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Cooking Up Descriptive Language: Designing Restaurant Menus
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| Grades | 6 – 8 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Standard Lesson |
| Estimated Time | Four 50-minute sessions |
| Lesson Author |
Blacksburg, Virginia |
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MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY
- Assorted restaurant menus
- General classroom supplies
STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
The Flip Book is designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages long. Students and teachers can use the flip book for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating question and answer booklets.
PRINTOUTS
- Restaurant Menu Planning Sheet
- Completed flip book or blank flip book as an example
WEBSITES
PREPARATION
- Gather an assortment of restaurant menus from a variety of kinds of restaurants, including a variety of specialty restaurants, ethnic restaurants, chain restaurants, and so forth. You might collect menus by visiting restaurants, or asking students to bring examples. Additionally, check the yellow pages of your telephone book, as many restaurants include their menus as an advertisement. Many restaurants also have menu information available online. Some examples for major chain restaurants are included in the Resources section.
- Make copies of the Restaurant Menu Planning Sheet.
- Review the "Menu Magic!" article for additional ideas on how to structure the lesson.
- Create an overhead transparency of a sample menu that features descriptive adjectives for Session Three.
- Test the Flip Book student interactive on your computers to familiarize yourself with the tool and ensure that you have the Flash plug-in installed. You can download the plug-in from the technical support page.
- Create a flip book as an example, or provide a blank one, so the students can see the layout and format. For this activity, it's unlikely that students will need to use all 10 pages of the flip book, so you may only want to share a 4 or 5 page book.