Guided Questions and Activities for Dumpling Soup
Designed and Organized by Rebecca Brown
Guiding
Question: How do family traditions play an important role in our
book? How and why are family traditions important to you?
Guiding
Question: Where do we see “mixing” and “blending” illustrated in the
book? How does that compare or contrast to our American culture?
Possible
activities:
Describe other kinds
of family celebrations or special traditions. Interview several family members
to gather anecdotes about past celebrations. Share these orally or in essays.
Host an international lunch, asking students to bring in
different ethnic dishes.
Compile a classroom book of international recipes.
Discussion about the concept of "mixing" or "blending" as illustrated in the book. Cite examples from the story: soup ingredients, dumpling ingredients, mixture of foreign words, mixture of races in the family, mixture of ages, mixture of activities. This could be made into a worksheet.
Discussion about the concept of "mixing" or "blending" as illustrated in the book. Cite examples from the story: soup ingredients, dumpling ingredients, mixture of foreign words, mixture of races in the family, mixture of ages, mixture of activities. This could be made into a worksheet.
Make a class word book, asking each student to contribute a
word representing his/her ethnic origin.
