Customs and traditions
2014-2015
Voice Thread instructions
1. Create a Voice Thread account using your own email address. Your school Gmail usually doesn't work.
2. Research your topic (births, coming of age, wedding, death, Christmas, religious holidays). Find traditions that are associated with your topic. Pick an American or family tradition that is associated with your topic. Now pick two other traditions from different countries that are associated with your topic that seem bizarre or strange to you. For each of the three traditions, write a paragraph (4-6 sentences each) answering the questions below. Type your paragraphs in Google Docs or Word. (There currently isn't a student drive, so you don't have the ability to save on school computers).
3. On a separate document copy the URL (web address) of 3 websites that you used for your research. Give a short description of why you used that particular site. You will turn this into your teacher.
4. Pick an appropriate and interesting picture that goes with each paragraph. If someone knew nothing about your topic, they should gain a much better understanding after looking at your pictures and reading/listening to your paragraphs (think mini-lesson). Upload these pictures to your VoiceThread.
5. Using the 6 pictures and 6 paragraphs, use the recording feature of VoiceThread to record your paragraphs with their corresponding pictures. Someone should be able to pull up your project and see six high-quality pictures with a recorded paragraph for each one describing what you have learned.
6. Now, pick two of the sentence starters below and write two more paragraphs about what you have learned. Pick two more pictures that will represent your thoughts well. Upload the pictures and record them on VoiceThread.
7. Share your project. When you have finished uploading your pictures and recording the corresponding paragraphs, share your project by emailing a share link to the class Gmail account. (timberlineenglish [then your class period i.e. A1, B7, etc.] Get the password from your Mr. Lassen or Mrs. Wagstaff
2013-2014
1. Foot binding--China
NPR
LA Times
The Atlantic
Pioneer--SIRS Discoverer--foot binding--Painful Beauty: How Lotus Feet Are Made
2. Finger cutting--Dani Tribe Indonesia
Google Doc--Ripley's
Odd Culture
Grieving
3. Giraffe Women--Kayan people (Burma)
NY Times
Marie Claire
4. Seppuku (Hara-kiri) or kamikaze in WWII
Pioneer-EBSCO (Student Research Center)--seppuku--#2. Hara-kiri Columbia Encyclopedia
World Book--Advanced--kamikaze
PBS (kamikaze)
5. Sati
GMU
Pioneer-EBSCO (Student Research Center)--sati--#1. Suttee in Columbia Encyclopedia
6. Human sacrifice (Mayan culture)
Dr. Herman Smith
National Geographic News
Mayan Human Sacrifice
7. Beauty through the ages
Recapturing Beauty
History of Beauty
8. Tattoos--Maori culture
Beauty around the world--Maori
The Maori--Tattoo
Tattoos spark incident
Instructions on using Voice Thread
1. Create a Voice Thread account using your own email address. Your school Gmail usually doesn't work.
2. Research your topic (births, coming of age, wedding, death, Christmas, religious holidays). Find traditions that are associated with your topic. Pick an American or family tradition that is associated with your topic. Now pick two other traditions from different countries that are associated with your topic that seem bizarre or strange to you. For each of the three traditions, write a paragraph (4-6 sentences each) answering the questions below. Type your paragraphs in Google Docs or Word. (There currently isn't a student drive, so you don't have the ability to save on school computers).
- What is the origin of the tradition: When and where did it start?
- What is the meaning of the tradition: Why did it start? Why is it still practiced? How has it changed?
3. On a separate document copy the URL (web address) of 3 websites that you used for your research. Give a short description of why you used that particular site. You will turn this into your teacher.
4. Pick an appropriate and interesting picture that goes with each paragraph. If someone knew nothing about your topic, they should gain a much better understanding after looking at your pictures and reading/listening to your paragraphs (think mini-lesson). Upload these pictures to your VoiceThread.
5. Using the 6 pictures and 6 paragraphs, use the recording feature of VoiceThread to record your paragraphs with their corresponding pictures. Someone should be able to pull up your project and see six high-quality pictures with a recorded paragraph for each one describing what you have learned.
6. Now, pick two of the sentence starters below and write two more paragraphs about what you have learned. Pick two more pictures that will represent your thoughts well. Upload the pictures and record them on VoiceThread.
- This makes me think…
- This makes me wonder…
- This makes me feel…
- This makes me question
7. Share your project. When you have finished uploading your pictures and recording the corresponding paragraphs, share your project by emailing a share link to the class Gmail account. (timberlineenglish [then your class period i.e. A1, B7, etc.] Get the password from your Mr. Lassen or Mrs. Wagstaff
2013-2014
1. Foot binding--China
NPR
LA Times
The Atlantic
Pioneer--SIRS Discoverer--foot binding--Painful Beauty: How Lotus Feet Are Made
2. Finger cutting--Dani Tribe Indonesia
Google Doc--Ripley's
Odd Culture
Grieving
3. Giraffe Women--Kayan people (Burma)
NY Times
Marie Claire
4. Seppuku (Hara-kiri) or kamikaze in WWII
Pioneer-EBSCO (Student Research Center)--seppuku--#2. Hara-kiri Columbia Encyclopedia
World Book--Advanced--kamikaze
PBS (kamikaze)
5. Sati
GMU
Pioneer-EBSCO (Student Research Center)--sati--#1. Suttee in Columbia Encyclopedia
6. Human sacrifice (Mayan culture)
Dr. Herman Smith
National Geographic News
Mayan Human Sacrifice
7. Beauty through the ages
Recapturing Beauty
History of Beauty
8. Tattoos--Maori culture
Beauty around the world--Maori
The Maori--Tattoo
Tattoos spark incident
Instructions on using Voice Thread