I. Curricular Framework

Concept:

Hospitality

Essential Question:

Explain “Hospitality is kindness made visible”.

Bridge:

Images of Reciprocity

Content:

"The Relatives Came" by Cynthia Rylant

Outcomes:

II. Standards Aligned

III. Instruction and Assessment

1. Connect: Connecting to the Concept Experientially

Objective: To have children recall a time when they were treated very hospitably.

Activity: Have the children tell of a time when they were really welcomed somewhere.

Assessment: The honesty and details of the stories and impact on listeners.

2. Attend: Attending to the Connection

Objective: To have the children examine the characteristics of hospitality.

Activity: Have the children generate a list of what all the stories had in common.

Assessment: The richness of the list.

Assessment, Phase One, Level of Engagement, Fascination:

3. Image: Creating a Mental Picture

Objective: To explain the idea of reciprocity and to have the children relie an instance of reciprocity in their lives.

Activity: Teach the word “reciprocity” (to give in return). Next have the children create a two-fold visual of themselves doing something hospitable for someone else and then a picture of them receiving the same. Ask the children to be sure they depict true stories.

Assessment: The meaning of the picture and their understanding of the concept.

Assessment, Phase Two, Seeing the Big Picture:

4. Inform: Receiving Facts & Knowledge

Objective: To understand and enjoy the book.

Activity: Read the story The Relatives Came.

Assessment: Attentiveness and understanding on the part of the children.

Assessment, Phase Three, Success with Acquiring Knowledge:

5. Practice: Developing Skills

Objective: To elicit from the children the pertinent details of the story.

Activity: Have the children list the seven things the family did to extend hospitality to their relatives. Then have them list seven things the relatives did for the family.

Assessment: Accuracy of the details.

Assessment, Phase Four, Success with Acquiring Skills:

6. Extend: Extending Learning to the Outside World

Objective: To create and experience a hospitality event of their own.

Activity: Have the children plan and carry out a hospitality event for one or two persons. Have the plan include food, talk, playing a game that their guest(s) like and have music if possible. Have them write or draw a brief explanation of what happened.

Assessment: Completion of the event and the quality of the explanation, details, feeling, tone.

7. Refine: Refining the Extension

Objective: To have the children reflect on the relationship of kindness and hospitality.

Activity: Have the children write a reflection on: hospitality is kindness made visible. Have them include in their reflection three things they could do to be hospitable.

Assessment: The understanding of the concept and their listing of the actions they will take to be hospitable

8. Perform: Creative Manifestation of Material Learned

Objective: To have the children put their learning to practical use..

Activity: Have the children create hospitality “rules” for their classroom or their homes and post them.

Assessment: Quality of the rules, do they encompass hospitality best practices?

Assessment, Phase Five,Performance, Creative Use of Material Learned: