Aim: What are the typical cultural taboos and social etiquette in China, the Dominican Republic, and the United States?
Instructional Objectives: Students will be able to navigate the Internet for the source information on typical cultural taboos and social etiquette in China, the Dominican Republic, and the United States; integrate the facts they learn from one another; practice note taking skills.
Materials: computers with Internet access, notebooks, and pens.
Do Now: Go to your inbox to check if you have an e-mail reply from your teacher.
Homework review: Read your essay to your partner and correct each other's writing errors.
Motivation: Have three or four students volunteer to read to the class the e-mail they have received from their teachers. (This takes about five to seven minutes.)
Instructional activities:
1. Navigate the Internet for more information about cultural taboos
and social etiquette in China, the Dominican Republic, and America.
2. Take notes for informational writing. Students will find the following
sites helpful.
What is a taboo? Taboos
in America/China/Finland/Korea:
http://ruthvilmi.net/hut/Project/IWE/Journal/report_taboos.html
This site explains how we can consider taboos and the various examples
of taboos in different countries.
Hispanic cultural awareness:
http://globalnh.com/export/services.html?clickid=8&table=categories
This site tells us what cultural taboos we should avoid with illustrative
examples.
1st
paragraph
: introduce the controlling idea.
2nd
paragraph: describe some typical taboos and social etiquette.
3rd
paragraph: Write one or two detailed examples about the taboos described
in the second paragraph.
4th
paragraph: restate the controlling idea.
Homework assignment: To draft a report of informational writing titled "Cultural Taboos".