Lesson on Culture and Identiy

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 4

What is the difference between customs and values?

Logic

Premise One

All experience is local (or our experience is where we're from)

Premise Two

All identity is experience 

Conclusion 

Therefore my identity is defined by where I have been. 

What's The Line Between Stereotyping, Celebrating Culture?

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Word Bank - copy the following words in your notebook. Find the meaning, find a synonym, find an antonym. Use it in a sentence

multicultural             globalisation                  association    appearances            stereotypes                    communication 

wordly                          diverse                             culture clash

identity                         race                                  ritual

customs                       values                              abroad

habits                             foreign                            heritage

roots                               third culture kid          nomad

                              

Why the Myth of the “Savage Indian” Persists Handout 

 

1. Why define your reading purpose?

The intensity with which to read differs between reading 

a novel 

a poem 

an informative text for fun

an academic text to study 

the prescription of your medicine

to locate information

2. Previewing and Predicting

• You are about to read the text on the handout 
• On the next page you see a part of this text
• Look at it and predict what the text is about

Peter Pan, the beloved children’s classic, is sure to stun modern readers with its descriptions of “redskins” carrying “tomahawks and knives,” their naked bodies glistening with oil. “Strung around them are scalps, of boys as well as of pirates,” J.M. Barrie writes. The language, and the characterization, would be read as an offensive stereotype today, hardly helpful in creating realistic or healthy views of Indigenous peoples.

Such characterizations, it turns out, are rife—and not just in older, “classic” works that might be explicable as products of their time. They are evident in television and literature modern enough to have fed the brains of people now parenting children of their own.

2. Previewing and Predicting

Why? You have already created a framework of the text: you know where the text is heading. This helps you to understand the text better. 

How? THIEVES-technique

Title and Heading 

Why the Myth of the “Savage Indian” Persists

By Virginia McLaurin
 

Iconic children’s books and popular media that Gen Xers grew up with are riddled with damaging Native stereotypes—but things may finally be shifting. 

2. Previewing and Predicting

• Now look at the Every first sentence of every paragraph. Highlight the important words
• What do you think the text is about? 
  
• Does this change your predictions?

3. Activating background knowledge

Why? "It is easier to learn something new if you can link it to something you already know." 

How? Word web

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140512101527.htm

It is easier to learn something new if you can link it to something you already know. A specific part of the brain appears to be involved in this process: the medial prefrontal cortex. These findings further enhance our understanding of the brain mechanisms that underlie effective learning. A researcher added a tip for secondary school students taking their final exams: "If you don't immediately know the answer to a question, you could first try recalling what you already know about that topic. This might help you to come up with the right answer after all."

While reading

1. Comprehension monitoring & Repair Strategies

2. Annotation

2. Annotation

= adding notes or remarks on a piece of writing

• active text interaction
• helps you to monitor understanding
• results in better comprehension and memorization

Lesson Two 

Show annotation 

Just reading or annotating?

What do you remember about annotation?

What do you remember about the paragraph starting with: (see next slides)

Animals

OPOSSUM, Skunk, coyote, raccoon, moose, woodchuck, and caribou, chipmunk, 

Food

Squash, chocolate, bar b que, advacado, corn 

Other

pwwow, tobaggan, teepee, poncho, hurricane, canoe, kayak, 

Geographical Terms

including states (Illinois, Delaware, Massachusett, Iowa, Kansas, Alabama, Missouri), cities and towns (Miami, Montauk, Mobile, Biloxi, Cheyenne, Natchez, Wichita, Spokan, Walla Walla, Yuma), rivers and lakes (Erie, Huron, Missouri), and mountains and deserts (Apalachee, Teton, Mohave, Shasta).

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Cultural appropriation is the adoption of an element or elements from one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity. This can be controversial when members of a dominant culture appropriate from disadvantaged minority cultures.

How does cultural appropriation affect indigenous people?

How does cultural appropriation affect indigenous people?

Effects of Cultural Appropriation

First, it tends to lock Indigenous peoples into the past without acknowledging that they are still living, practicing sacred ceremonies and that contemporary

 Indigenous peoples extend their worldviews and livelihood throughout all segments of society.

What is the culturally appropriate term for Native American?

The consensus, however, is that whenever possible, Native people prefer to be called by their specific tribal name. In the United States, Native American has been widely used but is falling out of favor with some groups, and the terms American Indian or Indigenous American are preferred by many Native people.

Why do they call Native Americans Indians?

American Indians - Native Americans

The term "Indian," in reference to the original inhabitants of the American continent, is said to derive from Christopher Columbus, a 15th century boat-person. Some say he used the term because he was convinced he had arrived in "the Indies" (Asia), his intended destination.

Stereotyping good or bad?

What are Point of stereotypes?

According to Simply Psychology, we use stereotypes to simplify our social world and reduce the amount of processing (i.e. thinking) we have to do when meeting a new person by categorising them under a 'preconceived marker' of similar attributes, features, or attitudes that we observe.

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