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English 9 Introduction:Short Story Unit, Literature, Language, and Culture
What is Culture?
How to take notes from a picture slide presentation• Set up your page with a date and title (“What is culture?”).
• Sit and listen while I talk at the slide.
• Take a moment to process information.
• What does the slide show? Point form.
• Use colour / highlighter pens to categorize / visually process.
• Look for categories. Build the concept.
• Review: read over, summarize, categorize.
• Teach another, say it out loud.
Your job is to learn what culture is…• You will view a series of EIGHT images.
• These images help you to understand the definition of culture.
• As you view the images, glean as much information as you can from them.
• On your paper, write the slide number and brainstorm a list of ideas, information, questions, and observations, about what culture might be.
• Listen to what I say, but think for yourself too.
• Use the note-taking strategy: watch, think, process, summarize, simplify, use colour, and take some simple point form notes.
#1: What is culture? This is culture:
Education: A school in Pakistan and a classroom in Revelstoke.
#2: What is culture? This is culture:
Hindu Holi Festival of spring, love, and colour.
Traditional American Christmas light display.
#3: What is culture? This is culture:
#4: What is culture? This is culture:
This is a hard one: what are they doing? Why do they care?
#5: What is culture? This is culture:
#6: What is culture? This is culture:
#7: What is culture? This is culture:
This is another tough one- look at what it shows.
What is culture? This is culture:
I would also include, how people live, love, and worship…
What is culture? What does it have to do with English?
• Culture is everything in our world that is not biologically / mechanically based.
• Our culture is our community, our peer group, our society, and our way of looking at the world.
• Since literature is about understanding other human beings, and since language is about expressing ideas about our lives, we should probably know a little bit about how language and literature fit into our culture.
• Some examples of culture:
• Traditions, customs, holidays, celebrations.
• Art, music, literature, dance, poetry, movies.
• Money, work, housing, social status.
• Families and kinship arrangements.
• Religions, beliefs, morals, ethics, spirituality.
• Age and rites of passage.
• Gender roles.
• Food!
• Marriage, sex, and rituals around dating.
• Jokes, tricksters, and entertainment.
• Leadership and government.
So what is culture?
• Review your notes.
• Turn to a partner. Tell them what you learned / took notes on / think culture is.
• Have your partner tell you what they learned / took notes on / think culture is.
• Add to your notes with any new information.
• Read over your notes once again.