Essie Washington
Sociology Culture
Stage 3 – Learning Plan
DIFFERENTIATION (I-3)
SCAFFOLD:
ACCELERATE:
GROUP: Re-teach
Learning Activities:
Day 1
02/10/14
Learning Activities:
Objective: Differentiate between ethnocentrism and cultural relativism
Warm Up: What do the terms ethnocentrism and cultural relativism mean?
Activity: Review with students the term ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.
Students will write an essay in response to the following questions:
Should U.S citizens be allowed to perform traditional cultural practices that violate a state
or federal law? What general guidelines might be used to decide the issue on a case-bycase basis? Students will share their essay with class.
Homework: find old magazines and create a collage that illustrates each of the five aspects
of American Culture.(technology, symbols, language, values and norms)
Day 2:
02/11/14
Objective: Categorize factors that account for variations among and within cultures.
Warm-Up: What are the basic values that form traditional American Values?
Activity: Discuss subculture and counterculture. Students will get in group of 2 and read
handout about the different counterculture groups and then together write a short research
paper on the group. Class discussion on essays.
Day 3
02/12/14
Objective: Analyze how new values developed in the United States after 1970 have
changed the country’s culture.
Warm-Up: How have American values changed?
Day 4:
01/13/14
Day 5:
02/14/14
Activity: Class Debate on Ethnocentrism
SAME AS WEDNESDAY
Objective: Chapter 2
Test
Essie Washington
Sociology Culture