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
- 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!
- 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.
- 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
- Use your Storyboard draft as your guide.
- 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
- Palestine
- Israel
- Zionism or Zionist
- Balfour Declaration
- Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
- Intifada
- Gaza Strip
- West Bank
- United Nations
- Conclusion
- Illustrations (such as pictures, maps, drawings, charts, or cartoons)
Homework:
- Work on StoryBook (if needed)
- Should come to class on Wednesday with story text on Google Slides
- Classtime Wednesday will be for adding images and finalizing story to prepare to "publish" and turn in
- Review ALL geography map packets for final exam
- Use Seterra Quiz Website to Study!
