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Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Israel/ Palestine final assessment:
You have been learning about the conflicts, issues, and history between the Arabs and the Jews in the Middle East, particularly in regards to the area formally known as Palestine, now known as Israel.
This is a debate that rages still today and is cause of many of the world's conflicts. For this assignment, you will be given a position in this debate. The five positions are: Hardline Israeli, Hardline Palestinian, Moderate Israeli, Moderate Palestinian, and that of the International Community.
You will be broken into one of these five teams.
The actual final assessment will be a twenty minute negotiation session. During this, one member from each group will meet together, summarize their position, and try to achieve their outlined goals. You will be judged on how well you know your position and the position of those you are negotiating with. You will also be judged on how well you present your argument and defend it under attacks from the other positions. The third area of assessment will be how persuasive your argument is.
Each team will be responsible for creating a one page persuasive position paper. This will be your teams opportunity for outlining the demands, goals, and opinion of your position.
Each student will also be responsible for creating at least one "exhibit" to use during the negotiations. This piece of visual evidence should support one of the arguments you plan on using during the course of the negotiations.
Issues you will want to focus on:
***Please be aware that "Surrounding Arab Countries Position" is the same as the Moderate Arab/Palestinian Position
You have been learning about the conflicts, issues, and history between the Arabs and the Jews in the Middle East, particularly in regards to the area formally known as Palestine, now known as Israel.
This is a debate that rages still today and is cause of many of the world's conflicts. For this assignment, you will be given a position in this debate. The five positions are: Hardline Israeli, Hardline Palestinian, Moderate Israeli, Moderate Palestinian, and that of the International Community.
You will be broken into one of these five teams.
The actual final assessment will be a twenty minute negotiation session. During this, one member from each group will meet together, summarize their position, and try to achieve their outlined goals. You will be judged on how well you know your position and the position of those you are negotiating with. You will also be judged on how well you present your argument and defend it under attacks from the other positions. The third area of assessment will be how persuasive your argument is.
Each team will be responsible for creating a one page persuasive position paper. This will be your teams opportunity for outlining the demands, goals, and opinion of your position.
Each student will also be responsible for creating at least one "exhibit" to use during the negotiations. This piece of visual evidence should support one of the arguments you plan on using during the course of the negotiations.
Issues you will want to focus on:
- Partition - What should the actual border of Israel and Palestine be? What should be done about the wall Israel is building around the West Bank?
- Jerusalem - Who should control this city? And which parts should they control?
- Refugees - They have been living in "temporary" settlements since the War of 1948, what should happen to them? Do they have the right to return to their land? And what should happen to Jewish settlements being built in the West Bank and Gaza Strip?
***Please be aware that "Surrounding Arab Countries Position" is the same as the Moderate Arab/Palestinian Position
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Vocab Words to Look Up
- Genocide
- State Sovereignty
- Atrocities
- International Law
- International Community
Monday, March 26, 2012
Presentations for Blocks E, F, and H
For those of you that are in blocks E, F, and H, your presentations will be on Friday of this week. However, if you would like to present before then, you are welcome to come into my advisory period on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday and do your presentations. If you have any questions, please feel free to come see me.
- You MUST bring your presentation on a USB drive. I do not want to run into the problem of people having to sign into their email account or Prezi account. It takes TOO much time and we don't have it.
- Also, in the past we have run into the problem of people forgetting their passwords.
- BE PREPARED!!!!
Friday, March 23, 2012
Presentation Video and PPT
As promised, please find the example of both the presentation and the powerpoint that I used. As I created my own presentation, I realized that the three minute window was too short. Therefore, you will have a five minute window to do your presentation. You will also have a 30 second buffer, if you are running over the time limit. However, if you go into this buffer time, you will be marked down. As you can see with my video, I ran into the buffer time and would have lost points for this. After five minutes and thirty seconds, you will be cut off.
Keep checking the blog of the weekend for when your class will be presenting.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via school email or posting a comment here on the blog. Have a good weekend, go outside and play, eat lots of vegetables, and don't drink soda!
Keep checking the blog of the weekend for when your class will be presenting.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via school email or posting a comment here on the blog. Have a good weekend, go outside and play, eat lots of vegetables, and don't drink soda!
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