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Traiteur/faith healer / home
remedies
Greg
English
OAK PARK MIDDLE MIDDLE
| Overview: |
| During the study of Acadian culture,
history, and folklore the students will view the movie by
Glen Pitre. ”Belizaire the Cajun” is set in 1859
Vermilionville, in southwest Louisiana. The video features
Belazaire, a ‘Cajun Traiteur or faith healer and his
"medicaments". The Americans simply considered him
a ‘horse doctor’, not a real doctor. This lesson deals
with home remedies that students may have come in contact
with or heard of through their own parents, aunts, or
grandmothers who were generally the ones who carried down
the tradition of Traiteur. |
| Approximate
Duration: five class periods |
Content
Standards:
- History: Time, Continuity, and
Change
Students develop a sense
of historical time and historical perspective as they
study the history of their community, state, nation, and
world.
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Benchmarks:
- H-1D-M6
examining folklore and
describing how cultural elements have shaped our state
and local heritage.
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Grade-Level
Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 8
81.
Explain cultural
elements that have shaped Louisiana’s heritage (e.g.,
festivals, music, dance, food, languages)
(H-1D-M6)
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Interdisciplinary
Connections:
- English/Language Arts : Standard
1
Students read, comprehend,
and respond to a range of materials, using a variety of
strategies for different purposes.
- English/Language Arts : Standard
3
Students communicate using
standard English grammar, usage, sentence structure,
punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and handwriting.
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Objectives:
The students will collect data and disseminate
information about their own family’s home remedies.
The students will combine information gathered to put
together a ‘home remedy’ health booklet from their own
family.
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Lesson
Materials and Resources:
Student's family members
Off-white construction paper
White copy paper
Colored ribbon, string, or yarn |
Technology
Tools and Materials:
Hardware:
Computers
Projection unit
CD of Belizaire
Software:
[none for this lesson]
Websites:
•Traiteurs - LPB Special
www.lpb.org/programs/traiteurs/bios.html
•Traiteur information sources
http://library.louisiana.edu/Spec/traiteur.shtml
•Traiteur background info
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/7555/42606
•Biographical Info on Traiteurs
www.lpb.org/programs/traiteurs/sg_toc.html
•Traiteur Newspaper story
www.carencrohighschool.org/la_studies/cajun/traiteur.htm
Other:
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Background
Information:
I’m not sure what background information students should
have or will have concerning Traiteurs or faith healers.
However, I’m sure that they will know of grandmother's
home remedies and what old-"wives tales" are still
practiced today concerning colds, bee stings, sprains, and
fevers. |
Lesson
Procedures:
EVERYDAY: When students walk in they will be
presented a Louisiana Fact-of-the-Ay which they will copy
into their Agenda book. Next will be their Daily LaGumbo
which will be either a LEAP style Constructive Response or a
past LEAP S.S. question to answer.
DAY ONE
1. Students will be given a Acadian "Fact Sheet
to take notes on about today's topic. A power-point will be
shown highlighting the material covered. Students will copy
the items highlighted in red. The PPt will cover: Vocabulary
needed, different culture's traiteurs, and terms used in the
upcoming movie.
2. Today's assignment will have students create a
booklet of "Home Remedies" from their own parents,
grandparent's) or great grandparent's). Teacher will go over
directions - both orally, on the PPt and own the handout.
DAY TWO
1. Today's topic will discuss early Acadian
settlement, lifestyle, healings, and dislikes of the Acadian
community.
2. Discuss various home remedies that the student’s
grandparents might still use or believe in.
3. Starting with vocabulary the worksheet will cover
"jumping the broomstick, Holy Mother Church, homes,
music, and locations.
4. Have students complete a map handout of the
Acadian Triangle in Louisiana as homework.
DAY THREE
1. Today's focus will be part one of the movie "Belizaire,
the Cajun". Students will keep up with characters by
use of a "family tree diagram". At the conclusion
of today's segment teacher will go over people, places, and
questions students may have concerning things they saw.
DAY FOUR
1. Today's focus will be part one of the movie "Belizaire,
the Cajun". Students will keep up with characters by
use of a "fact sheet". At the conclusion of
today's segment teacher will go over people, places, and
questions students may have concerning things they saw.
DAY FIVE
1. Today's focus will be part one of the movie "Belizaire,
the Cajun". Students will keep up with characters by
use of a "fact sheet". At the conclusion of
today's segment teacher will go over people, places, and
questions students may have concerning things they saw.
2. students will now complete an assignment where
they will write a 'sequel' to Belizaire wrapping up all the
loose ends from the movie including: Did Belizaire and Alida
get married, Did Alida have her baby/, Did Old Man Perry
die?, Did James get hung?, Did Rebecca get remarried?, and
so on.
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Assessment
Procedures:
Students will be graded on the data they collect from their
parents, relatives, and grandparents. They will also be
graded as a team on the booklet they produce concerning the
information they collect. |
Accommodations/Modifications:
No accommodations other than extended time for my resource
students. They will be allowed to continue their work in
their resource classroom where they should get help on
writing the material.
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written by Greg English
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Explorations
and Extensions:
Lesson needs no extensions since this is only one small
component of a much larger unit on the early Acadians. |
Lesson
Development Resources:
Various websites, see list above. |
Reflections:
Over the years students have gained a better insght to the
Acadian culture as we finish the Antebellum time period. The
movie generally follows their watching the Solomon Northup
story and seeing the life of a black slave. Belizaire (a
local film) film beings the 1800s to 1860s to a close before
we move into the Civil War in Louisiana. |
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