Handout 3.15: Fair Share Chart and Tradition Card

Name: ______________________________ Date: ______________ Group: ______ Family card: ______

Directions: Part 1 is the list of jobs a home needs; sort your do now list into it. Part 2 is your fictional family card (the teacher tells your group which one). Part 3 is the fair-share chart: every job gets a name, and every assignment that is not equal gets a "why." Part 4 is the tradition card, by choice. The exit card is at the bottom. The family on your card is fictional. Nobody is asked what chores they do at home.

Part 1: The jobs a home needs

Star the jobs a 12 to 14 year old could do alone. Circle the jobs that need an adult.

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Part 2: The family cards

Family A (grade 6 support). Four people. A parent who works days (home by 5:30, 3 hours free on weeknights, 8 on weekend days). A second parent who works days (same hours). A 13 year old (school until 3, 2 hours free on weeknights, 6 on weekend days). An 8 year old (school until 3, 1 hour of jobs on weeknights at most, 2 on weekend days). No pets.

Family B (everyone). Five people. A parent who works days (home by 6, 2 hours free weeknights, 7 weekend days). A grandmother who lives with them and cannot lift or carry anything heavy but is home all day (4 hours weekdays, 4 weekend days). A 14 year old with practice Monday to Thursday until 5:30 (1 hour free on those nights, 3 on Friday, 6 on weekend days). A 12 year old (2 hours weeknights, 6 weekend days). A 4 year old (can put toys away and "help"; 30 minutes at most). One dog.

Family C (grade 8 stretch). Four people. A single parent who works nights (leaves at 9 p.m., home at 7 a.m., sleeps 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.; 3 hours free late afternoon, 6 on the two days off). A grandfather who lives with them and cannot lift (3 hours a day). A 14 year old with practice four days a week until 5:30 (1 hour those nights, 3 on the other weeknight, 6 weekend days). A 2 year old (no jobs). One cat.

Part 3: The fair-share chart

Every job on the list gets a name. Nobody under 6 gets a job that is not "help" or "put toys away." Nobody gets more than their hours allow. Any assignment that is not equal gets a "why" from the card (hours, age, ability).

Read one "not equal but fair" line to the class: ________________________________________________

Stretch (Family C): What should the 14 year old NOT be asked to do, and why? ________________________________________________

Stretch: If the parent's hours change to days, what changes on the chart? ________________________________________________

Part 4: Culture and traditions

A family teaches culture without a lesson plan: the food on the table, the language at home, what happens on a holiday, how you greet an elder, what the family does on a Sunday. A tradition is one of the ways a family does "belong."

One tradition from a show, a book, or a fictional family: ________________________________________________

The tradition card (by choice)

Cut this out or copy it onto an index card. You may write a tradition from your own family, from a family you have seen, or one you would like to start. Nobody reads it aloud unless they want to. Name is optional. It goes on the unit wall and joins the Family Showcase in Lesson 3.18.

Exit card: 3-2-1

3 home jobs I could do alone this week: ______________ ______________ ______________

2 words that mean different things: fair means ______________________; equal means ______________________

1 tradition (from any family, real or fictional) and whether I would keep, change, or pass it on: ______________________