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Standard 7.2
Culture
All students will demonstrate an understanding of the perspectives
of a culture(s) through experiences with its products and practices. |
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Big Idea:
.Language and culture are mutually dependent. |
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7.2
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Interpretive Mode |
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Essential Questions |
Enduring Understandings |
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- How is language a product of culture?
- How are cultural perspectives (attitudes, values and beliefs)
reflected in a culture’s products and social practices?
- What role does stereotyping play in forming and sustaining
prejudices about other cultures? |
-Language reflects and is influenced by the culture in which it is
found.
- Cultural perspectives are gained by using the language and through
experience with its products and practices.
- Members of one culture may make assumptions about other cultures
based on their own attitudes, values and beliefs. |
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Cumulative Progress
Indicators |
Comments and Examples |
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Pre-Advanced Learner: |
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1.
Analyze how the changing economic and political environment influences
the development of new products and contemporary practices in the target
culture.
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2.
Compare and contrast how the target country(ies) and the U.S. deal with
current environmental issues. |
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3.
Compare and contrast varying perspectives that exist in different target
cultures as seen in television, film and other forms of the media. |
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4.
Compare and contrast tangible products of the target culture(s) to their
own culture and formulate a rationale about why people produce and use them. |
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7.2
B.
Interpersonal Mode |
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Essential Questions |
Enduring Understandings |
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- How is language a product of culture?
- How are cultural perspectives (attitudes, values and beliefs)
reflected in a culture’s products and social practices?
- What role does stereotyping play in forming and sustaining
prejudices about other cultures? |
-Language reflects and is influenced by the culture in which it is
found.
- Cultural perspectives are gained by using the language and through
experience with its products and practices.
- Members of one culture may make assumptions about other cultures
based on their own attitudes, values and beliefs. |
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Cumulative Progress
Indicators |
Comments and Examples |
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Pre-Advanced Learner: |
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Interact in a wide range of social and professional contexts that reflect
both peer-group and adult activities within the culture studied, using
appropriate etiquette in verbal or non-verbal communication.
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2.
Discuss culturally authentic selections listened to, read, or viewed to
demonstrate insights gained into the products, practices and perspectives of the
target culture(s).
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3.
Compare and contrast for discussion common social practices in the U.S.
and target culture(s) related to universal life events, such as birth, marriage,
and death. |
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4.
Analyze for discussion observable patterns of behavior and social
conventions of various age groups in the target culture(s) and compare them with
the U.S. |
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5.
Analyze for discussion relationships among past and current economic and
political structures and their impact on the perspectives of the culture(s)
studied. |
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7.2
C. Presentational Mode |
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Essential Questions |
Enduring Understandings |
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- How is language a product of culture?
- How are cultural perspectives (attitudes, values and beliefs)
reflected in a culture’s products and social practices?
- What role does stereotyping play in forming and sustaining
prejudices about other cultures? |
-Language reflects and is influenced by the culture in which it is
found.
- Cultural perspectives are gained by using the language and through
experience with its products and practices.
- Members of one culture may make assumptions about other cultures
based on their own attitudes, values and beliefs. |
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Cumulative Progress
Indicators |
Comments and Examples |
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Pre-Advanced Learner: |
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1. Develop a persuasive rationale showing how the study of the target
language and its culture(s) influences attitudes and views on diversity. |
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2.
Simulate activities characteristic of the transition between high school
and the workplace/university in the target culture. |
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