Friday, April 19, 2013

Period 4: Historical Investigation, Day 9 - Class Recap

This is my friend Beri, who is from Kurdistan, which is a region that contains parts of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran (all countries in the Middle East). We were hiking with my great friend Clarke (Beri's boyfriend) in Vietnam and saw this buffalo in the forest!

Hi everyone,

Woo hoo! Today was the day we have been looking forward to, even before Spring Break! Hopefully you are feeling quite accomplished with turning in your historical investigation. If you did not, please get it in to me as soon as possible. My last day as your teacher has been changed to next Friday.

Essential Questions: What brings people together? What tears people apart?

Soundtrack: “We Are The Champions” by Queen. Selected for today because you should feel like a champion for completing the historical investigation! If you did not, I definitely do not think you are losers, as the song says! Please just keep working on it and turn it in ASAP. Lyrics here.

AGENDA 4/19/13:
News Brief
Editorial Analysis
Study for Middle East Map Quiz

Homework: Study for Middle East Map Quiz next class! Check the blog. Next news brief: Zoey, Joe, Zakeiba, Enrique.
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This week was just packed full of major international and national news. So much to talk about and be aware of! We also talked about the latest news from Boston and the region of Chechnya in Russia, which is possibly connected. Two more days of classes left, two more news brief sections!

Editorial Analysis: To start this, I played a four minute clip of the Michael Moore film Fahrenheit 9/11, which talked a bit about the lead up to the Iraq invasion by the United States. Then, I asked students to get into groups of four and analyze one of the editorial articles linked to here:


Then, the class tried to come up with as many reasons as possible for why the United States invaded Iraq. We came up with a really good list! This activity was to again show the class that there are many different perspectives of history. You might be asked to give your own editorial on the US involvement in the Middle East next class.

Study for Middle East Map Quiz: For the last part of class, I passed out blank maps of the Middle East and explained how I remember where each one goes. Here it is to download if you want another copy:


The countries that you will need to know for next class (the quiz will look very similar to the map above - I will give you the country names, as well) are: Iran, Iraq, Israel, Sudan, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

Remember that the reason we are doing this is that a study in 2006 found that 88% of Americans aged 18-24 could not find Afghanistan (a place where over 2,000 US soldiers have died) on a map. 

Be ready for the map quiz at the start of next class! Get your historical investigations in if you did not turn it in today in class!
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9 comments:

  1. MarinaApril 19, 2013 at 6:48 PM

    Im not sure if i posted on the right day...so im going to post it again. I was wondering if you knew what Wyatt's research question was about, because we are both doing ours on the Berlin wall, and I wanted to possibly change mine to be focused on U.S president Reagan. Mine was originally on John F. Kennedy, but it seems that the information I read about him was really about Reagan. I wanted the president who challenged Germany to tear down the wall.

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  2. Luke FritzApril 19, 2013 at 7:04 PM

    Hi Marina,

    You are definitely thinking of President Reagan, not Kennedy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWDrTXMgF8

    If you want, you can change your question. But unless you have sources that are talking about the same thing, you are going to have to start all over again.

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  3. MarinaApril 19, 2013 at 7:06 PM

    Thanks, but do you by any chance know if wyatt's research question is on how Reagan sparked the revolution?

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  4. Luke FritzApril 19, 2013 at 7:07 PM

    Hi Marina,

    I don't, off the top of my head. It would be okay if you want to research that question.

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  5. MarinaApril 19, 2013 at 7:12 PM

    Thank you so much, I'm going to be working on this all weekend! I will try to have everything for you on Monday.

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  6. Luke FritzApril 19, 2013 at 7:21 PM

    Hi Marina,

    Sounds good! I will be grading for almost the entire weekend, so let me know if you have any more questions I can help with.

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  7. MarinaApril 19, 2013 at 7:46 PM

    Okay, thank you for all your help! Have fun grading! :)

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  8. Jisu LeeApril 20, 2013 at 6:43 AM

    http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/457288/20130415/woman-daughter-die-jaipur-tunnel-ignored-motorists.htm

    Here you go. I originally found an article on it in Korean,
    but I realized that no one would be able to read that so I had a bit of work to re-find one that was in English.

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  9. Luke FritzApril 20, 2013 at 9:57 AM

    Hi Jisu,

    Thanks for the link! I updated the post.

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