Modified Open Book Test: Social Studies Chapter 3

Question: What is culture in a community?

Did you know that cultures grow and change over time? A culture is the shared customs of a group of people. A custom is a way of life practiced over a long period of time. Customs can also be called traditions. Cultures form when people come together to create communities. As well as shared customs and traditions, they adopt shared practices, like language, and beliefs, like religion. These bind together the community.

When a community grows large, people might leave to start new communities. These different communities may now share a culture. This is one way that nations grow. It is why culture spreads from place to place with different ethnic groups.

When a community grows large, people might leave to start new communities. These different communities may now share a culture. This is one way that nations grow. It is why culture spreads from place to place with different ethnic groups.

• In a community, culture refers to the shared set of beliefs, customs, traditions, values, and behaviors that a group of people living in that community hold and practice. Culture forms when people come together to create a community.

• In a community, culture refers to people who have come from the same place. They do not have anything in common. They often have problems within the community.

• Culture refers to stories and poems that aare spoken rather than written. There are stories such as Anansi, a clever spider, that are popular in West African cultures.

Question: What is an ethnic group?

When a community grows large, people might leave to start new communities. These different communities may now share a culture. This is one way that nations grow. It is why culture spreads from place to place with different ethnic groups.

Ethnic groups are made up of people who have come from the same place. For example, ethnic groups like the Irish, Germans, and Slavs came from North America from Europe. Ethnic groups often share a language, history, and other aspects of culture. People who belong to the same ethnic groups have the same ethnicity. Some nations have one main ethnic group and culture. Others many have many. People of the same ethnicity can live in many countries.

• Ethnic groups are made up of people who have come from the same place. They often share a language, history, and other cultural norms.

• Ethnic groups are made up of people who are strictly of Native American descent.

• Ethnic groups are stories that have been handed down over time. Many began as tales of true events.

Question: What are oral traditions?

All cultures find ways to express, or show. their values and practices. Some cultures share their ideas and customs through oral tradition. Oral tradition refers to stories and poems that are spoken rather than written. Stories of Anansi, a clever spider, are popular in West African cultures. Anansi tales are part of an oral tradition that enslaved African people brought to the Americas.

Cultures also share their values through art. Diego Rivera was a Mexican artist. He made large paintings called murals. These paintings cover walls, ceilings, and entire buildings. They show scenes fro Mexican history and ways of life.

Another way people express their culture is through festivals and holidays. The people of Thailand celebrate the Yee Peng Lantern Festival. People send up paper lanterns into the sky. When people from many different cultures live in one place, their cultures mix. People pick up ideas and customs from one another. Today. trade and mass media, like television and the Internet, connect many people globally.

• Oral traditions are festivals that use lanterns to share customs and traditions.

• Oral traditions are when people from many different cultures live in one place, their cultures mix.

• Oral tradition refers to stories and poems that are spoken rather than written.

Question: How are schools the same around the world? How are they different?

Children all over the world attend school. Some walk long distances to reach schools. In Kenya, students might walk as far as ten miles to reach a school. Others ride to school on bicycles, buses, trains, or in cars with family members.

Different schools have different resources. In some places, students attend many classes in large buildings. Others go to small schoolhouses or even outside. Some schools require uniforms. In some places, boys and girls go to separate schools. Technology also varies. While one school uses modern computers, another will do more work with books than paper.

All schools work to pass on knowledge and values that are important to their culture.

Most schools in Japan require uniforms. Some students in Bangladesh have classes on floating schools. Seasonal flooding may make the roads impassable so students cannot reach regular school.

• All schools work to pass on knowledge and values that are important to their culture. Schools are different around the world because schools have different resources. In some places, students attend many classes in large buildings. Others go to small schoolhouses or even outside. Technology also varies. Some students may work with computers, another will do more work with books than paper.

• All schools require very strict dress codes such as a school uniform. Schools are different around the world because schools have different resources.

• All schools work to pass on knowledge and values that are important to their culture. Schools are not different around the world. For example, all students work on computers, regardless of their local resources.

• Students in Bangladesh sometimes attend schools on floating houses. They use their computers during the day. They also have a strict dress code.

Question:What are different ways cultures express themselves?

All cultures find ways to express, or show. their values and practices. Some cultures share their ideas and customs through oral tradition. Oral tradition refers to stories and poems that are spoken rather than written. Stories of Anansi, a clever spider, are popular in West African cultures. Anansi tales are part of an oral tradition that enslaved African people brought to the Americas.

Cultures also share their values through art. Diego Rivera was a Mexican artist. He made large paintings called murals. These paintings cover walls, ceilings, and entire buildings. They show scenes fro Mexican history and ways of life.

Another way people express their culture is through festivals and holidays. The people of Thailand celebrate the Yee Peng Lantern Festival. People send up paper lanterns into the sky. When people from many different cultures live in one place, their cultures mix. People pick up ideas and customs from one another. Today. trade and mass media, like television and the Internet, connect many people globally.

• Some ways that cultures may express themselves are through art, music, festivals, and holidays.

• Cultures generally do not express themselves.

• Cultures do not express themselves in ways that are specific. They do not like ideas and customs that others have outside of their own culture.