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Graded
Main Site
Block One and
Block Three
Climate
Communication
Customs
Economy
Foods
Geography
Icons
Jobs
Language
Migration
Nationalism
Quality of Life
Religion
Transportation
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In this first unit, the students studied how their own personal identities are influenced by attending Graded and
living with their families here in Brazil. Primary source data, in the form of
student surveys, helped them think about their current reality while they
learned the sociological and psychological foundations of identity, ethnicity,
and nationality in class. This became the basis of establishing their group’s
worldview. The next step was to take these specific societal elements and apply
them to the culture of large groups of people through learning about a pair of
interrelated systems.
The first system, the Material Culture, deals with the
physical world and the things that a society makes and uses. The second, the Non-Material, involves the
values and beliefs of a society, taught through its institutions, which
determines how people behave. By applying the two systems to
their own lives, figuring how a culture functions, becomes concrete.
Here the students were to research data
in the library about their specific society element, while
learning the ins and outs of writing a solid expository
paragraph in class using the writing process. After they defined
their element, they then went on to talk about the connection
between it and the Material and Non-Material culture systems. By
having examples from their own life here in Brazil, they brought
the element to life for themselves and for the virtual student
they were talking to.
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Student
Information:
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Teacher Information
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Individual students web pages constructed by the
students using Front Page 2003 and Microsoft Office free
graphics.
Site constructed and maintained by
Bridgette Fincher. 6th Grade Graded Humanities. 2007-2008
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