Adult Roles and Responsibilities: Writing Your Obituary

Adult Roles and Responsibilities:  Writing Your Obituary

Grade Level: 10th-12th

Subject: Adult Roles and Responsibilities

Duration: 1-2 (50 minute periods)

DOK Level:1

SAMR Level: Substitution

Indiana Standard:

Core Standard 3 Integrate multiple lifespan roles and responsibilities in family, career, and community settings

Objective:

Students will understand the various components of an obituary and construct their own.

Essential Question:

What is the importance of an obituary?

What parts of an obituary are personally significant?

Procedure:

1.  Students will review the article entitled, Your Story, Your Words, How to Write an Obituary

http://www.legacy.com/news/advice-and-support/article/your-story-your-words-how-to-write-your-own-obituary

      2.   Students will use Easel.ly”s infographic template to create a visual obituary of themselves including at least seven components from the presented article.

Product or Assessment: An infographic visual obituary of themselves.

Accommodations: Students can complete their obituary in a different format using an online obituary template. Students can find an actual obituary online and identify the components as outlined in the presented article.

Enrichment:

Students can locate an obituary of a relative and identify why each component may have represented an important piece of information about the deceased.