3.+Culture

Place resources for your **Culture (Language, Religion, Pop & Folk Culture)** unit here!

GENERAL UNIT MATERIALS
> > **POP V. FOLK CULTURE** > [|Blues Geography] > [|Teacher Planbook: Integrating Folk Music, Folklore, and Traditional Culture into the K-12 Classroom] (Educational Playground) > > **LANGUAGE** > > **RELIGION** > [|Religion Organizer] (K. Taggart) - Please add info to it, as you see fit. I use this as a "cram guide" for my students.
 * [|Mapping the Cultural Buzz: How Cool is That] - NY Times - There is a great article, "Mapping the Cultural Buzz," about contemporary cultural patterns in the NY Times (Tuesday, April 7). Be sure to check out all the links to maps and background reading.
 * [|Review Jeopardy]
 * [|Fields of Fire] - This is the website of a book called, "Fields of Fire". If you pay, you can buy or download the whole book as a PDF document - with some 100 or more "ethnic conflicts" (?) summarized/analyzed into two pages each. There are sample pages on the website. It's a great resource.
 * Whale Rider (Movie) - I use the Whale Rider movie after teaching language, religion and folk and pop culture. They have questions as well as observation columns for rel, lang, gender roles, folk and pop culture differentiation, custom, culture, and tribal and family authority. This really works well into a discussion of diversity vs. globalization (R. Bertell)
 * C[|ole Porter on Lingua Franca], by Andrew Ford
 * [|The Linguists,] PBS - a group of linguists traveling the world in a "race against time" to record languages that are becoming extinct. There is a preview on their website
 * [|Preserving Languages is About More Than Words]- Washington Post
 * [|Preserving a Dying Language] (NYTimes)