On the football field at Westview, later this past summer. Athletic events are a big part of Westview culture!
Hi everyone,
We continued learning about culture today! I also introduced the Culture Project that you will be working on the next couple of weeks. Here's the recap for today:
Learning Targets:
Knowledge LT 15: I can explain how culture both reflects and shapes society.
Behavior LT 1: I can manage my responsibilities as a student.
Soundtrack: "Represent" by Weezer. Selected for today because we were talking about how people in different cultures represent themselves. This was also a pump up song for the 2010 World Cup. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 10/18/17:
News Brief – Trent
Culture Project
Time for School
Plans for Friday
Homework: Read the blog. Turn in missing/incomplete geography work ASAP. Start working on your Culture Project! Be good for the substitute on Friday! Next news brief: Everett (then Derek on Tuesday).
News Brief: Trent had the news brief today and talked about this story with the class: BBC.com - Spain warns Catalonia on self-rule as deadline looms. We found the Spain in our world maps (in Europe) and talked about the ongoing conflict over the region of Catalonia. Thanks, Trent! Everett was assigned to do the next news brief (and then Derek on Tuesday).
We also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
This will be due in class on Monday, October 30, so be working on it at home, bring work into class to do, and ask questions if you need help! Talk with me if you are thinking about doing something in the "Other" category!
Time For School: I really like this documentary as part of our unit on culture, because it is especially interesting to me to see how school and education is a part of different cultures around the world. Here was the handout that I gave to students to fill out as we were watching:
Again, the point to this was to analyze how we see surface culture and what deeper culture is like in different areas around the world.
We finished Part 1 of Time For School 3 today, if you missed class and need to catch up, or simply want to review it again:
We also started Part 2, and finished class about 6 minutes in.
We will finish this next class with the substitute on Friday and continue working on the culture project after that! Thank you!
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