TFA 2.2 WEDNESDAY
DO NOW: review your 3-2-1 reading journals in preparation for three- group discussion
Objectives:
- identify problems with seeing one’s culture as the norm.
Agenda:
- do now
- Socratic Seminar, ch. 4-5- make sure to politely bring people in who haven’t spoken! (10)
- Class discussion: Sharing main topics of interest/ observations
- RITUALS: Do some of the Igbo rituals/superstitions seem strange or interesting to you?
-What if we look at our own rituals in the same way, as if they are unfamiliar? -ex Thanksgiving; ceremonies; superstitions; walking under ladders/broken mirrors; game day traditions; raising hands…
5. Creative Writing-write 1-2 paragraphs describing one of our common American and/or religious rituals, and do your best to make it sound objective through using distance/outside perspective in your narrative voice.
Ex. Once a year, these people take huge red socks and hang them on nails over the hearth in the home- parents then fill them with gifts and treats and tell their children that a magically jolly, overweight, bearded man with a cookie addiction has come from the North in a flying sleigh and left them these gifts because they were good. The children usually believe their parents’ stories with great enthusiasm.
6. Share
7. Summarize: What is important about seeing the subjectivity of a culture’s norms?
HW: ch 6-8 + 3-2-1 Discussion Journal ; ORB reading- book clubs this week
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