Week of Sept. 3-6

Week's Target Learning Goals:
To understand the crisis in Syria in terms of location, region, and geopolitics
To understand the importance of human geography in global events

9/3/13
Target Learning Objectives:
1.  Review vocab. quiz & test
2.  Free Response essay test
3.  Homework:  Watch a news outlet reporting on the crisis in Syria.  Summarize report IN YOUR OWN WORDS".  Note network source.  e.g. CNN, FOX, etc.

9/4/13

Target Learning Objectives:
1.  Volunteers will share knowledge of Syria.
2.  Identify Syria on map and note absolute and relative location.
3.  Lecture on Crisis in Syria
4.  Homework: Read "9 Questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask" found at www.washingtonpost.com.   NOTE:  FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO GOT THE ARTICLE, THEY WERE NOT STAPLED; THEREFORE YOU ONLY GOT HALF OF THE ARTICLE.  MAKE SURE YOU READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE ONLINE.

9/6/13
Target Learning Objectives:
1.  On Promethean Board, practice identifying countries in the Middle East region, Sunni and Shia areas, relative and absolute location.
2.  Construct a T-Chart with the titles Shia and Sunni.  Depending on the dominant sect, place the following countries under either Sunni or Shia:  Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt, Kuwait, Turkey, Lebanon, Qatar, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, and Afghanistan

3.  Homework:
a.  Define geographic vocab. by using online sources or use Barron's.
b.  In one or two sentences describe how word relates to Syria.
c.  Make sure you note your source at the end of each definition.  If only one source is used, note the source at end of page.  Some definitions can be found in Barron's political chapter.

Coming Up
Middle East map quiz
T-Chart denoting sides of conflict
Syria quiz next Wed.