Heritage: 

Piecing Together Your Heritage: 
A person's heritage is inherited at birth from a person's ancestors. Your heritage determines your roots; who are and where you come from. Although you might have been born here in Middletown, NY, your heritage dates back hundreds, even thousands of years ago. A good way to start learning about your heritage, is to determine your nationality. Again, your nationality (Irish, Jamaican, Haitian, Puerto Rican, etc.) is determined at birth by your parents. Your nationality, culture, and heritage help make you the person you are; traditions you may share with your family, beliefs, style or dress, foods you cook or like to eat, music you listen to, languages you speak, etc. Our heritage shapes us in various ways without us even realizing it...until now! 
"There are no extra pieces of the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle (of life)."
- Deepak Chopra
Piecing Together Your Heritage is a project inspired by the ​Puzzle Art Installation & Collaborative Project, a traveling art exhibit in which any person can design a puzzle piece to visually narrate their story. 
With our project, we will communicate who and why we are the way we are by learning more about our heritage. It's time to truly learn about who we are deep down and get to know our roots! 

Your Mission:

​Requirements:
You will be creating a design representing a piece of you based on your heritage. 
To begin, you will complete the research packet to help you learn more about your culture, nationality, and heritage. It may be helpful to do additional research outside of the packet as well, such as talking to family members, listening to music, visiting cultural sites online such as Eupedia.com, and experience the culture (food, holidays, dance, etc.) first-hand. 
You will have 3 class periods to work on your heritage research and 
2 class periods to work on the planning sheet (attached to your heritage research packet). Your planning sheet will be your sketch version of your final heritage design. Your design must fill the entire puzzle piece cohesively (unified; work together) and show the elements from your research. Materials used will be your choice; mixed media, sharpie, paint, oil pastels, colored pencils, markers, collage, etc. Your heritage puzzle piece design will be your final project
(worth 100 points) and will NOT​ be accepted late.
**THE FINAL CANNOT BE COMPLETED ONLY IN PENCIL AND MUST BE VISIBLE FROM A DISTANCE!**

Heritage Research: English
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Heritage Research: Spanish 
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Heritage Rubric: English
Heritage Rubric: Spanish
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spanish_heritage_rubric.pdf
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YOUR PUZZLE DESIGN...
YOUR HERITAGE...
YOUR STORY... 
NO TWO ARE ALIKE
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  1. Choose the nationality you want to research 
    1. You will be creating a design based on at least one of your nationalities 
      1. If you have multiple nationalities and wish to include them, you will need to do research for each nationality you want to include in your design 
  2. Conduct your research according to the packet provided 
    1. Your research packet will be worth ​50 points
    2. Each nationality used to create your design will need to be researched
    3. You will have 3 class periods (and time on your own) to complete the research 
  3. You will use the information and thumbnail sketches created throughout your research to create an original design, representing who you are and your heritage.
    1. ​You will plan your design using the provided planning sheet attached to your research packet  
      1. ​This planning sheet is worth 50 points
      2. You will have 2 class periods to work on the planning sheet
​FINAL DESIGN REQUIREMENTS:
  1. Your final Piecing Together Your Heritage project is worth 100 points 
  2. The entire puzzle piece MUST be filled with your design (composition)
  3. Your design MUST be cohesive (unified) - your design WILL NOT be all of your thiumbnail sketches and research randomly placed to fill  space)  
  4. PATTERN: Cultural pattern must be incorporated into your design in some way (part of research)
  5. EMPHASIS: There needs to be at least 1 part of your design that is emphasized or stands out 
    1. It can be larger than all your other design elements making it the focal point OR it can stand out with the use of color
  6. RESEARCH: Your design MUST include at least 3 research elements besides pattern. (map, landmark, and holiday) 
  7. SELF REFLECTION: Your design MUST include at least 1 thing that represents YOU/who you are as a person today (self portrait, music, photographs, technology, sports, writing, etc.) 
  8. MATERIALS: Your design can be created using any materials
    1. Your design MUST be visible from a distance (CANNOT be done only in pencil)
    2. Your final design project can be painted, collage, mixed-media (multiple materials), markers, oil pastels, etc.
**YOU are responsible for getting the materials you need and cleaning them up appropriately!