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Chapter 15: Globalization |
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Additional Reflect & Write Activities
Reflect & Write: The Evolving Impact of Globalization
Reflect & Write: McDonaldization and Globalization
Reflect & Write: Visualizing Globalization
Reflect & Write: The Buddha Bar Controversy
Reflect & Write: Outsourcing or “Exporting America”?
Additional Writing Assignments
Writing Assignment: Bollywood and Representing Indian Culture
Writing Assignment: Asia in American Cinema
Writing Assignment: Drafting an Argument about Globalization and Agriculture
Writing Assignment: Rhetorical Analysis of a Political Cartoon for Global Trade Watch (GTW)
For Added Challenge Prompts
For Added Challenge: Defining Globalization
For Added Challenge: Photo Essay for Friends of the Earth International
For Added Challenge: Blog Writing with Global Trade Watch (GTW)
Additional Lessons and Activities
China from the Inside. This set of lesson plans about globalization is housed on the PBS website and focuses on helping students gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of globalization and its impact on individuals in China and the U.S.A. http://www.pbs.org/kqed/chinainside/edlesson1.html
Global Connections: The Middle East. This PBS-hosted lesson confronts post 9/11 stereotypes head on with activities that ask students to analyze American stereotypes of the middle east. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/educators/types/lesson1.html
Globalization Lesson Plans. This website, developed by Globalization101.org, a project of the Levin Institute, contains information instructive to teachers wishing to integrate lessons on globalization into their high school, community college, or 4-year college classrooms. Be sure to visit the “Why Teach Globalization” and Lesson Plans link on the left menu. http://www.globalization101.org/teachers/
Lesson Plans: Globalization. Developed by the National Geographic Xpeditions programs, these lesson plans on globalization encourage students to understand relations between geography and world cultures. It uses the National Geographic Globalization website http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/2000/culture/global/main.html as a launching point for the activity. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/10/g912/globalization.html
Raising a Ruckus: Protesting Corporate Globalization. Part of the KQED site, this page contains links to materials designed to help instructors engage students in the controversies surrounding corporate globalization. http://www.kqed.org/w/baywindow/ruckus/protesting.html
Women and Globalization: Lesson Plans. This page from the Global Envision website collects lesson plans designed to be used with middle school students, but which could easily be adapted to an older audience. What is nice about this site is that it links to a variety of lessons hosted by the Frontline website (Bride Kidnapping and the Role of Women in Kyrgyzstan), and the New York Times Learning Network (Examining the Changing Roles of Women in Cultures Around the World). http://www.globalenvision.org/forteachers/28/1260/
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