400-500 word essay in English over Simon Bolivar and how culture ties in

II. TITLE OF THE ASSIGNMENT: Social, Cultural and Artistic Reading

III. GENERAL EDUCATION CORE OBJECTIVES TO BE ASSESSED WITH THIS ASSIGNMENT

GENERAL EDUCATION OUTCOMES: 1. COMMUNICATION SKILLS – Students will communicate ideas, express feelings, and support conclusions effectively in written, oral, and visual formats. 2. CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS – Students will develop habits of mind, allowing them to appreciate the processes by which scholars in various disciplines organize and evaluate data and use the methodologies of each discipline to understand the human experience. 3. TEAMWORK – Students will consider different points of view and work interdependently to achieve a shared purpose or goal. 4. PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY – Students will develop habits of intellectual exploration, personal responsibility and physical well-being.

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1. Engage in conversations using level-appropriate grammatical structures including narrating events that take place in the present and producing questions and responses on a variety of topics dealing with everyday life. 2. Demonstrate understanding of level-appropriate spoken XXXX. 3. Write simple sentences and organize them into short paragraphs. 4. Read and comprehend level-appropriate texts. 5. Identify and discuss traditions, customs and values of the XXXX world. 6. Compare and contrast the traditions, customs and values of the XXXXX world with characteristics of their own culture.

IV. DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT

You will first read a cultural reading or readings in the target language. You will then write a 400-500 word essay in English describing the significance of a cultural element of the target language’s region, providing specific and multiple examples from the cultural readings. In addition, you will include your thoughts on how the cultural element reflects your own personal experiences and knowledge, giving examples of how the cultural element connects to or differs from your own family and friends beliefs, current events, and topics covered in your classes. This process will include three main steps: 1.) read the cultural readings compose a rough draft, 2.) participate in a peer-review session & 3.) perfect and complete a final draft.