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Rationale
From genre, we now move to cultural adaptation. This aspect of the unit subject is as crucial as it is timely, since
immigration is a global trend that will continue to increase with along with the porosity of borders, and political
and climatic instability. It is of the utmost importance that the citizens of a country and a community are able to
empathize with new comers from around the world. With this positive social outcome as a goal, the lesson works
through the creation of a character through interaction with objects imbued with meaning. To bring closure to the
lesson, students are asked to compare their cognitive states as they analyze different aspects of adaptation, with
the aim of informing thematic identification between subjects.
This lesson would ideally be timed to coincide with or follow social studies in immigration experience.
Curriculum Connections
Big Ideas
The exploration of text and story deepens our understanding of diverse, complex ideas about identity, others, and
the world.
Curricular Competency
Apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to
guide inquiry, and to extend thinking
Content
Students are expected to know the following:
writing processes
metacognitive strategies
Core Competency
creative thinking: students are tasked with the creation of a fictional immigrant from various items, and then must
suggest strategies this immigrant could use in adapting to life in Canada.
Personal and social responsibility: students learn to develop a complete picture of an immigrant instead of the flat
or one-dimensional image which they are sometimes exposed to.
Whiteboard
Two different-coloured markers
Organizational/Management Strategies
This lesson involves a lot of class discussion and it is important that a small number of the students do not
become creative dictators for the rest of the class. The group reporting should mitigate this.
Group formation is at the discretion of the teacher.
Lesson Activities
scribe for the class, using a different-coloured Students are using the lifestyle notes on the
marker board to construct a new way of life that 15
works in BC.
class
Important note: all written work in this unit
end
should be collected and saved. It will be
handed back near the end of the unit to
help students prepare for the unit exam.
definite social studies connection. The more prior exposure students have to immigration issues/experiences,
the richer will be their responses and contributions to group discussions.