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Unit 3 Objectives: Cultural Patterns and Processes
- Identifying and analyzing culture, cultural traits, diffusion, acculturation, assimilation, and cultural regions.
- Identifying and explaining various cultural landscapes and understanding a sense of place
- Understanding how cultural patterns are represented at various scales from local to global.
- Understanding the origin and distribution of languages
- Identifying Universalizing and Ethnic Religions and recognizing how religions organize space
- Understanding the distribution of ethnicities, why some have become nationalities and some current and historical ethnic conflicts.
- Describing and explaining differences and similarities between world languages, world religions, ethnic groups (ethnicity), and popular/ folk culture.
Cultural Landscape Project
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Folk vs. Popular Culture
Examining The Development of Language
Exploring Language Activity
Activities:#6: Sports Names#8: Vernacular
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Religion and Ethnicity
Chapter 6 and 7
Religion Jigsaw
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Religious Conflict
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Places of Worship Around the World
Examples of the cultural landscape Find examples of some identifiers on the cultural landscape of the religion. Religious symbols, places of worship (churches, temples), where and how the dead are buried, does the religion have an impact on the layout of homes, communities, towns and political structures? |
Religious Landscape Activity
1. Examine the pictures & videos below 2. What similarities do you see between these places of worship? 3. Do any of these places of worship stand out to you as particularly distinct? 4. How do these religious spaces impact the layout of their communities/ cities? (where are they within the community, how much space do they take up, how do they reflect regional differences?) |
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Race, Ethnicity & Religion
Activity 1. Ethnicity in the Middle East
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Activity 2. Segregation in the US
3Activity 2: Conflicts Around the World
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Unit Review Materials -
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Review:
Multiple Choice Sample Answers:
Section 1: Cultural Basics - C, A, D, C, B,
Section 2: Language - D, C, B, A, E
Section 3: Religion - B, A, C, D, B, D
Section 4 & 5: Ethnicity & Pop Culture - C, D, B, D
Multiple Choice Sample Answers:
Section 1: Cultural Basics - C, A, D, C, B,
Section 2: Language - D, C, B, A, E
Section 3: Religion - B, A, C, D, B, D
Section 4 & 5: Ethnicity & Pop Culture - C, D, B, D
