Life Skills Arcade Middle school Family and Consumer Sciences, grades 6 to 8

Handout 5.2

Handout 5.2: What Clothing Says, and the Class Agreement

Unit
Unit 5: Make It, Mend It, Wear It
Handout
5.2

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Name: ______________________________ Date: ______________ Period: ______

The rule for today: We talk about clothing. We do not talk about each other's clothes. Nobody in this room has to explain or defend what they are wearing.

Directions: Fill in Part 1 and Part 2 during the slides and the shirt demonstration. Fill in Part 3 during the culture and generation slides. Copy the class agreement into Part 4 at the end and sign it if you agree to it.

Word bank in other languages

EnglishTurkishPortugueseSpanish
impressionizlenimimpressãoimpresión
communicationiletişimcomunicaçãocomunicación
nonverbalsözsüznão verbalno verbal
uniformüniformauniformeuniforme
costumekostümfantasia (traje)disfraz
culturekültürculturacultura
respectsaygırespeitorespeto
agreementanlaşmaacordoacuerdo
settingortamambiente (situação)entorno (situación)
audienceizleyici (karşıdaki kişi)públicopúblico

Part 1: Clothing is communication

People communicate through four channels. Fill in the missing ones and give an example of each.

ChannelWhat it isAn example
1. WordsThe words you choose
2. Voice
3. Body
4. Appearance

Clothing lives in channel number ______.

A uniform says: ______________________________________________________________

A costume says: ______________________________________________________________

One sentence: what has to be true for a costume to work?


Part 2: The same shirt, three settings

One shirt. Three settings. Fill in the grid.

SettingWhat the shirt says hereWho is reading it
A job interview
A family cookout
A school hallway

Finish the sentence: The shirt did not change. What changed was _______________________


Part 3: Culture and generations

3a. Write one example of clothing that carries cultural meaning. You can use one from the slide or one you know.


3b. Finish this sentence in your own words: "It is just a costume" does not work for cultural dress because


3c. Name one thing about clothing that has changed between your parents' or grandparents' generation and yours.


3d. What did adults say about what your parents or grandparents wore at your age?


Part 4: Our class agreement

The class writes this together. Copy the final lines here.

What is okay to say about what somebody is wearing

  1. _______________________________________________________________________
  2. _______________________________________________________________________
  3. _______________________________________________________________________
  4. _______________________________________________________________________
  5. _______________________________________________________________________

What is not okay to say about what somebody is wearing

  1. _______________________________________________________________________
  2. _______________________________________________________________________
  3. _______________________________________________________________________
  4. _______________________________________________________________________
  5. _______________________________________________________________________

The line I nominated: ______________________________________________________

My reason for it: __________________________________________________________

I agree to this. Signed: ______________________________ Date: ______________

Exit card (tear off or write on an index card)

  1. One line from our agreement you will actually use:

  1. One thing clothing says without words:

  1. One question you still have: