We started to learn about culture. Culture is a huge concept, because it can be everything: language, custom, music, art…
First, we picked a novel from the several choice, I picked the book The Serpent’s Children. The book is written by Laurence Yep, He is an America born Chinese. He grew up in San Francisco. He said :”I’m too American to fit in China town but I’m too Chinese for everything..”
We’ve done the culture map. Culture map shows the culture of our home country. I choose to do about food because I love delicious food. I went on internet to search of my favorite Taiwanese food pictures.
After that we did the assessment task to show how far we’ve learned about Culture. I was going to choose to do a story about an outsider getting used to a new environment and learning new culture. But I started it too late and my English writing skill is not perfect enough for writing an English story so I choose to do the power point because it’s easier and the fastest for me to show my understanding in the best way. But I think my power point was too simple and there weren’t enough information. But the information I’ve done was clear. I’ve show my understanding of culture and how does culture related the book The Serpent’s Children and some of the Taiwanese culture. From my point of view I didn’t find out so much difference between Chinese culture and the Taiwanese culture. But the really cool and different Taiwanese culture is from the aborigines’ culture. They are still living in an ancient way but many Taiwanese like it because it still has the original thing and culture inside.