Culture, Day 5 - Class Recap

On the football field at Westview, later this past summer. Athletic events are a big part of Westview culture!

Hi everyone,

We continued learning about culture today! I also introduced the Culture Project that you will be working on the next couple of weeks. Here's the recap for today:

Learning Targets:
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: "Represent" by Weezer. Selected for today because we were talking about how people in different cultures represent themselves. This was also a pump up song for the 2010 World Cup. Lyrics here.

AGENDA 10/18/17:
News Brief – Kallie
Culture Project
Time for School
Plans for Friday

Homework: Read the blog. Turn in missing/incomplete geography work ASAP. Start working on your Culture Project! Be good for the substitute on Friday! Next news brief: Anya (then Kenzie on Tuesday).

News Brief: Kallie had the news brief today and talked about this story with the class: BBC.com - Quebec bans niqab for public services with neutrality law. We found the Canada in our world maps (in North America) and talked about this new law and the possible consequences regarding culture. Thanks, Kallie! Anya was assigned to do the next news brief (and then Kenzie on Tuesday).

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):

BBCNews.com - One-minute World News

Culture Project: This is one of the main assignments for the culture unit, and I hope it is interesting for students to work on! There are a lot of options of what to do - it could be writing, a visual, a presentation, or something else. I'm really interested in learning more about your own culture, and I hope that you are able to learn more about your own culture, too. Here's the assignment:

Google Drive - Culture Project Assignment

This will be due in class on Monday, October 30, so be working on it at home, bring work into class to do, and ask questions if you need help! Talk with me if you are thinking about doing something in the "Other" category!

Time For School: I really like this documentary as part of our unit on culture, because it is especially interesting to me to see how school and education is a part of different cultures around the world. Here was the handout that I gave to students to fill out as we were watching:

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 finished Part 1 of Time For School 3 today, if you missed class and need to catch up, or simply want to review it again:

PBS.org - Time For School 3 Documentary: Part 1

We also started Part 2, and finished class about 15 minutes in.

PBS.org - Time For School 3 Documentary: Part 2

We will finish this next class with the substitute on Friday and continue working on the culture project after that! Thank you!