Photography Classes @ MERHS

Cultural Anthropology

Civilization UNIT 

 

Lesson Topic Activities Comments
1 Review Human Subsistance
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: what are the characteristics of Foraging, Pastorialism, Horticulture and Agriculture?
  • AFD: 165-170
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: why do you think certain animals, like zebras and lions weren’t domesticated?
  • AFD: 145-149
  • AHD: 237
  • VIDEO: dogs and domestication and longer video
  • DO: research and present the background of Dalmatians, Schipperke, Border Collie, Mastiff, Daschunds, Bloodhounds
  • HW: Read dog origin article
 Read along handout based on AHD passed out for entire unit. 

Handout material from

AHD Ch 11

AHD Chp 16 (partial)
2 Domestication cont.
  • Finish dog presentations
3 Middle East Farming
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: Under what kinds of environmental conditions and locations do you think farming began in the middle east?
  • AHD: pages 234-237
  • DO: start to design a museum exhibit about the beginning of farming
4 Old World Farming
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: what kinds of animals and crops do you think were domesticated in Sub Saharan Africa? In Europe? In Asia?
  • AHD: 238-240
  • AFD: 161-163
  • DO: continue museum exhibit project
5 New World Farming
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: what kinds of animals and crops do you think were domesticated in North and South America?
  • AHD: 241-246
  • AFD: 163-164
  • WEB: exercise on crops and locations
  • DO: continue museum exhibit project
  • HW: read Chocolate and answer questions
6 Finish areas of first farming
  • DO: finish museum project and present
7 Spread of, and Costs and Benefits of Farming
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: How do you think farming spread?
  •  IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: What 12 plants make up 80% of farming?
  • AHD: 246-248
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: Why farm in the first place?
  • AFD: 158-159
  • VIDEO: AHD farming with critical thinking and quiz
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: What are the benefits and costs of farming compared to foraging?
  • AHD: pages 248-250
  • VIDEO: importance of farming
8 Foraging
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: Name as many modern day foraging cultures as you can.
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: Also, why do you think they still forage?
  • AHD: 362-367
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: What is edible where we live?
  • DO: research edible foods and foraging on Cape Ann and in Massachusetts. Make a guide of at least 8 foods including name, physical description, picture, where to find them, season, how to eat them. Get started here.
  • VIDEO: Watch San and answer questions
9 Horticulture / pastorialsm
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: what do you think horticulture is and how is it different than farming?
  • AHD: 367-368
  • AFD: 149-152
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: how does horticulture affect the culture of the people who do it?
  • HW: read the New Guinea piece and answer questions
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: besides foraging, horticulture, and state agriculture, what else could there be?
  • AHD: 372-373
  • DO: design a structure that you could take with you if you foraged or were a pastorialst.
10 State Farming
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: what changes need to be made to go from horticulture to state farming?
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: what are some ways to control water for farming? To store and process the farmed plants?
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: what else is produced besides food?
  • AFD: 152-157
  • IT’S OK TO BE WRONG: How does agriculture affect the culture of the people who do it?
  • AHD: 368-373
11 Test prep
  • DO: Finish unit handout. Ask final questions. Final discussion
12 Test

 

 

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