Anthro December
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Snow Day

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Class: Video: The Meaning of Food

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Due: Chinese Table Manners: You are what you eat

Class: Food Project

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Due: Anthony Bourdain's experience in Japan from "A Cook's Tour"

Class: Japanese aesthetics powerpoint; analyze Basho's poetry; Haiku project

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Class: Work on Food Project; haiku project; Write a one page reaction to article on cannibalism ("Sleeping with Cannibals")

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Due: Food Project; haiku

Class: Food Project; Guidelines for Writing Field notes

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Due: Bring a shoe

Class: Introduce Ethnomusicology (handout and notes from Titon's World of music); Analyze postage workers cancelling stamps.

OPT: Shoe Project; "Every Shoe Tells a Story" from  National Geographic

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Due: Disco Inferno

Class: Quiz on reading; read and discuss article on the power of music and Mexican myth on the origin of music

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Class: Ghengis Blues

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Due: Write a myth of the origin of music

Class: World Music Project

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Class: African Music presentation with handouts on African music description and Olatunji's story

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Due: World Music Project

Class: World music presentations; Read Griot story

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Class: Video- Looking for the perfect beat; National Geographic article on Hip Hop (opt)

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Class: Protest Music

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Class: Protest Music

Ron Eisenman

Rutland High School

reisenman@rutlandhs.k12.vt.us