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Here are the teacher pack items for Northern and Central South America: Society and Culture:
Overview In this experience, students explore society and culture in Northern and Central South America through storytelling and other cultural expressions. They examine a Colombian folktale and consider how folktales can communicate ideas, values, and lessons. Students then investigate another aspect of Colombian culture and create a cultural profile. Finally, they research a cultural tradition or practice from another country in the region and create a mini museum display showing what it reveals about that society or culture. Objectives:
Countries in the same region may share some languages, traditions, or historical influences, but each country also has its own cultural patterns and social traditions.
In this experience, you will first take a closer look at Colombia to examine several parts of its society and culture. Then you will explore other countries in Northern and Central South America to compare cultural expressions, traditions, and ways of life across the region.
Objectives:
The great Colombian author and Nobel Prize in Literature winner Gabriel García Márquez once wrote in a story:
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
What do you think the author means in this quote? How might an author’s writing reflect aspects of the culture, history, or experiences of the country they come from?
When you are finished, discuss your ideas with someone sitting near you.
Encourage students to explain the meaning of the quote in their own words and support their interpretation with details from the author’s words. For the second part, students may note that authors can reflect aspects of a country’s culture through the settings, traditions, conflicts, values, language, or experiences they choose to write about. Remind students that one author can offer one perspective on a society, but no single writer represents the experiences or culture of an entire country.
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