Week 5: Responsibilities of Batok Recipients 
Check-In

• Summarize readings with pairs
• Discuss reflections

Culture Talk
Mini-Lecture 

• With batok comes responsibility
  • Recipients of batok must honor their markings because they represent responsibility to family, culture, ancestors, and community.  
• Batok recipients serve as emissaries to prePhilippine cultures and traditions. 

Activity

• “We Live in a Woven World” Activity 
  • Students will weave paper slits together to demonstrate the importance of personal contributions to community service 

Content Assignment

• Read Filipino Tattoos by Lane Wilcken (pp. 20-30) 
• Read Tapping Ink, Tattooing Identities by Analyn V. Salvador-Amores (pp. 68-101)

Reflection Response

• Students will submit 1-2 pages or 5-7 min video response to content assignment