Everyones

Weakness:
Southern Comfort
Food
Shannon Krebs, Amber Erhart, Grace Van Sickel, Alexis
Wilson, Meghan Jacobson

Overall Lessons Included in This Unit Plan

Day 1: Where Did Southern Comfort Good Come From?
Day 2: Where is Southern Comfort Food Most Common?
Day 3: Breakfast Lunch & Dinner Southern Comfort Foods
Day 4: How to Make a Meal
Day 5: Bursting Stereotypes

Lesson 1: Origins of Southern Comfort food

Objectives of Lesson
Students will learn the origins of Southern comfort food and be able to collaborate
with their peers to create a presentation about one of the origins

Standards
3.RL.2.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring
explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

Lesson one continued...

Outline of Lesson
Introduction questions
Read Aloud: A Little Bit of Soul Food
Webquest
Differentiation
Presentations
Class review
Individual journal reflection

Lesson 2: Where is southern comfort food most

common?
Objectives of Lesson
After the lesson, students will be able to identify the two Southern and the
Midwestern regions on a map.

Standards
3.3.5 Explain that regions are areas that have similar physical and cultural
characteristics*. Identify Indiana and the local community as part of a specific
region.

Lesson 3: Breakfast Lunch & dinner Comfort

foods
Objective of Lesson: Given the data collected by students as a class, the students will be
able to correctly create a graph demonstrating the data in a clear and precise way.
Standards: 3.DA.1: Create scaled picture graphs, scaled bar graphs, and frequency tables
to represent a data setincluding data collected through observations, surveys, and
experimentswith several categories. Solve one-and two-step how many more and
how many less problems regarding the data and make predictions based on the data.

Lesson 3 Continued

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Lesson Plan Outline

1.Introduction Questions
2.Guided Practice: Graph of foods for each meal type
3.Explanation of which foods are typically eaten at what time & foods
that are eaten for multiple meals
4.Individualized Practice: Favorite type of southern comfort food
graph
5.Closure: 3-2-1 chart or exit slip

Southern
Comfort Food
Meals
Informational Powerpoint for Different Types of Food Eaten
for Each Meal

Breakfast Foods
1.Biscuits & Gravy
2.Chicken Fried Steak
3.Fried Apples
4.Fried Cornbread
5.Grits
6.Hashbrown Casserole
7.Mashed Potato Pancakes

Lunch
1.Macaroni and Cheese
2.Chicken & Dumplings
3.Chicken Pot Pie
4.Gumbo
5.Fried Okra
6.Baked Beans
7.Shrimp & Corn Chowder

Dinner
1.Fried Chicken
2.Jambalaya
3.Pork Chops
4.Pulled Pork
5.Shepards Pie
6.Salisbury Steak
7.Creamed Corn

Dessert
1.Pecan Pie
2.Peach Cobbler
3.Moon Pie
4.Apple Dumplings
5.Southern Banana Pudding
6.Pecan Pralines
7.Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Southern comfort foods

Interchangeable
Typically breakfast includes meat
Even throughout the southern states a variety of foods are eaten

Lesson 4: How to make a Meal

(Southern Comfort Food)
Objectives of Lesson:
Students will be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers and
fractions to get the proper ingredient amounts to make a meal.
Students will also be able to follow a recipe in order to make a southern comfort meal.

Standards:
3.C.5: Multiply and divide within 100 using strategies, such as the relationship between multiplication
and division (e.g., knowing that 8 x 5 = 40, one knows 40 5 = 8), or properties of operations.
3.NS.3: Understand a fraction, 1/b, as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into
b equal parts; understand a fraction, a/b, as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b.
[In grade 3, limit denominators of fractions to 2, 3, 4, 6, 8.]

Lesson 4 Continued...
Outline of Lesson:
1.Launch
Following Directions Activity

2.Mini Lesson (Proportions of Ingredients)

Chicken recipe as a class.

3. Proportion Worksheet

Converting the Mac and Cheese and Dirt Pudding recipes.

4. Cook the Meal

5. ENJOY!
6. Reflect (Exit Ticket)

Following directions and Proportions

Lesson 5: Bursting
Objective of lesson:
Stereotypes
Given a Stereotype of Americans, students will be able to critically analyze
stereotypes and use information to state why a given stereotype is not always
true.

Standards:
Health and Wellness:
3.1.1 Identify the link between healthy
choices and being healthy.
3.2.2 Observe the influence of culture on
health practices.

Outline of Lesson
Introduction to Stereotypes
drawing activity
define
Brainstorm different American Stereotypes
Group investigation
Presentations
discussion
Bursting stereotypes
Reflection