Lesson Plan: Making cultural connections through writing tasks
After students have been exposed to informational writing, this cultural connections” activity provides an authentic way for students to use their interview skills to compose relevant questions and complete an interview with a guest that has travelled to another country.
Students will interview the guest, write an informational piece that discusses their findings, and then write an appropriate thank you letter to the person they interviewed. This activity is real-world and is cross-curricular, since it embodies social studies/history and writing content