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Louisiana Voices Educator's Guide  
Getting Started With This Guide  
Study Guide Summary  
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Study Unit I Defining Terms  
Study Unit II Fieldwork Basics  
Study Unit III Discovering the Obvious: Our Lives as "The Folk"  
Study Unit IV The State of Our Lives: Being a Louisiana Neighbor  
Study Unit V Oral Traditions--Swapping Stories  
Study Unit VI Louisiana's Musical Landscape  
Study Unit VII Material Culture-The Stuff of Life  
Study Unit VIII The Worlds of Work and Play  
Study Unit IX The Seasonal Round and Life Cycles  
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LOUISIANA VOICES EDUCATOR'S GUIDE -- OUTLINE

Getting Started

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 Pirogue
Adapting the Educator's Guide

 

Fieldwork Basics Overview

Fieldwork Basics Overview provides an overview of the issues involved with students conducting fieldwork including cultural sensitivity, ethics, steps and tools, preparing for fieldwork, modeling and practicing, improving listening skills, conducting fieldwork, identifying folk traditions and locating folk artists, processing fieldwork, student products, and provide a fieldwork checklist, forms, and worksheets in addition to resources to develop questions. It is also useful for folklife projects outside of the K-12 classroom.

 

Educator's Guide to Delta Pieces: Northeast Louisiana Folklife

The Educator's Guide for Delta Pieces contains 12 units. Each Guide unit relates to a unit within the Delta Pieces: Folklife in Northeast Louisiana essays. Together these essays offer an intensive look at this fascinating region of of 12 northeast Louisiana parishes running south down the Mississippi River from the Arkansas state line though Concordia Parish, Louisiana. The Educator's Guide units are correlated to the Common Core State Standards, particularly those in English Language Arts and are for grades 3-8. Links are provided to the award-winning Louisiana Voices Educator's Guide.

 

Creole State Exhibit Education Guide

The Creole State: An Exhibition of Louisiana Folklife is a virtual exhibit featuring the Creole State Collection which has more than 200 artifacts in seven sections. The education guide provides an overview of each of the seven exhibition sections and a list of the artifacts included in each section. The guide also contains exhibition-based interactive activities as well as URLs and QR codes that provide the viewer with additional information and extension activities. The activities are appropriate for students in grades 3 through 12, families and independent learners.

 

Louisiana's Many Food Traditions Unit Activity

Louisiana is blessed with a variety of cultures and traditions, including a fabulous food legacy. We repackaged our Louisiana Voices Foodways Unit to make it easy for teachers to use and teachers around the state tested it. It includes background material, activities, worksheets, and evaluation tools.

 

Hurricane Resources and Opportunities for K-12 Educators

This unit is an effort by Louisiana Voices to provide 5-12th grade teachers with materials that can assist them and their students in coping with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita. The unit involves teaching students to interview each other, community members, and family members about the experiences of this year's hurricanes and their aftermath. The activities are designed to allow teachers great flexibility and easy to use. Art lesson plans and other resources are also provided.

 

 

The Louisiana Voices Educator's Guide

Click on each unit below for a summary of the each unit's lessons and activities. Use Looking for Something Specific? to find a particular interest, topic, or activity.

 

UNIT I: DEFINING TERMS
Lesson 1: What is Folklife
Lesson 2: Folk Groups
Lesson 3: Folk Genres

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, audio or video recording, sketching, or research. There
are so many educational advantages to conducting fieldwork with your
students that you won't want to pass up this opportunity! Fieldwork
builds students' communication skills and enhances their analytical
skills. It also sparks creativity in students. Additional discussions are provided in the Louisiana Folklife Program's 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), and to connect folklife to everyday experience.

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), 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 Stanrds: 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 WorksheetPDF

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.

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.

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) - PDF
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 WorksheetPDF

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
Fieldwork Basics Overview
Lesson 1: Getting Positioned for Fieldwork
Lesson 2: The Practice Interview
Lesson 3: Inviting a Community Guest
Lesson 4: Teams in the Field
Lesson 5: Making Use of Fieldwork

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

Fieldwork Basics Overview

This essay provides an overview of the issues involved with students conducting fieldwork.

Lesson 1: Getting Positioned for Fieldwork
Students discover folklife through their own traditions in everyday life--their games and play, school, and family.

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.

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 WorksheetPDF

Lesson 2: The Practice Interview
Students are introduced to the interview process by interviewing each other in pairs using a name game.

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 point of view.

Lesson 3: Inviting a Community Guest

Students conduct an interview from an outsider point of view.

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.

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.

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) - PDF
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 WorksheetPDF

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

Lesson 5: Making Use of Fieldwork
Students transcribe, analyze, and archive fieldwork and create a team project drawn from fieldwork.

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
Fact-Based, Open-Ended, and Follow-Up Questions Worksheet - PDF
Fieldwork Kit -- For Teachers - PDF
Fieldwork 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 About Home Altars - PDF
Questions for Dancers - PDF
Questions for Traditional Craft Artists -PDF
Questions For Immigrant 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
Audio or Video Log - PDF
Photo 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"
Students 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
Lesson 2: The School-School Culture Across Louisiana
Lesson 3: The Family: Louisiana Family Folklore

Unit III: Discovering the Obvious: Our Lives as "The Folk"

Students 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.

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.

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
By exploring family folklore through naming traditions, family pictures, and family treasures, students see traditional culture in action in familiar, everyday settings. They will learn things they didn't know about their families, and they will see themselves and family members as important tradition bearers.

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 how to 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
Lesson 1: Louisiana's Major Folk Regions
Lesson 2: Geography, Ecology and Folklife
Lesson 3: Sense of Place

UNIT IV: The State of Our Lives: Being a Louisiana Neighbor

This unit connects folklife and sense of place. It emphasizes map skills and regionality and covers Louisiana's major folk cultural regions, 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."

Lesson 1: Louisiana's Major Folk Regions

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 Worksheet Answer Sheet - PDF
Prove It Worksheet - PDF
Defining a Cultural Region Worksheet - PDF
Brainstorming a Regional Culture Exchange - PDF
Cultural Perspectives on Place or Event - PDF

Assessment Tools

Rubric for PortfoliosPDF

Lesson 2: Geography, Ecology and Folklife

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 WorksheetPDF
Cultural Perspectives on Place or Event - PDF

Assessment Tools

Tell Me Why Worksheet Page 1, Page 2 - PDF

Lesson 3: Sense of Place

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 on Place or Event - PDF

Assessment Tools

Things I've Learned Worksheet- PDF
Rubric for Portfolios - PDF

Unit IV RESOURCES

UNIT V: ORAL TRADITIONS: SWAPPING STORIES
Lesson 1: Introduction to Traditional Oral Narratives
Lesson 2: Language and Dialect
Lesson 3: Folk and Family Heroes and Heroines
Lesson 4: Tall Tales and Urban Legends
Lesson 5: First Meeting of the Indians and the Europeans
Lesson 6: Historical Legends
Lesson 7: Personal Experience Narratives

UNIT V: Oral Traditions: Swapping Stories

A wide variety of oral traditions from local and historical legends to personal experience narratives, introduces students to the vitality of oral narratives. The unit draws heavily on Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana, the publication, video, and website that students will explore.

Lesson 1: Introduction to Traditional Oral Narratives

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

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

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 HeroesPDF

Lesson 4: Tall Tales and Urban Legends

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

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 Guide -- Point of View - PDF
Response Journal - PDF

Lesson 6: Historical Legends

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

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
Lesson 1: Music Around the State: Sound and Place
Lesson 2: Listening Logs
Lesson 3: Generational Music Communities
Lesson 4: Moving to Music
Lesson 5: Music is Business
Lesson 6: Louisiana's Legendary Musicians

UNIT VI: Louisiana's Musical Landscape

An array of audio and video clips augment this unit, which 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

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

Louisiana Voices Traditional Music 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

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
Internet Music Worksheet - PDF
Found Poem - Found Song - PDF

Assessment Tools

Listening Logs Rubric - PDF

Lesson 3: Generational Music Communities

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

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

Lesson 5: Music Is Business

This lesson stresses the importance of music 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

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 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
Lesson 1: Reading Artifacts
Lesson 2: Teaching and Learning Through Objects
Lesson 3: Introducing Louisiana Foodways
Lesson 4: Family Foodways
Lesson 5: Louisiana Regional Foodways
Lesson 6: Louisiana Crafts and Domestic Arts

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

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

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

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

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

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
Agricultural Products Worksheet - PDF

Assessment Tools

Louisiana Voices Venn DiagramPDF
Louisiana Voices Venn Diagram - Blank - PDF
Foodways Conclusions Worksheet Page 1, Page 2 - PDF

Lesson 6: Louisiana Crafts and Domestic Arts

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
Lesson 1: On the Job
Lesson 2: Home Work
Lesson 3: Grown-ups at Play

Unit VIII: The Worlds of Work and Play

[L'Unité 8 est accessible en Français] 

 The unit 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

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
I Spy Worksheet-  PDF

Asessment Tools

Occupational Fieldwork Research Rubric - PDF

Lesson 2: Home Work

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

Asessment Tools

Occupational Fieldwork Checklist - PDF

Lesson 3: Grown-ups at Play

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

Asessment Tools

Collaboration Rubric - PDF
Adult Play Presentation Rubric - PDF
Quilting Research Rubric - PDF

Unit VIII RESOURCES

UNIT IX: THE SEASONAL ROUND AND CYCLE OF LIFE
PART 1 The Seasonal Round
Lesson 1: Birthday Calendars
Lesson 2: Constructing Personal Calendars
Lesson 3: Folklife Around the Year and Around the State
PART 2 The Cycle of Life
Lesson 1: Birth and Early Childhood
Lesson 2: Rites of Passage
Lesson 3: Elders' Ways

Unit IX: The Seasonal Round and The Cycle of Life

This unit encourages students' interaction with adults and covers seasonal round customs, beliefs, traditions, celebrations, and holidays.

Part 1 The Seasonal Round 

Part 1 is designed for younger students, but older students can also 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.

Part 2 The Cycle of Life  

Students in grades 8 and higher may use activities in Part 2 to research rites of passage, the role of older people in society, beliefs about health, burial traditions, and local cemeteries.

PART 1, 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.

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
Sample Cake Quilt - PDF

Assessment Tools

Calendar Clues Worksheet-  PDF

PART 1, Lesson 2: Constructing Personal Calendars
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.

Lesson 2: Constructing Personal Calendars

This lesson 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.

Researching and Celebrating the Seasons

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

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

PART 1, 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.

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, ELA-5-M2, ELA-5-M3, ELA-6-M2, ELA-7-M1, ELA-7-M2, ELA-7-M4, ELA-4-H6, ELA-5-M4, ELA-4-H4.

 

Student Worksheets

Folklife Bingo Worksheet - PDF
Louisiana Festival Worksheet - PDF
Seasonal Events Web Quest - PDF

Assessment Tools

Louisiana Voices Venn Diagram-  Blank
Seasonal Events Fieldwork Checklist PDF
Rubric for Collaborative Group Fieldwork Research -   PDF

PART 2, Lesson 1: Birth and Early Childhood

Lesson 1: Birth and Early Childhood  

Students begin their study of the cycle of life by researching creation myths of various cultures, collecting birth stories and beliefs, and surveying milestones in early childhood. Students learn that all cultures share stories about the beginning of life and traditions that welcome a child into the world. Students collect beliefs from family and community members about pregnancy, birth, and prediction of a baby's gender. They also decide what milestones are important to a young child in their community.

Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-6-M1, H-1D-E1, H-1A-M1, ELA-4-M5, ELA-5-M2, H-1A-M4, H-1C-E4, ELA-5-M3, ELA-5-M4.

Student Worksheets

Data Chart - PDF
Found Poem Worksheet - PDF

PART 2, Lesson 2: Rites of Passage

Lesson 2: Rites of Passage  

In this lesson students search for rites of passage in their own lives and study rites of other cultural groups in Louisiana and around the world. They recognize moments of importance in people's lives and find meaning in the stages of their own and others' lives. They learn that all cultures have rites of passage for similar stages in the cycle of life.

Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-6-M1, ELA-7-M1, ELA-7-M3, ELA-7-M4, ELA-1-M4, ELA-7-M2, ELA-4-M6.

Student Worksheets

Milestone Research Worksheet - PDF

Assessment Tools

Rites of Passage Rubric - PDF

PART 2, Lesson 3: Elders' Ways

Lesson 3: Elders' Ways

Students study folk beliefs about illness and healing, research Louisiana graveyards and burial traditions, and talk about the cycle of life with older people in their communities. In turn, students share some of their own stories and traditions with older people.

Louisiana Content Standards: ELA-6-M1, H-1A-M6, ELA-1-M5, H-1A-M1, H-1A-M3, ELA-4-M3, ELA-4-M4, H-1A-M2, H-1C-E4.
 

Student Worksheets

Folk Remedy Collection Worksheet - PDF
Folk Remedy Presentation Response Journal-  PDF
The Stories They Tell -- Graveyard Data Collection Worksheet - PDF
Life Cycle Poetry Worksheet - PDF

Assessment Tools

Folk Remedy Worksheet, Page 1, Page 2-  PDF
The Stories They Tell -- Conclusions Worksheet - PDF

Unit IX RESOURCES

 

Other Resources

Adaptation Strategies: Ideas for making difficult reading materials available to your students. Taking Notes - PDF

 

Looking for Something Specific?: Guidance for finding a particular interest, topic, or activity.

 

Louisiana Voices Links: Lists key websites used in the Louisiana Voices lessons and workshops.

 

Glossary:  For teachers to adapt for their students.

 

Acknowledgements and Credits:  Meet the team who conceived of and continue to work with Louisiana Voices.

 

About Us:  Meet the workshop presenters.

 

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