A & D Blocks Human Geography - From Lera Boroditsky in Scientific American:
A hallmark feature of human intelligence is its adaptability, the ability to invent and rearrange conceptions of the world to suit changing goals and environments. One consequence of this flexibility is the great diversity of languages that have emerged around the globe. Each provides its own cognitive toolkit and encapsulates the knowledge and worldview developed over thousands of years within a culture. Each contains a way of perceiving, categorizing and making meaning in the world, an invaluable guidebook developed and honed by our ancestors. Research into how the languages we speak shape the way we think is helping scientists to unravel how we create knowledge and construct reality and how we got to be as smart and sophisticated as we are. And this insight, in turn, helps us understand the very essence of what makes us human.
UNESCO has six factors that identify the vitality and endangeredness of a language. They are:
1) Intergenerational Language Transmission;
2) Absolute Number of Speakers;
3) Proportion of Speakers within the Total Population;
4) Trends in Existing Language Domains;
5) Response to New Domains and Media; and
6) Materials for Language Education and Literacy.
Start on page 9 (of 27) on the pdf document
For the next three days we are in the library working on a language project. Your job will be to create an information graphic poster on an endangered language. For your endangered language you’ll need to:
- Show where the endangered language originated and diffused to (yes on a map).
- Show the connection to the family, branch, and group of the endangered language. (Use your best judgment on this).
- Show where the language is spoken today, indicate how many people speak it.
- Show Unique features of this endangered language (What makes it different to and similar than others?)
- Show examples of how the language is written and or spoken
- Show why your endangered language is important to save
- Show how your endangered language is both being threatened (contributing factors) and being saved
- Show how people can find more info (links...sources cited)
An Infoposter is a graphic that conveys multiple segments of information typically using words and numbers to represent data. Infoposters generally use iconic-type graphic elements for visual design appeal and are typically vertical in orientation, like a wall poster. They are meant to be read, usually from top to bottom. They are created to collect a variety of data about a topic in one place and to communicate it in an interesting and easy-to-read format.
So, you’ll need to choose an endangered language:
http://languagesindanger.eu/
https://www.ethnologue.com/
http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/
http://www.fpcc.ca/language/ELP/
https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2011/apr/15/language-extinct-endangered
http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/index.php
http://www.eldp.net/
https://festival.si.edu/2013/One-World-Many-Voices/smithsonian
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/enduring-voices/#
You will need to chose an information graphic site to use:
Personal Theory of Crime (Monday, September 10)
Trends in Crime (Drugs in BC) (Monday, September 17)
Short and Long term Impacts on Crime Victims (Monday, September 24)
Hypermasculinity and Sexual Assault (Monday, October 1)
Is school a violent place for teens (Tuesday, October 9)
Serial and Mass Murder (Monday, October 15)
Auto Theft (Monday, October 22)
Good Burglars (Monday, October 29)
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