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Border Personas, Culture and the Wall
The "Borderlands
Milieu"
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12/1
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Border Personas, Culture and the Wall
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12/2
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- Assimilation and Acculturation
- Border Persona types
- Small groups talk about what type of person they are
and others
- Border Persona Interview
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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
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12/4
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Anderson Cooper 360
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12/7
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Governments
In what ways are the border governments similar
and different and how is shared public policy determined or not?
Article reviews and presentation
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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?
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12/9 |
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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
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12/10
and
12/11
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La Mera Frontera
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12/14 |
Portfolio presentations
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12/15
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Final Exam Review
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