Culture, Day 5 - Class Recap

Some of our exchange students here at Westview came to talk with our class today about their experience here and their culture back in their country of origin. This is a photo I took on the football field at Westview, later this past summer.

Hi everyone,

I don't know about you, but I loved hearing our exchange students talk about their experiences today! Here's the recap for today:

Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 16: I can explain how culture both reflects and shapes society.

Soundtrack: "Represent" by Weezer. Selected for today because we were talking about how people in different cultures represent themselves. Lyrics here.

AGENDA 10/22/14:
News Brief – Nikki
Exchange Culture
Discussion
Time for School

Homework: Read the blog. Turn in missing/incomplete geography work ASAP. Next news brief: Selerino.

News Brief: Nikki had the news brief today and talked about this article with the class: BBC.com - Ottawa shootings: Soldier killed and city on lockdown. This was a breaking news story as of this morning, so it will be interesting to follow what happens here. We found Canada on our world maps and then moved on, because I wanted to make sure that we gave plenty of time to our exchange students.

Exchange Culture: We had the privilege of having Geir (from Norway) and Laura (from Brazil) come into our class today and present about culture in their countries. They did such a fantastic job! I appreciated your focus and great questions as they talked. It was certainly interesting for me to learn about, too!

Discussion: After the presentations, there was time for general culture questions (made at the end of last class) for Geir and Laura. Again, I thought this was really interesting and cool to see! Thanks for your participation.

Time For School: The rest of class was spent continuing to watch Time For School 3. If you missed class and the handout, here it is:

Google Drive - Time For School Documentary Handout

Again, the point to this was to analyze how we see surface culture and what deeper culture is like in different areas around the world.

We got about 46:12 in to the following video, if you missed class and need to catch up, or simply want to review it again:

PBS.org - Time For School 3 (Part 1) Documentary

I hope you are finding this interesting and engaging! Next time, please don't pack up to go with 5 minutes left in class! :-)