- Students will relate their learning from this unit to modern issues surrounding Islam and the Middle East.
- This station is worth 12 points.
- The directions for this station are on the website and your work may be submitted on paper, emailed, or shared through Google Drive.
Our ability to relate what we learn in World History to what is happening in the world today is kind of the whole point of this class. For this station, you are being asked to find articles that discuss news related to what we have been studying or analyze issues surrounding what we have been studying. In many ways, this is similar to the Current Events assignment you have already completed several times. Please take a look at the topics suggested below and feel free to ask Mr. Brock for suggestions about specific articles he knows of or has already read.
Topics you could consider and search for:
Topics you could consider and search for:
- The economic power of the Middle East today.
- The ongoing Israeli-Palestine conflict.
- The Arab Spring of 2010.
- The war in Syria.
- Conflicts between Sunni and Shi'a populations.
- The rights of Muslim women in country's like Saudi Arabia.
- Issues of terrorism throughout the Muslim world.
- The growing and already substantial Muslim population.
- The veil (hijab, burqa, and so on) and attempts to ban it.