WHO
AM I?
CURRICULUM WEB
Introduction
Investigation 1
Investigation 2
Investigation 3
Culminating Activity
Teaching Guide
Investigation 2
MY ETHNICITY
Use Journal Sheet 7 to investigate your ethnicity.
Ethnicity includes your racial background and the particular cultures associated with it. Some people, especailly those who are second or third generation Americans, are unfamiliar with their ethnic traditions and/or customs. Others are very conscious of their culture and strive to maintain such connections in their daily lives. The web sites associated with ethnicity will help you learn more about your heritage.
World Languages and Regions of the World
Click on IPL'S Listing of Different Cultures Click on your own personal "native tongue." Note: Click on "much more" if you do not see your nationality on the first page. If a sound card is available (ask your teacher), click on the tape to hear how to say hello in your language. View the other links to this page (especially areas about culture). Write down at least 3 things that you learned about your heritage that you did not know before you visited this site. Have you or someone you know experienced racism? Describe the situation. Why do you think racism exists in America? Now read John G. Briggs, "Society grapples with racism" .
After reading the article, answer the following questions: What does
Griggs cite as part of the racial dilemma? According to Griggs,from where
do most racial conflicts stem? How can you, as an individual, help to
"carry the Torch of Tolerance
MY NEIGHBORHOOD/CITY/STATE/COUNTRY
Use Journal Sheet 8 to investigate your neighborhood, city, state, and country.
There are many people who define themselves according to their geographic region. This is especially true in large cities (such as categorizing oneself as a "North-Sider" or a "South-Sider"). Others cite cities, states, national regions, or countries as important to their identity.
How often do you use your neighborhood to define who you are? Do you decribe yourself as an Illinoisian, American, world citizen?
What neighborhood do you live in? See Map of Chicago's neighborhoods.
Look at the reports of the Young Citizens in the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods; What words do these young people use to describe where they are from?
My personality
Use Journal Sheet 9 to learn more about your own personality.
First, read The Major Personality Types. What personality type do you think you are?
Now, read Working out your personality type. Do you still think you are the type that you thought before? If you wish, go ahead and take the online personality type inventory on that web page.
Visit the following three sites to learn more about your personality type.
Personality Types Under Stress
Write a three page essay in which you try to argue, or demonstrate, that you are in fact the personality type that you have decided that you are. Give evidence from the web sites listed above to support your argument.
Use Journal Sheet 10 to summarize your self-identity as you've learned about it so far.
Then go on to Investigation 3.