Talent Show Application

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia: Turkey

  

 EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

 Engage:

• Central Turkey Rick Steves (25:03)
• Expedition Unknown 

Explore:

• Regional Conflict
• Tensions within Islam

Explain:

• What are the cultural elements that unite North Africa and Southwest Asia?
• How do ethnicities and languages unite and divide the region?

Evaluate:

• Vocabulary

1. Mesopotamia
2. Sinai Peninsula
3. Silk Road
4. Mansa Musa
5. Nubia
6. Babylon

Extend:

Life in the West

 

EQ: What was life really like in the west?

Engage: Vocabulary

• forty-niners
• vaquero
• missionary
• reservation
• Mormons
• Oregon Trail
• Santa Fe Trail

Explore:

• Lure of the West
• Endless Labor on the Farm
• Traders and Fortune Seekers
• Rushing Toward Riches
• Claiming Native Tribal Lands
• A New Wave of Immigrants
• The Mormon Trail to Salt Lake City
• Expanding Into the Southwest
• The Struggle for Freedom in the West
• Opportunities, Gender, and Challenges in the West

Explain:

• What was life like for farmers?
• What events attracted settlers to New Mexico and California
• What was life like for a miner?
• Why were Native Americans forced onto reservations?
• Why did Asians immigrate to California?
• Why did Mormons relocate?
• Who were America's first cowboys?

Evaluate:

• Comparison Chart

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People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia: Palestine

  

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

Engage:

• Palestine Rick Steves

Explore:

• Christianity
• Islam

Explain:

• How did Christianity become the world's largest religion?
• How did Islam become the dominant religion in the region?

Evaluate:

• Vocabulary

1. Sahara
2. Giza
3. Black Sea
4. Fertile Crescent
5. Sumer

Westward Expansion Day 5

 

EQ: How did the California Gold Rush impact the United States?

Explore:

• Ken Burns The West Episode 3 on iTunes
• Gold Rush Game

Explain:

• What impact did the Gold Rush have on westward movement?
• Why is Kit Carson famous?
• How did California secede from Mexico?

Evaluate:

Westward Expansion Day 4

 

EQ: What impact did Manifest Destiny have on the growth and development of the Us?

 Game Day:

• Oregon Trail Game 

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia: Israel

  

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

Engage:

• The Best of Israel Rick Steves

Explore:

• A Crossroads fo the World
• Judaism

Explain:

• What made Southwest Asia and North Africa and important area for trade?
• How did Judaism begin?

Evaluate:

• Vocabulary

1. fertile
2. Gaza Strip
3. Nile River
4. Dead Sea
5. Golan Heights

People and Culture of North Africa and Southwest Asia: Iran

  

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

 Engage:

• Iran: Yesterday and Today Rick Steves
• Vocabulary

1. Arabic
2. Aramaic
3. Hebrew
4. Kurds
5. Berbers
6. Persians

Explore:

• Many Ethnicities and Languages
• Kurdistand: A Nation without a Country

Explain:

• How do ethnicities and languages unite and divide the region?
• How have ethnic differences led to conflict in the Kurdish regions of Southwest Asia?

Evaluate:

Presidents 1824-1849

 

EQ: Which of these Presidents faced the most challenges?

Engage:

• None 

Explore:

• The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents: A Rocky Transition as America Grows (1824-1849) Apple TV
• Trail of Tears National Historic Trail National Park Service 

Explain:

• Andrew Jackson easily won the popular vote. Why did he fail to win the presidency?
• What was Jackson’s approach toward the Native population?

Evaluate:

• Worksheet

People and Culture of Southwest Asia: Egypt

 

Can you decode this hieroglyph? 

EQ: How have religious and ethnic differences influenced life in Southwest Asia and North Africa?

Engage:

• Decode the Hieroglyphs
• Write Your Name in Hieroglyphs
• Hieroglyphic Typewriter

Explore:

• Egypt: Yesterday and Today Rick Steves (55:02)
• Geography Now Egypt
• Geography Now Difference Between Arab Countries

Explain:

• How has Egypt changed since World War II?
• How does Egypt's past influence their present?

Evaluate:

• Rick Steves Worksheet
• Ancient Egypt Jeopardy Game 

People and Culture of Central Asia Day 2

   

EQ: How have political and religious changes influenced the cultures of Russia and Central Asia?

Engage:

•   Americans Try Russian Holiday Food  (6:54)

Explore:

• Religious Life in Central Asia
• A Revival of Religion
• Food and Arts

Explain:

• What religious beliefs do the people of Russia and Central Asia have?
• How has religious practices changed since the fall of the Soviet Union?
• What food and arts are common in Russia and Central Asia?

Vocabulary: 

1. gulags
2. Cold War
3. atheism
4. Warsaw Pact
5. minority
6. diversity
7. pogroms
8. Silk Road
9. cultural diffusion
10. persecution

Evaluate:

Worksheet

7B Vocabulary Assessment

7C Vocabulary Assessment

7A Vocabulary Assessment

Westward Expansion Days 1-3

 EQ: What impact did Manifest Destiny have on the growth and development of the Us?

 Engage:

• Oregon Trail Game
• Vocabulary

1. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
2. Manifest Destiny
3. forty-niners
4. prospect
5. empresario
6. merchant,
7. Gadsden Purchase
8. abolition
9. subsistence farming
10. Santa Fe Trail
11. California Gold Rush
12. Oregon Territory
13. Mormons
14. Oregon Trail
15. Donner Party

Explore:

•  Manifest Destiny
• The Oregon Country
• The Republic of Texas
• The Mexican American War
• The Southwest
• Trailblazers

Explain:

• What was Manifest Destiny?
• How did the US acquire the Oregon Territory?
• How did the US acquire Texas?
• What were the causes of the Mexican-American War?
• How did the US gain control of the Southwest?
• Who were some of the famous explorers of the western US?

Evaluate:

• Worksheet

People and Culture of Central Asia Day 1

  

EQ: How have political and religious changes influenced the cultures of Russia and Central Asia?

Engage:

•  Geography Now: Russian Republics (15:48)

Explore:

•  A Land of Diversity
• Soviet Russia
• A Crossroad of Culture

Explain:

•  How did Russia's diverse population develop?
• How did the Soviet Union impact life in Russia?
• What influences shape modern Asia?

Evaluate:

Worksheet

Vocabulary: 

1. architecture
2. Tatars
3. Slavic peoples
4. mosque
5. colonization
6. Rus
7. Mongols
8. Arab Empire
9. caravan
10. steppe
11. glasnost
12. capitalism
13. assembly
14. autocracy
15. authoritarian

Russian Empire

                              

EQ: Why did the Russian Empire Fail?

Engage:

•  Review last lesson

Explore:

•  Engineering an Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Russian Empire (44:52) HistoryVault

Explain:

• What was the nickname of Ivan III?
• When was Moscow founded?
• What empire did Russia borrow religion and architecture from?
• Who ruled over the Russians for three centuries until they were defeated by Ivan III?

Evaluate:

• Worksheet

Challenges of Expansion

  

EQ: Did the benefits of expansion outweigh the costs?

Engage:

• Following the Frontier Line Interactive Map
•  Westward Expansion and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (2:39)

Explore:

•  Settling the Northwest
• The Union Grows
• New States in the Southeast
• Native American Resistance
• A System to Unify America
• A National Transportation System
• The American System

Explain:

• How did the Northwest Ordinance aid the expansion of the United States?
• Which Northern states were added to the Union in the beginning of the 1800's?
• Which Southern states were added to the Union in the beginning of the 1800's?
• How did Native Americans react to the early expansion?
• What was the American System?
• How did transportation improve?
• What economic measures supported the American System?

Evaluate:

• Worksheet
• Vocabulary

1. Land Ordinance of 1785
2. Northwest Ordinance of 1787 
3. Erie Canal
4. market revolution
5.  Gibbons v. Ogden
6. National Road
7. Adams-Onís Treaty  
8. pioneer 
9. McCulloch v. Maryland, 
10. Tariff of 1816 
11. meridian 
12. Treaty of Ghent

Geography of Russia

   

EQ:

• How does geography effect life in Russia and Central Asia?

Engage:

• Geography Now Russia (32:54)

Explore:

• Physical Features
• Political Map
• Climate
• Vegetation and Biomes

Explain:

• What are the major physical features of Russia and Central Asia?
• What countries make up Russia and Central Asia?
• What is the climate like in Russia and Central Asia?
• What is the natural vegetation like in Russia and Central Asia?

Evaluate:

• Map of Russia Checklist

War of 1812

   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812#/media/File:War_of_1812_Montage.jpg

EQ:

• What was the impact of the War of 1812 on early history of the United States?

Engage:

• 'The Impressment' picture. What is going on in this picture? What clues do you find?

Explore:

• Great Britain Angers the US
• Tecumseh and His Confederacy
• A Second War for Independence Begins
• War on Land and Sea
• An Era of Pride and Good Feelings
• The War of 1812 PBS (1:53:00)

Explain:

• What caused tensions between the US and Great Britain?
• What caused tensions between the US and Native Americans?
• What finally started the War of 1812?
• What were the major battles of the War of 1812?
• What were the results of the War of 1812?

Evaluate:

• Assessment in Lesson Book
• War of 1812 Scavenger Hunt
• Answer Key
• Map
• Vocabulary: 
• "The Star-Spangled Banner"
• Battle of New Orleans
• Confederacy / Confederate States
• Battle of Tippecanoe
• Embargo Act
• Dolley Madison
• Northwest Ordinance of 1787 
• embargo
• Winfield Scott 
• Fort McHenry
• James Madison
• impressment
• Andrew Jackson
• Oliver Hazard Perry 
• Non-Intercourse Act
• War of 1812 
• Tenskwatawa
• Francis Scott Key
• Treaty of Ghent
• Tecumseh
• war hawk
• William Henry Harrison

European Union

   

EQ:

•  What is the European Union?

Engage:

•  The United Kingdom is Leaving the European Union (2:07) 
• Post-Brexit (2:58) March 2021

Explore:

• Europe: From World War 2 to the European Union (23:57) 2014
• European Union Map
• Joining the EU 
• Making Decisions for Many Countries

Explain

• What is the EU?
• What countries belong to the EU?
• How has the EU addressed political and economic challenges?

Evaluate:

• EU Timeline

The Age of Jefferson Day 6

EQ: How did the United States deal with the Barbary Pirates during Jefferson's Presidency?

Explore:

• Pirates: Terror in the Mediterranean Digging for the Truth History Vault

Explain:

• Who are the Barbary Pirates
• What problems did they cause to the US?
• How did Jefferson deal with them?

Evaluate: 

• Class Discussion