The rich, the poor, the in-between

There is diversity in these three statements.

One person can easily get $15.00 for a new baseball mitt. Another must save for a long time to get the same mitt. Still another has no money to buy a candy bar.

The economic situation of the american people is like these statenents. The people of USA generally have more wealth than people of other nations.

• About 42 million American families have enough money to buy their own homes, most of the things they want.
• More than 26 million american cannot affort to buy all the food, clothing and housing they need.
• About 7 million americans who wanted work failed to find jobs.

Nine Americans, ten options

Americans have differing ideas about religion. Out of 215 million Americans, about 132 Million belong to one church or another.

Here are some statistics:

SECOND BIMESTER PROGRAM

One nation, many people

No two alike:

1 People of every description

2 The rich, the poor, the in-between

3 Nine Americans, Ten opinions.

Work and leisure:

1 Working

2 Carrers: your feelings about working

3Leisure

The land:

1 Landform Regions

2 Natural vegetation regions

3 Climates

4 Using latitude and longitude

Something shared:

1 A free people

2 Every person´s country

NO TWO ALIKE

The American people can from a hundred backgrounds. They think and live in a thousand ways. They do millions of jobs. Yet they are one people: Americans

People of every description

The people of any nation me be tall, short, thin, heavy, women, men, young, or old. In the United States, the American people are all of these things, and more. Americans may be White, black, Latino, Asian or American Indian. They may be rich or poor, famous or unknown to all but a few.

More than 215 million people belong to the nation called the Unite States of America. No Two of these people are exactly alike. Even identical twins differ from one another. Their families and friends can tell them apart by the way they speak the things they say, and how they say, and how they behave.

Homework:

Find the population statistics of the United States of America:

• White Americans
• Black Americans
• Latino Americans
• Asian Americans
• American Indians
• Americans under the age of 14 years
• Americans live in rural areas
• Americans between the age of 15 and 24
• Americans 15 years old or older