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Family Recipes: Publishing a Family Recipe Book

Standard:   Students adjust their use of spoken, written, and visual language to communicate effectively wiht a variety of audiences and for different purposes.

Standard:   Students employ a wide reange of strategies as they write and use different writing processing elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.

Instructional Goals:

1. To introduce learners to primary research and interviewing skills.
2. Familiarize learners with the concept of recipes and vocabulary associated with recipes.
3. Provide learners with importance of their family history.
4. Motive the writing and collaborative publishing of a classbook.
5. Showcasing writing skills
   

Outcomes

1. Learner will understand the distinction between primary and secondary research (first-hand accounts [from the source], or repeated stories [those retold within the family]).
2. Learner will understand the critical elements of a recipe: ingredients, measurements, and method/instructions.
3. Readers will be able to record information accurately while providing an interesting narrative.
   
   

Lesson Sessions:

1. Read books that feature family stories and food associated with those stories:
   • Sanger, Amy Wilson. Yum Yum Dim Sum. (Tricycle Press, 2003).
   • Lo, Ginnie. Auntie Yang's Great Soybean Picnic. (Lee & Low, 2012)
   • Park, Linda Sue. Bee-bim Bop! (Clarion, 2005)
   • Gourley, Robbin. Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie: A Story About Edna Lewis. (Clarion, 2008)
   • Hopkinson, Deborah. Independence Cake: A Revolutionary Confection Inspired by Amelia Simmonsk Whose True History is Unfortunatley Unknown. (Schwartz & Wade, 2017)

2. Discuss favorite foods that are in the learners's families - Grandma's cinnamon twists, Aunt Joyce's pumpkin bars, Grandma Miller's kolaches, and so forth.
3. Look at the recipe templates on a white board or projected in some manner. Discuss each section and provide examples of stories from your own familly. For example: My friend Cheryl's mother made delicious chocolate chip cookies. She would regularly make triple batches and marveled at how fast her 3 boys could devour those cookies. It was several years before she found out that the boys were packing up her cookies and selling them at school for 5¢ a cookie. The recipe became a family tradition. That story with names of the uncles and a few more details could be written in the template, the recipe shared, and some information about the person who was the cook/baker that regularly made the recipe for the family. Include a picture if you can.
4. Each student do the research, fill out the pages. Create a title page, table of contents, arrange the recipes in alphabetical order (then number the pages). Make a cover (each contributing student make a thumprint then add hair etc. to make a person - add their name and you have a cover that includes the thumbprints and names of all the contributors). Duplicate - one for each author, one for the featured ccok/baker, and some to sell. Invite all the stakeholders to a classroom celebration (lemonade and cookies), and reveal the featured section to each cook/baker (one-on-one etc.) Download the PDF template by clicking on the templates that follow.