Unit III: Culture--Chapters 4-7
Unit Learning Targets and Vocabulary
Unit Learning Targets:
1. I can identify the origin and characteristics/differences of folk and popular culture. (IIIA1, IIIB5)
2. I can discuss how folk and popular culture diffuses to other areas. (IIIA2)
3. I can explain two ways that physical environment influences folk culture. (IIIA4)
4. I can discuss how isolation promotes cultural diversity and identity (IIIC1-3)
5. I can explain the U.S. folk housing hearths. (IIIC2-3)
6. I can identify popular housing styles by description and picture and discuss the importance. (IIIC1-3)
7. I can discuss how electronic diffusion and technology have changed pop culture. (IIIA2)
8. I can identify 3 ways that pop culture impacts the environment. (IIIC3)
9. I can map English-speaking areas of the world by amount of speakers in the region.
10. I can draw a timeline to represent the diffusion of the English language through America. (IIIA2)
11. I can explain 3 differences between British and American English. (IIIA2)
12. I can draw the language family tree. (IIIA2, IIIB1)
13. I can explain the difference between the 4 branches of the Indo-European language family. (IIIB1)
14. I can identify the world languages areas on a map of the world. (IIIB1)
15. I can explain 2 examples of how people preserve local languages. (IIIB1, IIIC1-3)
16. I can identify 3 beliefs, origin, holy places, the calendar, places of worship and sacred places for
each of the major languages. (IIIA1-4, IIIB2, IIIC1-3)
17. I can explain historical religious conflicts for each of the major religions. (IIIA1, IIIB2, IIIC1-3)
18. I can map prominent areas of religion on a world map and explain how conflict arises from this.
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I can explain the distribution of major ethnic group within the United States. (IIIA2-3)
I can explain nationalism and provide 2 historical examples. (IIIC1, IIIC3)
I can explain the turmoil in the Caucasus. (IIIB3, IIIC1-3)
I can explain the ethnic competition in the Horn of Africa and Lebanon. (IIIB3, III1-3)
I can explain ethnic cleansing that occurred in Bosnia and Kosovo and Central Africa. (IIIB3, IIIC1-3)
Unit Vocabulary:
Acculturation
Assimilation
Globalization
Habit
Custom
Folk Culture
Pop Culture
Taboo
Language
Dialect
Isogloss
Standard Language
British Received Pronunciation
Language family
Language branch
Language group
Vulgar Latin
Creole (Creolized) language
Ideograms
Lingua Franca
Pidgin language
Ebonics
Franglais
Spanglish
Denglish
Universalized religion
Ethnic religion
Branch
Denomination
Sect
Christianity
Islam
Buddhism
Hinduism
Confucianism
Daoism (Taoism)
Judaism
Monotheism
Polytheism
Animism
Missionaries
Pagan
Pilgrimage
Hadj
Cosmogony
Hierarchical religion
Autonomous religions
Fundamentalism
Ethnicity
Race
Apartheid
Nationality
Self-Determinism
Nation-State
Multiethnic State
Multinational State
Nationalism
Balkanization
Ethnic Cleansing