Seven+Brave+Women+Reinforcing+Activity

__**Objective:**__ Students will be able to verbally describe part of their heritage to their classmates.

__**Procedures:**__ 1. Read //Seven Brave Women// to the class.

2. After reading the book, share a few stories about your own ancestors with the class. 3. Next, ask the students to pair up and share any stories they have about their own ancestors.
 * If students are having difficulty discussing the topic offer questions or suggestions to get a discussion going.

3. After students have completed their discussion, give each of them a letter to give to their parents. These letters describe the book that was read to the class and describes an at-home activity for the students. For the activity, the students will explore their family tree with their parents and learn about their ancestors, who they were and what they did in their lives at the time. Students are to bring back the following day a list of three ancestors with a short description of who they were and what they did.

4. The following day have the class sit in a circle on the floor and have each student do a share and tell of each ancestor on their list.

As the students talk about their past relatives the following questions should be addressed:
 * 1. What time period did the live in? An example would be a specific decade, or a period of war.
 * 2. What did they do with their lives? What were their jobs?
 * 3. What did they do that was important or special?

__Other Standards:__ __ **Grade**  __ : 1 __ **Theme** __ : Families Now and Long Ago, Near and Far __ **Content Statement** __ : 3.The way basic human needs are met has changed over time.
 * __Topic__ ** : Heritage