John+Robbins+Round+1

=Nacerima= 2) Discuss thoughts/feelings about the Nacirema culture. 3) Ask if anyone can identify who the Nacirema are? 4) Reveal that we are the Nacirema. 5) Ask students why you presented Nacirema to them in the way that you did. 6) Explain that everything that we do is to meet our basic needs for living a comforable life, and that our resources dictate our lifestyle. 7) Have students write their own article in the same style as Nacirema (using non specific terminology). ||
 * **Title**: ||< Nacirema ||
 * **Subject**: ||< Social Studies ||
 * **Grade**: ||< 6 ||
 * **Time Frame**: ||< 35-45 Minutes ||
 * **Summary:** ||< Read "Body Rituals Among the Nacirema" article to help students recognize that our culture could be viewed as strange by others and that we are just doing what we need to do to live a comfortable life. ||
 * **Tasks**: ||< 1) Read "Body Rituals Among the Nacirema" article (adapted for middle schoolers).
 * Objectives: ||< * What State, Common Core or other objectives does this activity/lesson project meet?
 * Please include at least one !gnite objective here as well (communication with text and non-text resources, collaboration, higher order thinking skills, problem solving, etc.) ||
 * Assessment: ||< *Assess through class conversation.
 * Use a back channel such as Today's Meet to encourage all to share what they took from the lesson.
 * Students can write an article explaining an American tradition or pasttime using non technical terminology (this allows them to further see how some of our norms could be considered strange by others). ||
 * Resources: ||< * [[file:Nacirema+Lesson.pdf]] ||
 * **Teacher**
 * Reflections:** || This lesson is a great opportunity for students to reflect on themselves and consider the idea that our norms would be considered strange to someone from another culture. The big understanding should be that we all have different needs and that our customs are a reflection of us using the resources that we have available to meet these needs. It sets a great foundation for being open minded when studying other cultures and in life in general. I felt like it was a very successful lesson and something that I can remind my students of throughtout the year. ||
 * **Examples**: ||< * Student work examples: [[file:nacirema.docx]] ||

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