Lesson 10 – Identity Presentations and Mask Reading

Identity Presentations
You gave your presentations on your experiences and the Dan Gilbert TED Talk.

Next Tuesday (10/29) you will give your presentation about food or personal space.


Reading: Why Wear a Mask?
You read and began to discuss the article on wearing masks.

You will give a presentation on one of the three roots of collectivism (wa, amae, or enryo) or about masks in Japan on 11/7).

Lesson 8 – Megumi Nishikura Talk

Now, we have all watched the Megumi Nishikura (director of Hafu) TED Kyoto talk. Please continue to think about these issues as we will watch episodes of the documentary together going forward. You can see her talk again below.






Presentation Schedule
Future Self Presentation 10/22
Food Presentation 10/24 (not 10/29)

Lesson 7 – Canceled

Because of my tooth problem, I canceled the lesson. The new dates for your presentations are below:

Future Self Presentation 10/22

Food Presentation 10/24 (not 10/29)

Lesson 6 – Collectivism

Reading – The Three Roots of Collectivism
We read the article about three concepts: wa, amae, and enryo. Research the concepts more to prepare for a future presentation.


Presentation Preparation
Prepare for your presentation (10/15) on the TED Talk by Dan Gilbert: The Psychology of Your Future Self. Your presentation should be about 5 minutes and summarize the talk and give examples from your own experience.


2nd Presentation
On 10/22 you will give a presentation on your chosen article. Prepare your talk to be for an intercultural audience.

Lessons 4 & 5

You each talked with me about the food article, So Many Choices! After that, we watched a video about the experience of hafu. 

We will watch more episodes of this documentary during the next few weeks because it is good material to understand intercultural issues.

Lesson 3 – Dan Gilbert TED Talk (cont)

Dan Gilbert TED Talk (cont)
We watched the video again and then read through the transcript.

Finish reading the transcript and be prepared to talk about it and your own experiences on Thursday. 

• Here are some questions to think about:
• How have you changed over the past 10 years (values, personality, likes and dislikes, etc…)?
• How do you expect you will change in the next 10 years?
• After learning this, what you should think or do?

Homework
Also, read the new handout So Many Choice! and be prepared