Middle East Quiz

Today you are taking an open note quiz. You are allowed to work with your partner to use anything off of my website, anything I’ve given to you in Google Classroom, and any assignments you have finished. You are not allowed to search the internet using Google or other internet resources!

Here is a link to the quiz.

Your username is your first name, your last name, 306. There are no commas and no spaces. For example, my username would be:  jacobosborne306

Yours should look exactly like that except you will insert your first and last name instead of mine.

You must use your official school name. For example, if your name is William, but you go by Will, you must use your proper name William.

If you have 2 last names make sure you use both last names on your log-in. For example: If your name is Jose Reyes-Lopez, you would need to put josereyeslopez306.

Your password is your Mosis #.

Whenever you finish your test press “Submit”. You don’t have to tell me or show me your score. I have access to all of the scores.

Catch Up Day

Today is your last full class with your current partner. I will announce missing assignments from this rotation and you will have the entire hour to work on them. Tomorrow we have an open notes quiz.

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:

-Basics of Judaism

-Israel/Palestine History

-Middle East Slides

-Middle East Sorting

That’s My Land

Today you are going to do a simulation 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.

Basics of Judaism

You have 2 short assignments today. This week we are going to learn about Israel. To get a better understanding of Israel you need to have a basic knowledge of their beliefs. The first assignment you need to do today is the Basics of Judaism. It can be found in Google Classroom.

Israel/Palestine

After you finish the Basics of Judaism you are going to learn about Israel and Palestine. Their history is complicated. Their is more depth to it than what I present, but I tried to give you the basics of it so you could understand why there is constant conflict here. This assignment is also found in Google Classroom.

Gone Today

I had a dentist appointment today. I will be back tomorrow.

Sorting Assignment

Continue working on Friday’s assignment. When you get it done, turn it in.

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.

4. To help give you some direction, this is how many text boxes should be on each slide whenever you are finished (starting with slide 1-Iraq)

5

2

4

4

2

2

4

11

6

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.

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.

When You are Finished

Check your grades in Infinite Campus.

If you have any blank scores that means that I haven’t received an assignment from you. Tomorrow is the final day that I will accept any missing work from last rotation without any penalty. If I don’t receive it tomorrow, I will mark it as missing.

If you have everything turned in:

1. Read a book

2. Work on homework from another class

3. Visit class links or Google Earth

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

When Finished

Students are always allowed to do 1 of 3 things:

1. Read a book

2. Work on homework from another class

3. Visit class links or Google Earth

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.

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

Catch Up Day

Today is your final day with this partner. You have the entire hour to try to get any missing work finished and turned into me. If you have anything you don’t finish today, you have until next Friday to turn it in with no penalty. If I don’t get it until after next Friday, the best you can get on it is a 50%.