Finishing up loose ends
Housekeeping:
- Paragraphs marked: Take some time to read my comments and ask questions. I always allow rewrites.
- Be sure that you have now completed the first section of your learning guide and are part way finished the second - I may give time at the end of today for you to work on the course
- Points: 93 plus 1 from Isaac. What would you like? A movie? With a environmental or Islamic plot. Pizza? A beach clean up or forest walk and a picnic? Your ideas
- Let's take a vote: Mentimeter
1. Reader week in the Netherlands March 9th (passed but still important)
Our next book: Ebb and Flow (will read a little from it today)
Review the last lesson
Explain Cultural Diffusion to your partner and give an example
Explain what is meant by Mechanism of Transfer and give an example
Focus Question: How did Islam Spread so Quickly?
What were its mechanisms of transfer.
Let's look at the Who,What,Where,When of Islam and then especially focus on the why?
1. Trade
2. Conquest
3. It was appealing because it treated people fairly
Focus on Syria: History and Georgraphy of Syria
Break
English Focus: The novelFocus Question: What is it like to be a Refugee?What kinds of prejudice do Refugees Face?
IKEA: IKEA installs replica of Syrian home inside flagship store
Short film: Girl Brave Rising :
- important vocabulary to understand: xenophobia, racism, migrant, refugee, persecution, purgatory, Arab Spring
Consider the following quotation from Somali-British poet Warsan Shire
"you have to understand,
no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land."
That line from the poem "Home"
By Somali-British poet Warsan Shire, brings home the stark reality of the horrifying decisions refugee parents must make.
Project: We see how art has been created to express the struggle of millions of people: What kind of art would you use to express your understanding of the plight of a refugee: Drawing? Sketchnoting? Poem? Story? Painting? Stop Motion? Film?
GET STARTED AND PLAN IT OUT TODAY! Due the morning of our "FREEFRIDAY" MAY 24th
"you have to understand,
no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land."
By Somali-British poet Warsan Shire, brings home the stark reality of the horrifying decisions refugee parents must make.
Project: We see how art has been created to express the struggle of millions of people: What kind of art would you use to express your understanding of the plight of a refugee: Drawing? Sketchnoting? Poem? Story? Painting? Stop Motion? Film?
GET STARTED AND PLAN IT OUT TODAY! Due the morning of our "FREEFRIDAY" MAY 24th
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