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A Bundle of Joy CHAPTER 5
A ction O riented 21st
Task Century
Skills
A Cultural Project Gallery Walk
Do a research on the cultural practices in
Malaysia. You may:
Neatly covered upon the bed, • interview your grandparents
wrapped in a pair of his old trousers, or your parents
as the custom was, lay his son. • look up materials in the library
The next day after the child or on the Internet
was born, he went to the market and • find photographs or draw pictures
bought fifty eggs and a red paper to • organise your materials and put
boil in the water with them to make them up in posters for display or
them red. He also bought some PowerPoint presentations
red sugar. Move from one display to another.
The dealer slipped a strip of Complete the table below.
red paper, smiling as he did so.
“It is for the mother of a Station Name of Cultural Interesting
newborn child, perhaps.” Celebration Group Information
“A firstborn son,” said Wang
Lung proudly.
“Ah, good fortune,” answered
the man.
True enough for Wang Lung, Reflective
the harvest that year was like never Journal
before.
Adapted from Name of cultural practice
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
People who celebrate
TASK 2 The purpose of the
celebration
Discuss the quotation below.
How it is celebrated
‘No culture can live, if it Describe what you
attempts to be exclusive.’ find interesting.
(Mahatma Gandhi) How does understanding
different cultural
Do you believe it is practices make you a
better Malaysian?
important to preserve
your culture and 21st Add or draw pictures
tradition? Century of the celebration.
Skills
Numbered Heads Together
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