Lesson CAA-1
Welcome! Please consider how your attitude affects your and other students' experiences of the lesson.
Be respectful, come prepared, and show interest to have the best possible educational experience.
Lesson goals
Learn about colonial history, postcolonialism and mimicry, cultural appropriation and the power dynamics behind it as well as how it can be understood today in an article on Americacore
Lesson activities
Warm-up exercise
Introduction lecture
Reading comprehension
Warm-up exercise
Warm-up exercise: This is fine
Time for the activity: ~5-10 minutes
On the floor is a range from this is fine to this is not fine. You are going to be given a series of statements to react to (these are not necessarily what we think).
Your task is to quickly stand on this line as a reaction to the statements. Please be prepared to motivate why you chose to stand there.
Introduction lecture
Reading comrehension
Time for the exercise: ~15-20 minutes
During this exercise, you will develop your reading skills
Take turns reading America as an Internet Aesthetic (Kyle Chayka, 2021)
Once done, discuss the quotes from the text with a classmate:
“It’s fine to appreciate another culture’s staples, she added, but strange to fetishize them”
“can’t we just let people enjoy things?”
Do you agree or disagree? One of your answers is your exit ticket
