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Dear Anthropology friends,</div>
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Happy End-of-Semester! I wanted to reach out and ask if anyone would be willing to share a fun in-class activity or take-home assignment or reading/podcast/video you used this semester to teach fundamental concepts regarding language and/or culture.</div>
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<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);">For example: phone, dialect/variety, modality,
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noun phrase, </span>inflectional morpheme, minimal pair, manner of articulation, diglossia, endangered language,
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aphasia, </span>language ideology, idiolect, communicative competence, intersectionality, constructed vs. natural language... </span></li></ul>
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I'm encountering an <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">
increasingly</span> diverse range of learning styles and abilities, and would love to know what your favorite and most successful teaching ideas are!</div>
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<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);">BRAIN HAT: For example, one of my most successful activities from this semester was having undergraduates label and color a *3D paper
model of the brain from a cut-and-paste template*. (I've posted pictures to my instagram!) </span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background: var(--white);">This helped students visualize the location and importance of language centers of the brain in my Introduction to Linguistics course.
I adapted the activity from this website - <a href="https://ellenjmchenry.com/brain-hemisphere-hat/" id="LPlnk651462">https://ellenjmchenry.com/brain-hemisphere-hat/</a></span><br>
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<a target="_blank" id="LPUrlAnchor337778" href="https://ellenjmchenry.com/brain-hemisphere-hat/" style="text-decoration: none; color: var(--themePrimary);">Brain Hemisphere Hat</a></div>
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Brain Hemisphere Hat. This is the “world-famous” Brain Hat. This humble little hat has been distributed around the world (even at some famous science museums) and has been translated into several different languages.</div>
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<font color="#000000" face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">I'm working
up a collection of these teaching ideas, and will report back to the list with what is shared. Please feel free to reply off-list (<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important">thomas_jamie@smc.edu)</span>.</span><br>
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