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OVERVIEW: This activity is based on Kolb’s experiential learning cycle (1984). Kolb’s learning cycle identifies and explains the four-part framework of learning styles people have. These learning styles are: “Active Experimentation (AE);” Concrete Experience (CE);” “Reflective Observation (RO);” and “Abstract Conceptualization (AC).” People who are AE learners prefer to learn using simulations, games, practice assignments, case studies, homework and projects.” CE learners prefer examples, trigger films, small group discussion, exercises, and guided imagery. RO learners learn best from discussion, thoughtful questions, observations, and worksheets. And, a person identified as an AC learner prefers analogies, projects, theory construction and reading. This activity/homework assignment meets one or more needs of the above types of learners, in that it contains a trigger film, entails observation and a worksheet, and requires discussion and analogies. This activity should be implemented after, or immediately prior to (depending on observed student learning styles) lecture(s) on “Understanding Interpersonal Communication” and “Enhancing Relationships” (Beebe, Beebe, & Ivy, 2007, Chs 7 & 8). TIME: 50 minutes 5 to brief students and cue movie 25 to cue and watch movie scenes 20 to debrief MATERIALS: DVD: “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” Scenes: Ch. 3 @ 12:55; Chs. 5-7 Handouts (Attachment #1) Debriefing Questions (Attachment #2) Instructions for Students: 1. Hand out an assignment packet to each student 2. Review exercise abstract and questions 3. Instruct students to take notes during the movie 4. Instruct students to keep the questions in mind while taking notes 5. Debrief (using 5 or more of the debriefing questions, attached) 6. Inform students the 5 points for the homework assignment will be dependent on the depth and completeness of responses ATTACHMENT #1 Name: __________________________ Time: _____________________ HCom 100 My Big Fat Greek Wedding In-class Activity/Homework Assignment (Worth up to 10 Activity Points: 5 pts in-class participation; 5 pts Homework assignment) Movie synopsis: Toula is a mousy, Greek/American woman who still lives with her family. She works as a Hostess for the family restaurant. She is a “late bloomer” who goes through a physical and educational transformation at age 30. She then starts working for her aunt’s travel agency, meets a non-Greek, Caucasian/American man (the first in her family to date outside the Greek culture), falls in love, and wants to marry Ian. Ian is a handsome Caucasian/American man, who notices Toula first, at the Greek restaurant, then again, after her transformation while she is working at her aunt’s travel agency. When he sees her at the agency he goes in to chat with her, and ends up asking her on a date. After dating for a while they fall in love, but then the family finds out. His is introduced to the family, and he eventually asks her to marry him. The cast also includes: Mom and Dad (who own Dancing Zorba’s, a restaurant, and expects Toula to marry a “good Greek boy, and have lots of Greek babies”); an older sister, Athena (who has always been “perfect,” has married a “good Greek boy” and has had lots of babies): a younger brother, Nick (who cooks for the family restaurant, has not yet, but intends to marry a “good Greek girl” and have lots of Greek babies); an aunt, Voula, and her daughter, Niki, who own a travel agency, for whom Toula eventually becomes an agent). WHAT DID YOU SEE? (If necessary, continue your answer on the back of the page, or another sheet of paper. Remember to write the number of the question you are continuing, and write your name and class time on the continuing paper. Make sure you attach extra answer sheets to the assignment handout. |