Session 8: Language and Ethnicity as Region Links

Materials

  • Large maps of the continents or of the world

Instructional Activities

  1. Repeat the activity from session 7 for the following information:
    • Language
      - Arab world — Arabic
      - Hispanic America — Spanish
      - Brazil — Portuguese
      - Canada — French/English
      - Switzerland — multiple languages
      - Many part of the world — English
    • Ethnic heritage
      - former Yugoslavia — Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, and Albanians
      - Burundi and Rwanda — Hutus and Tutsis
      - Cyprus — Greeks and Turks
      - United States, Switzerland — examples of multiple-ethnicity countries
      - Korea, Japan — examples of predominantly single-ethnicity countries

  2. Assign a teacher-selected reading, worksheet, or other reinforcement activity, using available teacher resources.

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