1. Preview Discussion Culture Sort
Targets: I can describe the social institutions of culture and analyze their impact on society.
1.2 Social Institutions
1.2 You have been asked to mail a culture box to a school in another country. The items included in the culture box are expected to describe the culture in America. What three items would you send and why?
Agenda
Preview
Discussion
Culture Sort

2. What to do first today? Write target in agenda. Get out homework
Review homework
Turn it into the box make sure names are on both sheets
Write score on grade sheet
Get out blank notebook paper

3. Culture Sort
In groups of four you will receive a list of 15 items. Cut the words apart and place them into 5 groups (3 items in each group).
Each group must have three items
Each group must be named with the name connecting to each item
Justify the name of the group by explaining how each item connects

4. Checkbook.
Family Tree.
Gavel.
Family Photograph.
Agenda.
Star of David.
Constitution.
$5 bill.
Cross.
Report Card.
Birthday Candle.
Speeding Ticket.
Dime.
Book of Mormon.
Textbook.

5. Notes (Back of Paper) Social Institutions Examples/Definitions
Family ________________________
Religion ________________________
Government ________________________
Economy ________________________
Education _________________________

6. Thoughts to Ponder…
COMPARE--Explain how social institutions of culture are the same between different groups.
CONTRAST--Explain how social institutions of culture are different between different groups.

8. Meet Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou is one of the most influential voices of our time. However, she had a turbulent childhood. After her parents’ divorce, she was sent to live with her grandmother in racially divided Stamps, Arkansas, where she experienced the brutality of racial discrimination. She also absorbed the unshakable faith and values of traditional African American family, community and culture. After being sent back to live with her mother, she was raped at the age of eight by her mother’s friend. She confided in the abuse to her brother, leading to the rapist’s arrest. Upon getting out of jail, the rapist was killed (many believe by Maya’s uncles). She believed her voice killed him because she told her brother of the crime. Subsequently, she went mute for nearly six years. She was then sent back to live with her grandmother where a teacher helped her regain her voice, her confidence and her pride. She went on to become a author, actress, journalist and civil rights worker and teacher, using her voice for positive change.

9. Still I Rise (annotation)
Read the Poem “Still I Rise”
VIPs that allow you to understand who the speaker is
Drawings next to words/phrases that exhibit emotion
VIPs that allow you to understand the audience (who the poem is directed to)
Assign the poem a theme (write next to title)
How has your own knowledge, experiences, cultural identify and social institutions influenced the way you interpret the poem?

10. Socratic Questions
How do differences in social institutions create unity? How do those differences cause division?
How do I respond when faced with tough circumstances?
How has my schema (background and experiences) contributed to the person I have become?
How and why does society continue to put down certain groups?
For what do I want my voice to be used?

11. ‘Appalling’ Situation
As you read the editorial, please reflect on the Socratic Questions:
How do differences in social institutions create unity?
How do those differences cause division?

13. What is Socratic Seminar

14. Socratic Seminar is…
It is not…
A dialogue where one listens to the other side and works together to understand, find meaning and find agreement.
Debate.
Conversations are flexible and creates an open-minded attitude.
Sticking with only one point of view and refusing to see things another way.
Where participants feel free to express their ideas while careful not to attack another’s person’s opinions.
Students creating a close minded attitude where they are determined to be right.
It is ok to change your position based on the discussion.
Students defends their positions and see it as a sign of weakness to change one’s position.

15. Socratic Questions
How do differences in social institutions create unity? How do those differences cause division?
How do I respond when faced with tough circumstances?
How has my schema (background and experiences) contributed to the person I have become?
How and why does society continue to put down certain groups?
For what do I want my voice to be used?

16. Written Reflection Rubric

17. KYA and KUNA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04KhNo33toM