Materials:
1. Crayons.
2. Watercolor.
3. Color pencils.
4. Glue.
5. Scissors.
6. Colored clays.
What is culture?
1.Individual work: in you note book write a short definition of the culture? What do you think when you hear the word culture?
Any concepts or ideas.
2.Group work: use the colors and posters to draw a cultural tree.
Be creative and write all the concepts you generate with/in your group.
Write one definition that summarizes the individual definitions.
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Goals and Objectives:
1. Introduce students to the concept of culture in a deductive way.
2. Assist students to come up with one definition that include all the terms they used to define culture.
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Sticky Notes: Concept Map
I used this activity to teach elements of research proposal. In each box there is a question about the research projects. and the students need to answer this question in a sticky notes and stick on the box. As they finish, they should have a clear plan of what to include in their research proposal.
Materials: Handout + Sticky notes
Round-table Feedback
One of my favorite peer-reviewing assignments is the round-table feedback. I divide students randomly into smaller stations (groups) and ask them to discuss and review each others' drafts according to the assigned guidelines.
I usually play soft music on the background and ask my students to speak loudly and move freely within their stations.
Showing Vs Telling
I divided students into smaller groups.
I gave each group a story to read.
the students had to draw the story.
Then I gave them another version of the same story.
after that they tape their stories on the board and discuss the differences between the two stories and how did they feel when they drew them?
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Materials:
Poster paper.
Colored Markers and Crayons.
Glue tape.
Snapchat interaction: this activity will substitute the present life assignment. Every week three students will be selected randomly to sign in MLWENGL101 snapchat account to share their daily life in USA and review any product of their choice. This product can be a book, a movie, something they recently bought or campus life ...etc. Each of those students will have the account for two days. When your assigned period is over you need to go the Facebook group and write one paragraph reflection on this experience.
In this activity, the students are asked to use Instagram template and use it as the real electronic Instagram. They need to post a picture and write a description under this picture. the purpose of this assignment is to explain the concept of audience. In that, the students write different posts for a different audience.
Materials:
Picture.
paper glue.
Activity credit Dr. Maria Prikhodko.
Apartment for rent
I divided students into five groups.
four groups are renting agencies and the fifth group is the customers.
I gave the renting agencies photos of apartments, scissors, colored papers, glue.
I asked the fifth group to decide on their requirements for the apartment the rental agencies need to be descriptive, persuasive and creative to convince the customers.
They put their posters on the wall and the customers move around and decide which apartment they liked according to the given description.
As a class, we discussed the customers' (audience) choice vs. agencies' (author) description.
The Rhetoric of Announcement Boards
1. Students go in small groups outside the classroom and take pictures of one of the flyers or posters on the announcement boards.
2. when they come back to the class, they need to answer two questions:
a. who are the audience of the poster? what is the purpose of the poster and what is the context?
b. what are the modes of communication and strategies that the author use to appeal to the audience?
Iphone Vs Android
1. students are divided into two groups.
2. each group is divided into four smaller groups.
3. the two groups are iPhone fans and android fans.
4. each of the smaller group has to respond to one question (I put the questions in an envelope).
the questions are:
1. what is your story behind buying this phone?.
2. what are the features of the phone?
3. why did you choose one phone over the other?
4. Do a quick research on how many people are using the phone?
when they finish, each group go to the board and post their answer followed by a class discussion.
