APHG Unit 3
Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes
- Unit 3 Vocabulary List
- Cultural Landscape of Murfreesboro
- Body Ritual of the Nacirema
- Nacirema Activity (for after discussion)
- Choose an event that is familiar to the people of our culture. (Please make sure
this event is school appropriate.) - Describe the event in the way culture is explained in the article: Body Ritual of the Nacirema
- Be creative and include as many details as possible.
- Some events students have chosen in the past were a pep rally, soccer game, and band
concert. You are free to choose any cultural event you want, but it's best to choose something that fits
in with your culture that other cultures may not be familiar with. - Remember you are not describing this in a way that we would with each other, but in a way that
someone unfamiliar with the culture might describe it. Refer back to the article for ideas.
- Choose an event that is familiar to the people of our culture. (Please make sure
- Nacirema Activity (for after discussion)
- Ethnocentrism vs. Cultural Relativism
- Unit 3 GeoInquiry:
- Relocation diffusion - Mennonites make sorghum syrup the old way (place matters more in folk culture)
- Hierarchical diffusion - MTV Commercial: Bling Bling (time matters more in pop culture)
- BBQ Lesson Links:
- A Brief History of BBQ (printable version)
- Black Pitmasters Left out of US BBQ Boom
- 15 Most Influential People in BBQ History
- Whole Hog BBQ in the South
- Martin's BBQ Joint - Nolensville, TN
- BBQ Road Trip: Tennessee
- Folk Culture/Regions: BBQ Song
- Life of Fire by Pat Martin (check it out at your CMS Library)
- Brief History of English
- A History of English in 10 Minutes (good, but a little PG-13)
- British vs. American English activity
- Appalachian English ("Mountain Talk")
- Mountain Talk Transcript
- Mountain Talk Discussion Questions
- NY Times "Dialect Quiz"
- Language Family Handout (credit: Michael Robinson)
- Acculturation vs. Assimilation
- World Religions Chart
- Religious Literacy Quiz (from Stephen Prothero's book, Religious Literacy)
- Who are the Kurds?
- Who are the Kurds? article
- Answer the following questions from this article:
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- Where do they come from?
- Why don't they have a state?
- Why were Kurds at the forefront of the fight against ISIS?
- Why does Turkey see Kurds as a threat?
- What do Syria's Kurds want?
- Do you think Iraq's Kurds gain independence? Why or why not?
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- Comics: Read both of these Andy Warner comics. How did the situation for the Kurds change between 2016 and 2019?
- Kurdish Crossroads (2016)
- The Death of the Kurdish Dream (2019)
Enrichment
- Andy Warner comics
- Media
- Conflict in Israel & Palestine
- Unit 3 Book Recommendation:
- Visiting Lagos after many years away, Teju Cole's unnamed narrator rediscovers his hometown as both a foreigner and a local. A young writer uncertain of what he wants to say, the man moves through tableaus of life in one of the most dynamic cities in the world: he hears the muezzin's call to prayer in the early morning light, and listens to John Coltrane during the late afternoon heat. He witnesses teenagers diligently perpetrating e-mail frauds from internet cafes, longs after a woman reading Michael Ondaatje on a public bus, and visits the impoverished National Museum. Along the way, he reconnects with old school friends and his family, who force him to ask himself profound questions of personal and national history. Over long, wandering days, the narrator compares present-day Lagos to the Lagos of his memory, and in doing so reveals changes that have taken place in himself.