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Culture II: Jamaica by Lety, Vicky and Alicia

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Jamaica  ( / dʒ ə ˈ m eɪ k ə /  (   listen ) ) is an  island country  situated in the  Caribbean Sea , consisting of the third-largest island of the  Greater Antilles . The island, 10,990 square kilometres (4,240 sq mi) in area, lies about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of  Cuba , and 191 kilometres (119 mi) west of  Hispaniola  (the island containing the nation-states of  Haiti  and the  Dominican Republic ). Jamaica is the fourth-largest island country in the  Caribbean , by area. [8] Inhabited by the indigenous  Arawak  and  Taíno  peoples, the island came under  Spanish rule  following the arrival of  Christopher Columbus  in 1494. Many of the indigenous people died of disease, and the Spanish imported African slaves as labourers. Named  Santiago , the island remained a possession of Spain until 1655, when England (later  Great Britain ) conquered it and renamed it Jamaica. Under British colonial rule Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter, with its plantation economy highly
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Culture I: Sierra Leone by Ingrid, Luisina and Cynthia

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Sierra Leone is an extremely vulnerable country. Most of the population live below the poverty line, its economy is strongly dependent on donors and agriculture is its largest economic sector. A contentious issue at the moment is that farmland is being leased to foreign companies. It is a practice that pertains to almost a fifth of all farmland, and its scope is increasing. Land that has been in the hands of the local people for decades, and who have always grown their own food on it, is being taken away from them. Two thirds of the population depend on subsistance farming.
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Culture II: Ireland by Abigail, Sonia, Nadia and Andrea

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Ireland   / ˈ aɪ ər l ə n d /  Ulster-Scots:  Airlann [ˈɑːrlən] ) is an island in the North Atlantic. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the second-largest island of the British Isles, the third-largest in Europe, and the twentieth-largest on Earth. Politically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, in the northeast of the island. In 2011, the population of Ireland was about 6.4 million, ranking it the second-most populous island in Europe after Great Britain. Just under 4.6 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just over 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
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Culture II: Canada by Rocío, Tamara, Yanina and Andrea

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Canada   / ˈ k æ n ə d ə /  is a country in the northern part of North America. Its  ten provinces and three territories  extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world's  second-largest country by total area  and the  fourth-largest country by land area . Canada's  border with the United States  is the world's longest binational land border. The majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its land territory being dominated by  forest  and  tundra  and the  Rocky Mountains . It is highly  urbanized  with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, many near the southern border. One third of the population lives in the three largest metropolitan areas:  Toronto ,  Montreal  and  Vancouver . Its capital
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Práctica II: Historia de las Leyes de Educación Argentina

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ARTÍCULO 1°.- La presente ley regula el ejercicio del derecho de enseñar y aprender consagrado por el artículo 14 de la Constitución Nacional y los tratados internacionales incorporados a ella, conforme con las atribuciones conferidas al Honorable Congreso de la Nación en el artículo 75, incisos 17, 18 y 19, y de acuerdo con los principios que allí se establecen y los que en esta ley se determinan.
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Culture I: Uganda by Amarai and Diana

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Uganda  ( / juː ˈ ɡ æ n d ə /    officially the  Republic of Uganda  is a  landlocked country  in  East Africa . It is bordered to the east by  Kenya , to the north by  South Sudan , to the west by the  Democratic Republic of the Congo , to the south-west by  Rwanda , and to the south by  Tanzania . The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of  Lake Victoria , shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the  African Great Lakes  region. Uganda also lies within the  Nile basin , and has a varied but generally a modified equatorial climate.
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Culture II: Australia by Paula, Hugo, Dimas and Karina

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Australia   / ə ˈ s t r eɪ l i ə /  officially the  Commonwealth of Australia ,  is a country comprising the mainland of the  Australian continent , the island of  Tasmania  and numerous  smaller islands . It is the world's  sixth-largest country by total area . The neighbouring countries are  Papua New Guinea ,  Indonesia  and  East Timor  to the north; the  Solomon Islands  and  Vanuatu  to the north-east; and  New Zealand  to the south-east. Australia's capital is  Canberra , and its largest  urban area  is  Sydney .
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