This teacher's manual examines the activities, attitudes, and approaches necessary for teaching about ethnic groups and provides guidelines for classwork. It is specifically designed to accompany a series of units about Irish, Italians, Puerto Ricans, Blacks, Poles, Armenians, Scots and Scotch Irish, and Jews in Connecticut. The first section of…

From an individual's viewpoint, it is argued, culture establishes a meaningful context of social institutions, ecological practices, and personal rules of conduct which provide each group member with a blueprint for social existence. But, behavior is also conditioned by unconscious internalized patterns, which tend to be accepted by everyone as…