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**Essential Questions: What is culture? How does Italian culture influence our everyday lives? How does language and culture influence identity?**
**Task**: A local Italian-American organization has requested your help planning and designing an Italian cultural display at their annual community celebration, Festa Italiana. You will keep a blog for 4 weeks on a cultural topic of your choice, discovering authentic resources and commenting on your findings each week using adjectives, comparatives, and opinion statements in Italian. To demonstrate your learning of the cultural topic, you will create a product for the Italian cultural display at Festa Italiana. The product must include writing in Italian, but can look like many things, such as a demonstration, presentation, exhibit/project, tasting, artistic recreation, original or re-created piece of art, etc.
 * Important Links to get started: **
 * 1) North Bay Italian Cultural Federation website
 * 2) [|__http://pinterest.com/cforchini/italiano/__]
 * 3) ** google doc explaining project **

1. Presentational Writing Assessment- Cultural Blog or Photo Journal 2. Integrated Performance Assessment- "Product" for Festa Italiana due Friday October 11th 3. Festa Italiana- Sunday October 13, Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Hall
 * Due Dates: **
 * Week of September 16 #1- Post fotos, videos and links of your selected theme
 * Week of September 23 #2- Write 3-4 paragraphs in Italian about your theme, including your responses to the Essential Questions, "What is culture?", etc.
 * Week of September 30 #3- Write 3-4 comparisons in Italian about your theme
 * Week of October 7 #4- Write 3-4 opinion statements in Italian about your theme