Westside High School Lesson Plan
Teacher Name:
Course:
Essie Washington
Sociology
Unit Name and #:
Dates:
Culture
Jan. 26-30
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: Define the meaning of the term culture and explain how material culture
and nonmaterial culture differ.
TEKS/AP/Standards:
1. Identify the elements of culture to include language, symbols, norms, and values.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
Warm-Up: Define Culture and draw a pictorial symbol of culture.
Monday
Activities:
1. Each students is to list 20 norms and to indicate whether each one is a folkways,
more, or law.
2. Class discussion.
Pair students for discussion on their culture and have one students introduce the other
students and give background on what they learned about the other student’s culture.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
Entrance/exit cards
Case studies section assessment questions
Checks for Understanding:
Exam
What do I need to be successful?
Materials:
Tuesday
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW:
What are we learning?
Daily Objective: Explain how the elements of culture form a whole culture.
TEKS/AP/Standards: I will be able to explain how the elements of culture form a whole
culture
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
Warm-Up- Make a list of some American values.
Activities:
1. Students will create a collage that illustrates each of the aspects of American
Culture.
Exit Slip
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
Exam
Entrance/exit cards
Checks for Understanding:
What do I need to be successful?
Materials:
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW:
What are we learning?
1. Daily Objective: I will be able to describe cultural universals and explain why they
exist.
2. I will be able to explain what the terms ethnocentrism and cultural
Relativism.
TEKS/AP/Standards: explain how the elements of culture form a whole culture.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
Wed/Thur
Warm-Up: Saudi marriage Article reading and class discussion.
Activities:
1. Review with students the term ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.
2. Paired Activity- Students will discuss and provide example sanctions in the
United States.
3. Each students will complete questionnaire and ethnocentrism inventory.
4. Debate/class discussion on ethnocentrism
5. Vocabulary Quiz
Exit Ticket: Writing what might a society be without norms and sanctions to enforce
those?
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
Entrance/exit cards
Graphic organizers debate on Ethnocentrism
Case studies
Checks for Understanding:
What do I need to be successful?
Materials:
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW:
What are we learning?
1. Daily Objective: I will be able to identify the factors that account for variations among
and within cultures.
2. I will be able to describe how belief affect culture.
3. TEKS/AP/Standards: Identify and describe the types of societies that exist in the world
today.
How will we learn it?
Learning Activities:
Friday
Warm Up: Reading on counterculture group. Class discussion
Activity: Lecture on Cultural Variation.
Class Discussion.
How will we tell if we’re learning it correctly?
Assessment Methods:
Entrance/exit cards
Verbal response questions
Graphic organizers
Checks for Understanding:
Exit ticket
What do I need to be successful?
Materials:
What do I need to before next class?
Follow Up/HW: