Unit 2: September 8, 2015 TURNER MS: THE BEST MIDDLE SCHOOL IN GA

Influence of Europe & Europe Today

Unit 2: September 8, 2015

TURNER MS: THE BEST MIDDLE SCHOOL IN GA

SPONGE:Write the definition of culture.

Culture is how people think, act, celebrate, and make rules, and that it is what makes a group of people special. Give an example.


STANDARD

SS6G11 The student will describe the cultural characteristics of Europe.

a. Explain the diversity of European languages as seen in

a comparison of German, English, Russian, French, and Italian.b. Describe the major religions in Europe; include Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.c. Explain how the literacy rate affects the standard of living in Europe.


Essential Questions:Why is it important for countries within Europe to have the same languages?

How does the diversity of languages in Europe impact their culture and business?


• I can explain the diversity of European languages by comparing German, English, Russian, French and Italian



STOP at 33 seconds

Do you understand

• Lee: Do you understand the words that are a-coming out of my mouth?

• Carter: Don’t nobody understand the words that are comin’ out of your mouth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rl9Cxc7uZA


Vocabulary:

• Diversity- differences (races and cultures)• Impact - the action or process of causing

effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, of others.• Comparison- looking at the similarities and

differences of things• Dialects- a variation of a language


English• English is the official language of

____________.• It is spoken differently from region to

region.• English lends itself to having different

_____________.• People in the __________ _________

speak English but it sounds different than that spoke in Britain.


German• German is the official language of

________ and ________.• It is also spoken in Switzerland, eastern part

of France, Luxembourg, Italy, and parts of Eastern Europe.•Many ________ are spoken in Germany and

other nations of Europe.


Russian• Russian is the official language of __________.

• Russian is known as a ____________ (a branch of Indo-European) language.

• It is the largest native language in ___________.

• Russian is also spoken widespread outside of Russia.


French• Known as a ‘__________ language.’

• French is the official language of ___________.

• It is also spoken widely in Belgium and Switzerland.


Italian

• Known as a ‘____________ language.’

• Italian is the official of ________.

• It is spoken in Switzerland, also.


• What is difficult about different countries having different languages?

• Why is it important for countries within Europe to have the same languages?

• How does the diversity of languages in Europe reflect its unique cultural characteristics?


• Europe is slightly larger than the US in land area• Europe’s population is more than double the US• In the US, English is the dominant language• Europe is different. It is home to more than 200

languages


• Germanic Languages• Romance Languages• Slavic Languages

Most European languages are in 3 main categories


Germanic Language Group

• Has most native speakers• Native speakers live mostly in northwest and

central Europe• About 20% of Europeans speak English or

German as their native language• Most Europeans learn English as a second

language in their schools


Romance Language Group

• This group includes French, Italian, and Spanish• These are found in the south and west of Europe• These languages come from Latin, the language of

the Roman Empire• The Roman alphabet is used to write Romance

and Germanic languages.


Slavic Language Group

• This includes Russian• They are found in central and eastern Europe• They are written with a Cyrillic Alphabet


The Problems with Multiple Languages

• It is difficult to live, work, and trade with people who cannot communicate with each other

• Most schoolchildren learn one or two other languages besides their own


Your TaskWrite G for Germanic, R for Romance, and S for Slavic.• This language is spoken in the United States.• This language is spoken in the country that is

shaped like a boot.• This language uses an alphabet based of Greek

letters.• People who speak this language live directly south

of the United Kingdom.• This language is in the same family as English.


Language Comparison ChartEnglish German Russian French Italian



Map of Germanic Languages


Map of Slavic Languages


Map of Romance Languages


Population

Density


Using various maps of Europe over time from the Internet or the SCIS Europe in Transition pages 40 to 50, students should notice that there have been many changes to Europe’s political boundaries over the last 2,000 years. Since many countries in Europe are the size of states in the United States, this has created difficulty in trade as there was no shared currency for many years. The diversity of languages, closeness of countries, and lack of common currency have created many unique challenges over the years. Extension question- How has the Euro helped to overcome some of these issues?

Documents

Unit 2: September 8, 2015 TURNER MS: THE BEST MIDDLE SCHOOL IN GA