1.  Do now: Min. of 5 lines…Which element of culture is most important to you and why?  Today, I will successfully (43/50 min) locate the 50 states. I will identify key elements of culture in the Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America  Homework: Read and annotate* the Northeast, Southeast and Plains region.  * (take notes and identify elements of culture)

2.  What defines a group’s way of life.  Social Organization: Loosely defined social classes, low, middle, high  Customs and Traditions: Hot Dogs and Fireworks on the 4 th of July. Remembrance of 9-11-01  Religion: Judeo-Christian roots, but freedom to practice mostly anything.  Language: Not official  English  Arts and Literature: Highly valued  Forms of government: Currently, democratic-republic, originally republic  Economic systems: mixed (parts socialism and free enterprise)

4.  Make sure your name is on the paper.  Level 0 when the test is out (it’ll be assumed that you’re cheating)  Don’t help people cheat (cover up your work)  Eyes on your paper (your cheating)  Cheating will result in a 0 and a call home!  Don’t leave anything blank, don’t quit, everyone has a brain…Use it!!!!  Once your quiz continue reading about Native American culture.

5.  These people were heavily influenced by their environment.  Eskimo-Aleut language family  Population small and scattered  Inuits  nomadic hunters  Aleuts  settled, small fishing villages  Homes made of sod/timber, in the extreme north  Ice.  Seal and otter skins were well insolated and waterproof.

6.  Swampy, piney forests  colder region  inland Alaska and Canada.  Western: Athabaskan speakers  Easter: Algonquian speakers  Used toboggans, snowshoes, and lightweight canoes for travel.  Sparsely populated  Small family groups hunted caribou  lived in easy to move tents. Also lived in underground dugouts.  Europeans interaction: economic/cultural shift from subsistence living to profit living