Culture! Culture! Culture!

This week we have been exploring culture through books and videos the past few days, and have finished this by creating "Culture Diagrams" comparing and contrasting China, Afghanistan, and the United States.  It's interesting to watch Sixth Graders process this information, and it leads to so great questions.

We have also been watching the documentary "God Grew Tired of Us" which is about the Lost Boys of Sudan.  We are watching this to observe the culture of Sudan, and to watch the process of acculturation.  We are also seeing glimpses of ethnocentrism as the young men from Sudan struggle to become American.

When we are doing this kind of work, work that is long-term, there is not homework.  Next Monday, however, we will return to the textbook, and there will be questions that need to be answered base on the reading,  so there is the potential for homework.

Have a safe weekend!

Cathy