Vocabulary
Expressions of Culture
Moving? Why?
Holidays
Hodge Podge
100
A person who moves to a different country from another place in the world.
What is an immigrant?
100
You can sing or play an instrument to make this.
What is music?
100
To learn in school or receive a better ______
What is an education?
100
This holiday celebrates Irish culture on March 17th
What is Saint Patrick's Day?
100
this landmark was a gift to the United States from France as a symbol of freedom
What is the Statue of Liberty?
200
different; the variety of differences in a group such as languages or beliefs
What is diverse?
200
Stories and poems that people write to share their ideas
What is literature?
200
To make more money in a better paying ______
What is a job?
200
This holiday is celebrates Mexico's independence from Spain.
What is Cinco de Mayo?
200
Mountain sculptures of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln
What is Mount Rushmore?
300
the unfair feeling of hate or dislike for people of a certain group, race, or religion
What is prejudice?
300
Paintings, sculpture, and drawings
What is art?
300
To have a chance at a better way of life
What is opportunity?
300
Many Chinese families celebrate this holiday by giving children red packets of money for good luck.
What is Chinese New Year?
300
A group of people who share the same language, culture, and way of life
What is an ethnic group?
400
a people's way of doing something
What is a custom?
400
A person's belief system
What is religion?
400
Large movements of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North during the early 1900's
What is the Great Migration?
400
This weeklong holiday celebrates African American culture
What is Kwanzaa?
400
Animals and people both do this when they move
What is migrate?
500
A custom, or way of doing something, that gets passed on to others
What is a tradition?
500
The art of designing buildings
What is architecture?
500
Being able to make your own choices or decisions
What is having freedom?
500
This holiday is celebrate the day after Christmas in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.
What is Boxing Day?
500
the poet who authored the poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty
Who is Emma Lazarus?
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