Jamie+O'Rourke+and+the+Big+Potato

- =Jamie O'Rourke and The Big Potato= His grandfather was an Irish Storyteller - Thomas LawrenceDowney || media type="custom" key="29053987"
 * [[image:Jimmy O'Rourke.jpg width="403" height="432"]] ||  || [[image:Tomie DePaola.jpg width="267" height="389"]]
 * Author/ Illustrator Tomie dePaola**

- = Potato field near Comber = The real thing (accept no substitutes) growing beside the Islandhill Road. © Copyright [|Albert Bridge] and licensed for [|reuse] under this [|Creative Commons]. In 1589 on 40,000 acres of land near Cork, Ireland Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the Polato to Ireland from Peru. Full of vitamins and grows in poor soil. The Irish also exported the crop. However in the 1840's disease hit the  potatoes and there was a great famine. Many Irish immigrated to the United States at the time - over 1 million. =Irish Children trying American Sweets= media type="custom" key="29619095"

=American Children try Irish Snacks - star at 4:40=

media type="custom" key="29619099" =More on Ireland=

 **Big Idea: I will listen to an Irish Folktale and Interview a person from Ireland [primary source]** **Performance Task:** storytelling, song, video, interview, artifacts **1.Extention**: ** 2.Technology- video ** **3.** **Higher Level thinking skills -** primary vs. secondary sources; discover how a primary source brings authenticity to learning, realize the importance of their own story **4. Kagan: work in groups to come up with interview questions** Standards LA.1.LAFS.1.RL.3.9, LA.1.LAFS.1.SL.1.1.b, LA.1.LAFS.1.RL.2.5, LA.1.LAFS.1.RI.1.3, LA.1.LAFS.1.SL.1.2, LA.1.LAFS.1.SL.2.4 ESOL Language Experience Realia Song/Music Story Telling Tapes/Videos
 * **Irish Story Telling & Oral Histories/ Primary Sources**
 * Learning Objectives: ** Students will appreciate a different culture by listenting to a folktale and then forming questions to interview a person from that country. Introduction to primary sources.
 * Lesson Link: storytelling Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato**
 * Lesson Link: primary sources**