Ah, Divine Providence!

Low and behold in yesterday's mailbox sat this month's issue of Calliope
magazine. The topic? Arabia. (On that note, if you teach middle school
world history, maybe even high school, I'd highly recommend a subscription
to Calliope.)

Lots of very cool, high interest topics that I'll be able to play with in
there. That, along with what I've gotten from you guys may actually make
me not hate this unit!

Thanks again everyone. I'll post what I put together whenever I actually,
you know, put it together.

On 1/01/09, Kev wrote:
> I read that Times article, I may use that. Thanks for the idea.
>
> As far as the rest, I'd love to see what you have for flip book Andrea
> (I have 7th graders too) and Jeff, I'd love to get the full reading for
> number 2 on the page you posted (the one about the customs meeting the
> king). That would make for a great act-it-out!
>
> my email is jivemastak(at)yahoo.com.
>
> Also, I managed to find enough little things yesterday to start putting
> together a Culture Shock Lab for Arabia (which is just a bunch of
> mini-activities). Couple more (the Times article might do it) and I
> should be set. I'll post it when I do.
>
> On 12/31/08, Andrea (again) wrote:
>> I forgot to mention ... I'd be glad to e-mail a copy of the flip
>> book and rubric if you want.
>>
>> On 12/31/08, Andrea wrote:
>>> What age group? I have a flip book activity for SW Asia that
>>> brings in multiple learning styles (it's for 7th grade). It
>>> covers geography, resources, culture, current events, etc.
>>>
>>> On 12/31/08, Jeff wrote:
>>>> On 12/31/08, Kev wrote:
>>>>> I'm getting ready to start planning my Arabia/Africa unit
>>>>> for this year and looking over my materials I really don't
>>>>> have much. TCI is really weak in terms of activities for
>>>>> both units and I've mined my Roger Taylor stuff and gotten
>>>>> little as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> Soooooo.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have any activities/labs that they do for Arabia
>>>>> or Africa? All I have now is a lab on African folktales and
>>>>> one on 1001 Arabian Nights... neither exactly hard hitting.
>>>>
>>>> The link below is an activity we did this year on Ghana and
>>>> Mali. There was also a short reading on both that were
>>>> part of the unit. Both of these activities were received
>>>> from my district and I put them online to make it easier for
>>>> my students. There is a lot more that was not online. You
>>>> can contact me if you want to see some of the other
>>>> materials.
>>>>
>>>> http://mrkash.com/activities/ghanamaliempires.html
>>

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