What role does religion serve in a culture?

1. Summative Assessment: Write an informative essay about the different major religions in your choice of geographic area and how it affects the culture of the area.

2. #1 What are the five major religions of the world and describe their beliefs, customs, and traditions?

3. #2 How are the five major religions of the world similar or different?

4. #3 After exploring the five major religions of the world, how religion is incorporated in culture in the major geographic location of each religion?

5. Supporting Questions

6. Formative Assessments

6.1. #1 Students will be split into five groups. Each group would be assigned a major religion to create a Google document for the class to share. The Google Doc will included beliefs, sacred texts, customs, traditions, and geographic distribution.

6.2. #2 Students will participate in a classroom discussion. Each group will pick a speaker to present their Google Doc. Then students will discuss the similarities and differences of each religion.

6.3. #3 Students will write a short essay on how religion is incorporated in each culture where there is a major geographic location.

7. Summative Assessment