Culture Project: Saved or Enslaved?
Objective
The students will apply cultural principles to survive an apocalyptic event, create their own postapocalyptic culture, and develop a prototype of the technology that helps save them.
Driving Question: How can technology be used to both enslave us and save us?
- Detail the piece of technology that helped them survive
In World Geography, the students will develop their own survival story using maps, and answer
the driving question in their groups. Individually, the students will create their own post-apocalyptic
culture, applying cultural principles, with that prototype of technology playing a key role in the
development of their society. Students will also learn basic design skills using Tinker Cad.
In English, the students will be reading Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. In addition to reading
Fahrenheit, students will be reading non-fiction pieces about technology and its effects on society.
Students will learn research skills , MLA citations, and MLA works cited. They will individually create an
inventor of the technology for their culture project. They will also create an inventor profile story.
Students will also individually draft a technology prototype for their culture that will both save and
enslave their culture. Once in their groups, the students will select one inventor, culture, and technology
schematic. They will also print a final prototype of their chosen technology on the 3D printer in their
groups (1 per group). Finally, they will write a combination lit analysis / expository essay. Their
examples will be from: A) Fahrenheit 451, B) their fiction culture they created for their project, C) a real
life example they have researched. MLA parenthetical citation and MLA Works Cited page will be used
for this paper.
Groups
3AKyle Montgomery
Miranda Bortell
Olive McIntosh
Alex Maier
Hana A.
Kate Dishman
Isabella Williams
Alyssa Saenz
Riya Chawla
Turner Harris
Haley Frost
Vedh Nair
Eathin Wallace
Payton Killeen
Abby Baggs
Logan Greene
Hannah Olson
Katie Plummer
Avery Coward
Jacqui Kniffen
Jett Casillas
Ashley Arnold
Nick Michalski
Mayuri Prasad
Julia Gilreath
3BAinsley Bird
Laura Lamb
Praharsha James
Jun Yi
Noelle Pratt
Kaitlyn Broussard
Adrian Wong
Jessie Shapley
Christa Cisneros
Andrew Hetrick
Sabrina Waite
Emma Livingston
Zoe Bradford
Elijah Leslie
Grace Hoffman
Espen Zetterstrom
Ella Schindler
4AZak Belbina
Meredith Miller
Aaron Bertie
Madi Lingenfelter
Kieran Radley
Caroline Morgan
Jack Mont
Sammie Pozos
Tara Koonce
Faith Townsend
Jake Anderson
Prisha Goyal
Gabby White
Katie Beth Berry
Brady Pardue
Emily Liss
Brooklyn Davis
Benny Son
Alexis Headding
Hunter Leyendecker
Caroline Coussirat
Neo Cho
Romir Mittal
Chidinma Uzowihe
4BChloe Archer
James Sardina
Bryce Bullough
Kendall Newman
Vivian Strange
Landry Upchurch
Alexis Cortez
Nathan Kincaid
Lauren Satterfield
Almir Durmishi
Campbell Pipkin
Matthew Black
Kaylee Webb
Brennan Baker
Het Chavda
Matthew Ahn
Jane Davenport
Sam Kim
Sean Barba
Rhea Goyal
Hannah Kim
Harry Headlam
Ayrton Harried
Yashu Pericherla
Maika Nakasone
Yewon Choi
Yousuf Islam
Cody Kirchner
Alyssa Rodgers
Liesl Grabe
Abby Kemp
Matthew Sun
Students may NOT switch groups. Your teachers have thought very carefully about student placement.
Each student will be turning in an individual project, but the purpose of the group is to provide time for
collaboration. Each group will be working together to determine the catastrophic event that happened to
their society and then voting on the best inventor and technology prototype to be used (each done
individually as well). Each individual will be creating a separate culture project for world geography. At
the end, we plan to present our projects during a “Community Recruitment Fair” on Dec. 17th.