Unit focus

Unit 3 Enduring understandings - what you need to know & understand

• Concepts of culture frame the shared behaviors of a society.
• Culture varies by place and region.

​Source: CollegeBoard AP Human Geography Course Description 2015.

Unit Concepts: Cultural Patterns & Processes

A. Concepts of culture

• Traits
• Diffusion
• Acculturation, assimilation, and globalization
• Cultural regions​

B. Cultural differences

• Language
• Religion
• Ethnicity
• Gender
• Popular and folk culture

C. Cultural landscapes and cultural identity

• Values and preferences
• Symbolic landscapes and sense of place
• Environmental impact of cultural attitudes and practices​

Targeted Learning Activities
Assessment Strategies

• 3 Formative MCQs and 1 Formative FRQ; culminating summative is an MCQ and FRQ on November 20th
• Socratic Seminar Discussions on one or more articles discussing culture

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Resources for study & preparation

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APHG TextBOOK resources

Fouberg (9th)        

• CH 4: Local Culture, Pop Culture...  (pp. 110-138)
• CH 5: Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender…   (pp. 139-163)
• CH 6: Language (pp. 164-192)
• CH 7: Religion  (pp. 193-236)​

Rubenstein (10th) 

• CH 4: Folk & Pop Culture (pp.104-133)
• CH 5: Language (pp. 134-167)
• CH 6: Religion (pp.168-205)
• CH 7: Ethnicity (pp.206-237)​

Wood (2nd)        
Unit 3  Cultural Patterns & Processes       
(pp. 64-97) 

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presentation Slides

Culture Presentations:

• CH. 4 Folk & Pop Culture Lecture Slides 
• Folk Culture (another teacher's PPT)
• Fouberg Chapter 5/Rubenstein CH. 7 PPT (Identity: Race, Gender, Sexuality)
• Unit 3, CH. 6 Languages -  Lecture Slides
• Languages (another teacher's PPT)
• Fouberg CH. 7 - Religion Overview- Lecture Slides
• Diffusion of Religions (another teacher's PPT)
• Religious Landscape (another teacher's PPT)
• Religious Conflicts ​

Flashcards & study guides

Culture Flashcards (Quizlet):

•  Rubenstein Chapter 4: Folk & Pop Culture (17 terms)
• Fouberg Chapter 4 Folk & Pop Culture (26 terms)
• Fouberg Chapter 5 Identity (15 terms)
• Rubensteing Chapter 7: Identity (19 terms)
• Language (66 terms)
• Rubenstein CH. 5 - Languages​
• Religion Vocab - (36 terms)
• Religion (66 terms - vocab & concepts review)

Unit 3 - Mixed Flashcards (Quizlet):

• Folk & Pop Culture terms (35 terms)
• terms from Unit 3 (108 terms)
• Quizlet Vocab - Fouberg/Woods CH. 6 - Languages (short list)

Study Guides/Reading Guides

• Folk & Pop Culture Study Guide (Fouberg CH. 4)
• Identity Study Guide (Fouberg CH. 5)
• Languages Study Guide​ 
• Religions Study Guide ​​
• CH. 4 Reading/Study Guide (Rubenstein)
• Unit 3 Test Study Guide​
• Unit 3 Summative FRQ - Diffusion of Religion HINTS
• Unit 3 Summative MCQ - Culture Test HINTS
• QR Code - Languages (Stations)

Practice Quizzes & Tests

• CH. 4 (Fouberg): Folk & Pop Culture: Practice Quiz
• CH. 5 (Fouberg): Ethnicity & Race: Practice Quiz
• CH. 6 (Fouberg) Languages: Practice Quiz​
• ​CH. 7 (Fouberg) Religions: Practice Quiz
• Unit 3 Kaplan Test Prep Quiz (20 questions)
• ​Culture & Ethnicity Quiz (Geographyquiz.org)
• Religion & Language Quiz (Geographyquiz.org)
• Folk & Pop Culture (Rubenstein CH. 4 Kahoot!)
• Local/Folk/Pop Culture (Kahoot!)
• Identity (Kahoot!)
• Religion (Kahoot!)
• Kahoot Unit 3 Review
• Folk & Pop Culture Quiz (Hill McGraw Textbook)
• Ethnicity Quiz (Hill McGraw Textbook)
• Language & Religion Quiz  (Hill McGraw Textbook)

Websites

• ThoughtCo - Articles and Information on Culture
• Maps of Religious War throughout History
• The World's Women 2015
  • Gender Analysis Activity

Misc.  news Articles, etc. 

• IKEA Food Around the World (Apartment Therapy, 2014)
• "Do We Talk Funny?" 51 American Colloquialisms (NPR History Department, 2015)
• Its "Chinatown" (stereotypes, 99%Invisible, 2018)
• ​24 American Dialects, a map (Business Insider, 2013)
• Pop vs. Soda: U.S. map
• Why Mandarin Won't be a Lingua Franca (Time)
• In Malaysia, Women Cover Up But in Colorful, Trendy Way [But they didn't always] (NYTimes)
• How a Dialect Differs from a Language (The Economist)
• Disappearing Lives: The World's Disappearing Tribes - in picture (The Guardian.com, 2013)
• Walking While Black (Vox/Propublica)

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Videos

Tutorial videos (Provided by Andrew Patterson Educational Channel)​​
-- Good for Review --or-- If you Were Absent from Class: 

• Rubenstein CH 4, KQ 1: Where are Folk & Leisure Activities Distributed?
• Rubenstein CH 4, KQ 2: Folk & Pop Culture
• Rubenstein CH 4, KQ 3: Why is access to folk and pop culture unequal?
• Rubenstein CH 4, KQ 4: Why do folk and pop culture face sustainability challenges?
• Rubenstein CH 5, KQ 1: Where are languages distributed?
• Rubenstein CH 5, KQ 2: Why is English related to other languages?
• Rubenstein CH 5, KQ 3: Why do individual Languages vary?
• Rubenstein CH 5, KQ 4: Why do people preserve local languages?
• Rubenstein CH 6, KQ 1: Where are religions distributed? 
• Rubenstein CH 6, KQ 2: Why do religions have different distributions?
• Rubenstein CH 6, KQ 3: Why do religions organize space in distinctive patterns?
• Rubenstein CH 6, KQ 4: Why do Territorial Conflicts Arise Among Religious Groups? 
• Rubenstein CH 7, KQ1: Where are ethnicities distributed?
• Rubenstein CH 7, KQ 2: Why do ethnicities have distinctive distribution?
• Rubenstein CH 7, KQ 3: Why do conflicts arise among ethnicities?
• Rubenstein CH 7, KQ4: Why do ethnicities engage in ethnic cleansing and genocide?

Other Useful Videos:
Identity: Gender & Sexuality:​ 

• Sex and Gender Identity - An Intro (Now This)
• Every Sex and Gender Term Explained (Science Plus)
• Sex and Sexuality (Crash Course Sociology)
• Gender Stratification (Crash Course Sociology)
• Gender Stereotypes (European Institute for Gender Equality)
• Girl Toys vs. Boy Toys: The Experiment (BBC Stories)

• What it Means to be Cisgender (CBSNews)
• Non-Binary People Confront Piers Over Gender-Neutral Controversy (Good Morning Britain)
• We Should All Be Feminists (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TEDx)
• Osama

Identity: Ethnicity, Nationality & Race:

• Race & Ethnicity (Crash Course Sociology)
• Walking While Black: Jacksonville, Florida (Vox)
• We Are Not All That Different: Race & Cultural Identity (Seconde Nemenya, TEDx)
• I am Not Your Asian Stereotype (Canwen Xu, TEDx)
• Journeyman Pictures: Belgium Divided, 2008​
• Hotel Rwanda (Movie Trailer; Scene: "How Can They Not Intervene?"
• The Danger of a Single Story (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TED)

Pop Culture & Folk Culture:

• Consuming Kids: Commercialization of Childhood, 2008 (Documentary)
• PBS Frontline : Merchants of Cool, 2001 (old but still relevant)
• TEDTalk: Wade Davis: Cultures at the Far Edge of the World, 2007​(note: Sophomores may remember this from Grade 9 WH Class)
• TEDTalk: Wade Davis: The World Wide Web of Belief & Culture, 2008
• TEDTalk: ​How Cultures Drives Behaviours

Language:

• The History of English
• Where did English Come From? (TEDEd)

Religion: 

• Animated Map Shows How Religion Spread Around the World (Business Insider)
• The Muslim on the Airplane (Amal Kassir, TEDx)
• What Are the Most Athiest Countries? (NowThisWorld)

​Interesting for "edutainment" value:​​

• PBS: A Hot Dog Program, 1999
• Weatherman nails town's super long name
• Americans Don't Understand English (The Jonathan Ross Sow)
• Singlish is a Language for our Future, Lah (TEDxSingapore)
• ​What if English were phonetically consistent?
• ​Mysteries of the Vernacular: "Hearse" (TEDEd)
• Whitewashing: Last Week with John Oliver (LastWeekTonight)