Course Schedule

o January
 Week 1 Eastern Woodland Tribes
 Day 1- History
 Day 2- Story Telling and Art
 Week 2 Eastern Woodland Tribes
 Day 1- Trail of Tears
 Day 2- Modern Community, Museums
 Day 3- Presentations Due
 Week 3 Southwest Tribes
 Day 1- History
 Day 2- Story Telling and Art
 Week 4 Southwest Tribes
 Day 1- Modern Communities, Museums
 Day 2- Code Talkers
 Day 3- Presentations Due
o February
 Week 1 Pacific Northwest Tribes
 Day 1- History
 Day 2- Story Telling and Art
 Day 3- Totems and Indian School
 Week 2 Pacific Northwest Tribes
 Day 1- Modern Communities, Museums
 Day 2- Food and Environment
https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/pnw-history-culture#sq1
 Day 3- Presentations Due
 Week 3 African American Culture
 Day 1- Pre-Civil War
 Day 2- Post- Civil War, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
 Week 4 African American Culture
 Day 1- Segregation
 Day 2- Post- Segregation, Civil Rights
 Day 3- Art
o March
 Week 1 African American Culture
 Day 1- Literature of Langston Hughes
 Day 2- Literature of Langston Hughes
 Day 3- Literature of Langston Hughes
 Week 2 Latin Americans
 Day 1- Central/Caribbean History
 Day 2- Central/Caribbean Storytelling, Art
 Day 3- Central/Caribbean Holidays
 Week 3 SPRING BREAK
 Week 4 Latin Americans
  Day 1- Central/Caribbean Communities
 Day 2- Southern History
 Day 3- Southern Storytelling, Art
 Week 5 Latin Americans
 Day 1- Southern Holidays
 Day 2- Southern Communities, Food
 Day 3- Presentations Due
o April
 Week 1 Eastern Asian-American (Chinese)
 Day 1- History, Customs
 Day 2- Art, Language
 Day 3- Communities, Food
 Week 2 Eastern Asian-American (Japanese)
 Day 1- History, Customs
 Day 2- Art, Language
 Day 3- Communities, Food
 Week 3 Eastern Asian-American (Korean)
 Day 1- History, Customs
 Day 2- Art, Language
 Day 3- Communities, Food
 Week 4 Eastern Asian-American (Vietnamese)
 Day 1- History, Customs
 Day 2- Art, Language
 Day 3- Communities, food
o May
 Week 1 Middle Eastern Americans
 Day 1- History, language
 Day 2- Art
 Day 3- Religion, literature
 Week 2 Middle Eastern Americans
 Day 1- Communities, Food
 Day 2- Customs
 Day 3- Presentation
 Week 3 South Asian Americans
 Day 1- History, language
 Day 2- Art, Literature
 Day 3- Religion
 Week 4 South Asian Americans
 Day 1- Communities, Food
 Day 2- Final Presentations
 Day 3- LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!
 Cooking Rubric
5 4 3 2
Item/Score Exceeds Meets Approaching Below
Standards Standards Standards Standard
Well prepared, Adequately Somewhat Poorly
and gave prepared. Gave prepared. Gave prepared.
extensive basic some Gave little or
Background/History
information information information no information
Geography, climate,
about the about about about
economy, culture of
geography, geography, geography, geography,
group,
climate, climate, climate, climate,
economy, or economy, or economy, or economy, or
culture. culture. culture. culture.
Adequately Somewhat Poorly
Well prepared.
prepared. Gave prepared. Gave prepared and
Gave extensive
basic some gave little or no
information
Traditions information information information
about the
Holiday traditions, about the about the about the
holiday
foods, typical meals holiday holiday holiday
traditions,
traditions, traditions, traditions,
foods, or typical
foods, or typical foods, or typical foods, or
meals.
meals. meals. typical meals.
Prepared the
sample food
Gave an
and/or gave a Gave minimal
adequate You did not
clear explanation on
explanation on help make the
Sample food explanation on how the sample
how the sample sample food
Ingredients used, how the food and style
food and style and/or gave no
method of cooking, sample food of cooking are
of cooking are explanation on
occasions and style of common to
common to the sample
cooking are your
your food.
common to group/region.
group/region.
your
group/region.
Presentation Presentation Presentation Presentation
was well was adequately was somewhat was poorly
prepared and prepared and prepared and prepared and
Diet
gave extensive gave basic gave some gave little or no
Diet of group/region,
information information information information
food pyramid or main
about the diet, about the diet, about the diet, about the diet,
sources of nutrition
food pyramid, food pyramid, food pyramid, food pyramid,
or sources of or sources of or sources of or sources of
nutrition. nutrition. nutrition. nutrition.
Written Report Your part of the Your part of the Your part of the No supporting
Handout, supporting supporting supporting report,
PowerPoint, Poster, report is of report is report is of poor handout,
or Video Captions exceptional adequate quality (messy, PowerPoint,
quality (very quality (fairly too little poster or
neat, excellent neat, adequate information, captions
information) information) just copied
 from source)

 Art/Costume Rubric
5 4 3 2
Item/Score Exceeds Meets Approaching Below
Standards Standards Standards Standard
More than half At least half of
Some materials
Materials Used of materials are materials are
are reasonable Materials are
Leather, cotton, authentic, authentic,
replacements not reasonable
feathers, beads, etc some are some are
or are replacements.
reasonable reasonable
authentic.
replacements. replacements.
Well prepared,
Adequately Somewhat Poorly
and gave
prepared. Gave prepared. Gave prepared.
History/ extensive
basic some Gave little or
Background information
information information no information
Climate, Season, about the
about climate, about climate, about climate,
Occasion climate,
season, or season, or season, or
season, or
occasion. occasion. occasion.
occasion.
Costume is an Costume is a
Costume is Costume is not
accurate mostly accurate
barely accurate close to
representation representation
Design/Concept representation looking like
of a historical of a historical
Attractiveness of historical historical
piece for piece for
costume. costume.
specific group. specific group.
Inappropriate Inappropriate
Appropriate Appropriate
use of colors. use of colors.
use of colors. use of colors.
Prepared the
Gave an
costume and/or Gave minimal
adequate
gave a clear explanation on You did not
explanation on
explanation on how the help make the
how the
Execution how the costume and costume
costume and
Method Used costume and methods are and/or gave no
method
method are common to explanation on
common to
common to your the costume.
your
your group/region.
group/region.
group/region.
Your part of the
Your part of the Your part of the
supporting No supporting
supporting supporting
Written Report report is of poor report,
report is of report is
Handout, quality (messy, handout,
exceptional adequate
PowerPoint, Poster, too little PowerPoint,
quality (very quality (fairly
or Captions information, poster or
neat, excellent neat, adequate
just copied captions
information) information)
from source)
 Writing/Presentation Rubric
Content/Score 5 4 3 2
Writing is Writing does not
Writing is Writes related,
confident and clearly
purposeful and quality
clearly focused. communicate
Idea focused. paragraphs,
Holds attention knowledge.
Contained some with little or no
and enriches Reader is left
details. details.
reader. with questions.
Writing includes Writing is
Writing includes
a strong confused and
a string Uses correct
beginning, loosely
beginning, writing format.
middle, and end organized.
Organization middle and end, Incorporates a
with clear Transitions are
with some coherent
transitions and weak and
transitions and closure
a focused closure is
good closure.
closure. ineffective.
Uses a variety
Vocabulary/Word Effective and Shows some
Purposeful use of word choice
Choice engaging use or use of varied
of word choice. to make writing
word choice. word choice.
interesting.
Consistent Some run-ons or
Uses simple,
variety of Frequent and fragments,
compound, and
Sentence Fluidity sentence varied sentence Limited variety
complex
structure structure. in sentence
sentences.
throughout. structure.
Uses consistent Consistent
Maintains
agreement agreement Occasional
agreement
between parts between parts of errors between
between parts
of speech. No speech. Uses parts of speech.
of speech. Few
errors in correct Some errors in
Conventions errors in
mechanics. punctuation, mechanics.
mechanics.
Creative and capitalization, Come evidence
Applies basic
effective use of etc. Consistent of spelling
grade level
spelling use of spelling strategies.
spelling.
strategies. strategies.