This is my friend Beri, who is from Kurdistan, which is a region that contains parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran (all countries in the Middle East). We were hiking with my great friend Clarke (Beri's boyfriend) in Vietnam and saw this buffalo in the forest!
Hi everyone,
Woo hoo! Today was the day we have been looking forward to, even before Spring Break! Hopefully you are feeling quite accomplished with turning in your historical investigation. If you did not, please get it in to me as soon as possible. My last day as your teacher has been changed to next Friday.
Essential Questions: What brings people together? What tears people apart?
AGENDA 4/19/13:
News Brief
Editorial Analysis
Study for Middle East Map Quiz
Homework: Study for Middle East Map Quiz next class! Check the blog. Next news brief: Ryan and Tracey (and anyone else who has not done one yet)
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News Brief: Seriously SO MANY news articles brought in today. Five, by my count. Courtney, Evita, Ian, Cindy O., and Zahara selected these to talk about:
1) CNN.com - Message in a bottle found after 28-year trip from Canada to Croatia
2) CNN.com - Billionaire Saudi prince tweets support for women driving
3) CNN.com - Deadly wave of bombings across Iraq ahead of elections
4) USAToday.com - 7.0 quake hits ocean off Japan, Russia; no damage (after this one, I showed the class the USGS.gov website where you can see a map of all the recent earthquakes in the world)
5) CNN.com - Mysterious structure found at bottom of ancient lake
1) CNN.com - Message in a bottle found after 28-year trip from Canada to Croatia
2) CNN.com - Billionaire Saudi prince tweets support for women driving
3) CNN.com - Deadly wave of bombings across Iraq ahead of elections
4) USAToday.com - 7.0 quake hits ocean off Japan, Russia; no damage (after this one, I showed the class the USGS.gov website where you can see a map of all the recent earthquakes in the world)
5) CNN.com - Mysterious structure found at bottom of ancient lake
This week was just packed full of major international and national news. So much to talk about and be aware of! We also talked about the latest news from Boston and the region of Chechnya in Russia, which is possibly connected. Two more days of classes left, two more news brief sections!
Editorial Analysis: To start this, I played a four minute clip of the Michael Moore film Fahrenheit 9/11, which talked a bit about the lead up to the Iraq invasion by the United States. Then, I asked students to get into groups of four and analyze one of the editorial articles linked to here:
Then, the class tried to come up with as many reasons as possible for why the United States invaded Iraq. We came up with a really good list! This activity was to again show the class that there are many different perspectives of history. You might be asked to give your own editorial on the US involvement in the Middle East next class.
Study for Middle East Map Quiz: For the last part of class, I passed out blank maps of the Middle East and explained how I remember where each one goes. Here it is to download if you want another copy:
The countries that you will need to know for next class (the quiz will look very similar to the map above - I will give you the country names, as well) are: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Sudan, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Remember that the reason we are doing this is that a study in 2006 found that 88% of Americans aged 18-24 could not find Afghanistan (a place where over 2,000 US soldiers have died) on a map.
Be ready for the map quiz at the start of next class! Get your historical investigations in if you did not turn it in today in class!
I know how we can get a lot of doughnuts for less money! I guess Voodoo gives day old doughnuts for $5-8 by the bucket
ReplyDeleteI think that is true, though they are in limited supply, and you might be accused of fraud, if your fellow students think they are getting fresh donuts for their money, but they are not! ;-)
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