TFA 3.2 TUESDAY

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:

1. do now
2. Socratic Seminar, ch. 4-5- make sure to politely bring people in who haven’t spoken!  (10)
3. Class discussion: Sharing main topics of interest/ observations
4. 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