Unit+Plans

Please list your name and unit topic/context and essential question below: Carolina Garza Topic/context: Macchu Picchu/Incan culture. Essential Question: How does the history of a country affect life in that country today?

Doren Belfer Topic/Context: Gender Roles in specific culture Essential Question: Who defines the gender role in a specific culture and why?

Gaby Butcher Topic/Context: Luxuries vs. Necessities Essential Question: How does the country in which we live in affects our view of luxuries vs necessities?

Lindsey Karle Topic/Context: Food Essential Question: What does food tell us about a specific culture/country? http://karlelin.googlepages.com/skeletonunitplan

Emily Lewis Topic/Context: Education Essential Question: How does the value placed on education reflect other aspects of culture? How does the role of education give an insight into specific cultures?

Lisa Richardson Celebrities and the Media Essential question: how are celebrities viewed differently around the world, and what role do the varying forms/roles of media play in these areas?

Melissa DeCorte Topic/Context: Frida Kahlo and Mexican Art Essential Question: How do history, culture, and personal lives affect art, and vice versa? http://decorte.melissa.googlepages.com/unitplan

Sarah Blitz - My context is the Hispanic World. My question is "How are culture, geography and groups of people related to language?"

Mary Cartier Topic: Social Justice Question: What is fair?

Amanda Bainbridge Topic: Mayan Culture Question: How does history shape culture? How can multiple histories shape the culture of a country?

Dawn Huney - My context is the movie Pan's Labyrinth My question is "Can one person change their own destiny/fate?"

Amy Bastarache- My unit is going to be on hobbies/pastimes. My question is "What can we learn about people and culture from the way they spend their free time?"

Ashleigh Cote- My unit will be on the Holocaust. I have two questions they are "What sort of climate creates value or de-valueing of life?" and "What is my responsibility of knowing (on individual, community, national, and international levels)?"

Chelsea Barnard - My context is Spanish movies. My questions are "What can we learn about a culture from the movies that are produced?" and "When we watch a movie, is it more because we are personally interested in it or because we can culturally identify with it?"

Bridget Leonard- My topic is Routines and Daily Life. My question will be "How does tradition and society affect daily life and schedules?"

Kristyn Dehne - Topic: Vacations Essential Question: I have decided to have an essentail question for the entire semester and then hypothetically break it down into 2 different "mini-questions" for each cardmarking. My over-arching essential question is "How does one go about defining himself/herself?" Part one of that would be "What does s/he do with his/her time and money?" (The direct question corresponding to my topic) and part two would be "With whom does s/he choose to do it?

Sara Armstrong Topic: Youth Life (in the context of France) Essential Question: What does it mean to be a teenager? and When do we grow up?

Kelli Ann Hogan Topic: Theater; set, design, roles, important Spanish plays Essential Question: "What role do the theater and other types of entertainment provide for people of all cultures?" or "What do we consider entertainment?"

Jessica Chronowski Topic: Fairytales Essential Question: "What do the stories that people have tell us about their culture?"

Amy Burger Topic: Border Towns/Immigration Essential Question: How would relationships among people change if there were no borders?

Amanda Gorman Topic: Family Traditions/Holidays Essential Question: How do family traditions and holidays give us insight into their culture?

Elana Phipps Topic: Regional Identities Essential Question: How does culture create identities among groups of people?

Mara S. Deutch Topic: Media Essential Question: How does culture influence the media? Unit Intro: This can be found on my website at [|http://aramphets.googlepages.com] -- Click the link "Unit Plan Introduction"

Steve Carpenter Topic: family dynamics Essential Question: How do different cultures define family? also available at: http://stevenmcarpenter.googlepages.com/unitplan

Heather Lemon Topic: Paris Essential Question: How does where you live affect you?

Jessica Brown Topic: Spanish Civil War Essential Questions: What are the lasting affects of internal division? How do groups of people become divided? How is it that humanity / human kind is an all encompassing word / idea yet groups of people vary so much and cannot be lumped into one thing? [|Jessica Brown's Website]

Christopher Morehead Topic: German Folklore Essential Questions: What is the value of folklore and tradition? How do literature, music, and culture interact? How does folklore reflect culture?

Check out a parallel project... Peace, Justice and Globalization --> http://christopher.morehead.googlepages.com/FinalProjectPresentation.ppt http://christopher.morehead.googlepages.com/FinalProjectpaper.doc

Angela Sherman Topic: Holidays/Celebrations Essential Questions: Who decides what is worth celebrating? What things do we celebrate and why?