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What’s on your mind?  America is . . . .                                                           

The world is a vast place that is ever evolving. That evolution seems to be happening more rapidly than ever before, particularly regarding technology. Today’s world is much different than the world of our parents and grandparents. When is the last time you wrote a letter to a friend? When is the last time you spent more time talking to your friends on the phone rather than texting them?

We update our friends about what’s happening in our lives instantly thanks to social media websites like Facebook and Twitter. If we took a poll, a majority of you have updated your status at least once today. The updates, pictures and friends on those sites show what and who you value most in your life.

Many individual people and businesses use these sites to market themselves to consumers of their products. They provide information about who they are and what they are selling to their followers. What if the United States created a Facebook fan page for this country? What would the country update us on? What assumptions could people from other countries determine about American values from its Facebook page? Would people see freedom, independence, a drive to succeed, home ownership, a land of opportunity, the American Dream? Would they see rich versus poor, white versus black, rural versus urban? Young versus old?

What about you as an individual American citizen? What would they see from your American Facebook page? Are you a person of character and integrity? Do you lie, cheat and steal to get ahead? Do you work hard, are you persistent, will you quit when the going gets tough?

How does the American value system affect your personal and professional life and how can that value system be justified to the rest of the world? That is your challenge for this first project. First, what are your values? What are your non-negotiables? Are you an upstanding citizen? Are you an upstanding employee?

Secondly, what does the world think of the American way of life? Are we accepted in Iraq? In Afghanistan? China? Venezuela? Mexico? Africa?

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Milestones

                                                                            America’s Facebook Fan Page

                                                  Task List                                                                           Deadline Date 

1. Vocab Wall and Quiz                                                        August 18-20
2. Facebook Template                                                             August 24
3. Occupation Research                                                         August 25-27
4. Personal Narrative Due                                                     September 1             
5. Current Events Research                                                   September 2 and 3
6. Prezi Due                                                                                September 8
7. Group Presentations                                                           September 9 and 10

                                                  Individual Components: Individual Values

• Vocab Quiz
• Facebook Template
• Occupation Research
• Personal Narrative

                                                  Group Components: American Values Across the Globe

• Vocab Wall
• Current Events Research
• Prezi Presentation