Everything we encounter that is made by humans is both part of our culture and part of human expression. This assignment invites you to consider some of the many ways the humanities have shaped creative expression. Instructions: Create a PowerPoint or Prezi presentation by performing the following: Provide eight examples of ways that the humanities influence creative expression. Cover four or more branches of the humanities (i.e., not all examples of musicians or authors). Each example should have its own slide with a clear, appropriate image and a brief explanation of how that example has been impacted by humanities (example: a slide featuring an image representing the movie Lord of the Rings with a sentence stating “The film LOTR incorporates aspects of the human condition such as discrimination, despair, courage, the feeling of triumph, happiness, internal mental scarring, and loss.”).

Use the two religions, Buddhism and Hinduism and write an essay about how to study religion and religions, give examples of how specific areas of study, ex. anthropology, political science, archaeology, history, etc., have been helpful establishing "what is there" in the religions, and how that contributes to "what should I think" about them. If you can, explore issues that arise in understanding the religions, including our own cultural contexts. Finally, how does that help us think about "Religion" in general? Use References from online.5 Paragraphs

Teaching Young Children to Read and WriteThroughout this course you have been reading, writing, listening, speaking, and thinking about evidence-based strategies and approaches to teaching children how to read and write. One of the purposes of this course was to challenge you to rethink traditional practices, observe teaching strategies with new perspectives and better conceptualize the creation of a balanced approach to K-3 literacy instruction. The Signature Assignment in this course posits the question “How do we best teach K-3 students to read and write?” This will be evidenced through the compilation of a 10-12 page research paper separated into four sectionsChildren’s Literacy DevelopmentOrganizing for Literacy InstructionTeaching and Learning Strategies/MethodsLiteracy Assessment This academic paper will also contain a clear introduction and conclusion and use APA is conventions as is required in graduate level writing.The Signature Assignment address overarching questions such as:What are students expected to know and be able to do to be successful readers and writers? What instructional opportunities are necessary to support successful students? How do we best assess literacy development? What is the role of technology in a balanced K-3 literacy environment? The Signature Assignment is an opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of research, strategies, and techniques learned in the course and how you plan to apply this knowledge in your own classroom practices in connection with evidence-based findings. A signature assignment rubric is included to help guide your development of this important scholarly work. Please review it carefully to determine you have completed this capstone assignment according to the required specifications and to the degree to which you aspire. Examples from the courseOrganizing for InstructionApproaches to teach reading and writing:Guided readingBasal reading programsLiterature focus unitsLiterature circlesReading and writing workshopsTeaching and Learning strategies/MethodsReadingDecoding word-learning Study comprehensionDigital Nonlinearity IntertextualityInteractivity Multiple modalitiesWritingPrewriting EditingDrafting publishingrevisingLiteracy Assessments ConferencesChecklistStudent’s work samplesRubricsAnecdotal notesDiagnostic testInformal reading inventoriesMiscue analysisMonitoringObservationPhonemic awarenessPortfoliosRunning recordStandardized testWebsites:https://www.learner.org/workshops/tml/workshop5/te...https://www.k12reader.com/balanced-literacy-instru...http://www.readingrockets.org/article/types-inform...https://twowritingteachers.org/2017/09/15/acloserl...https://standardizedtests.procon.org/#backgroundhttps://www.k5chalkbox.com/6-trait-writing.html