skills and kinesthetic abilities. They also learn about the importance of folk dance to cultural groups and that they must understand the folk group to be able to understand the folk dance.
Louisiana Content Standards: M-CE-E5, M-AP-E2, D-CE-E2, D-CE-M5, ELA-2-E2, M-CA-E4, G-1C-E4, M-AP-E2, M-CE-E5, ELA-5-M3, ELA-6-M3, ELA-1-M3, ELA-2-E6, M-CE-E5, D-CA-M1, CA-4D-M1, M-CE-E5, HP-3D-E3.
Student
Worksheets
Moving to Music Self-Discovery PDF
Performance and Video Notetaking Worksheet PDF
Questions for Dancers PDF
K-W-L Assessment Sheet PDF
Folk Movement and Dance Web Scavenger Hunt PDF
Is It Folk Dance? PDF
Independent Research Worksheet PDF
Assessment
Tools
Response Journal for Movement and Dance PDF
Moving to Music Self-Assessment PDF
Moving to Music Rubric PDF
Lesson 5 Music Is Business This lesson stresses the importance music is to the economy of Louisiana, jobs and skills needed in the state's music industry, music industry career opportunities for students, and personal contact with people in the music industry. Students also build critical-inquiry skills by reviewing musical performances and recordings.
Louisiana Content Standards: M-HP-M1, M-HP-M4, M-CA-E4, E-1A-M5, E-1A-E8, E-1A-H2, E-1A-H3, M-HP-M6, E-1A-M9, E-1A-E4, E-1B-E1, E-1B-M2, ELA-5-M2, M-HP-M5, HP-3D-M3, ELA-1-M3, ELA-2-M1.
Student Worksheets
Careers in Music - Letter Writing Worksheet PDF
Careers in Music - Letter Writing Checklist PDF
Model Letter PDF
Careers in Music - Notetaking Worksheet PDF
Writing a Music Review PDF
Careers in Music - Interview Worksheet PDF
Listening Log - Music Around Me PDF
Assessment Tools
Production Rubric page 1, page 2 PDF
Lesson 6
Louisiana's Legendary Musicians This lesson introduces students to legendary traditional musicians of Louisiana, allowing them to hear new genres of traditional music; consider what it means to be a legendary artist; and read, write, and create projects about these extraordinary figures.
Louisiana Content Standards: H-1D-M1, ELA-5-E3, H-1A-M3, ELA-7-E2, ELA-2-M1, ELA-2-M6, ELA-5-M4.
Student
Worksheets
Musical Legends Resumé Cards PDF
Constructing a Cultural Map PDF
Constructing a Musical Legend Resumé Card PDF
Musical Legends Jeopardy PDF
Jeopardy (blank) PDF
Assessment Tools
Production Rubric page 1, page 2 PDF
Unit
VI Resources
Unit VII Material Culture--The Stuff of Life [L'Unité 7 est accessible en Français] This unit introduces the concept of material culture and provides ways of looking at artifacts, art, teaching, and learning. Students examine the aesthetics of everyday life such as vernacular architecture, gardens and yards, needlework, crafts, hairstyles, foodways, body ornamentation, clothing and costumes. Students consider questions of use and beauty and the importance of context to artifacts.
Lesson
1
Reading Artifacts Students begin the study of material culture by looking carefully at vernacular, or everyday objects from several perspectives, considering the context, or story, of objects, and categorizing objects. They improve their fieldwork research skills by looking at artifacts as cultural outsiders would. Learning to "read culture," students hone decoding skills that improve reading and writing.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-1-M3, ELA-5-M3, H-1A-E2, G-1B-M4, G-1B-E2, G-1B-E3, G-1C-M2, SI-E-B1, SI-M-A6, HP-3TH-E1, AP-2TH-M7, ELA-1-M4, ELA-4-M6, ELA-7-M2, H-1A-M2, H-1D-M6, SI-E-B2, SI-M-B7, G-1D-E2, ELA-1-M3, ELA-1-M4, N-1-M, N-7-M, P-3-M, M-1-M.
- Student
Worksheets
- The Story Within Worksheet PDF
Motifs and Variations Worksheet PDF
- Assessment Tools
- Rubric for Creating an Exhibit PDF
Lesson
2 Teaching and Learning
Through Objects This lesson asks students to consider the function (usefulness or utility), form (beauty or aesthetics), and meaning (context or story) of objects and how we learn skills and make things that we learn traditionally, by observation and imitation, in everyday life from "indigenous teachers," those we learn from outside the classroom—family members, neighbors, friends, religious leaders, mentors, care providers.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-1-M1, ELA-1-M3, ELA-7-M1, AP-2TH-E2, AP-2VA-E2, G-2-M, M-1-M, N-7-M, D-1-E, D-2-M, ELA-2-M2, ELA-5-M2, AP-2TH-E2, ELA-4-M2, ELA-4-M3, ELA-4-M4, AP-2TH-E2, AP-2TH-E5, CE-1TH-M2, CE-1TH-M3, ELA-5-M3, ELA-5-M4, ELA-7-M2, ELA-1-M4.
- Student
Worksheets
- Natural and Recycled Materials Worksheet PDF
Useful or Beautiful Worksheet PDF
- Assessment
Tools
- Peer Evaluation for Interviews PDF
Class Consensus Worksheet PDF
Lesson
3 Introducing Louisiana
Foodways This lesson introduces Louisiana foodways by continuing to give students "insider" and "outsider" perspectives. Its main aim is to lay groundwork for studying Louisiana foodways more deeply. In this lesson and Lessons 4 and 5, teachers develop interdisciplinary activities based on many aspects of Louisiana food and find resources on foodways of all regions.
Louisiana's Many Food Traditions -- adapted by Eileen Engel
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-7-M1, H-1A-M2, SI-E-B2, H-1C-E4, H-1A-M6, ELA-5-M2, SI-M-B6, ELA-7-M4, SI-E-A6, ELA-7-M2, SI-E-A5.
- Student
Worksheets
- Preparing a Louisiana Meal -- A Cloze Activity PDF
- Assessment
Tools
- Rubric for Observing Meal Preparation PDF
Lesson
4
Family Foodways Students discover, document, and share what they know of family foodways related to special occasions. They explore the context in which food traditions are created and adapted in their families and communities. Studying foodways increases students' understanding of and respect for the commonalities and differences among themselves and their peers.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-4-E5, ELA-5-E3, H-1D-M1, ELA-2-M4, ELA-4-E7, ELA-5-M3, ELA-7-M4, ELA-6-M2, ELA-2-M1, ELA-2-M6, ELA-5-M4
- Student
Worksheets
- Recipe Interview Worksheet PDF
Bingo Worksheet PDF
- Assessment Tools
- Research Self-Checklist PDF
Lesson
5 Louisiana Regional Foodways Students improve research techniques in locating, selecting, and synthesizing information from a variety of texts, media, references, and Internet resources to acquire knowledge of regional foodways traditions throughout Louisiana from the past and present. They learn that geography and regional culture influence foodways and they extend the exploration of context and foodways.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-1-M3, ELA-5-M2, ELA-5-M3, ELA-7-M1, ELA-7-M4, G-1A-E2, G-1B-E4, ELA-7-M2, G-1C-E4, G-1D-E2, G-1A-M3, H-1A-E2, H-1A-E3, H-1D-M1, H-1A-H3.
- Student
Worksheets
- Foodways Internet Search Worksheet PDF
Constructing a Cultural Map PDF
Agricultural Products Worksheet PDF
- Assessment Tools
- Louisiana Voices Venn Diagram PDF
Louisiana Voices Venn Diagram - Blank PDF
Foodways Conclusions Worksheet Page 1, Page
2 PDF
Lesson
6 Louisiana Crafts
and Domestic Arts The term material culture refers to a vast array of objects and activities that people make and do traditionally. Diverse crafts and decorative arts are made and practiced indoors and outdoors throughout the seasonal round all across the state. Students learn about some traditional Louisiana crafts and decorative arts of the past and the present through research, and they identify crafts and decorative arts in their own communities.
Louisiana Content Standards: E-1A-E6, E-1A-E7, E-1A-E8, E-1A-M4, E-1A-M5, E-1B-E5, E-1B-M2, E-1B-M3, ELA-5-M4, ELA-4-M6, ELA-5-M2, ELA-7-M2, E-1A-M4, E-1A-M5, H-1D-E3, ELA-5-M3, ELA-5-M6, H-1C-M6.
- Student
Worksheets
- Traditional Crafts and Decorative Arts in Louisiana
Worksheet PDF
Pricing Your Craft Worksheet:
Part 1,
Part 2,
PDF
Pricing Your Craft - Blank Worksheet PDF
- Assessment
Tools
- Research Self-Checklist PDF
Oral Presentation Rubric PDF
Unit
VII Resources
Unit VIII The Worlds of Work and Play
[L’Unité 8 est accessible en Français] Encourages students' interaction with adults in the community through documentating occupations. Students also investigate ways that adults enjoy life and share community through recreation, hobbies, celebrations, oral narrative, and other traditions.
Lesson
1
On the Job Students are introduced to the concept of occupational folklife and learn about occupations in their community and the state. They collect examples of occupational folklife such as special terms, equipment, or gestures, as well as stories, jokes, and customs. They differentiate between the skills learned in a setting such as school or formal job training and skills learned traditionally on the job, through word of mouth and observation.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-7-M2, ELA-7-M4, CL-1-D4, ELA-1-M4, ELA-4-M4, ELA-4-M5, ELA-7-M2, E-1B-M3, E-1B-M7, H-1A-M6, ELA-1-M3, ELA-5-M2, ELA-7-M1, ELA-7-M3.
- Student
Worksheets
- Occupational Folklife Worksheet PDF
Occupational Glossary Worksheet PDF
Occupational Fieldwork Survey PDF
Occupational
Fieldwork Checklist PDF
Job Education Worksheet PDF
What's Alike, What's Different Worksheet PDF
Spreadsheet Directions PDF
I
Spy Worksheet PDF
- Assessment
Tools
- Occupational
Fieldwork Research Rubric PDF
Lesson
2
Home Work By examining domestic work, skills, and crafts, students find arenas of traditional learning in their own homes and daily lives. They identify experts at home and in the region whose skills contribute to building family life and community. Domestic crafts vary from home to home and regionally, and students study domestic crafts around the state. They examine how gender and age relate to domestic work and analyze where they themselves fit in the scheme of work around the home.
Louisiana Content Standards: E-1A-E4, E-1A-E10, N-5-M, N-7-M, D-1-M, D-2-M, D-6-M, E-1A-E8, E-1A-M4, E-1A-M5, E-1B-E5, H-1A-M2, H-1A-M4, H-1A-M6, H-1C-E1, H-1B-E1, H-1B-E2.
- Student Worksheets
- Job and Skills in My Home Worksheet PDF
Gimme a Clue Worksheet PDF
Gimme a Clue Worksheet Answer Sheet PDF
Domestic Jobs Game PDF
Native American Crafts Worksheet PDF
Division
of Labor Worksheet Page
1, Page 2 PDF
Taking Notes/Making Conclusions Worksheet PDF
- Assessment
Tools
- Occupational Fieldwork Checklist PDF
Lesson 3
Grown-ups at Play Students realize that adults entertain themselves at work and in their private lives and that much of adult play, like children's play, is part of adults' folklife and that they play in various folk groups. They consider the elite, popular, and folk culture elements of adult play and entertainment. They investigate tourism in their region and around the state and examine it in relation to how local insiders interact with the same activities and events. They collect forms of adults' word play.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-5-M2, H-1A-E2, H-1A-E3, H-1A-M6, ELA-7-MI, H-1B-E1, ELA-6-M3, ELA-1-E6, H-1A-E2.
- Student
Worksheets
- Culture and Play Checklist PDF
Taking Notes/Making Conclusions Worksheet PDF
- Assessment Tools
- Collaboration Rubric PDF
Adult Play Presentation Rubric PDF
Quilting Research Rubric PDF
Unit
VIII Resources
Unit IX The Seasonal Round and The Cycle of Life Encourages students' interaction with adults and covers seasonal round customs, beliefs, traditions, celebrations, and holidays.
Part
1 The Seasonal Round Designed for younger students, but older students can use activities in Lessons 2 and 3 to acquaint themselves with the concept of the "seasonal round" and to identify traditions important to them throughout the year.
Lesson 1
Birthday Calendars Students are introduced to the concept of the seasonal round and how folklife traditions vary from season to season. They begin charting dates of personal interest on seasonal round calendars by starting with birthdays. They research birthday traditions in their own communities and around the world.
Louisiana Content Standards: H-1A-M1, ELA-5-M3, D-1-M, H-1B-M18, ELA-4-M4, H-1A-M3, H-1A-M4, H-1A-M5, ELA-5-M6, N-5-M, D-2-M, D-6-M, H-1A-M6, ELA-5-M2.
- Student Worksheets
-
Seasonal Round Worksheet PDF
English Seasonal Round Worksheet with Holidays PDF
French Seasonal Round Worksheet PDF
Spanish Seasonal Round Worksheet PDF
Make a Cake Quilt Worksheet PDF
Sample Cake Quilt PDF
- Assessment Tools
-
Calendar Clues Worksheet PDF
Lesson 2 Constructing Personal
Calendars Encourages students' interaction with adults and covers seasonal round customs, beliefs, traditions, celebrations, and holidays.Students identify important dates in the life of the school and the community through research and interviewing. Next they identify important dates in the state and nation and research various holidays and special occasions. They design personal calendars to compare with calendars of other students, community members, and cultural groups around the state and the world.
Celebrating the Seasons Activity
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-5-M2, ELA-5-M3, H-1A-M1, H-1A-M4, ELA-5-M4, ELA-5-M6, ELA-7-M3, ELA-6-M1, ELA-6-M2, H-1A-M6, CM-1-D3, CM-2-B3, CL-1-B7.
- Student
Worksheets
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Calendar Traditions Web Quest PDF
Event Research Worksheet PDF
Seasonal Customs Worksheet, Page 1 PDF
Seasonal Poetry Reflective Journal PDF
Seasonal Round Worksheet PDF
English Seasonal Round Worksheet with Holidays PDF
French Seasonal Round Worksheet PDF
Spanish Seasonal Round Worksheet PDF
Star Seasonal Round Worksheet PDF
I Learned PDF
- Assessment
Tools
-
Seasonal Customs Worksheet, Page 2 PDF
Lesson
3 Folklife Around the
Year and Around the State Students research how seasonal changes in Louisiana affect their own lives and the folklife of their communities and the state.
Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-4-M5, ELA-7-M3, CL-1-B4, CL-2-D1, CP-2-B4, CP-2-D3, CP-1-B3, H-1A-M6, H-1A-M1, H-1A-M3, ELA-5-M6, CL-1-B5
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