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Objectives:
• The students will formulate questions that can be answered by historical study and research and be able to determine the credibility and bias of primary and secondary sources.
• The students will describe current (Middle East) events using information from various sources including the internet, books, magazines, maps, etc.
• The students will analyze how these events have affected and continue to affect the United States including identifying the U.S. Foreign Policy.
Standards:
Arizona Social Studies: S1:C1:PO1-4, 6-8, S1:C10:PO3, 5, 7-10, S2:C1:PO1-4, 6, 8, S2:C8:PO14, 16, S2:C9:PO1-3, S3:C5:PO1, S4:C1:PO1-5, S4:C2:PO1-5, S4:C4:PO1, 2, 4, S4:C5:PO5, S5:C1:PO3, S5:C4:PO2
Arizona Technology: S1:C1:PO1, S1:C3:PO1-3, S3:C2:PO2-4
Websites:
www.cnn.com/interactive/2011/02/world/map.unrest.fullpage/
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/index.shtml
www.foxnews.com/
www.cnn.com/
www.state.gov/p/nea/index.htm
Activity:
As part of the Middle East unit, the students will be directed to CNN’s interactive map on unrest in the Middle East. They will select three countries to review and include the information on their worksheets. Following this, they will then go to the U.S. Department of State’s website and locate and include the Foreign Policy position of the United States and include this on their worksheets as well. When this portion of the activity is completed, the students will then select a news site and find related articles addressing the unrest and conflict in their selected countries. The teacher will lead a discussion with the students on what they learned about the situation in this region of the world and if their opinions on the related policies of the United States. This lesson can be completed in one class period, but may extend into an additional day. The teacher may also provide video news coverage of this from various news sources. The students may either work in pairs or individually.
nerf soccer balls, ten plastic bowling pins-weighted, gym floor
LESSON_CONTENT: two teams of 5-8 players are best, can’t cross the center line when throwing, try to knock down the five pins on the other side, can’t purposely throw at players but players can guard the pins, if a player catches a ball without dropping it then the thrower is out and must go to the opposite end line to be out, players out can get back in if they catch a throw from their own team, if a team knocks down four out of the five pins they can also shoot half-court shots to make a basket for a win, knock down the fifth pin or get all the players out for a win, when each round is over then teams switch sides; aternate; teams can place their five pins anywhere on their side of the floor inside the basketball lines (half-court).
Objective: Students will learn how to write birth announcements. This activity will sharpen students’ summarizing and research skills.
Students will create imaginary birth announcements. They will research the births of famous people and write their birth announcements. After completing notes and research, each student will write a draft of his or her announcement on webpage. Each student then writes his or her own birth announcement on the webpage.
Students will use computers and Internet to complete this task.
Objective: Students will create their own newspaper ads.
Students should look through magazines and newspapers to find ads they find interesting. Ask them, “What sorts of ads appeal to you the most?” While they are researching the ads, write a list of persuasive marketing words on the board (discount, new, improved, more, light, environmentally safe, great buy, cholesterol-free, fat-free, etc…) Explain how advertisers use propaganda techniques to sell products. Some of these include the use of analogy, the bandwagon approach, emotional appeal, exaggeration, generalizations, name dropping, and testimonials. Allow them to brainstorm to come up with examples of these and other sales techniques. Reproduce the fictitious product names sheet on page 53, cut them out, and randomly distribute them to students. You should make enough copies for each student to receive five product names. Students then will design their own ads on a copy of the worksheet on p age 54.
Integrating the curriculum: Students can think of original products for a certain period of history or from a particular country. Then they can write the advertisement for the products.
Students will post the advertisements to the class newspaper website.
Objective: Students will write obituaries for people from the past, real or imaginary, historical or fictional. This activity will sharpen students’ research skills.
List on the board names of literary characters, authors (deceased), or other notables from the past. Each student will research a person’s life and death using the databases on the Internet. Information on fictional characters can be reviewed by reading the story of which they are a part. Each student will then use the correct worksheet to write the obituary. After completing this activity, each student will post their obituaries on the class webpage.
Students will use Internet, databases, and the class webpage to complete this assignment.
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