Spotlight on Learning - Unbox Your Culture
Spotlight on Learning - Unbox Your Culture
Teacher Reflection:
At this level, I chose to do a "Guided Inquiry" with my students. My students were asked to do an unboxing presentation. This a a popular TikTok video where people unbox a product and review it live in front of their subscribers. I had the students put cultural artifacts in a box and "unveil" them to their group. They discussed food, clothing, music, sports, holidays etc. using verbs and game me a chance to see which students were able to work independently and which students were still struggling with basic structures. I was excited to see students embrace their culture and share it with their classmates. It was interesting to see the different artifacts that students brought in to represent the information they were discussing in their presentations. Although a second language class doesn't always have the vocabulary necessary to give a presentation as they would in their first language, it was great to see students pushing themselves to find a way to communicate their thoughts using the vocabulary and structures they had at their disposal. I was truly amazed at the students' insight when comparing cultures, and that they concluded that our countries have more similarities than differences.
Student Reflection:
In this project full of cultures, something that stood out was how similar the countries were with one another. What I mean by this is that one country in. North America could play the exact same thing as a country in South America. Another thing that was interesting was how the colours of the French speaking countries were green, yellow or red a lot of the time. I challenged myself by breaking out of my comfort zone by not only bringing objects from my country but also presenting in a language (French) that i am not comfortable with. I learned many new things about unique countries. I learned that countries could be almost identical or opposites. It was very fun!