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.