START UP: Complete the map and attach it to the top ½ of page 114. ACTIVITY: 1) Draw a timeline on page 115 in your notebook. Your start date DIRECTIONS: should be Dec. 17, 2010 and your end date should be Jan. ___, 2012. 2) Use the interactive timeline from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2011/mar/22/middle-‐east-‐protest-‐interactive-‐timeline and fill in
FIVE more “protests/govt. response toe protests” (the green symbols). You must summarize this incident in ONE SENTENCE (see my example below).
REFLECTION: Answer on the bottom ½ of 114. Describe at least three different ways people protested this past year during the Arab Spring and whether or not the protests seemed successful. Explain why you felt they were mostly successful or why you felt they weren’t mostly successful (USE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES/REASONING TO BACK YOUR OPINON). HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT: Search google news and find the most recent protest going on in one of the Arab nations you looked at on today’s timeline. Write the date and summarize that incident on your timeline.
YOU MUST WORK UP UNTIL THE BELL TODAY TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR EXTRA CREDIT.
IF YOU ARE OFF TASK…YOU CANNOT BRING YOUR GRADE UP BY DOING EXTRA WORK. Extra Credit Assignment 1: Pick one event from your timeline and click on it and open the complete article. Read the article and write a “10% summary”. At the top of your paper you must write: the TITLE of the article, the DATE, and which COUNTRY this protest occurred in.