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Explore the physical and cultural geography, history, and current events of the Middle East. Learn about the region's countries, conflicts, and religions through engaging activities and assignments.
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The Middle East Unit 7
Desalination Threatens the Persian Gulf Waters • Iranian Protests Against the Government • US Embassy Move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem • The Continuing Syrian Civil War Current Events The Middle East Analysis Worksheet
Bellwork: How many Middle Eastern countries can you name? What makes these countries a region? What do they have in common?
Bellwork: Where can we find current events? What makes a source reliable? What sources are trustworthy and what makes them that way? If you can’t think of anything specific, think of things that would make you suspicious of a source’s trustworthiness.
Bellwork: Can you think of an international border that divides an ethnic group? How does that affect them? (If you can’t think of any that are far away, what about those that are close to home?)
Afghanistan’s Geography Case Study- Videos How has Afghanistan’s geography shaped its history? How was Afghanistan affected by more powerful countries and empires on its borders? Why does Pakistan want to play an influential role in Afghanistan? What is daily life like in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan’s Geography Case Study Group Assignment: Afghanistan’s People and History Reading Maps of Afghanistan The Geography of Afghanistan Worksheet (individual wksts to turn in) Go over a few questions from Part 3 of the lesson plan and if there is time, go over the worksheet answers.
Bellwork: What is monotheism and what are the three major monotheistic religions? Bonus: Where did each originate?
Monotheistic Religions Activity Lesson Plan: includes worksheets and map resources for printing. There are 33 cards for the comparison chart activity. Give one/two to each student and talk about the answers (why students chose what they did whether that was right or wrong.) Give students the maps and the worksheet in groups of three or four. Once their group has finished you can give them the assessment activity which includes a paragraph, which can be finished for homework.
Bellwork: Reflect on what you know about Islam. Write down everything you know and want to know about it.
Five Pillars of Islam Lesson Plan Do as a class, watch videos when reaching that section. Popcorn reading or teacher-read works. Videos: Shahada (Reading), Salat , Zakat, Sawm, Hajj Worksheet for the Reading and Videos Reading of the Five Pillars
Bellwork: Reflect on the opinions of those in Muslim majority countries about the influence that the Quran should have on their country’s laws. What does this chart tell us about people in the Islamic world? (Think about interpretation and implementation of the Quran.)
Sharia Law and its Interpretation Reading Worksheet
Bellwork: The alphabet has disappeared. You can only express yourself through pictures and symbols. What would be some of the most essential things for which you would need signs? Which objects, concepts and ideas are the ones you would make sure were standardized and learned right away?
Our Cuneiform Share your most essential signs with your neighbor. Our classes most essential symbols and pictures: Can you write a message with these symbols? (Snowball and decode)
Mesopotamia and Cuneiform • Mesopotamia: the Land Between Two Rivers • Located in the Fertile Crescent • Considered to be the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of writing (as well as many other things)
Cuneiform Writing in ancient Mesopotamia arose from necessity—specifically, the need to keep records. Gradually, civilization in the Tigris-Euphrates River Valley became more urbanized. Eventually, a number of complex systems developed: political, military, religious, legal, and commercial. Writing developed as well, becoming essential to those systems.Did writing enable those complex systems to arise or did complex systems create the need for a more sophisticated system of writing?
Please take out: • Your Shariah Law worksheet, if you haven’t already turned it in • Your Mesopotamia worksheet • You can cross out the pictograph section on the back of your Mesopotamia worksheet.
Worksheet Copy of cuneiform writing worksheet
Bellwork Describe the image to the right. What is special about it? Where do you think you would find such art?
The Golden Age of Islam and Islamic Art Reading from this packet; background: 5-11, 19, 22Provide students choices between three assignments to demonstrate their knowledge. Sec A: 23-27, 57-58 Students can read about mosques and then design one of the their own, including making a detailed geometric design to tile the building with. They must show what direction the mosque is facing and have relevant details they read about. Sec B: 28-34Student can read about the intellectual achievements of the Islamic Golden Age and then design a museum exhibit around one the achievements, including writing a paragraph about it to explain it to visitors. Sec C: 35-42, 56Students can read about literature and poetry of the era and then either write their own poem or a short story that uses one of the starters from page 56.
Bellwork: What do you think is happening here? What emotions can you identify? Where do you think this is taking place? What would you name this picture?
Procedures Lesson Plan Hand out the worksheet and the timeline. Go over the answers. (Extension: Do the group articles.) Hand out the graphic novel to partners and give them time to read it and answer the questions on the worksheet. Debrief the graphic novel with the next slide and then have the students answer the last four questions on their worksheet. Hand out the graphic novel instructions and lay out some paper.
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict • Palestine is a graphic novel written and drawn by Joe Sacco about his experiences in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in December 1991 and January 1992. Sacco gives a portrayal which emphasizes the history and plight of the Palestinian people, as a group and as individuals.• Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s (where he conducted over 100 interviews with Palestinians and Jews), Palestine was the first major comic work of political and historical nonfiction by Sacco, who has often been called the first comic book journalist. • Sacco’s insightful reportage takes place at the front lines, where busy marketplaces are spoiled by shootings and tear gas, soldiers beat civilians with reckless abandon, and roadblocks go up before reporters can leave. Sacco interviewed and encountered prisoners, refugees, protesters, wounded children, farmers who had lost their land and families who had been torn apart by thePalestinian conflict.
Comic Book Instructions Use two or three comic book pages from the front to illustrate an event from Israeli-Palestinian history. Examples: The 6-Day War The First Intifada The Rise of Zionism Pages must be colored and have dialogue.
Bellwork: The Middle East’s abundance of what natural resource has given the region great economic power? What do we (the United States) depend on the region for?
Foreign Oil Dependency Debate Over the next few days you will be researching a hypothetical oil embargo from the Middle East on the United States. Worksheet
Bellwork 1.17 What holidays outside of your own religion do you know of? Do you know what they are about? (Obviously if you aren’t religious, all holidays are outside your realm.)
