Please, write the question. Also, please have planner out & on your table.

1.What cheese is made backwards?

2.A man walks into a bar, what does he say?

3.What is so delicate that when you say its name, it is broken

4.If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

Please, write the question. Also, please have planner out & on your table.

1.What cheese is made backwards?

2.A man walks into a bar, what does he say?

3.What is so delicate that when you say its name, it is broken

4.If you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?

Essential Question for today:How does the diversity of

religions within the Arabs,

Persians, and Kurdish ethnic

groups affect the Middle East?

TODAY’S AGENDA

Bell ringerThe KurdsGeography /

Religion testCNN Student

News

Ethnic Groups• An ethnic group is a group of

people who share cultural ideas and beliefs that have been a part of their community for generations.

• The characteristics could included a language, a religion, a shared history, and a set of traditional stories, beliefs, or celebrations.

Religious Groups• A religious group

shares a share a belief system, in a god or gods, with a specific set of rituals and literature.

• People from different ethnic groups may share the same religion; through they may be from very different cultures.

Kurds• Ethnic group that is

found in the mountainous areas where Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq come together.

• Hope to have a nation of their own some day

• Most are Sunni Muslim, though there is a small minority who are Shia Muslims.

Kurdish• Speak their own language,

Kurdish, and have a separate history, literature, music, and set of traditions.

• Almost 1/5 of the population of Turkey is Kurdish.

• Kurdish Muslims are usually less strict about certain Islamic practices.

• Persecuted by Sadam Husain

Arabs

• Arabs make up the majority of the region known as the Middle East, though there are many differences among them.

• Most Arabs practice the religion of Islam and call themselves Muslims.

Arab• Arabs comprise

most of the population of Southwest Asia.

• Most Arabs practice Islam and speak Arabic.

• Small numbers of Arabs practice other religions.

• Those who call themselves Muslims are further divided, as some call themselves Sunni Muslims, while others are Shia Muslims.

• Some Arabs are Christians. • Most Arabs, whether they are Muslim or

Christian, speak the Arabic language.

Persians• Persians are those who live in the modern country of Iran.

The country of Persia became known as Iran after World War I.

• The Persian people are descended from a different group than those who are Arabs and Jews. Their ancestors were Indo-Europeans from Central Europe and Southern Russia.

• Persians, or Iranians, speak Farsi, a language that uses the Arabic alphabet but is actually a different language.

• They practice Islam, but most belong to the Shia group of Muslims.

Persian• Persians make up about

half of Iran’s current population.

• They have their own language called Persian or Farsi.

• Most Persians in Iran today practice Shi’a Islam, but some are Sunni and other religions.

• Persian women have faced many challenges as a result of strict cultural and religious practices.

Please, write the question. Use the political cartoons on the next two slides to answer. Please have agenda on your table.

1.In the first cartoon, what do you think the bird represents?

2.In the first cartoon, do you think the cartoonist is pro or anti Kurds?

3.What does the second cartoon have in common with the first cartoon?

4. Which other country is mentioned in the second cartoon?

Please, write the question. Use the political cartoons on the next two slides to answer. Please have agenda on your table.

1.In the first cartoon, what do you think the bird represents?

2.In the first cartoon, do you think the cartoonist is pro or anti Kurds?

3.What does the second cartoon have in common with the first cartoon?

4. Which other country is mentioned in the second cartoon?

Please fold your paper in half; number as you see below. We will take a quick pretest on ethnic groups of Southwest Asia. It

will not count as a class grade.

1.2.3.4.5.

6.7.8.9.10.

Essential Question for today:How does the diversity of

religions within the Arabs,

Persians, and Kurdish ethnic

groups affect the Middle East?

TODAY’S AGENDA

Bell ringer (pretest)Three Ethnic Groups

of Southwest Asia8 review questions

for quiz on Wednesday

CNN Student News

Persians• Persians are those who live in

of Iran.Persia became known as Iran after World War I.

• Ancestors were Indo-Europeans from Central Europe and Southern Russia.

• Persians speak Farsi, a language that uses the Arabic alphabet but is actually a different language.

• Practice Islam, but most belong to the Shia group of Muslims.

Persian• Persians make up about

half of Iran’s current population.

• They have their own language called Persian or Farsi.

• Most Persians in Iran today practice Shi’a Islam, but some are Sunni and other religions.

• Persian women have faced many challenges as a result of strict cultural and religious practices.

What religionAre most Persians?

What language do Persians speak?

What is the religion of most of the Kurdish Ethnic group?

What is the Religion of most

Of the ArabsOf Southwest

Asia?

Which dictator onceGassed his own people

Including the Kurds?

Before World War

One, how did most

Kurds make their Living?

Which ethnic Group is most Numerous in

Southwest AsiaWhat modern

countryIs home to the Persian ethnic

Group?

What religionAre most Persians?

What language do Persians speak?

What is the religion of most of the Kurdish Ethnic group?

What is the Religion of most

Of the ArabsOf Southwest

Asia?

Which dictator onceGassed his own people

Including the Kurds?

Before World War

One, how did most

Kurds make their Living?

Which ethnic Group is most Numerous in

Southwest AsiaWhat modern

countryIs home to the Persian ethnic

Group?

Arabs

• Arabs make up the majority of the region known as the Middle East, though there are many differences among them.

• Most Arabs practice the religion of Islam and call themselves Muslims.

Arab• Arabs comprise

most of the population of Southwest Asia.

• Most Arabs practice Islam and speak Arabic.

• Small numbers of Arabs practice other religions.

• Those who call themselves Muslims are further divided, as some call themselves Sunni Muslims, while others are Shia Muslims.

• Some Arabs are Christians. • Most Arabs, whether they are Muslim or

Christian, speak the Arabic language.

Kurds• Ethnic group that is

found in the mountainous areas where Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq come together.

• Hope to have a nation of their own some day

• Most are Sunni Muslim, though there is a small minority who are Shia Muslims.

Kurdish• Speak their own language,

Kurdish, and have a separate history, literature, music, and set of traditions.

• Almost 1/5 of the population of Turkey is Kurdish.

• Kurdish Muslims are usually less strict about certain Islamic practices.

• Persecuted by Sadam Husain

Please have planner on your table; Write the questions (5); Use passage on next slide to answer.

1.What two things unified the Islamic empire?

2.Where did mathematician al-Khwarizmi live?

3.What was Ibn Sina known for?

4.From where did Muslim scholars get the concept of the decimal system?

5.According to the quote, what three things did al-Khwarizmi accomplish?

During Europe’s [Middle Ages], the light of Islam shown, unifying, stimulating the

cultures of many lands with the currents of trade and the bond of a common

language, Arabic. Ibn Sina of Bukhara, known to the West as Avicenna, wrote his Canon, which remained Europe’s medical

textbook for more than 500 years. Mathematician al-Khwarizmi of Baghdad

introduced ‘Arabic’ numerals and decimal system from India and wrote the standard

on al-jabr – algebra.

- Thomas J. Abercrombie’s Great Religions of the World, 1971

Essential Question for today:

How did European partitioning in

Southwest Asia (Middle East) after the breakup of the

Ottoman Empire lead to regional conflict?

TODAY’S AGENDA

Bell ringer Time Line – Ottoman

EmpireQuiz on Ethnic

GroupsHWK – Ottoman

Empire HandoutCNN Student News

Istanbul began as a Greek port called

--------

Later, name changes to

Constantinople to honor Roman emperor ------

--------- (Turkish people not the

chair part) conqueror Istanbul

in the 1400’s

The Turks rename city of Constantinople

, ---------.

Ottomans then created great -----

covering many countries. It

lasted until …

------ ----- (T) in 20’s b/c first president; he

created modern nation

of Turkey