Do all of the following:
1 - Study a map of the Middle East and work on memorizing the countries. You can find a good map here.
2 - Print a blank map for your commonplace book and mark the following things:
(This map is your ticket into class, so make sure you have it and it's filled out.)
- major bodies of water and rivers
- 10 major cities
- 5 crops and where they are grown
- major mountain ranges and other physical features (deserts, plains, peninsulas, etc)
- LDS temple(s)
- Geography from the Ancient World. (You'll probably have to look these up online.) Make sure to include:
- Fertile Crescent
- Sumer
- Kish
- Mesopotamia
- Akkadia
- Babylon
- Ur/Haran
- Canaan
- Babylon
- Carthage
- Tyre
- Phoenicia
- Nineveh
- Assyria
- Jerusalem
AS YOU'RE CHOOSING COUNTRIES TO STUDY ABOUT THIS MONTH, DON'T CHOOSE EGYPT or ISRAEL. THEY EACH GET THEIR OWN MONTH.
- Choose one of the following to do a 2-3 minute report on: (don't get long winded. 5 min max on presentations...I will cut you off! We want to make sure and have time for the activity.)
- The Ottoman Empire
- The Byzantine Empire
- The Abbasid Caliphate
- The Fatimid Caliphate
- The Umayyad Caliphate
- Learn a Middle Eastern Dance that you can teach the class. Some ideas can be found here. (Tell Sis. Cloward what you're teaching ahead of time and what music you're using so I can have it ready.)
- Choose a language spoken in the Middle East and come to class and teach us how to say your name, count to ten, say hello, good bye and a few other phrases in that language.
- Bring a children's picture book representing one of the Middle Eastern countries to class and read it to us.
- Bring food from one of the Middle Eastern countries for the whole class. (Tell Sis. Cloward what you're bringing ahead of time. This will be used as part of lunch.)
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