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!
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"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!**
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