Just wanted to let you all now that many of the PowerPoint Presentations from class are now online at SlideShare.Com. To view these presentations click here.
Classwork – 4/24 and 4/27 – Arab-Israeli Conflict CW
1) Define the following key terms found between p. 712 and 714 of your textbooks: Gamal Abdel Nasser, Pan-Arabism, West Bank, OPEC, Yasser Arafat, and intifada.
2) Create a timeline including at least six dates from between 1956 and 2003 in the reading between p. 712 and 714 (note: make sure that the events you list on your timeline involve Israel!).
Classwork – 4/23 – Israel’s Creation
Answer the following five questions based on your reading about Israel’s declaration. The reading can be found here.
1) What reasons are given as to why Jewish people should have their own country?
2) Which organization passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish state?
3) Why do you think the authors of this declaration decided to hold elections so soon (within five months)?
4) What appeal is made to Arabs living inside of Israel?
5) How do you think nations around Israel reacted to Israel’s creation?
Reminder – No More Submitting Do Nows
Just a reminder that from now on Do Nows will not be submitted weekly or bi-weekly. At the beginning of class you are to look at the Do Now on the board and think of an answer. Each day Mr. Amutah will randomly ask a few different students for their responses to the Do Now for credit. You can get either full credit, partial credit, or no credit for your answer. Think of this as part of your participation grade.
In light of this change, Do Nows will no longer be placed on this website each day.
Homework – 4/20 – Slumdog Millionaire Questions
Answer the following ten questions based on part 1 of Slumdog Millionaire.
1 ) What is the main problem in the movie?
2 ) What is Jamal’s explanation for how he knows the answers to the questions?
3 ) What are your impressions about the way characters in the movie speak?
4 ) Based on the movie, how is India the different as what you assumed it would be like?
5 ) Based on the movie, how is India the same as what you assumed it would be like?
6 ) How do the people of the slum react when the movie star arrives in their town?
7 ) Describe the relationship between Jamal and Salim.
8 ) How does Jamal and Salim’s mother die in the movie?
9 ) How would you describe the childhood of Jamal and Salim?
10 ) What do you think will eventually happen in the movie?
Do Now – 4/20
Based on the information that you have learned about India, what do you think India is like today?
Do Now – 4/16
“Christ gave us the goals and Mahatma Gandhi the tactics.”
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Copy down this quote. What does it mean to you? Write one paragraph.
Classwork – 4/15 – British Raj
Answer the following five questions based on colonization of India by the British (known as the “British Raj”). Click here for the reading about the British Raj:
1) Why do you think that the British Raj began after the Indian Rebellion of 1857?
2) How do you think examinations changed the way Indians were brought into the Indian Civil Service?
3) Why do you think the British government decided to recognize the regional princes of India?
4) How did the Indian railway system help India?
5) What do you think was the British reaction to the Indian National Congress?
