Month

Content/Topic

Skills

Assessment

Standards

September

Cultural Foods 

New England Cuisine

Pennsylvania Dutch foods

Southern Cooking    

Define ethnic foods

Outline cultural food regions of the United States

Discuss New England food history

Research New England cuisine

REVIEW LAB PROCEDURES

New England foods lab

History of Pennsylvania Dutch cooking

Pennsylvania Dutch cooking today

Pennsylvania Dutch foods lab

Define Southern Hospitality

Review Southern Cooking history

Southern Foods lab

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Cultural foods cookbooks

Research notes

Foods labs

Frugal Gourmet videos

Unit quizzes

C1, C2, C3

E5

F3, F4

A2

C1, C2, C3

E4

F1, F3, F4

A2

C1, C2, C3

E4

F1, F3, F4

A2

C1, C2, C3

E4

F1, F3, F4

October

Creole-Cajun foods

Hawaiian Cooking

International Cuisine

Mexican Cooking

Who are the Creoles?  Cajuns?

Study cooking styles of both ethnic groups

Prepare Creole/Cajun foods

History of Hawaiian foods

Hawaii today

Hawaiian foods lab

Highlight world-wide food cultures

Influences on their food choices

History of Mexican Cuisine

Mexican foods lab

 Research notes

Foods lab

Cultural foods cookbooks

Mexican Foods worksheets

Vocabulary study guide

Frugal Gourmet videos

Unit quizzes

Guest speaker

A2

C1, C2, C3

E4

F1, F3, F4

A2

C1, C2, C3

E4

F1, F3, F4

A2

C1, C2,C3

E4

F1, 3, F4

November

Italian Foods

Chinese Cuisine

French Cooking

History of Italian cooking

Study the cooking of the Italian provinces

Importance of wine in Italian cooking

Italian foods lab

Food history of the Chinese provinces

Influences on their food choices

Current popularity of Chinese food

Prepare Chinese foods

French Cuisine history

History of cordon bleu cooking

Cooking of the French provinces

Importance of wine in the French culture

French foods lab

Research notes

Food activity packets

Foods labs

Frugal Gourmet videos

Cultural and related cuisine cookbooks

Field trip

Vocabulary study guides

Unit quizzes

A2

C1, C2, C3

E4

F1,F3, F4

A2

C1, C2, C3

E4

F1, F3, F4

A2

C1, C2, C3

E4

F1, F3, F4

December

German Cuisine

Scandinavian Cuisine,

Cultural Christmas customs

Notes on German cuisine

History of German cooking

German foods lab

Food history of Finland, Denmark and Norway

Influence on the foods prepared in Prairie Farm

Scandinavian foods lab

Research Christmas holiday food customs

Identify local food customs

Prepare cultural Christmas foods

Foods labs

Research notes

Frugal gourmet videos

Activity packets

Vocabulary study guides

International cuisine cookbooks

Mini-Research paper

Guest speaker – cooking of Norway

A2

C1, C2, C3

E4

F1, F3, F4

A2

C1, C2, C3

E4

F1, F3, F4

A2

C1, C2, C3

E4

F1, F3, F4

January

Cooking of England

Polish Cooking

Course review

Notes and discussion of English cooking

History of English cooking – medieval foods and their preparation

English foods lab

Personal notes on Polish cooking

History of Polish cooking

Polish foods lab

Identify facets of American cooking that have their origins in other cultures

Research notes

Personal notes

International and cultural cookbooks

Frugal Gourmet videos

Foods labs

A2

C1, C2, C3

E4

F1, F3, F4

A2

C1, C2, C3

E4

F1, F3, F4