Real World Issues Form

IB Social and Cultural Anthropology 
Real World Issues Presentation Form
Name ___________________________________________________ 
Presentation Date _______________
Standard
HS.57. Define, research, and explain an event, issue, problem, or phenomenon and its significance to society.
Objective
Students will be able to stay up to date on real world issues, read, analyze, and write about them. Students will relate one real world events to three key concepts we are learning about in IB Social and Cultural Anthropology. Real World Issues can come from any reputable in depth written news source on the Internet, newspaper or magazine. These include but are not limited to http://anthropology-news.org, http://scientificamerican.com, http://anthropology.news.org,Oregonian, New York Times, Huffington Post, Google News, http://bbc.com, http://cnn.com, http://nationalgeographic.com. Students will present and lead discussion of their chosen current event.

Real World Themes
Inequality/Power
Violence
Human Rights
Poverty/ mobility Environment/sustainability Technology
Globalization

Connect to 3 Key Concepts. 
Belief and Knowledge 
Change
Culture
Identity Materiality Power
Social Relations Society Symbolism

Directions
You will be presenting a real-world issue to our class twice this semester. You will need to choose an article from a reputable source. You will read the article, fill out the presentation form with details and quotes, attach the article to it, and be ready to present the first 10 minutes of class. Be prepared to answer questions, and explain the real-world issue and key concepts. You will be the local expert.

Citation Examples:

Website 

Author. "Title of the Web Page." Title of the Overall

Web Site. Version or Edition. Publisher or Sponsor,

Date. Web. Date of Access.

Article

Author. "Title of Article." Title of Newspaper Date,

edition: Page(s). Type of Material.

Citation:

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Location, be prepared to point it out on the world map: _________________________________________________________________________________


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How can anthropology help us to understand this real-world issue? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

How is this article significant to our study of culture, individuals, and changing global culture?

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Do you see any bias in the article? What news ideas can anthropology bring by being a holistic science to this issue? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________