Today's soundtrack was "Wavin' Flag" by K'Naan, so the photo for today is of a picture I took of the flag of Turkey on a ferry, overlooking the Bosphorus Strait in Istanbul. Photo taken in 2013.
Hi everyone,
I enjoyed blowing your minds today (see below)! I think it was a good class, with finishing the culture PowerPoint lecture notes, and then having fun with the Nacirema reading. Here's what happened today:
Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 15: I can explain how culture both reflects and shapes society.
Soundtrack: "Wavin' Flag" by K'Naan. Selected for today because flags are a symbolic representation of a county, which is integrated into culture. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 10/13/16:
News Brief – Paris
Cornell Notes
The Nacirema
Work Time
Homework: Read the blog. Check your grade in Student VUE and improve it, if possible. Next news brief: Madison.
Grades/News Brief: At the start of class, I again talked about grades, and that this progress report would just be based on the Geography unit grades. Any late work is due to me today (Thursday) by 2:45 to be considered for progress report grades, because I will be submitting them tomorrow.
Paris brought in an article about this story to talk about for the news brief today: BBCNews.com - Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej dead at 88. We found Thailand in the world map packet (the Asia map) and discussed the long reign of the King of Thailand, as well as what might happen next there. Thanks, Paris! Madison was selected to do the next news brief.
We also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
Cornell Notes: This is a note-taking strategy that we are going to be using frequently this year at Westview - especially if you are at all familiar with the AVID class. There were two handouts that went with this:
We went through both of these together, as I made sure to talk about the way in which Cornell Notes help with retaining information. Here's the PowerPoint on culture that I wanted notes to be taken on:
Really, the Iceberg Model is all about what we cannot see. We had an interesting discussion in class with this, as we looked more into deep culture, and what some good examples might be. As I said in class, I think everyone does not want to stereotype cultures, or be prejudiced against them in some way, so we need to seek to understand cultures around the world. Your notes are a good start in this!
The Nacirema: I always enjoy this (an old school reading, but a good one). To begin, we used another AVID strategy that involves numbering the paragraphs of a reading. We read this famous article together, as most students sat perplexed about what the heck was going on.
Spoiler alert: here's the assignment that has to do with the with the Nacirema reading:
The end of class was spent looking at the reading, and trying to analyze how the Nacirema story might relate to our own culture. Next class, we will continue with this and then write a little bit about the Nacirema using similar language and theme. This is usually a pretty fun assignment, once you think of an aspect of our culture to use!
That was it for the day! See you next class! :-)
The Nacirema: I always enjoy this (an old school reading, but a good one). To begin, we used another AVID strategy that involves numbering the paragraphs of a reading. We read this famous article together, as most students sat perplexed about what the heck was going on.
Spoiler alert: here's the assignment that has to do with the with the Nacirema reading:
The end of class was spent looking at the reading, and trying to analyze how the Nacirema story might relate to our own culture. Next class, we will continue with this and then write a little bit about the Nacirema using similar language and theme. This is usually a pretty fun assignment, once you think of an aspect of our culture to use!
That was it for the day! See you next class! :-)
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