1. “My Cultural Project” Home Page
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Welcome, everyone, to your cultural project. This is the start
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mean. Now you will be using those ideas, together with your
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tell about you.
Your website will be a minimum of 4 pages and will have all
the links someone will need to navigate it. Your homepage
will be your introduction and you will have project pages
that will show the work you have done in this unit.
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2. The Two Assignments
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There are only two assignments everyone must do for the
Interview entire project. The first is the Family Interview. You will get
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your heritage.
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The second is your personal introduction. This will give you a
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projects you chose for this unit.
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3. Family Interview
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This assignment will give you a chance to interview a
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Projects heritage. We worked in class to come up with at least three
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questions to get the interview started and you have a few
Folktales basic facts you will need to find out.
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uncomfortable. That is ok because it is disequilibrium you
are feeling and is a good thing. The important thing to
remember is to relax and have fun with your relative.
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4. “Who I Am”
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We want to know who you are. Write an introduction that
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proud of it and let us all know.
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Be as accurate as you can and remember, have fun with it.
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5. The Best Part: the Projects
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You will need to choose three projects from the ones that
Interview are available. Each project has three levels, a level 1, level
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Projects 2, and level 3. The level 1 projects are the easiest and the
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level 3 projects are the hardest. Level 2 projects are in the
Folktales middle. You will need to choose one level 1, one level 2, and
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These projects will all be displayed on your website using
technology.
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6. Family Tree
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You can use the information you gathered to create a family
Interview tree. This can be an attractive way to display your family and
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8. Art Discovery
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In the Art Discovery Project you will be asked to find out art
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Video form?
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discovered in your heritage.
Here’s an example of mine as a Level 2:
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9. Art Discovery Example
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Since some of my family come from Germany I researched
Interview art forms in Germany. I found that the printing press was
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artist from Reed College who did lithography and found a
Folktales few examples of lithographic art to put on my website.
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10. Folktale
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The folktale can be a lot of fun. The different levels are:
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Level 1: Find a folktale from your heritage and post it on your
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slideshow.
Here’s my Level 3 example:
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11. My Folktale Example
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12. Video
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This project gives you a chance to do a few different things.
Interview Movies and videos are definitely an art form, so what makes
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Projects video from your heritage unique? What are some examples?
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your heritage?
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Level 2: How have these movies impacted other cultures
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Level 3: Make a short movie (including a short script) for
your website.
Here’s my example of a Level 2:
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13. My Video Example
Home The Nazis are infamous in history for the atrocities committed
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Family Tree List, a movie about Oskar Schindler’s heroic efforts to save the lives
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Music Berlin ten years later that had over 10,000 visitors a day the first
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14. Music
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What kind of music do you have in your heritage? What kind
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questions as well as share the answers with the rest of us!
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Level 1: What is the style of music from your heritage
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Level 2: What musical instruments does your heritage
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Level 3: Find or create a musical example of this kind of
music for your website.
Here’s my example of a Level 3:
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15. My Musical Example
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There has been a rich heritage of German
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favorites is Ludwig von Beethoven. He
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along with nine symphonies, nine
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opera even though he was deaf by the
age of 26. My music sample is Für Elise,
one of his most famous piano sonatas.
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16. Family Recipe
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Many of us enjoy cultural examples of food every day. We
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Projects from, but do you know what culture contributed that
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burrito?
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Level 1: What is a recipe from your heritage?
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Level 2: How has this recipe influences other cultures?
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Level 3: Can you bring in samples for everyone to enjoy?
(sample must be made in a store or restaurant and brought in according to
school rules)
Here’s my Level 2 example:
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17. My Recipe Example
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I bet everyone knows this food named after a city in
Interview Germany. If you guessed hamburgers you would be right.
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though (this town was named after Hamburg, Germany).
Folktales Frank and Charles Menches first served hamburgers at the
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people a day in 119 different countries enjoy hamburgers at
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18. Travel Brochure
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Maybe you’d like to get people to travel to a country where
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travel brochures and fliers to decide where to go. Can you
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Level 2: Find some pictures and create a half-page travel
flier.
Level 3: Find some facts and create a full-page travel
brochure.
Here’s my Level 3 example:
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19. My Travel Brochure Example
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20. Conclusion
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As you can see, there are a lot of different options available
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Projects notebook each of you have and you can take them home to
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look through them. On Monday, February 8, you will need to
Folktales decide which projects you want to do so we can get started.
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to work independently for most of the time. You will have
teachers available to ask questions of and computers to
work on at various times. Be careful, don’t waste your time
procrastinating!
Take a look through your project notebooks and let me know
what questions you have right now.
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