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Border Personas, Culture and the Wall
The "Borderlands Milieu"




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12/1
Border Personas, Culture and the Wall
12/2
  • Assimilation and Acculturation
  • Border Persona types
  • Small groups talk about what type of person they are and others
  • Border Persona Interview
12/3
  • Border Journal and Wall Art Portfolio
    Instructions ideas and sample
  • History and border formation
    In what ways has the shared history of the borderlands both united and separated the people and cultures on both sides?
  • La Mera Frontera
  • NOTES for portfolio
    WRD in PDF
12/4
Anderson Cooper 360
12/7

Governments
In what ways are the border governments similar and different and how is shared public policy determined or not?

Article reviews and presentation

12/8

Trade
What is the influence of the significant bi-national amount of trade, both legal and illegal, on the border culture, people and economy?

12/9
  • Article Reviews

    On separate sheets of paper:

    1. review and summarize the article
    2. Connect the article to one of the border portfolio themes and explain USING EXAMPLES FROM THE ARTILCE
    3. Trade articles with another person and repeat.
    4. Review two articles on two sheets of paper.

  • Portfolio Work Friday
    Remember to bring one photo per portfolio subject area for Friday

Home work, write the brief summaries of the three border portfolio areas you have selected.

  • Border Portfolio areas - select three:
    • Border Culture
      What are the facets of biculturalism that make the culture of the border distinct from either of its contributing counties?
    • Border Persona
      How does the process of assimilation and acculturation impact the persona of border resident typologies?
    • History and border formation
      In what ways has the shared history of the borderlands both united and separated the people and cultures on both sides?
    • Governments
      In what ways are the border governments similar and different and how is shared public policy determined or not?
    • Trade
      What is the influence of the significant bi-national amount of trade, both legal and illegal, on the border culture, people and economy
12/10 and 12/11
La Mera Frontera
12/14

Portfolio presentations

12/15
Final Exam Review

 

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