Culture
p.38
Individual
• What is your own definition of Culture?
• Write it down
Group
• As a group share your individual definition of
culture
• Then as a group decided on a group definition
• Each person needs to write the group definition
down
Person with the tallest socks: Write the definition on
the board
So what is culture?
• Major Elements
• Asian vs. American Culture
• American Kids and Culture
• Australians Taste American Sweets
• Americans try Indian McDonalds
• Village Africans in American Cities
• 10 Surprising Ways to offend People in other Countries
EQ: Where Does Culture Come From?
Know: Where culture comes from.
Do: Watch clips over culture and take Cornell notes
• Read in your books: p. 38-44 stop at Values
• Take Cornell Notes
• Make sure to include heading and subheadings
Stop
• Culture Characteristics Quiz
Day 2 Culture:
• 1.Answer the Essential Question from the day before in your
Cornell notes on the summary section.
• 2. In the section of your notes “The Building Blocks of
Culture”
• Draw a symbol in the margin of your Cornell notes for each of the
subheadings :
1. Distinguish one culture from another,
2.Unifidy or Divide a society
3.Change over time.
Discussion
Culture and Language:
• Discussion how is language a symbol?
• Computer Google Docs:
• Share Document Enter email addresses into Winnie’s Doc
Task:
Part 1: Get on a computer and post to the Google Doc examples “
Why language is a symbol” Explain in our own words after the link
or picture.
Part 2: Look at two other students posts and make a comment on
each. The comment should further discussion not just (yep, that’s
cool/awful).
stop
Day 3: Values
•Values: The standard by which people
define what is good or bad, moral or
immoral, proper or improper, desirable or
undesirable, beautiful or ugly.
Individual Values
• As an individual put these values in order of importance:
1 (most) and 10 (least).
Group Values
• How do your values align with your group mattes.
• As a group: Come up with your collective 1 (most) 10 (least)
important values
• Explain why you listed 1-5 the way you did under each value.