Dear global studies students!
Thanks for another wonderful day of class. I appreciate your willingness to struggle through tough assignments - especially ones that require you to think deeply about your own culture and experience. Here's what we worked on today:
Learning Targets:
Thanks for another wonderful day of class. I appreciate your willingness to struggle through tough assignments - especially ones that require you to think deeply about your own culture and experience. Here's what we worked on today:
Learning Targets:
- I can explain how culture both reflects and shapes society (KN 15).
- I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing (CO 1).
- I can identify critical components of culture by analyzing the Nacireman society.
- RAP: Culture Bags! We started class with another round of excellent culture bags. Today we learned more about the difference between Hindu and Marantha, the importance of inter-generational family relationships, the value of rituals such as watching baseball with family, why cricket games last somewhere between two hours and five days, and the importance of family pets.
- Main Stage: Sharing our "Danger of a single story" narratives/poems. Students read aloud their "single stories" in groups and then gave one another appreciations and asked questions. The purpose of this assignment is threefold: 1) to give me a chance to get to know student writing, 2) to give students an additional opportunity to reflect about their culture, and 3) to provide a clear connection between the importance of stories in learning about culture (anthropology).
- Closing: We finished class by analyzing the critical components of the Nacireman society. Reading through this article, students should identity examples of surface, shallow, and deep culture as well as the types of attitudes, behaviors, rituals, ceremonies, religions, foods, languages, activities, etc. that influence their culture. I provided this handy graphic organizer students should complete to demonstrate their work and learning. Again, I'm sorry for the old article, and the strange reading. This is an important culture for us to get to know more deeply, and I am confident you'll find it valuable.