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What is the CHP?[[image:gotroots6.jpg width="361" height="253" align="left"]]
The Cultural Heritage Project will challenge you to explore either your own culture or a culture that interests you. It will call on your skills as a researcher, writer, and storyteller. Like the Biggest Dig in the sixth grade and the Creative Scholar’s Project in the eighth grade, it is the signature project of your seventh grade year at Beaver.

Project Overview
 The CHP will call on your researching, writing, and public speaking skills as you explore a country and culture of your choosing and its immigrants' journey to the United States. You could chose to research your family's place of origin or simply chose a culture in which you are interested in learning more about. Remember that you will be spending a lot of time on this research, so choose a country that interests you. Once you have chosen the country and culture, you will research a specific time period, and focus on why that country's people emigrated to the United States in significant numbers. Keep in mind that your research can focus on several years, a decade, or even a few decades. Based on your research, you will create a well-written, two-to-three-page research paper.  In addition, your findings will be reported in an oral presentation and slide show before classmates, faculty, and selected guests. Lastly, you will create a visual display to decorate your space at the CHP fair.

In history class, all class time will be dedicated to this project. Your teachers and librarians will provide the tools to create, manage, and maintain your project. However, you are in the driver's seat! Some of this work will be completed outside of class, so organization, goal-setting, and self-discipline are key. Create a schedule for yourself, stick to it, and dig into your roots!

**Overview **

 * First, choose a country and culture to explore.
 * Then you will research a specific time period, focusing on why people from that particular area came to the United States. Were they pushed out of their country of origin? Were they drawn to the United States in the search for new opportunities? Or did the decision to immigrate to the U,S. come from a combination of several factors? Your research can span particular years or particular decades. [[image:gotroots4.jpg width="244" height="300" align="right"]]
 * Next, you will synthesize your research, by creating a well-written two or three page research paper. Your teachers will instruct you how to do this step by step and support you along the way.
 * Lastly, your findings will be reported at the CHP Fair before classmates, faculty and selected guests, in a 1-2 minute presentation accompanied by a slide show. At that presentation you will also unveil a visual display that highlights your country's culture and its contributions to America.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Source Requirements
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Your project will include both primary and secondary sources. To find out more about these kinds of sources, [|CLICK HERE]. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The librarians are a great resource for helping you understand, find, and interpret all this great information.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">30 note cards posted in [|Noodlebib]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2 [|Primary Sources] (a few examples are interviews, artifacts, statistics, letters, journals, diaries, family stories, and family tree)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 6 [|Secondary Sources] (ready reference, books, articles, websites, newspapers)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">10 Notecards dedicated to visual images, which will ultimately be used in your slide show an d/or visual display.