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Moorhead Fire Department

Theme: Moorhead Fire Department

WEEK 4

Based on your visit to the Moorhead Fire Department, write about the biggest challenges of the firefighter's profession, its pros and cons. Is it as exciting and glamorous as many people think? Write 150 words.

Bonanzaville Village

Topic: History


Theme: Bonanzaville Village

WEEK4

Please answer the following questions:

1. What themes are displayed in Bonanzaville Village?
2. Describe the most interesting artifacts of the exhibition and reflect on their significance.

Visits to Post Office, Doroth Day House, Library, and Nursing Home

Please reflect on the importance of today's visits and write what you have learned. Write 100 words.

Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving Day

WEEK 3

Please answer the following question:

What are the American people giving thanks for ? Write 100 words.

Lynn Brakke Organic Farm

Please answer the following questions based on your visit to the Lynn Brakke Organic Farm and the article "What is Organic Food and Why Should I Care?"

1. How is organic farming different from conventional farming?

2. What is the nutrition value of organic food? Provide examples from the article.

3. How do organic practices improve the soil quality?

4. Why is organic production expensive?

Comstock House

Topic: Service and Hospitality

Theme: Comstock House

WEEK 2

Please answer the following question:

Why is Comstock House an important landmark of local history? Word count: 100 words.

Nursing Home

Topic: Service and Hospitality

Theme: Nursing home

WEEK 2

Please write a short paragraph about your impressions from visiting the nursing home. The paragraph must contain a topic sentence and the details to support your claim. Word count: 200 words.

Habitat for Humanity

Topic: Service and Hospitality

Theme: Habitat for Humanity

WEEK 2

Please answer the following questions:

1. What does Habitat for Humanity do?

2. Does the organization help all applicants equally? What are the eligibility criteria?

3. Read about the activity of Habitat for Humanity in your country and provide some statistics.

4. What are the volunteering options for those who are willing to help?

5. List the benefits of having a healthy housing and explain how this can impact the lives of home residents.

Dorothy Day House of Hospitality

Topic: Service and Hospitality

Theme: Dorothy Day

WEEK 2

Please watch a short video about Dorothy Day, the founder of Fargo - Moorhead Dorothy House of Hospitality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsJw2S1wJQg.

Based on your impressions from the visit to the Dorothy Day Food Pantry and the information in the video, answer the question below.

1. Who was Dorothy Day and who did she advocate for?
2. What is the mission of  the food pantry you have visited today? Write 200 words.

Race and Diversity

Topic: Race and Diversity

Theme: Open Mike Night

WEEK 1

Dear Students,

Please watch the following videos about the problems of racism and diversity in the US:

• Racism and diversity in US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZDNUGMMxLk

• Bullying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltun92DfnPY

• What kind of Asian are you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoP0ox_Jw_w
  

• Adoption, “names”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfexOa8-h44&list=PLC5PJtWBigV2f4TM4Gx7IlPe1ummqg5jt

Answer the questions below. Write 150-200 words.

1. Is racism something you experience or have experienced in your home country?

2. Do you believe the USA is a country where the instances of racism are more rare than common?

3. What does race/color discrimination involve?

4. Does the concept of diversity include only racial differences? 
5. Based on the movie Crash, why do people become violent and biased toward others? Why is their prejudice based on racial or ethnic bias?

Hjemkomst Center

Dear Students,

Welcome to the American Culture Class!

Topic: Race and Diversity

                                                                           WEEK 1

Theme: Hjemkomst Center

Website link: http://www.hcscconline.org/current-exhibits/hjemkomst-viking-ship

Please answer the reflection questions below. Maximum word count: 250-300 words.

1) Do Moorhead residents and Norwegian Vikings have anything in common?

2) What dream did Robert Aps try to fulfill and why? What was his rationale?

3) Did Aps approach his project professionally? What steps were taken?

4) How did the Minnesotans support and implement the Hjemkomst project?

5) Reason the importance of the Hjemkomst project in the life of Moorhead community as well as its internationals significance.

Syllabus_ELL_113

ELL 113: American Culture

Summer 2014

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Collegetown Calendar: http://teamup.com/ksebe6006789224f17/
Class time: Monday-Friday, 2-5pm (Room: 337)

Instructor: Marie Wojcik/Vasyl Babiy

Office: Lounge in the Park Region

Office Hours: by appointment

E-mail: mwojcik9@depaul.edu

Course Description: 

America Culture prepares students to immerse students in the English language through real world experiential learning using genuine pedagogy. With use of grand simulations, community-based learning, and activity-based environmental learning the class focuses on the process of integrating the theme of College town 2014, “with one heart.”

Required Materials:
Carnes, Jim. US and THEM: A History of Intolerance in America. Teaching Tolerance.
A Place at the Table: Struggles for Equality in America. Teaching Tolerance.
Charles and Pamela Laruel. (2000). Newcomers and the Environment: Advanced Level ESL textbook.

National Geographic Learning DVD: Pathways

Vincent DePaul: Charity saint

Objectives:

By the end of this term, a successful student will be able to do the following:

1. Understand and appreciate cultural diversity through participation in local community events.  
2. Develop confidence and cultural sensitivity using the English language by interacting in cultural simulations. 
3. Respond creatively and critically to issues that transcend national boundaries through panel discussions with international students in America.
4. Create a personal blog that will be a personal sustainable tool that will be a reflection based of comprehension of the activities throughout the course, and a take home tool that can be used when returning home to their home country.
5. Promote a worldview of peace, justice, and sustainability for all by serving in local community based projects servicing the poor and the homeless.
6. Establish a lasting pen pal relationship with the elderly in a local nursing home.
7. Create a final project based on excursions, simulations and interactions with local community members: sharing their experience through the local TV station, newspapers, or radio stations in the area.
8. Dialogue with local community activists based on issues of racism and diversity.
9. Research and take part in an outside lab immersed in the outdoors, learning about the environment and agriculture. (Week 4/5)
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Requirements: To successfully complete this class you must:

1. Illustrate mastery of the objectives listed above with at least 75% accuracy and complete the final project.  
2. Be on time for class. Tardiness will be considered missed class time.
3. Be prepared for class with writing assignments. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to find out what you missed and to do the homework. If you miss a quiz, you must make arrangements to make it up before the next class meeting.
4. Actively participate in all class discussions and activities.
5. Show improvement in writing and use of writing strategies with use of a blog.
6. Do your own work. Plagiarism is using another person’s work, ideas, or words    without giving proper credit (such as quotation marks or stating to whom the work belongs). Using another student’s homework or test answers is unacceptable.  Allowing someone to copy from you is equally unacceptable.  It is cheating and a very serious offense. 
7. Please turn off your cell phone before each class. Please use the restroom during   breaks so that you do not need to leave the classroom during class.

Evaluation
Simulations/excursions: 60%                
Class participation and homework: 15%
Final presentation: 25%

Schedule: This schedule is tentative and may change during the term depending on the

Weather and availability of excursions.

*Theme of first session: Race and Diversity

Week 1 (6/30-7/04)               

·        Monday: Intro to class; diagnostic testing.

·        Library visit: introducing the topic of a personal blog and preparing questions for the panel

·        Hjemkomst Center: mini lesson before the museum based on heritage and history/international panel

·        *Open mike night: review concept before we go. Raven Espresso Parlor. 7-9. (Students will have a mini open mike night of their own) http://www.hcscconline.org/current-exhibits/hjemkomst-viking-ship.

·        IDAY: International Day: http://www.concordialanguagevillages.org/internationalday

Week 2 (7/07-7/11)

Nursing home: show video/visit: http://gawker.com/brazilian-kids-learn-english-by-talking-to-lonely-chica 1573138921?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

http://grammar.about.com/od/classicessays/a/saltlakecityjwj.htm

·        Habitat for Humanity/visiting the center: taking part in a project: http://www.fargomonthly.com/habitat-humanity/

·        Food bank: Dorothy Day food pantry: http://www.fmddh.org/food-pantry/

·        Guest speaker: Community activist: Fireman/police officer

·        *Native American Indian reservation: speaker/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/photos/south-dakota-native-american-reservation-nations-poorest-14692959/image
Article: Blankets for the Dead. US and THEM: A History of Intolerance in America. P.14.
Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee. 1890: The Governments campaign to subdue Native American Indians. US and Them: Intolerance in America. P. 58.

·        *Saturday: Service project with the Portuguese village: Project to be determined.

Week 3 (7/14- 7/18)

·        Rourke Museum: Perception’s of racism. http://www.therourke.org/

·        Guest speaker: Community activist panel of local community members

·        Blog time/update/ speaker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_Integrity_Act_of_1924

·        Simulation: Underground Railroad: key figures.

·        Sound of Music/pre lesson on racism within the play/movie.

Article: Home was a Horse Stall (1942): A young Japanese American woman ponders the meaning of freedom behind barbed wire.
Homework: Article: A Rumbling in the Mines: 1885: Chinese borders face deadly racial hatred in Wyoming. P. 48

Article: The Ballad of Leo Frank. 1913: A Northern Jew becomes a scapegoat for Southerners’ fears. P. 66.

Week 4 (7/21- 7/25)

·        Churches United: Homeless shelter: http://www.churches-united.org/

·        Create a final project based on excursions, simulations and interactions with local community members: sharing their experience through the local TV station, newspapers, or radio stations in the area.

·        Blog time/update
Homework: Article of religious freedom: Apostles of Liberty
(1768) Virginia Baptists Challenge the State in the name of religious Freedom.

·        Thrift store/bringing clothes: St. Vincent Depaul thrift store.
 St Vincent De Paul Society 1425 1st Ave S Fargo, ND 58103 (701) 235- 5944

Week 5 (7/28-8/1) Theme: Agriculture

 Researching the local environment

·        Visiting a local farm where people are picking vegetable and fruits: mini lesson on Cesar Chavez: http://chavez.cde.ca.gov/ModelCurriculum/Public/Newspaper.aspx

·        Out door lab and research/boat: Concordia Property

·        Guest speaker: Professor from NDSU (Flooding/stilts/land of Fargo/Moorhead area) Donald P Schwert: 701-231-5924.  Donald.schwert@ndsu.edu

·        Local co op: scavenger hunt

·        Library tour/research introduction/introduction of final project/Introduction to blog.
Homework: Article: A Place at the Table: Struggles for equality in America. The Strike for Three Loaves. Immigrant laborers in a Massachusetts mill town join forces to demand fair pay for a days work. p.54.

Week 6 (8/04-8/8)     

·        Farmers market: By the river/picnic.

·        Buffalo River state park: Chapter 9: Using State Parks in Newcomers and the Environment. p. 81. Activity with DNR.

·        Speaker: Agricultural activist.

·        Library and research time based on their topic

·        Homework: Article: Farming and the safe use of Chemicals in Newcomers and the Environment , Chapter 6 (p. 51).

Week 7 (8/11-8/15)

·        Keep America Beautiful: Recycling center/presentation/speaker: http://www.kab.org/site/PageServer?pagename=recycling_facts_and_stats

·        Tour of the café. Blogging/research time

·        Speaker: parks and rec in the area: Beautification project: http://www.cityofmoorhead.com/departments/parks-and-recreation/volunteering

·        Homework: Article: Chapter 2: Recycling in Newcomers and the Environment (p. 11).

Week 8 (8/18-8/23)   

·        Concordia eco house. 

·        Research time in the library

·        Final panel with community rec and environmentalists in the local area.

All students MUST present a final project on what they learned throughout the semester based on what they learned that ties into the theme with one heart based Agriculture/environment.

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