Grade 2 Spring History - Immigration Stories: Why Families Move, How They Journey, and How They Make Home
History · CUL G2 (CA HSS 2.5.1; NCSS-1; D2.His.4.K-2; TEKS 2.17.A) hist.g2.s.cul.cultural_retention_adaptation

Identify what a family keeps from their place of origin AND what they adopt in a new place

Distinguish CULTURAL RETENTION (what families keep: language, recipes, holidays, songs, names, religion, objects, gestures) from CULTURAL ADAPTATION (what families adopt: new language, new foods, new friends, new sports). Recognize that BOTH happen together - families keep AND become. Use MG-9 to fill in a KEEP/ADOPT/BOTH card for one family.

Mastery threshold
80%
Min instances
6
Typical minutes
40
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30
Prereqs
Successors
Common misconceptions
  • Believing families must CHOOSE between keep and adopt (they do BOTH at once)
  • Believing cultural retention is 'old-fashioned' (it is identity)
  • Believing cultural adaptation is 'losing' the original culture (it is layering, not losing)

Exercise pool (3)

Diff Stem Type
2 Sort 6 cultural items (recipe / textile / song / holiday card / name / sports ball) into KEEP / ADOPT / BOTH categories for a sample family. keep adopt sort
3 Fill in a personal 3-column chart for your own family OR a published family: 2 things they KEEP / 2 things they ADOPT / 1 thing that is BOTH. personal keep adopt
5 Choose one thing that is BOTH a keep AND an adopt for a family (e.g., a bilingual greeting). Explain in 3 sentences how it shows BOTH. both explanation