Hello to my reading students,
Image "Buddhist Prayer Flags" courtesy of Rawich/FreeDigitalPhotos.net
How are you? While we have been reading and discussing what we have read for some time, this is the first project I will give all of you for our reading class.
The picture above is of Buddhist prayer flags. Many religions have formed unique communities around the world, and for your homework, you read about the Amish in your textbook and discussed it today. The Amish are an example of a religious community. But there are also many unique communities in many countries around the world based on other things - such as language, or ethnic identity.
Homework activity
Homework activity
Research about a unique community in a different country and design and present a small poster about it on A4 paper. The community can be based on religion, ethnic identity, language, or another unique point you find. Here are some examples of unique communities around the world for you to choose from:
the Ainu (Japan)
the Irish travelers (Ireland)
the Bretons (northeastern France)
Swedish-speaking Finns (Finland)
the Basques (southwestern France & northeastern Spain)
Russian Jews of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Siberia, Russia)
French-Canadians (Quebec, Canada, and other parts of eastern Canada and the northeastern U.S.)
the Lumbees (North Carolina, the U.S.)
the Sikhs (India)
the Falashas (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Israel)
- or - another community you can find out about.
You can use Internet articles and download pictures too from English, Japanese and other sources (Chinese and Thai are okay). But you must write on the posters, and present, in English.
As a sample of the kind of research you can do, check out this article here about the Swedish-speaking Finns.
Here's an example of a poster you can design (this one is A3 size - but you only have to do A4!)
Have fun with this - and good luck! Please remember - this is for next week. So get to work!
See you next class!
the Ainu (Japan)
the Irish travelers (Ireland)
the Bretons (northeastern France)
Swedish-speaking Finns (Finland)
the Basques (southwestern France & northeastern Spain)
Russian Jews of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Siberia, Russia)
French-Canadians (Quebec, Canada, and other parts of eastern Canada and the northeastern U.S.)
the Lumbees (North Carolina, the U.S.)
the Sikhs (India)
the Falashas (Ethiopia, Eritrea, Israel)
- or - another community you can find out about.
You can use Internet articles and download pictures too from English, Japanese and other sources (Chinese and Thai are okay). But you must write on the posters, and present, in English.
As a sample of the kind of research you can do, check out this article here about the Swedish-speaking Finns.
Here's an example of a poster you can design (this one is A3 size - but you only have to do A4!)
Have fun with this - and good luck! Please remember - this is for next week. So get to work!
See you next class!
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