Connecting Cultures

Students will:

• Define culture and think about how people can connect multiple cultural influences through art

• Learn about the history and practice of Chinese calligraphy — Look closely at a work of art and consider how art and writing can connect different cultures

• Experiment with different ways of expressing themselves through writing

• Paper

• Pens or pencils

• Google Slide deck

• Walt Whitman, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” (audio)