Another part of my culture is having dual citizenship, due to my mom being born and raised in the United Kingdom.
Dear students,
Today, we got back to work on our new unit of culture. We learned a little bit more about the "iceberg" model for it. Here's what happened today:
Learning Targets:
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Critical Thinking LT 1: I can explain multiple perspectives and viewpoints.
Knowledge LT 15: I can explain how culture both reflects and shapes society.
Behavior LT 1: I can manage my responsibilities as a student.
Soundtrack: "American Pie" by Don McLean. Selected for today because we were talking more about American culture, and this song famously contains lots of references to it. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 10/10/17:
News Brief – Dahson
NG Slides
Our Culture
Cornell Notes
Homework: Read the blog. Check your grade in Student VUE and improve it, if possible. Next news brief: Zachary.
News Brief: Dahson brought in this article to talk about for the news brief today: BBC.com - Kenya's Raila Odinga quits election re-run. We found Kenya in the world map packet (the Africa map) and we talked for a bit about the situation with the recent election being redone there. Zachary was assigned the next news brief.
Next, we checked in about the weekend and anything else students wanted to talk about, before moving on.
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):
NG Slides: After the news, we finished the National Geographic culture slides activity from last class. I passed out this sheet last class (it is also on Google Classroom):
After that, we went through this slideshow of pictures from the National Geographic Photography: Culture website. Here are the photos we went through:
I love all of these pictures because the world is such a diverse and interesting place! I enjoyed the class guesses as to what was going on in each. At the end, I revealed where each photo was taken and a bit of a description, as well.
Our Culture: After the slides, we moved on to looking at what our own culture is like. I split students up into groups and had each group brainstorm the following: What is our culture like? With your group, brainstorm aspects of what culture is like at the following three levels. Use your culture traits from the slideshow last class!American Culture
Portland/Beaverton Culture
Westview Culture
I had a lot of fun listening to the examples given for each of these, which did do a good job of highlighting different elements of culture! I think it was really fun and productive in understanding culture.
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. We will look at these together next class! Here's the PowerPoint on culture that I wanted notes to be taken on (we were able to get to slide 10 in class):
Really, the Iceberg Model is all about what we cannot see. Last class, the National Geographic slides that we went through were all surface level culture. I want everyone to start thinking about DEEP culture - what is ingrained in us and we do not even think about.
That was it for the day! See you next class! :-)
That was it for the day! See you next class! :-)
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