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Shifting Sands: Border Changes in the Middle East 1914 - Present Lesson 1: Identifying the Middle East; then and now.




 * Objectives **
 * Students will be able define the "Middle East" using identity as the guiding principle.
 * Students will be able to identify border changes in the Middle East from 1920 - present
 * Students will describe factors that led to border changes in the Middle East 1920 - present
 * Students will connect nationalism and identity to external events and explain their roles in Shaping the Middle East


 * Standards **


 * **WHII.18** Summarize the major events and consequences of WWI
 * **WHII.19** Identify the major developments in the Middle East and Central Asia before WWII
 * **WHII.38** Describe the development and goals of nationalist movements in the Middle East.
 * **WHII.39** Explain the background for the establishment of the modern state of Israel

National borders can be defined as invisible walls that separate one nation from another or even one city from another. The factors that define national borders are sometimes the relationship one country has with another, or the cultural, political difference one countries has comparing to others.
 * National Borders**
 * What are national borders? What factors define national borders?**

**What is the middle east? What is tha makes the middle east the middle east?** An area of southwestern Asia and nothern Africa that stretches from the mediterranea sea to Pakistan and includes the Arabian peninsula. By looking at the map i could say that what makes the middle east the middle east, is its geographic position; if you look carefully you will realize the middle east is in the middle of the east!




 * Identity and the Middle East**
 * Using your definitions of identity created yesterday map out the identity of the Middle East. Use Bubbl.us to complete this and take a screen shot of your chart. Upload toit to your wiki
 * Share your identity chart with a partner. What commonalities do you have? What differences?
 * Now go to the following website: TeachMidEast: An education initiative of the Middle East policy Council
 * Jigsaw headings in 5 groups. Use a google Doc to identify main idea, 2 important ideas and any questions comments. Post the google doc link (make sure it's open to the public) on the discussion page of my wiki.
 * Now reflect on your identity chart on the Middle East. What did you get right? What did you get wrong? Why was this?