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Back 2/16/10 South Africa - Timeline Notes PPT for Identifying People (part of notes)

2/15/10 No School - President's Day

2/12/10 No School - Teacher Inservice

2/10 - 2/11 Snow Days

2/9/10 Guest Speaker from South Africa

2/8/10 European Imperialism in Africa HMWK: The Scramble for Africa Worksheet Form with questions for Guest Speaker on South Africa [|Read alittle more about Apartheid here!] Please have this completed by 8PM!!!!!  2/5/10 Slave Trade in Africa worksheet using this link.

2/2/10 Notes on Ancient Africa - Egypt Background information on Ethiopia for Waldiba

2/1/10 Work on RSS feed/current event articles for project Vocabulary for Waldiba

1/22/10 Use the textbooks in the back of the room or the Internet to complete the Africa Vocabulary sheet. AGAIN, YOU MAY NOT WORK TOGETHER AND THIS IS DUE AT THE END OF THE PERIOD!

1/21/10 Read the following article and answer the questions on the worksheet. Next, look at the political cartoon on the worksheet and answer the questions about it. You may have to use the back of the sheet. YOU MAY NOT WORK TOGETHER AND THIS IS DUE AT THE END OF THE PERIOD!  1/14/10 TEST Use this link to download the short stories Miss Kilbride tells you about!

1/13/10 Review for Test

1/12/10 OPEC notes/Review for test

1/11/10 Practice Test for the Middle East. You may take this test as many times as you want. In order to get "an A" for today, you must take this test more than once and your grade must improve. I can see all of your attempts and answers! You may use your notes and/or textbook but you MAY NOT WORK TOGETHER!

1/8/10 Influential People - English HMWK - Read the article about the 2009 Elections in Iran and answer the questions on the worksheet. Click here for the article!

1/7/10 Finish Charts on Traditional and Modern Life in the Middle East Review Questions from book Notes on types of governments in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan

1/6/10 Traditional and Modern Life in the Middle East Link for Traditional Groups Link for Modern Groups

1/5/10 Finish Kite Runner Movie Notes on The Golden Age of Islam - Safavid Empire

1/4/10 Kite Runner Movie

12/23/09 Kite Runner Test Winter Holidays Extra Credit - Use this link!

12/20-22/09 Combine classes and work on Kite Runner

12/18/09 Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Brief History (Internet Activity) Use this link to answer the questions on the worksheet.

12/17/09 Finish Arab-Israeli Conflict Vocabulary and go over

12/16/09 RSS feeds with Mrs. Hokanson HMWK: Find an article about the Arab-Israeli Conflict using an RSS (as we discussed in class). Write a 5-sentence reaction and a 5-sentence summary of the article. Also, inlcude the source of the article.

12/15/09 Arab-Israeli Conflict Vocabulary

12/14/09 Arab-Israeli Conflict Map Read the Israel’s turbulent history and create a timeline of important events in your notes. 12/4/09 PowerPoint on Islamic Art Write your name in Arabic Calligraphy Create Arabesque art pattern with your name in calligraphy in the center. Use the templates handed out in class for your art. Ms. Toto's Example

12/3/09 PowerPoint on Afghanistan President Obama's speech on the war in Afghanistan

12/2/09 Read Islam in America article. Go over answers with class.

12/1/09 Finish film Fill in Islam section of religion chart

11/30/09 Islam: Empire of Faith film

11/25/09 Christianity and Judaism Quiz

11/24/09 Review Reading and Worksheet on Christianity and Judaism Quiz tomorrow! Review notes and charts - Online Quia Review

11/23/09 Christian Denominations Chart  11/20/09 Sayings of Jesus

11/19/09 Work on Sayings of Jesus

11/18/09 The Sayings of Jesus

11/17/09 Christianity - Venn Diagram

11/16/09 Mini Quiz on Judaism Start Notes on Christianity Homework - fill in Middle East Religion chart for Christianity. Use the Internet to help find the answers.

11/13/09 Judaism - The story of Moses and the Exodus

11/12/09 Judaism - Background on Judaism - fill in chart

11/11/09 Origins of Religion

11/10/09 Finish vocabulary

11/9/09 How to Read a Timeline Activity Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Vocabulary Sites to help with vocabulary Religious Tolerance Glossary Judaism Vocabulary Islamic Vocabulary

11/6 Notes on the Persian Empire Read the story of Zoroastrianism Religions of the Middle East worksheet - do the column on Zoroastrianism only! Use the following website: @http://www.zoroastriankids.com/ @http://www.religioustolerance.org/zoroastr.htm @http://www.zoroastrianism.com/

11/5 Notes on Sumer, Babylon, the Hittites, and Phoenicia Write your name and birthday using the Phoenician alphabet

11/4 Ancient Civilizations of the Middle East Introduction Notes Mesopotamia Internet Activity - fill out the form the computer. Save it and had it in using the Hand-In Robot. Disregard the instructions regarding the back of the worksheet.

11/3 Teacher Inservice

11/2 The Middle East - Its Land and People Notes and Map

10/30 Begin watching Osama

10/29 Case Studies on Afghanistan

10/28 Background Timeline fo Afghanistan Myths and Realities of Islam

10/27 Map of the Middle East and Africa