AP Human Geography
Comparative Religions Project
This project asks students to produce a summary of evidence concerning 8 of the world’s major belief systems. This project will help you develop a good study resource to review for both the semester exam and the AP exam in the spring.
This project requires you to create a web page using Weebly.com. You will have to create a free profile. The entire project and all its requirements must be presented in the site itself.
The requirements for the religion project are as follows.
1. Prepare an information sheet for Judaism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism and Mormonism. Include answers to the following questions on each information sheet. Your information sheet will be a picture file of some sort. If you do it on a laptop, ALL of the content must appear on the screen and you will do a “print screen” to capture it as a picture file. The way you organize the info is up to you.
a. What is the point of origin?
b. Where is this tradition most influential today?
c. How many followers are there worldwide?
d. Is this a monotheistic or polytheistic tradition?
e. Polytheistic or Monotheistic?
f. Who founded this faith? When?
g. What do the followers call their scriptures or holy book(s)?
h. How is the religious leadership organized?
2. For each religion you research, you must include MAPS that show the HEARTH, the DIFFUSION, and the MODERN EXTENT of it.
3. Include a picture of some of the holiest sites within each religion. Most religions should have more than just one holy site. Your project should have a brief description of the site that includes the name of the location and how people interact with it and use it to carry out their religious ways.
4. Cultural diffusion is about encounters and interactions among people. Select two of the religions that you have researched and examine the ways in which the traditions within these religions have encountered and interacted with each other. Your essay should describe the initial encounter, the nature of the interaction and the ways in which the relationship changed over time. Present your ideas in an essay. Must be between 1 page and no more than 2 pages. You may not compare Judaism to Christianity.
5. Include an embedded video (at least one) in your website- this can be tied to any of your religions. However, it must fit in to the presentation of world religions.
6. Select 1 of the 8 main religions and write a thorough report in which you analyze the culture, beliefs and adherents of the religion. You may choose any religion you want out of the 8 EXCEPT Christianity, and you must not use the same ones you use for part 4. This should be 1 full page, but not more than 2 full pages.
7. Your textbook and the companion website are useful for general information, but you will need to consult additional resources. Prepare an ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY citing the sources you consulted for this project. Your bibliography must reference 8 sources overall (minimum) and must include at least 4 articles from scdiscus.org databases. If you site videos from YouTube, you must site each video URL as its own source. Just citing youtube.com once will not be sufficient for all potential videos. The annotation is a brief statement about how you used each source in your research. No more than 2 sentences is necessary for my project.
Bonus: 5pts.
INCLULDE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR part 1
Taoism, Jainism, Shinto, Sikhism, and Baha’i
Comparative Religions Project
This project asks students to produce a summary of evidence concerning 8 of the world’s major belief systems. This project will help you develop a good study resource to review for both the semester exam and the AP exam in the spring.
This project requires you to create a web page using Weebly.com. You will have to create a free profile. The entire project and all its requirements must be presented in the site itself.
The requirements for the religion project are as follows.
1. Prepare an information sheet for Judaism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism and Mormonism. Include answers to the following questions on each information sheet. Your information sheet will be a picture file of some sort. If you do it on a laptop, ALL of the content must appear on the screen and you will do a “print screen” to capture it as a picture file. The way you organize the info is up to you.
a. What is the point of origin?
b. Where is this tradition most influential today?
c. How many followers are there worldwide?
d. Is this a monotheistic or polytheistic tradition?
e. Polytheistic or Monotheistic?
f. Who founded this faith? When?
g. What do the followers call their scriptures or holy book(s)?
h. How is the religious leadership organized?
2. For each religion you research, you must include MAPS that show the HEARTH, the DIFFUSION, and the MODERN EXTENT of it.
3. Include a picture of some of the holiest sites within each religion. Most religions should have more than just one holy site. Your project should have a brief description of the site that includes the name of the location and how people interact with it and use it to carry out their religious ways.
4. Cultural diffusion is about encounters and interactions among people. Select two of the religions that you have researched and examine the ways in which the traditions within these religions have encountered and interacted with each other. Your essay should describe the initial encounter, the nature of the interaction and the ways in which the relationship changed over time. Present your ideas in an essay. Must be between 1 page and no more than 2 pages. You may not compare Judaism to Christianity.
5. Include an embedded video (at least one) in your website- this can be tied to any of your religions. However, it must fit in to the presentation of world religions.
6. Select 1 of the 8 main religions and write a thorough report in which you analyze the culture, beliefs and adherents of the religion. You may choose any religion you want out of the 8 EXCEPT Christianity, and you must not use the same ones you use for part 4. This should be 1 full page, but not more than 2 full pages.
7. Your textbook and the companion website are useful for general information, but you will need to consult additional resources. Prepare an ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY citing the sources you consulted for this project. Your bibliography must reference 8 sources overall (minimum) and must include at least 4 articles from scdiscus.org databases. If you site videos from YouTube, you must site each video URL as its own source. Just citing youtube.com once will not be sufficient for all potential videos. The annotation is a brief statement about how you used each source in your research. No more than 2 sentences is necessary for my project.
Bonus: 5pts.
INCLULDE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR part 1
Taoism, Jainism, Shinto, Sikhism, and Baha’i