Week 4

That’s My Land

The first thing we will do today is finish the simulation assignment from yesterday. I will give you about 10 minutes to do this and then we will talk about it as a class.

After Class Discussion

You will need to go to Google Classroom to do the assignment that goes with this activity. The assignment is called, “That’s My Land”. It is a short assignment. Make sure you use different colored font and complete sentences to finish it.

After That’s My Land Assignment Finished

Check you’re grades in Infinite Campus. Make sure you have a grade for every assignment we have done this rotation. The assignments from this rotation are:

-Islam Extremists

-Basics of Judaism

-Middle East Map

-Middle East Slides

-Middle East Sorting

Week 4

That’s My Land

Today, I am going to go over a PowerPoint with you. I’m going to talk about Israel and why there is constant fighting there.

Before I go over the presentation, you are going to do an activity. I will explain the activity to you, but you can get it from here: That’s My Land Go ahead and open it up.

After you and your partner finish dividing your land, be ready to have your map pulled up on your screen and wait for other’s to get done.

Week 4

Review

The first thing we will do is a quick review. Click this link 

Sorting Assignment

You will not have a unit test over the Middle East. Instead you are going to work on a sorting assignment. This is worth 40 points and it covers what we have discussed over the past few weeks.

1. Go to Google Classroom and open the assignment: Middle East Sorting.

2. You need to cut and paste each of the text boxes that are in the last 3 slides, onto the correct slide.

To cut, click inside the box with the text>move your mouse to sit on one of the borders of the box (it should change from a cursor to an arrow going 4 different directions)>right click your mouse>click cut

To Paste, go to the slide you believe is the correct slide it goes with>right click> select one of the first 2 options

3. Whenever you finish, there shouldn’t be any text boxes left on the last 3 slides because they should be pasted onto the correct country or religion. There are 40 boxes.

RESOURCES:

You can use Google for the assignment, but here are a few resources you might want to use that can help you:

Iraq handout

SAUDI ARABIA – notes

Afghanistan notes

Qatar and UAE

Israel

Syria

Islam

Judaism

Extremists

4. Whenever you finish, turn it in.

Week 3

PowerPoint Project

You should finish your PowerPoint today. Before you turn it in, double check it with the Middle East Project to make sure that you have everything included that you need to.

Whenever you are all the way finished, follow the steps below to turn it in.

  1. Go to Google Classroom
  2. Go into this class
  3. Click on the Middle East Slides assignment
  4. Click the “add” button
  5. Click on “Files”
  6. Click the “Middle East Slides” button
  7. Find the Middle East Slides document that you just finished and click on it
  8. Click on the “Turn in” button.

When You are Finished

Check your grades in Infinite Campus.

-After you log-in, check to make sure you are in “Portal” view. To do that, look at the top of the left-hand side of the screen. If it says “Portal” you are fine. If it says, “Student” click on “Student” and then click, “Portal”.

-Click on “grades” on the left hand side

-Scroll down until you see this class “Social Studies 7” and click on it

Check to make sure you have a score for every assignment.

Week 3

Missing Assignments

If you still have any missing work from last rotation, you have until this tomorrow to turn it in! If I don’t receive it by this Friday, I will mark it as missing and the best grade you can earn after that is a 50% if you turn it in. You either need to finish it at home, library, neighbor’s house, etc. or you need to make arrangements with me to come in before school.

Google Slides Project

Continue working on your Google Slides project today. Don’t try to rush through it. You also have tomorrow to work on it. Make sure you are using the scoring guide to check to see if you have everything covered.

yesterday’s post has the Scoring Guide and resources in it.

People of Middle East

I’ve noticed that several groups are having trouble figuring out who the important people or people groups are for their countries. If you research the following, you should be able to find the ones that are connected to your country:

-Saddam Hussein

-Osama Bin Laden

-Immigrants

-Kurds

-ISIS

-Taliban

-Palestinians (PLO)

-Ayatollah Khomeini

-Businessmen

-Muhammad

-Sunni

-Shi’ite

How to Turn In

When you are finished with the assignment, this is how you turn it in:

  1. Go to Google Classroom
  2. Go into this class
  3. Click on the Middle East Slides assignment
  4. Click the “add” button
  5. Click on “Files”
  6. Click the “Middle East Slides” button
  7. Find the Middle East Slides document that you just finished and click on it
  8. Click on the “Turn in” button.

Week 3

Google Slides Project

The next thing we are going to do is start a small project. You will be assigned a Middle Eastern country to research and create a Google Slides presentation. You will have 3 class periods to work on it. For this assignment, I want to see what your current skills are like. Later this semester I will teach you the Do’s and Don’ts of Google Slides/PowerPoint.

You need to open this document to find out what country you have assigned to you and to find out what the directions are for the project. A scoring guide is also located inside this document: Middle East Project

Resources

You can use Google for the assignment, but here are a few resources you might want to use that can help you:

Culture Grams    Click on Asia and then select whichever country you have been assigned.

CIA Factbook    Click inside of the box that says, “Select a country or location”. Scroll through until you find your country.

I have a Word document that has some good information about each of the countries below. You will definitely want to read this. Click on your country to download it.

Iraq handout

IRAN – notes

SAUDI ARABIA – notes

Afghanistan notes

Qatar and UAE

Israel

Syria

Week 3

Missing Assignments

If you still have any missing work from last rotation, you have until this Friday to turn it in! If I don’t receive it by this Friday, I will mark it as missing and the best grade you can earn after that is a 50% if you turn it in. You either need to finish it at home, library, neighbor’s house, etc. or you need to make arrangements with me to come in before school.

Judaism

If you didn’t finish yesterday’s assignment on Islamic Extremists then go ahead and finish that first.

The other major religion that we are studying in this unit is Judaism. Judaism is extremely important in Israel. You need to download this PowerPoint to learn about the basics of Judaism: Judaism

After you read about Judaism, you need to go to Google Classroom and complete the Basics of Judaism assignment.

When you finish, turn it in.

Middle East Map

After you finish the Basics of Judaism, the other assignment today is a map of the Middle East. Use the internet to help you find the locations. This assignment can also be found in Google Classroom.

When you finish, turn it in.

Week 3

Missing Assignments

I will give you about 15-20 minutes to try to get any missing work finished up and turned into me. If you have anything missing, you have until this Friday to turn it in with no penalty. If I don’t get it until after this Friday, the best you can get on it is a 50%.

If you are already finished with everything, you know what you are allowed to do with free time. I will put up a new seating chart later this hour.

New Assignment

Don’t open any of the documents below until you are sitting with your new partner. 

 

After you get your new partner, you are going to learn about Islamic Extremists. These Muslims give all other Muslims a bad name because of the things they do. Many people believe that all Muslims are evil or violent because they hear what these groups do, but that isn’t true. First I want you to watch a short video about the Taliban.

You can access the video from Google Drive>Team Drive>Videos>Osborne>Middle East>Taliban.

Then I want you to read about the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS in this document: Extremists

After you read about the Extremists, you need to go to Google Classroom and complete the assignment.

Whenever you are all the way finished, turn it in.

Week 2

Catch Up Day

Today should be your final day with your current partner. Since this is our 1st rotation, I’m going to monitor how many assignments are missing today. If I feel there are too many assignments missing, I will give you a little more time to work on Monday, but based on how things looked yesterday, I believe you should be able to finish everything today.

I am going to announce what assignments are missing at the beginning of each hour. It would be a good idea for you to check your grades on Infinite Campus today.

At the start of class I’m going to show you a couple of tools you might want to use if you don’t get your assignments finished that can help you work on them outside of class.

Assignments from this Rotation

-Developed/Developing Excel

-Middle East Scavenger Hunt

-Basics of Islam

When Finished

If you have everything finished you are allowed to:

-Read a book

-Work on homework from another class

-Visit class links or Google Earth