Discover this unusual problem presented in an article from the New York Time. The article deal with the Nukak, a tribe from the Columbian wilderness, who suddenly came to a big town, asking to join the modern world. They now live in a camp at the outskirts of the town, as they did in the forests, except for the fact that they no longer have to look for their food since it comes free from the government….
The article is a good starting point for a discussion : how can those primitive groups join the « modern world »? Should we go on trying to protect their culture and traditional lifestyle, or help them integrate the modern world? and can they integrate our world, since their lifestyle is so different and they don’t want to change it?
The New York Time Learning Network offers us as usual the article (a bit long) and a lesson plan (with written comprehension questions, plus ideas to go further). But there is now a new feature : a slide show with a commentary. There is no script for the commentary, but the sentences take up many parts of the text, and it is read by the journalist who wrote the article.
« Leaving the Wild, and Rather Liking the Change » By JUAN FORERO,May 12, 2006
Article : http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20060512friday.html
Lesson : http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20060512friday.html
Slide show with comments :
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2006/05/11/world/americas/20060511_NUKAK_FEATURE.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1147586365-Mz9N9TaER61632mBqJtshQ
– Displaced people (article + audio and slide show)
