Wednesday, May 22, 2019

May 22 -Asia Map Test & Middle East Children's Book

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen,
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 and creating a storyboard of the Children's book. Should be a fun day! Below you will find our agenda, homework, and resources for the day.
Objectives:
  • Show geographic mastery of Asia
  • Understand the multiple causes of tensions and continued conflict between groups in the Middle East
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Agenda:
  1. Turn in your Asia Map Packets
  2. Asia Map Test
  3. Children's Book Project on the Middle East Conflict
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    1. Children's Book Project directions
    2. Working in groups of two or three, create a children’s book about the Middle East Conflict. 
    3. Your audience is 9 to 10-year-olds so you need to write your information at their level. Be creative! 
      1. 4th graders read chapter books. Unlike the fairy tale project, you will most likely have a column or two of text.  Insert your images in a creative way to flow with the story.
    1. Your book may be created using Google Slides (like the fairy-tale project) or on paper use pen and color for your pages. 
    2. Your story will need to have a beginning, middle, and end. You are limited to 10 slides/pages
    3. Your children’s book must include:
      1. Title
      2. Introduction
      3. Factual information about the conflict based on information we learned in class as well as supplemental information.
      4. At least two different characters that have different views of the Middle East Conflict
      5. Include the specified terms in bolded text
        • Palestine 
        • Israel 
        • Zionism or Zionist 
        • Balfour Declaration 
        • Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) 
        • Intifada 
        • Gaza Strip 
        • West Bank 
        • United Nations
      6. Conclusion
      7. Illustrations (such as pictures, maps, drawings, charts, or cartoons)
  1. Story Map for the Children's book (handout)
    1. Use the storyboard graphic organizer to brainstorm and draft your Children's Book story.
      1. This is your chance to be creative...
        1. Setting: can you tell the story in a different way? (use metaphors) Consider the setting on the school playground... think about what a 4th grader would relate to.
        2. Events and Illustrations
          1. Consider how you will tell the story in your setting.  
          2. Be sure to consider how you will incorporate the required vocabulary.
          3. Think about an appropriate illustration that helps to tell the story or explain the key ideas.
        3. Outcomes: The resolutions can be proposals or wishes of your characters.  How do your characters perceive the solution to the problem?  How do they work it out in their way?
  2. Draft Storybook writing
    1. Using Google Docs (shared Doc with your partner), write the text of the story for your children's book.  
    2. Use your Storyboard draft as your guide.
  3. Resources for the Children's Book Project
    1. Jews and Palestinians: Two Claims to Palestine Annotated Reading and Writing (handout)
    2. Discussion/Lecture Arab-Israeli Conflict History
      1. Review the foundations and continued history of the conflict in the Middle East
    3. Arabia After World War I (Khan Academy)

    4. Theodor Herzl and the birth of political Zionism (Khan Academy

    5. Arab Israeli Wars
      1. Encyclopedia Britannica
    6. Everything you need to know about Israel-Palestine
      1. There are several sections with 
    7. The Arab-Israeli conflict Crash Course
Homework:
  1. Current Event MyMaps due uploaded to Google Classroom on Sunday, May 19
  2. Asia Map Test May 20
That's all for the day folks! I hope that you learned something interesting today! Take care and have a great weekeknd!
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