Cultural Project
1. Make a list of cultural ideas. Cultural ideas are usually based on beliefs, fashion, food, environmental issues, entertainment or leisure activities, taboos, traditions, holidays, education, and several other broad-based categories.
2. Try to break up your general or broad-based category into smaller, more manageable ideas: beliefs can be turned into: concept of life after death, the concept of evil, the concept of freedom, the concept of God, etc.
3. As a small group, share your cultural ideas. Taking turns, go around your “circle” and name an idea. When someone names an idea you also have listed as one of your options, circle it or identify it in some way.
4. Break up into pairs when you and another student agree upon a topic for your cultural project. You should have only one partner. If we have odd students, one group may have 3 people in the group.
5. Gather research information: books, magazines, articles, web sites, etc. on your topic. Record the publishing info for your bibliography.
6. You will create a powerpoint presentation of a # of slides dealing with your topic. Your presentation should include the following information through a variety of slides:
a. Title (with you and your partner’s names)
b. An explanation of the overall topic. (Why this topic? Why is this topic important? What is this topic?)
c. The history or significance of the topic. (ie. Where does it come from? When does it appear?, etc.)
d. How does our culture (American culture) deal with this topic? Use evidence and support from your research.
e. Choose at least 2 other cultures outside of the US, and present an explanation and exploration of how this culture views your topic in a different way.
f. Include media, photography, poetry, art, etc. in your presentation, where appropriate. You may hyperlink ideas, or use the animation or media abilities of the Powerpoint program.
g. Include a bibliography or works cited page.
2. Try to break up your general or broad-based category into smaller, more manageable ideas: beliefs can be turned into: concept of life after death, the concept of evil, the concept of freedom, the concept of God, etc.
3. As a small group, share your cultural ideas. Taking turns, go around your “circle” and name an idea. When someone names an idea you also have listed as one of your options, circle it or identify it in some way.
4. Break up into pairs when you and another student agree upon a topic for your cultural project. You should have only one partner. If we have odd students, one group may have 3 people in the group.
5. Gather research information: books, magazines, articles, web sites, etc. on your topic. Record the publishing info for your bibliography.
6. You will create a powerpoint presentation of a # of slides dealing with your topic. Your presentation should include the following information through a variety of slides:
a. Title (with you and your partner’s names)
b. An explanation of the overall topic. (Why this topic? Why is this topic important? What is this topic?)
c. The history or significance of the topic. (ie. Where does it come from? When does it appear?, etc.)
d. How does our culture (American culture) deal with this topic? Use evidence and support from your research.
e. Choose at least 2 other cultures outside of the US, and present an explanation and exploration of how this culture views your topic in a different way.
f. Include media, photography, poetry, art, etc. in your presentation, where appropriate. You may hyperlink ideas, or use the animation or media abilities of the Powerpoint program.
g. Include a bibliography or works cited page.
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