COURSE TITLE:  Mrs. Spalding’s 4th Grade Class
LESSON:  The History and Traditions of Mardi Gras
TOPIC:   California Content Standards – Fourth Grade
Visual Literacy 5.3:  Construct diagrams, maps, graphs, timelines and illustrations to communicate ideas or tell a story about a historical event. 
Listening and Speaking Strategies 1.3: Identify how language usages reflect regions and cultures.
Creative/Invention in Theatre 2.3: Design or create costumes, props, makeup or masks.

- NICE!!

INSTRUCTIONAL GOAL: Students will learn the history and traditions of Mardi Gras through a powerpoint presentation.

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE:  Students will identify music from the Cajun culture, construct a doubloon that contains a krewe, theme and symbol, and design a mask that represents the cultural traditions of Mardi Gras.

LESSON CONTENT:  Students will learn about the history and the traditions of Mardi Gras.

MATERIALS: Windows PC with PowerPoint, LCD projector, Projection screen. - AWESOME!

INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES:

Focusing Event:  Hang up a Mardi Gras flag on whiteboard hooks.  Explain to the students that in Louisiana, children are not in school today to celebrate Mardi Gras. 

Teaching Procedures:  Present a powerpoint slide presentation “The Traditions of Mardi Gras” with discussion during each slide presentation.  After slide presentation, students are given beads and doubloons.  Students consider the doubloons and the history of Mardi Gras and create their own krewes, symbols and themes.  They incorporate this into a doubloon design.  Students create doubloons on paper using markers, crayons or colored pencils.  Students are then given cardboard masks and are given feathers, markers and glue and create their own personalized masks.  Students are served King Cake and experience another tradition of Mardi Gras.

- PLS REMEMBER THAT IMAGES OF CHILDREN ARE BEST NOT TO BE EXPLICIT, NOR IDENTIFY CHILDREN SPECIFICALLY BY NAME, UNLESS PARENTS APPROVE IN WRITING

Formative Check:  Ask students summary questions as to the history and traditions of Mardi Gras.

Student Participation:  Students will create doubloons and masks.

Closure:  The history and traditions of Mardi Gras will be summarized and children will be given a jester toy to take home.

Evaluation Procedures:  Teacher checks doubloons for creative krewe titles, themes and symbols.  Teacher makes sure each child makes a mask.

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