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Lesson goals
Lesson goals
Deeepen your understanding of the culture war by writing about various examples
Lesson activities
Lesson activities
Vocabulary Quiz
Class Feedback Exercise
Writing Exercise
Vocabulary Quiz
Vocabulary Quiz
🕒~20 minutes
✍️By yourself @ Exam.net
🎯Connect the vocabulary and create new sentences
Enjoy practicing the vocabulary with a game!
Open Exam.net and choose the broad (less challenging) or narrow (more challenging) quiz
Match the vocabulary and definitions
Rewrite or rephrase the sentences using the words
Be mindful of your spelling; incorrect spelling does not yield any points
Rephrasing - how it works
Rephrasing - how it works
Read the first sentence. Complete the second sentence so that is has a similar meaning to the first sentence by putting the word in bold in the blank space (...) . Change the word if necessary. You must use between two and five words. For example:
Perhaps we took the wrong way.
Might
We (...) the wrong way.
Correct answer: We might have taken the wrong way.
Class Feedback Exercise
Class Feedback Exercise
🕒~10-15 minutes
✍️By yourself or together with a classmate(s), complete the worksheet
🎯Improves your writing skills by correcting learning from the feedback
Content: Fact, Example, Implication
Learn to use source material to support a point, not as the main point, by going beyond what the data says to why it matters and/or what the implications are.
Instuctions:
Read the two factual sentences
For each fact, write two follow-up sentences using specific examples
State the broader significance/consequence of that fact (in your own words)
People in the U.S. have different opinions about what cancel culture means. Almost half (49%) say it’s about holding people responsible for their actions. About 14% think it’s a kind of censorship or limit on free speech, and 12% believe it’s about hurting someone’s reputation on purpose.
Is calling out others on social media productive behavior?
According to the survey, 16% of people who view callouts as accountability think they are productive, while 13% of those who view them as punishment argue that they are not productive.
Language: Variation, Precision, Accuracy
Instuctions: replace the underlined verb phrase in each sentence with a more sophisticated synonym from the box below.
Synonym
To Formally State/Report a Fact: suggest, indicate
To Argue/Maintain a Position: claim, maintain
To Define/Explain: describe, define
To Express an Opinion: express, comment
Some might say it is a good thing because people should be held accountable for their actions.
Critics say that calling people out often causes more harm than good.
Those who view it as helpful often say it can teach people to improve or prevent harmful behavior.
Writing Exercise
Writing Exercise
🕒~20-30 minutes
✍️By yourself, write ~200-300 words @ Exam.net choosing the broad, narrow or deep paths. This is your exit ticket!
🎯Develops your writing skills and you will receive feedback on 1) your ability to describe the culture wars, 2) clarity of your explanations and 3) accuracy (spelling & grammar)
Instructions
Instructions
You will have access to a website about the history of woke
Use some of the examples to:
Introduce the culture wars, cancel culture and/or woke
Explain two key milestones
Come to a conclusion
Title: The History of Woke
Example Sentences:
In the 1940s… Later in the 1960s… By the 2010s… Today …
Woke means ...
Cancel culture means ...
To summarise, in this text I have discussed ... and ...
These have been important to woke and cancel culture, since ...
Instructions
Instructions
Write a text where you describe the historical milestones that you have studied. Explain the historical events: what happened and what impact they had concerning the culture wars.
Title: (you decide)
For example:
Lead Belly and the Scottsboro Boys
George Floyd and Black Lives Matter
Elon Musk and the "Woke Mind Virus"
Summarise your ideas, claims, statements, examples or arguments into ~100 words. These may be brought to the writing part of lesson DCW-3.
Instructions
Instructions
You will have access to quotes from the article Americans and ‘Cancel Culture’: Where Some See Calls for Accountability, Others See Censorship, Punishment. Use 1-2 the quotes to describe the different perspectives on cancel culture.
Title: Cancel Culture - Accountability or Censorship?
Support your reasoning by giving examples from your own experience alongside the quote(s).
Homework
Homework
Watch the grammar video
Exit ticket
Exit ticket
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