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Subject Areas: French, Art, Social Studies
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| Summary of Lesson: | While studying the Louisiana Purchase in Social Studies, the 8th grade French classes will be exploring the history and activities of Mardi Gras. This lesson will give an overview of the event in preparation for a math lesson on planning a trip to New Orleans, LA with their French III class in 2006. |
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| Objectives: |
Students will appreciate the history of Mardi Gras. Students will create a PowerPoint presentation on Mardi Gras. Students will present a PowerPoint presentation on Mardi Gras. |
| Setting: | Computer lab, classroom |
| Procedures: | Have students create a PowerPoint presentation on Mardi Gras in groups of 3 or 4. Each student will be responsible for producing 3 slides. |
| The presentation must include the following: | |
| History Participants Activities Food Mardi Gras in France or Belgium |
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| The slides must include text and pictures. | |
| The background and pictures should reflect the topic. | |
| A works cited slide must be at the end of the presentation. | |
| The presentation will be shown to the class ( and possibly parents) in order to gain an understanding of Mardi Gras prior to planning a trip to New Orleans for the event. | |
| Technology Specific Activity: |
Students will create and show a PowerPoint presentation on Mardi Gras. Students will research Mardi Gras on the Internet. |
| Assessment: | Rubric |
| Standards | |
| State Standard Met: | The student will process, store, retrieve and transmit electronic information. |
| The students will communicate through application software. | |
| ISTE Standard Met: | Students will use content-specific tools, software, and situations to support learning and research. |
| Students will apply productivity/multimedia tools and peripherals to support personal productivity, group collaboration, and learning throughout the curriculum. | |
| Students will design, develop, publish and present products using technology resources that demonstrate and communicate curriculum concepts to audiences inside and outside the classroom. | |
| Foreign Language Standards Met: |
Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied. |
| Students acquire information and perspectives through authentic materials in the foreign languages and within the cultures. | |
| Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparison of the culture studied and their own. | |
| Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparison of the culture studied and their own. | |
| Art Standard Met: |
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Social Studies |
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| Materials | |
| Resources: | Mardi Gras in New Orleans http://www.theholidayspot.com/mardigras/ http://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/history.html http://www.fattuesday.com/home.htm http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0100/01160 704_A.html http://www.nola.com/mardigras/food/ http://www.nola.com/mardigras/about/?balls.html http://www.usis.usemb.se/Holidays/celebrate/mardi.html http://www.holidays.net/mardigras/ http://www.mardigrasday.com/mardigras/history.php#kingcake http://www.neworleansonline.com/mg/mg-history.shtml http://www.nawlins.com/new_site/visitor/vismardi.cfm http://www.neworleans.com/mardigras_feature/mglang.html http://carnivalneworleans.com/throw.htm http://www.icorp.net/carnival/history.htm |
| Mardi Gras in France and Belgium http://www.carnavaldenice.net/ http://www.carnaval.qc.ca/menueng.htm http://www.geocities.com/Paris/4728/carnival.html http://www.nice-coteazur.org/americain/culture/carnaval/histoire.html |
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| Clip Art http://www.arttoday.com |
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| Miscellaneous: | Squirrel Nut Zippers CD-Hot |
| Software: | PowerPoint |
| Hardware: |
CD player |
See rubric for Mardi Gras PowerPoint presentation
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