1. Cordova Social Studies Today’s date is Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Essential Question #008
What is culture?
The way a group of people lives (e.g. eats, dresses, speaks, etc.)
Can you name a Native American tribe? If so, name one.

2. Important Stuff
Social Studies Club (today from 2:30 to 3:00 in this classroom)
Pictures
Action shots for the yearbook (go buy one [they told me to say that])
Fall School pictures are September 30 (Friday)
Textbooks
I need to initial your textbooks
Online Textbook procedure
From the class website, click on the link to the textbook OR go to
Click on North Carolina
Enter in this password: nc09hist
Click on North Carolina – Land of Contrasts

3. Nacirema Who are the Nacirema?
What made it difficult to identify who the Nacirema are?
What clues helped you identify the Nacirema?
What practices or rituals of other cultures might appear odd or hard for us to understand?

4. After the E.Q. Nacirema handout and culture Map Matching DIRECTIONS
Use the map of the regions of N.C. on your handout and pp in your textbook and:
Label where the Algonquin, Tuscarora, Catawba, and Cherokee live.
For the four main tribes or groups (Algonquin, Tuscarora, Catawba, Cherokee), answer the following:
What did EACH tribe or group speak?
Describe their culture in one or two sentences.
What difficulties do you think it would create if two tribes with different languages ran into each other?
How could the two different-language tribes solve their differences?
How does our studying these different Native American tribes and their different languages apply to us today?

5. After the E.Q.
Haunted House review game
W.I.L.T.