Cultural Heritage Presentations
Students will research their own family’s heritage and present
the information to the class in a manner of their choice. The attached
parent letter explains specifics. Oral presentation skills will be
discussed and will be the only portion of the presentation that will be
assessed.
Students will use the small slips of paper to assess each other
on their oral skills. The individual ratings will be compiled by the
teacher into a Grading Summary for students to find out how their
classmates rated them. The teacher will also complete a class
Grading Rubric.
Where Is Your Family From? Bulletin Board
Hang a world map on a bulletin board. After each student’s
cultural heritage presentation, put a pushpin in the country where the
family is from and label with the student’s name.
Book/Slide Show
Take a digital photo during each student’s presentation. Using
Power Point, KidPix, or a similar program, import the photos into
individual documents so that students can write about what the photo
is showing. These documents can be made into pages of a class
book or into a slide show.
Design a Pa Ndau Border
If any of your students present information about the Hmong
culture, an extension activity is to have students use KidPix or Pixie
to design a border for a “pa ndau”, or story cloth, using shapes in a
repeating pattern. Inside the border, they could write what they
learned about the Hmong culture or write something about their own
history.
Final Assessment
Option 1: Hand each student a photo, then ask him to pretend to be
an immigrant in the photo and write a journal entry from that person’s
point of view. (rubric attached)
Option 2: Each student writes and illustrates a page for a class book
called Coming to America. On their page they should tell the tale of
one child’s journey. This is an adaptation from the published book by
the same name. (rubric attached)