Artist: Alejandra C - Peru |
The story continues...
Comparing and Contrasting...
The addition of new pages in our Grandmother Storybook gives our students many things to think about and explore. It's time now to encourage our students to read, think about what is on these webpages and ask some thoughtful questions. Can they compare the life of
their moms today and the life of the New Zealand women 125 years ago? How about comparing the lives of their female ancestors to those in New Zealand?
Did women settling in other places of the world do the same kinds of things? The Argentinean grandmother in the story from Ines and her students came to Argentina from Europe to marry a "well-off "estanciero" of the Argentinean Patagonia. Do you think her life was similar to the women who came to New Zealand 125 years ago? Why or why not?
Preserving memories...
from Lynne Sueoka in Hawaii...
and, in keeping with our ECELL attempts to always move the kids to the
concept/universal understanding...I would suggest following up with
discussions about *why* it is important to preserve these memories, this
heritage...going beyond the respect for the past and into the elements
that sustain a culture and a people...granted, the kids may not express it that way, but I think the many culture projects that ECELL ran this summer were getting at that understanding :)
By looking at the translations of the first page of the story the children
can begin to make a chart with ways to say
"grandmother" in various languages. Can they tell on the first page of the
storybook which word might be the word for grandmother? Have them
make a chart like this in their own notebooks or make a classroom chart
with this information. Students in Hawaii are making webpages with audio
files where we can hear them say their word for grandmother in several
languages. I'll be posting that soon.
| Language |
Word for Grandmother |
| Afrikaans |
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| Portuguese |
? |
| Setswana |
? |
| Spanish |
? |
| Tamil |
? |
| Icelandic |
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