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Lesson 1 (from Chapter 1, Introduction, Inventing Traditions)

Objective

In the first chapter, Hobsbawm states that some traditions establish or symbolize social cohesion and group membership. Today's objective is to talk about group membership.

Lesson

1. Have each student list all the groups to which they have belonged. What were the rules or shared experiences that kept the group together?

2. In smaller groups, have students discuss a negative experience that they had as a result of belonging to a group.

3. As a class, have the students debate the positives and negatives of belonging to a group. What traditions are the most effective at generating social cohesion?

4. Homework: Have each student write about traditions at the school/community/country level that establish or symbolize social cohesion.

5. Homework: Have students research and write about the rituals that are used in traditions to create group membership. In what rituals do you participate ?

6. Homework: Have each student write about what...

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