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Lesson 3 Language and identity

​Learning Objectives

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  1. Recognize how identities are shaped.

  2. Search for news headlines containing immigrants and their roles.

  3. Identify how identities affect people in a real-life news event.

Module Overview
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Who are you? Where are you from? Nationality feels powerful, especially today. But the idea of identifying with millions of strangers just based on borders is relatively new. In this lesson, we want to explore why national identity was invented, what was it for, and how it changed the world.

Introduction

Explore the concept through visual images

Task 1

  • Look at these photos, and think about what does immigrant mean to you? What does the word immigrant illicit? 

  • Search for news headlines containing “immigrant." As you read, consider these guiding questions:

    • Type: What kind of content is this? News, opinion, or advertising? 

    • Source: Who and what are the sources cited?

    • Evidence: What is the evidence?

    • Interpretation: Is the main point of the piece proven by the evidence?

    • Completeness: What is missing?

    • Knowledge: Is there an issue that I want to learn more about?

  • What do you think immigrant means: immigrant=?                                                      

 

 

          Guiding questions developed by the course  SLS 737 Material development

  • Read two news articles about whether English should be used as a medium to teach and leave your comments below. 

  • Workers told, ditch local languages for English.

  • Buffalo schools try to keep pace with kids speaking 83 languages

Exploration

Working with sources through reading

Task 2

Expansion 

Integrating perspectives through reading 

Task 4

 

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