How is your life different from someone your age who lives in a rural area of Africa or from someone who lives in the city of Beijing, China?
Topic: CultureSession:
Date:
What factors shape your life? What do all of these factors together shape for you?
Culture is an integral part of every society. It is a learned pattern of behavior and ways in which a person lives his or her life.
Culture is essential for the existence of a society, because it binds people together. In the explicit sense of the term, culture constitutes the music, food, arts and literature of a society.
However, these are only the products of culture followed by the society and cannot be defined as culture.
Every society has a different culture, where people share a specific language, traditions, behavior, perceptions and beliefs.
Culture gives them an identity which makes them unique and different from people of other cultures.
When people of different cultures migrate and settle in another society, the culture of that society becomes the dominant culture and those of the immigrants form the subculture of the community.
Usually, people who settle in other nations imbibe the new culture, while at the same time strive to preserve their own.
Vocab:
CultureAnthropologistEthnic GroupLanguage FamilyDiffusion
Let's read!pages 89-90
Culture
Ms. Jamison's Culture Web
Complete your personal culture web.
Be sure to elaborate and describe each element of your culture in great detail.
Share your web with your partner.
Examine your web and think of three things/objects in your house that reflect your families culture.
List and describe each item below your web.
Discuss and describe these items with your partner.
WB: Based on your discussion with your partner, explain how your cultures are similar and/ or different.
Ti: How have you learned about your culture?
Respond to #3 on your handout.
Read page 91WB: Which medium do you think teaches culture the most?
Justify your reasoning.
ChristianityIslamBuddhismHinduismJudaism
World Religions
HQ: How could the five major religions be categorized into two groups based on commonalities?
Buddhism Hinduism
Christianity
Judaism
LanguagePages 94-95
Ti #2Which element of culture do you think links different ethnic groups together the most? Justify your reasoning.
Ti #3Which element of culture do you think is most divisive between ethnic groups the most? Justify your reasoning.
Homework: Chapter 4, page 95, #9
Topic: CultureSession:
Date:Warm-UP:
How is the culture of our school different from when your parents were in sixth grade?
Why do cultures change over time?
Reviewing Culture
Vocab:
Diffusion-the spread of ideas, inventions, and patterns of behavior from one group to another.
Speculate as to how this happens.
Cultural Hearth: the heartland of a major culture (where it starts).
WB: How are these examples of cultural change?
Working with your partner, list, illustrate and explain:
·2 inventions in transportation that have brought cultural change. (#5)
·3 in communication that have brought cultural change.
Which invention has brought the greatest cultural?(#6)
WB: How does human migration lead to cultural change?
Cultures change over time.Prove it!
#4 Read pages 97-99 and then PROVE the following statement to be TRUE
using FOUR SPECIFIC terms and examples!
How did the video make you feel about cultural diversity?
WB:Explain the symbolism of the colors in the video?
What was the creator's message?
How has our study of cultural impacted you? How do we benefit from cultural diffusion?
Topic: Globalization Session: Date:
Warm-Up:
Warm-Up:
Explain why some cultural changes might be rejected? (page 100)
Attachments
CultureJamison[1].ppt
World Religions game.ppt
Islam.mov
Buddhism.ppt
Hinduism.mov
judaism.mov
christianity.mov
cultural beliefs.mov
Hearth__Cultural_Diffusion__and_Regions.mov
Diffusion.ppt
