1. 10/24 & 10/25
English 10

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

3. 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?

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

5. Vocabulary
Culture
Sub-Culture
Stereotypes
Perception

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

7. What’s the culture?

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. What sub-culture’s exist at MVHS?

11. “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

12. 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.

13. 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

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

15. 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.