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 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 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).

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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.