Module 2-1 -126Have the children select a specific adult role and have the children set forth the roles they would have to play to achieve the chosen adult role.
Arrange to interview prominent local people such as city officials, local television/radio personalities, high school/college sports figures, etc.
Project FAIS P-7
P. K. Younge Laboratory School Upper/Lower Elementary
University of Florida Language Arts
Gainesville, Florida 32601 CODE: L/U240VB
PURPOSE: To involve the children in comparing their
own interests and values with those of people who became famous through their occupations or avocations.
PROCEDURE: Have the children generate a list of famous people; e.g., William Shakespeare, Andy Williams, Grandma Moses, Alexander G. Bell, Elizabeth Taylor, John Kennedy, John Muir, etc.
Ask the children to pick a famous person (from the list they generate) with whom they feel they share common interests. Then choose one of the following activities:
Plan A: Have the children write letters to living famous persons explaining their similarities and/or differences, and why they wrote (perhaps the children could ask for additional information pertaining to their present positions, how they feel being a famous person, etc.)
Plan B: Have the children make a list of the ways they are similar and ways they differ from a famous person
who is no longer living.