Thursday, January 31, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
My Memo to Administration
below is a copy of my memo to the administration about my food festival
Memo
Date: 1/28/2008
To: Dr. Richard Werthiemer , Mrs. Patricia Johnson, Mr. Mario Zing
From: Cherie.Freeman
RE: Ethnic Food Festival
Priority: [Urgent]
Dear Administration,
For my graduation project I am planning on hosting an ethnic food festival here at City Charter High School. The objective is to initiate a new found relationship between foreign cultures and foods to the 12th grade students. It is an approach to open their horizons to new ideas with not just food, but other cultures as well. I feel this will be a fresh beginning for students and faculty as well to recognize and acknowledge culture and heritages foreign to our values.
Cherie Freeman
Memo
Date: 1/28/2008
To: Dr. Richard Werthiemer , Mrs. Patricia Johnson, Mr. Mario Zing
From: Cherie.Freeman
RE: Ethnic Food Festival
Priority: [Urgent]
Dear Administration,
For my graduation project I am planning on hosting an ethnic food festival here at City Charter High School. The objective is to initiate a new found relationship between foreign cultures and foods to the 12th grade students. It is an approach to open their horizons to new ideas with not just food, but other cultures as well. I feel this will be a fresh beginning for students and faculty as well to recognize and acknowledge culture and heritages foreign to our values.
Cherie Freeman
Monday, January 28, 2008
Foundation Questions And Answers
Essential Question: How can i introduce ethnic food to the students of City Charter High School?
I am striving to have an ethnic food festival for the 12th grade. i will hold it either at lunch time or after school.
1. Why is food important to different cultures?
A. it helps individualize each culture.
2. What cultures will i choose?
A. i will choose venezuelan, uranian, ethipopian...etc.
3. Who will i interview?
A. i have interviewed Heredina Suarez who is venezuelan and Negar Alteeri who is Uranian. i hae a couple more people to interview.
4. How does food impact foreign religion?
A. sometimes you cannot eat certain foods under a religion.
5. Where will the Food Festivl be held at?
A. maybe in the Cafeteria or classroom (maybe just for the panel)
6. how much food will i need?
A. enough for 130 students plus fauclty.
7. Why do people frown about tasting other foods?
A. people believe that anything outside of their own taste is not necessarly wrong, but not right compared to them.
8. How do foreign people feel about traditional american food?
A. most feel that we fry to much of everything and we eat unhealthy.
9. how do american people feel about traditional foreign food?
A. they are hesitant to taste it because of the way it looks and smells.
10. What are some traditipns of these specific cultures?
A. they are very family oriented and eat dinner as a family where as americans rarely eat together.
11. how did the spread of ethnic food come about?
A. people brought their recipes here to have a little taste of home. its like feeling close to home without actually being there
12. what are some cultural backgrounds of these ethnicities.
A.
13. how do these dfferent cultures impact the world?
A. they bring tradtions to emerge a new way of life...this is how cultures and beliefs continue through the years.
14. what are people's opinions of other foods?
A. they are unwilling to try most things because its outside of their traditions.
11.
I am striving to have an ethnic food festival for the 12th grade. i will hold it either at lunch time or after school.
1. Why is food important to different cultures?
A. it helps individualize each culture.
2. What cultures will i choose?
A. i will choose venezuelan, uranian, ethipopian...etc.
3. Who will i interview?
A. i have interviewed Heredina Suarez who is venezuelan and Negar Alteeri who is Uranian. i hae a couple more people to interview.
4. How does food impact foreign religion?
A. sometimes you cannot eat certain foods under a religion.
5. Where will the Food Festivl be held at?
A. maybe in the Cafeteria or classroom (maybe just for the panel)
6. how much food will i need?
A. enough for 130 students plus fauclty.
7. Why do people frown about tasting other foods?
A. people believe that anything outside of their own taste is not necessarly wrong, but not right compared to them.
8. How do foreign people feel about traditional american food?
A. most feel that we fry to much of everything and we eat unhealthy.
9. how do american people feel about traditional foreign food?
A. they are hesitant to taste it because of the way it looks and smells.
10. What are some traditipns of these specific cultures?
A. they are very family oriented and eat dinner as a family where as americans rarely eat together.
11. how did the spread of ethnic food come about?
A. people brought their recipes here to have a little taste of home. its like feeling close to home without actually being there
12. what are some cultural backgrounds of these ethnicities.
A.
13. how do these dfferent cultures impact the world?
A. they bring tradtions to emerge a new way of life...this is how cultures and beliefs continue through the years.
14. what are people's opinions of other foods?
A. they are unwilling to try most things because its outside of their traditions.
11.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
My Final Servers List
below is a list of servers that will help with serving the dishes to the panel and the 12th grade students if i will have a food festival:
1. DeJuan Royster
2. Curtis Brown
3. Ricky Cox
4. Amber Ingram
5. Raylin Wright
6. Joy Henderson
1. DeJuan Royster
2. Curtis Brown
3. Ricky Cox
4. Amber Ingram
5. Raylin Wright
6. Joy Henderson
Links Used For Research
below is a list of websites that helped me with most of the ressearch for my paper:
www.cyber-kitchen.com
www.wikipedia.org
www.yourirish.com
www.africancultureonline.com
www.selamta.com
www.archive.gov
www.geograhia.com
www.cs.cmu.edu
www.culturalprofile.net
www.greenwood.com
www.cyber-kitchen.com
www.wikipedia.org
www.yourirish.com
www.africancultureonline.com
www.selamta.com
www.archive.gov
www.geograhia.com
www.cs.cmu.edu
www.culturalprofile.net
www.greenwood.com
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Servers
Today i am going to make a pamphlet for the servers to give them an idea of what will be going on the day of the presentation. i will also finalize the list for servers and finish tallying the surveys.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Editing my interview tapes
i edited my tapes from both interviews of Ms. Negar Alteri and Ms. Heredina Suarez. what i plan to do is get started on my paper and answer my foundation questions...i will soon pull my servers out and do a run through and start on my powerpoint for the presentation
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Editing My Interviews
today i did some editing for the interview with mrs. altieri. i also have to edit the one for my venezuelan interview. but it doesn't stop there, i still have many more to do.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Key Terms For Project
here below is a list of words that some people may be unfamiliar with:
1. international- global, worldwide
2. Ethnic- Sharing cultural Characteristics
3. Culture- Shared beliefs and values of a group
4. Indigenous- Belonging to a place
5. Cultural Melting Pot- A blend of different racsis and cultures
6. Heritage- The status, conditions, or character aquired by being born into a particular family or social class.
7. Etruscan- a member of an ancient people who lived in Etruria and were overcome by the Romans during the 2nd century bc. Their civilization flourished between about 800 and 300 bc.
8. Ethiopa- the oldest independent country in Africa
9. Ethnic Collision- the lack and misrepresentation of thought upon different ethnicities.
10. Cultural Exposure- being introduced to a culture other than your own.
1. international- global, worldwide
2. Ethnic- Sharing cultural Characteristics
3. Culture- Shared beliefs and values of a group
4. Indigenous- Belonging to a place
5. Cultural Melting Pot- A blend of different racsis and cultures
6. Heritage- The status, conditions, or character aquired by being born into a particular family or social class.
7. Etruscan- a member of an ancient people who lived in Etruria and were overcome by the Romans during the 2nd century bc. Their civilization flourished between about 800 and 300 bc.
8. Ethiopa- the oldest independent country in Africa
9. Ethnic Collision- the lack and misrepresentation of thought upon different ethnicities.
10. Cultural Exposure- being introduced to a culture other than your own.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Research
Today i researched the restaurants that i was interested in and i also set up a blogger on Craig's List which is a public bulletin place. i got numbers for foreign restaurants.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Starting the processs
my name is Cherie Freeman and i am currently in the process of completing my graduation project. my graduation project is based on introducing new ethnic foods to the students of city high. this is to broaden their horizon and open their minds to try new things.
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