10/24 & 10/25 English 10

Enduring Understandings Culture is both helpful and harmful. No matter race, religion, traditions, or socioeconomics, people share similar successes and challenges across cultures.

Guiding Questions What is culture? What common experiences exist across cultures? How and why do race, religion, traditions, and socioeconomics impact the perception of a culture? How can culture be both helpful and harmful?

Journal Prompt Write about a culture (other than your native one) that you've experienced or would like to experience

Vocabulary Culture Sub-Culture Stereotypes Perception

Culture The beliefs, customs, practices, and social behavior of a particular nation or people. Including art, music, literature and related intellectual activities.

What’s the culture?

Sub-Culture Are groups whose values and related behaviors are so distinct that they set their members off from the general culture. Each subculture is a world within the larger world of the dominant culture, and has a distinctive way of looking at life, but remains compatible with the dominant culture.

Sub-Culture U.S. society contains thousands of subcultures, some as broad as the way of life we associate with teenagers, others as narrow as body builders or philosophers. Ethnic groups often form subcultures with their own language, distinctive food, religious practices and other customs.

What sub-culture’s exist at MVHS?

“Preppies” Jocks Beauty Queens Social Butterflies “Miscellaneous” Punks Goths Skaters Hippies Dorks Jokesters “Nerds and Geeks” Left brained nerds Academic Cutthroats Literature Sci Fi Comic Books Techies Gamers “Artsy Fellows” Music Actors/Actresses Performers artists

Stereotypes A fixed impression which may have little basis in fact, but is nevertheless perpetuated by persons unwilling to look more deeply into the matter.

What does it mean to be a…. “Preppies” Jocks Beauty Queens Social Butterflies What does it mean to be a…. “Nerds and Geeks” Left brained nerds Academic Cutthroats Literature Sci Fi Comic Books Techies Gamers “Miscellaneous” Punks Goths Skaters Hippies Dorks Jokesters “Artsy Fellows” Music Actors/Actresses Performers artists Looking for adjectives here to define these subcultures

Perception An attitude or understanding based on what is observed or thought

Objective/CCSS Students will be able to: Identify culture on a personal level Become aware of hidden parts of our culture Identify claim in writing CCSS: W.10.1; Literacy.10.4; Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary describing political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.