UNIT OUTLINE

Subject: Society & Culture Course: Number of

preliminary Weeks: 5
weeks

Unit title: Personal & Social

identity

Key Concepts/ Big Ideas The importance of this learning

(Rationale)

The fundamental, additional and related concepts listed Society and culture is a conceptually
below are to be integrated across the study of Personal based course that promotes
and Social Identity. students’ awareness of the cultural
continuities and changes within
societies and cultures. It provides
Fundamental course Related depth study them with skills to critically analyse
concepts: concepts: social theories and complementary
and contrasting viewpoints about
 Persons  Social and cultural people, societies and cultures.
 Society literacy Society and culture promotes an
 Culture  Community awareness of individuals, groups and
 Environment  Continuity and institution’s and facilitates
 Time change
intercultural understanding and
Additional course  Social construct
 Citizenship communication.
concepts:
 Socialisation
 Power  Micro/meso/
 Authority macro level
 Gender  Social structure
 Identity
 Technologies
 globalisation

Unit context within Scope and Sequence/Purpose Syllabus Outcomes

A student:
 15 lessons total over 5-week period P1 identifies and applies social
and cultural concepts
 Identity and Socialisation (5 lessons)
P2 describes personal, social
 Growing up (5 lessons)
and cultural identity
 Coming of age (5 lessons) P3 identifies and describes
relationships and
interactions within and
between social and
cultural groups
P5 explains continuity and
change and their
implications for societies
and cultures
P8 plans and conducts ethical
social and cultural research
P10 communicates information,
ideas and issues using
appropriate written, oral and
graphic forms

Literacy Focus ICT Focus

Differentiation

 Effective online  Curriculum compacting

research  Providing a range of
 Footnoting using stimulus materials in a
word range of mediums.
 Analysis  Use of  Open-ended questions
 Synthesis PowerPoint/
 Triangulation of data word
 Integration and
application if concepts

Week/ Teaching and Learning Resources

Seque Strategies including
nce assessment for
learning.

Content: Identity & YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

Socialisation v=MUs_Y3z-I7c

Concepts: persons,
2 society, gender,
lessons identity
  What is meant
by the term
“identity”?
students to
write down Article:
what they
think it means. David L, "Social Identity Theory (Tajfel, Turner)," in Learning
 Brainstorm/dis Theories, December 15, 2015, https://www.learning-
cussion: what theories.com/social-identity-theory-tajfel-turner.html.
is social and
personal
identity?
 Watch a 5 min
video
explaining
what social and
personal
identity is.
 Individual task:
list as many
social identities
you can think
of?
 As a class
discuss the
social identities
found and how
they relate to
personal
identity?
 Read article on
“social identity
theory”
 Individual task:
answer
question what
is “social
identity
theory”
 Brainstorm/
discussion:
“what is social
identity
theory”

Differentiated
learning: peer assisted
work, high achiever
 with a low achieving
students working
together. Allocate a
certain time to help
assist students who are
not coping with the
work.

Content: Identity & Worksheet: “What’s my identity?”

Socialisation
PowerPoint:
Concepts: persons,
http://cisemrjason.weebly.com/uploads/2/3/6/5/23650446/j
society, gender,
identity ane_loevinger-_theory_of_ego.pdf

2
lessons YouTube Video:
 Discussion:
what is the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l5_hMYTenk
difference
between social
identity and
personal
identity?
 Complete
“what’s my
identity?”
worksheet
 Introduce
students to
theorists Jane
loevinger and
David Elkind
 Discuss
theories being
told

Differentiated
Learning: allow extra
time for slow learners
to work on the
worksheets in class.
GAT students to think
about how theorists
gather their
information.
 Content: Identity & Article:
Socialisation
https://cpb-us-
Concepts: persons, e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.ucsc.edu/dist/5/491/files/2014/09/
society, gender, Media-and-the-Development-of-Identity.pdf
1 identity
lesson

 Discussion:
does media
shape our
identity?
 Read article:
“media & the
development
of identity”
 Individual:
Highlight
findings in
article
 Discuss
findings as a
class

Differentiated
Learning: as a class
allow everyone to say
at least their opinion
and share with the
class. Encourage shy or
non-talkative students
to participate by
reading someone else’s
answer or their own.

Article:

2 Content: Growing up https://web.uri.edu/iaics/files/09-Yi-Wang.pdf

lessons
Concept: time,
environment,
YouTube video:
technologies,
globalisation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRqtg1j9oBY
  Read article on
“globalisation
enhances
cultural
identity”
 Discuss as a
class the how
globalisation
affects identity
 Watch Richard
Swinburne -
How Does
Personal
Identity
Persist
Through
Time?
 Discuss as a
class what are
some of the
reasons
Richard
Swinburne
uses about
identity and
time.

Content: Growing up Worksheet:

Concept: time, “Identity and the world around us!”

environment,
3 technologies,
lessons globalisation PowerPoint:

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?
appid=b9c42eb
 Go through
PowerPoint on
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how identity is
shaped
 Complete
worksheet Article:
“identity and
the word http://frankfuredi.com/newsite/article/765
around us”
 Class
discussion on
worksheet.
Students share
answers
  Read article on
“how social
media and the
internet are
changing
culture”
 As a class
highlight the
authors
opinion and
why he thinks
culture is
changing.

Differentiated
learning: get students
to write key points
from slide and pair up
with a friend to do the
reading and highlight
unfamiliar words and
answer them together.

2 Content: Coming of Article:

lessons age
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261591283_Comi
Concept: authority, ng_of_Age_in_a_
power, time
Multicultural_World_Globalization_and_Adolescent_Cultural
_Identity_Formation

 read article on
“coming of age
in a http://repositorio.ul.pt/bitstream/10451/17883/1/ICS_RCLop
multicultural es_Power_LEI.pdf
world,
globalisation
and adolescent
cultural
identity
formation”
 use quotes
from article to
answer the
following
question “how
 does
multiculturalis
m affect
identity?”
 read article on
power and
identity
 compare and
contrast the
articles on how
time and
power affect
our identity.

Differentiated
learning: get students
to pair up with a friend
to do the reading and
highlight unfamiliar
words and answer
them together. As a
class then get students
to write answer on
board.

2 Content: Coming of YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

lessons age v=iqsaz8rhbl8

Concept: authority, YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

power, time v=5YimuAznibc

 watch the Worksheet:

video on “the
loving Identity and time
generation:
coming of age”
 complete
identity and
time
worksheet
 watch the
video
“Generational
Theory:
 Strauss–Howe”
 discuss as a
class what
generational
theory is?

Differentiated
learning: allow
students to work in
pairs to answer the
worksheet questions.

1 Content: Coming of Revision sheet

lesson age, Growing up,
Previous PowerPoints on topics and contents
identity & Socialisation

Concept: authority,
power, time, time,
environment,
technologies,
globalisation, persons,
society, gender,
identity

 briefly go over
all content and
concept that
students have
learnt over the
term.
 Ask students to
share their
own
understanding
and
interpretation
of persons and
identity.
 Hand out
revision sheet
on all the
theories that
have been
 taught across
the weeks

Resources: Worksheet 1

What’s my Identity?

Part A: Answer the following according to your own identity:

1. Gender: _________________________________________________________
2. Age: _____________________________________________________________
3. Religion: _________________________________________________________
4. Nationality: _______________________________________________________
5. Language: ________________________________________________
6. Location: _________________________________________________________
7. Favourite food: ____________________________________________________
8. Hobbies: __________________________________________________________

Part B: write a short paragraph about your identity (you may use the above
factors to help you):

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Resources: Worksheet 2

Identity and the world around us!

1. What factors influence identity?

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2. How much control do we have in shaping our own identities?

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3. Does our identity change over time and how?

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4. Is globalisation affecting cultural identities?

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Resources: Worksheet 3

Identity & Time

1. How does time and age change our identity?

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2. Why does time and age change our understanding of identity?

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3. Do you think that as we age our identity changes and why?

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 4. What is generational theory?
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5. Do you think that time and age relate and why? In your answer include theories and
elaborate on it
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