Culminating Activity: Jeff, Matt, Roland, Justin The Millennial Generation: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (Student Handout) It’s the year 2017! In groups of 4 or 5, create a presentation where you assume the identities of 17-18 year old representatives of the millennial generation. Much like Douglas Coupland (1991) did in his Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, you will craft a 30 minute presentation where you assess the influence of the previous generation on your society. Therefore, you will weigh the impact of the Echo Boom on your society, while indicating how your generation will distinguish itself and progress from the ideals, customs, and culture representative of the Echo Boom generation. A 1520 minute question period will follow your presentation where representatives from the class will have a chance to critique and offer feedback. While researching your project, you should consider these questions: 1) How do demographics for your generation compare or contrast with some of the different post-Second World War generations of the past? 2) Does your generation’s relationship with the Echo Boomers compare to the relationship shared between Echo Boomers and Baby Boomers? 3) Which generational subgroups from the past does your generation identify with the most? Which the least? 4) How have the demographics of your generation influenced your society? 5) Which aspects of Echo-Boomer culture (i.e. Fashion and Style, Arts and Entertainment, Sports and Fitness) do you hope will persist in your generation? Which aspects do you hope your generation will break away from? 6) In your opinion, how will your generation set itself apart and progress from the Echo Boom generation? Key themes to consider: Counterculture, Materialism, Immigration, Family structure, Political Activism Sexual Revolution, Suburbia, Education, Health Care, Gender Identity, Secularism Race Relations, World Economies, Mass Media. Culminating Activity: Jeff, Matt, Roland, Justin A) Culminating Activity Description: In Groups of 4 to 5, Students will prepare a 30 minute presentation using a combination of PowerPoint and an Engaging Classroom Activity to assess the impact of the Echo Boom on the Millennial generation. Thus, students will be able to weigh the impact of the Echo Boom on the Millennial society, while indicating how the current generation will distinguish itself and progress from the ideals, customs, and culture representative of the Echo Boom generation. B) Culminating Activity Expectations Enduring Understandings: 1) Students will be able to understand and identify what makes generations distinct and how they are inherently connected. 2) Students will critically evaluate and assess what forces shape social trends and how these concepts may impact Millenials. Overall Expectations: STV.01, STV.02, STV.03 C) Culminating Activity Major Details (Teacher Section) Planning Notes & Lesson Sequence: - - - - - In the first class of the unit, ask the students to go into groups of 3 to participate in a diagnostic Graffiti exercise where the teacher will pass out chart paper with several of the key themes of the unit to see where student knowledge is at with some of the topics to be covered in the unit. After the diagnostic activity, students will present what some of the words that may have been associated with the topic and will post their chart paper up on the wall. Can hold the class accountable to participate. The Teacher will follow the activity by defining some of the key concepts on an overhead, followed by handing out the culminating activity along with its rubric (See above). Make sure to highlight the questions students need to consider as well as the key concepts as they will be the basis for the 30 minute presentation. Take a Position!: Make sure students understand this presentation is not about the “regurgitation” of materials, rather to teach the class and critically evaluate how particular concepts of the Echo Boom will positively or negatively affect the Millennials. Ideas for the task: Promote the use of technology for students to use during the presentation (i.e. PowerPoint) but also kinesthetic aspects of utilizing the Culminating Activity: Jeff, Matt, Roland, Justin - classroom space. For instance, have the class form groups to look at how magazine articles during different generations to see the impact of materialism on society. Keeping the class attentive during the presentation is important. Make sure students understand that attendance is highly important during the presentations, as there will be a 10 mark component associated for Active Participation during the debate portion of the assessment (see below). D) Culminating Activity Evaluation (I know we have the rubric, but here is something for the participation component) Active Participation of the Audience: (Taken as an overall for all the presentations) /5 Communication: - Communicates information and ideas with a high degree of clarity and with confidence. Asks strong questions indicative of the presentations. /5 Knowledge/Understanding: - Demonstrates thorough and insightful understandings of the relationship between the key concepts presented through active participation during debates Poses critical questions to the presenters that invokes inquiry of the topic. Culminating Activity: Jeff, Matt, Roland, Justin Enduring Understandings Students will be able to understand and identify what makes generations distinct and how they are inherently connected Students will understand what shaped social trends and how they influenced each generation Students will be able to critique and differentiate the characteristics of their own generation and how their society has shifted from past generations Essential Questions Overall Expectations Specific Expectations How are the generations similar to each other? How are they different? What are the key sociological concepts that relate to the different generations? How has fertility and fecundity influenced cultural consistencies and changes overtime How are demography and culture linked? How has immigration influenced/changed culture in Canadian society? How has the family structure changed through the different generations? STV.02 : Assess the importance of demography as a tool for studying social trends ST1.03: Demonstrate an understanding of the social impact of the baby boom and echo boom and how they relate and differ from one another. STV.03: Demonstrate an understanding of the social forces that influence and shape trends How have the previous post second world war generations influenced the development of the generation Y culture (student’s generation)? What challenges does the present generation face in the future? STV.01: Appraise the differences and similarities in the approaches taken by sociology to the study of trends relating to the baby boom, fertility and fecundity and the life cycle (Mod) ST3.01: Demonstrate an understanding of the influence that sociological factors have on Canadian Culture (e.g. arts/entertainment, fashion/style, family, Canadian politics, Body and Mind) (Mod) ST1.02: Assess the sociological importance of the baby boom and echo boom to generation Y Culminating Activity: Jeff, Matt, Roland, Justin Schedule Week 1: Baby Boom: Monday – Thursday Monday: Net Migration (Population) Causes: World War 2 Immigration Tuesday: Nuclear Family Suburbia Recession Wednesday: Counter Culture Political Activism Sexual Revolution Thursday: Materialism Progressive Education Health care Library: Friday Week 2: Baby Boom: Monday AS THEY AGED: o Dependency Load o Pension funds o Ecotousim: travel based on nature Echo Boom: Tuesday – Thursday Tuesday: Population increase in certain locations (pg 161) family structure Wednesday: secularism Thursday: Education Culminating Activity: Jeff, Matt, Roland, Justin Library: Friday Week 3: Echo Boom: Monday – Tuesday Monday race relations improved Tuesday gender identity Millenniums: Wednesday – Thursday Wednesday Decrease in number of children o “Six-Pocket” Phenomenon – kids getting cash from parents and grandparents Education and its impact on economy (Double Cohort) Thursday Television and Radio aimed towards Youth – Reality Television (Survivor) Library / Work Period: Friday Week 4: Presentations Concepts (total list) Baby Boom Materialism Net Migration (Population) Causes: World War 2 Immigration Suburbia Nuclear Family Progressive Education Counter Culture Political Activism Sexual Revolution Recession Health care AS THEY AGED: Culminating Activity: Jeff, Matt, Roland, Justin o o o Dependency Load Pension funds Ecotousim: travel based on nature Echo Boom Population increase in certain locations (pg 161) family structure gender identity secularism race relations improved Education – Double Cohort Millenniums Decrease in number of children o “Six-Pocket” Phenomenon – kids getting cash from parents and grandparents Television and Radio aimed towards Youth – Reality Television (Survivor) Education and its impact on economy (Double Cohort)