What We Keep and What We Adopt

Revisit identity charts from lesson 1. Which petals are KEEP (from your family's heritage)? Which are ADOPT (from your new place)?

• Affirm both
• Set framing: BOTH IS POSSIBLE

Today we name two big ideas: CULTURAL RETENTION (what families KEEP from their place of origin) and CULTURAL ADAPTATION (what families ADOPT in a new place). Allen Say's grandfather kept his Japanese ways AND adopted California ways. Bilal cooks his family's daal AND has friends who learn it. The key idea: BOTH IS POSSIBLE. Families don't have to choose.

• Keeping and becoming happen together.

  model KEEP: the daal recipe, the long patient cooking, the Urdu/Pashto family words. ADOPT: friends from many heritages who learn the recipe.

  prompt What does Bilal's family KEEP? What do they ADOPT?

• What is cultural retention?
• What is cultural adaptation?

M-2-S-CUL-14-A Chart Physical / non-image

Display chart 24x36 portrait showing MG-9 as detailed in media_global_notes. Three columns (KEEP / BOTH / ADOPT) with visual examples beneath each. Header: 'KEEP AND BECOME - BOTH AT ONCE.' The center column is the most-pointed-to position.

MG-9 Chart

Mounted on classroom wall at child-eye-height. The CENTER column 'BOTH IS POSSIBLE' is INTENTIONAL - this is the unit's central cultural-retention/adaptation move. Used in lesson 14 to introduce the keep-and-become framework. Each child fills in their own KEEP/ADOPT/BOTH card.

M-2-S-CUL-14-C Illustration

Image 11x14 showing 4 book covers stacked: Bilal Cooks Daal (Saeed) / Bee-bim Bop! (Park) / Olinguito A-Z (Delacre) / Hairs Pelitos (Cisneros). Each book has author tradition label. Header: 'FOUR FAMILIES. FOUR HERITAGES.' Style: respectful book reproduction.

• Fill in a 3-column KEEP/ADOPT/BOTH chart for ONE family (own family or a published family). 2 items per column.

  scaffold Sentence frames; object photo prompts
• Share one BOTH item with a partner.

M-2-S-CUL-14-B Photograph

Photo set 11x17 with 6 cultural object photographs: (1) handwritten recipe card in Urdu and English; (2) folded Mexican rebozo textile; (3) cassette of Korean lullaby music; (4) Lunar New Year card; (5) handwritten name in Mandarin with English transliteration; (6) youth soccer ball. Each photo has caption with family/tradition source. Source line: 'photographs used per family permissions or stock licensing.' Style: respectful, dignified object photography.

• Name one KEEP and one ADOPT for the family you chose.

• Add 'keep', 'adopt' to Word Wall
• Preview: tomorrow we look at immigrant contributors

• Bring (or photograph) one KEEP item from your family to share next lesson (with permission).