Welcome and great to see all you beautiful people! Today in class we will be examining the history of the conflict in the middle east. Should be a fun day! Below you will find our agenda, homework, and resources for the day.
Objectives:
- Understand the multiple causes of tensions and continued conflict between groups in the Middle East
- Review and submit Beyond Our Differences
- The Arab-Israeli conflict Crash Course
- Discussion/Lecture Arab-Israeli Conflict History
- Review the foundations and continued history of the conflict in the Middle East
- Jews and Palestinians: Two Claims to Palestine Annotated Reading and Writing (handout)
- Read the text, highlight and annotate.
- Complete the notes page using key ideas from annotations
- Draw a corresponding image to accompany the key ideas of the section
- Introduce Children's Book Project on the Middle East Conflict
- Children's Book Project directions
- Working in groups of two or three, create a children’s book about the Middle East Conflict.
- Your audience is 9 to 10-year-olds so you need to write your information at their level. Be creative! Your book may be created using Google Slides (like the fairy-tale project) or on paper use pen and color for your pages.
- Your story will need to have a beginning, middle, and end. You are limited to 10 slides/pages
- Your children’s book must include:
- Title
- Introduction
- Factual information about the conflict based on information we learned in class as well as supplemental information.
- At least two different characters that have different views of the Middle East Conflict
- Include the specified terms in bolded text
- Conclusion
- Illustrations (such as pictures, maps, drawings, charts, or cartoons)
Homework:
- Current Event MyMaps due uploaded to Google Classroom on Sunday, May 19
- Asia Map Test May 20
- Use Seterra Quiz Website to Study!
