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1. Please post the link to your G7 Two Column Notes. Make sure that I have editing rights.

2. Review your student-teacher conference times for this week. Make sure that you post what you would like to focus on for our meetings.

3. Be ready to go over your compelling and supporting questions.

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Lesson: Introduction to Escape from Aleppo 

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Lesson: Introduction to Escape from Aleppo 

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includes activity with images from the start of the unit

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Lesson: The Arab Spring and the Role of Social Media 

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Lesson: The Arab Spring and the Role of Social Media 

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chapters 1-8

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chapters 9-12

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Lesson: Ammo Mazen, Memory, Resilience, Preserving Cultural Artifacts

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Lesson: Ammo Mazen, Memory, Resilience, Preserving Cultural Artifacts

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chapters 13-19

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Lesson: Why is the war in Syria so complicated?

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Lesson: Why is the war in Syria so complicated?

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chapters 19-25

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Lesson: Breaking down the final chapters

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Lesson: Breaking down the final chapters

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chapters 26-34

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Escape from Aleppo (student copy) - Google My Maps

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This map details Nadia's journey to Turkey.

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Lesson: Explaining Summative Assignment - Exhibition

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Lesson: Explaining Summative Assignment - Exhibition

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Lesson: Current Events Connections (Activity)

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Lesson: Current Events Connections (Activity)

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Lesson: The Silk Road, Islamic Art, Arabic Music, Literature & Philosophy

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Lesson: The Silk Road, Islamic Art, Arabic Music, Literature & Philosophy

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Lesson: Street Art as a Tool for Political Activism

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Lesson: Street Art as a Tool for Political Activism

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Lesson: Compelling & Supporting Questions + Communicating Conclusions

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Lesson: Compelling & Supporting Questions + Communicating Conclusions

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Lesson: Finding Sources + Conference Schedule

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Lesson: Finding Sources + Conference Schedule

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1. Establish all of your supporting questions.
2. Finish research so that we can make connections to the rubric.

Next meeting: Go over research and make connections to novel and Syria.

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Helpful lesson to explore for your research

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Helpful lesson to explore for your research

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1. Finalize compelling questions. 2. Establish all of your supporting questions.
3. Finish research so that we can make connections to the rubric.

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1. Establish all of your supporting questions.
2. Finish research so that we can make connections to the rubric.

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1. Establish all of your supporting questions.
2. Finish research so that we can make connections to the rubric.

Next meeting: Go over research and make connections to novel and Syria.

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Syria’s Climate-Fueled Conflict, In One Stunning Comic Strip

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Syria’s Climate-Fueled Conflict, In One Stunning Comic Strip

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Syria's climate-fueled conflict, in one stunning comic strip

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How climate change helped spark a bloody civil war.

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1. Add a supporting question regarding the path of the drought.
2. Finish research

Next meeting: Go over research and make connections to novel and Syria.

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1. Establish all of your supporting questions.
2. Finish research so that we can make connections to the rubric.

Next meeting: Review research and make connections to novel and Syria.

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1. Finish research.

Next meeting: Connection to novel, connect to Syria

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1. Reorganize columns.
2. Select 6 sites to focus research.

Next meeting: Go over 2 column notes.

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1. Finish research.

Next meeting: Go over research and make connections to novel and Syria.

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Next meeting: Go over research and make connections to novel and Syria.

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1. Establish compelling and supporting questions.
2. Read resource: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/food/the-plate/2014/05/16/a-brutal-war-destroys-a-city-and-a-spice/#close. Is this something you might be interested in exploring?

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1. Establish supporting questions.
2. Continue research (at least 1 more source completed for tomorrrow please).

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1. Go over art idea. What materials do you need?
2. Establish compelling and supporting questions.

Next meeting: Review research.

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1. Finalize compelling questions. 2. Establish all of your supporting questions.
3. Finish research.

Next meeting: Review research and make connections to novel and Syria.

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1. Establish compelling question that ties together your excellent supporting questions.
2. Organize your two-column notes (please give me editing rights).

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Compelling Question:
How does the Syrian Civil War impact food accessibility?

Cause = war
Effect = ability to get food (bread)

Supporting Questions:
1. When was the Syrian Civil War?
2. What caused the war?
3. What is the significance of bread to the Syrian diet?
4. How has the bread shortage impacted Syrians?

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Abu Alaa leaves his home in Damascus at dawn to buy bread from his local bakery. There he stands in line for up to six hours to get the two packets of the round flat pita bread that government rations allow for a three-child family like his.

After this he goes to the gas station, where he usually waits a further six hours to buy the fuel he needs for his work as a minivan driver.

"Half of my day is spent waiting for bread - God, it's laughable," he says. "And the other half is spent waiting in line for diesel!"

Abu Alaa gives only the name he goes by in his neighborhood because he fears that Syria's repressive government does not want him to speak with foreign journalists.

Syrians across the country are facing shortages of subsidized bread at a time when, for many, it is one of the only foods they can still afford. The United Nations' World Food Program says that in this once middle-income country, some 9.3 million people, approximately the population, are food insecure.

The war in Syria is estimated to have killed more than half a million people and has left its cities in ruin. Millions have been forced to flee their homes.

Over the course of almost a decade, President Bashar al-Assad has won back control of approximately two-thirds of the country from opposition militias. But for citizens living in these areas, even if they are relieved about an end to the violence, there is little to celebrate. Already traumatized and impoverished by the conflict, they now suffer from an economic collapse that has shrunk the value of their salaries many times over while making goods more expensive.

In less than a year the Syrian pound lost over 70% of its value against the U.S. dollar. This sharp devaluation means the salary of a state employee is now worth as little as $20 per month (as opposed to around $400 before the war). The cost of a WFP food basket, which includes essentials like rice and oil, has increased some 247% since October last year.

And the United Nations says more people need food assistance now than they did even during the height of the conflict.

Earlier this month President Assad acknowledged the misery Syrians face, telling state television during a visit to the industrial hub city of Aleppo that these are "especially difficult and harsh times which Syria has not seen since its independence" in 1945.

Bread shortages increased sharply last September, along with a shortages of medicines and fuel. In October, the ministry of domestic trade and economy doubled the cost of a subsidized pack of bread to 100 Syrian pounds, while reducing the weight of each pack from about 2.8 pounds to 2.4 pounds and imposing limits on how much a family can buy. A two-person household is allowed one pack per day, while a family of three gets two packs.

Syria used to mostly produce enough wheat to feed its population but has had to import some of its supply since the conflict began in 2011. This year, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization estimated Syria would produce up to 2.6 tons of wheat but need around 4.1 million tons for domestic consumption.

A combination of international sanctions, the coronavirus pandemic and the freezing of Syrian assets in banks in Lebanon, which is suffering from its own economic crisis, has left the regime struggling to find the currency reserves it needs to pay for these imports.

The economic online journal The Syria Report says the government has struggled to get traders to fulfill its contracts. The Syrian regime's ally Russia has traditionally fulfilled most of Syria's wheat import needs but has provided significantly less this year.

This prompted some speculation that Moscow is trying to use the bread crisis as a lever of power over Damascus, while others say Russia is safeguarding its wheat to meet its own needs during the pandemic.

While sanctions do not target food purchases, the freezing of assets and banking restrictions by the West, have generally complicated trade with Syria. "As soon as they see the word Syria on a receipt banks don't want to touch it," a Damascus businessman recently told NPR last month, explaining the difficulties he has importing goods.

The economic crisis in Lebanon has proven a major blow. Syrian who had stashed their savings or business assets in Lebanese banks have seen their funds frozen as the country struggles with its own currency crisis. It's not known exactly the extent of Syrian funds are held in Lebanon. President Assad claims anywhere from $20 billion to $42 billion of Syrian deposits could be lost in Lebanon. "This figure for an economy like Syria is terrifying," he said.

The government's access to wheat is further complicated by the fact that a majority of Syria's own wheat fields remain outside of government control, held by the U.S.-backed Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria. Though the Kurdish administration has sold some wheat to the regime, analysts say they have kept much of the supply to meet the needs of their population.

The shortage of bread available in subsidized bakeries is compounded by a thriving black market. An activist in the Syrian town of Sweida, who asked not to be named for his own safety, tells NPR that profit margins are so small in government-subsidized bakeries that many of these bakeries sell some of their allocated wheat supply on the black market - where bread is available at more than ten times the subsidized price - so that they can pay their employees.

The war has fueled income inequality in Syria and spawned an elite of war lords and loyalists that been handsomely rewarded for their allegiance to the regime in difficult times. Goods are available for the small elite who can afford them.

"Food is absolutely available. Iphones are available! The PlayStation 5 is available in Syria right now," says Elizabeth Tsurkov, a fellow at the Center for Global Policy. "There is a segment of society, many of them individuals linked to war profiteers, who can afford this. And then there is over 90% of the population living in abject poverty."

The shortages are fueling desperation and anger. The activist in Sweida says people who own a gun regularly use their weapon to skip the line. The government has reportedly also given priority to its soldiers and militiamen, allowing them to jump lines and removing the ration restrictions.

For ordinary citizens, this all means they can sometimes wait in line for hours just to be told there is no bread left for the day. Arguments often break out, and local media reported men killed in Latakia and Hama during that fights that broke out in bread and fuel lines.

"We're either fighting with the bakeries or with distribution centers," a woman in Homs tells NPR, asking not to be identified fearing that speaking with a foreign journalist could get her arrested. "People are killing each other over just bread."

She says the rationed amount of bread they do get, after waiting in line, is not enough for her family of three children and that they all go hungry sometimes. She lists the prices of other foods, explaining how most are beyond what she can afford. She says two pounds of lamb is 18,000 Syrian pounds, almost half her husband's monthly salary as a state employee.

This new hardship comes on top of the family's suffering from the war. This woman's brother was arrested on the way to the hospital where his wife was in labor. He died in jail. The family insists all he ever did was protest peacefully against the government.

So she now helps care for his family as well as hers. They are in survival mode. Her children haven't even tasted eggs in four months. "This is not just us," she says. "This is all families in Syria."
Additional reporting by Nada Homsi

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Imagine Waiting 6 Hours To Buy A Couple Of Bags Of Bread

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That's the situation in Syria, where bread shortages are now widespread - and the queues for daily rations stretch on and on. The same goes for gasoline.

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Compelling Question: What is the cultural significance of Arabic in Syria?

Break down: aspects of culture
language (main focus)
religion
customs/traditions

Supporting question (revise):
1. What is the relationship between Arabic and religion? (Islam --> connect to novel)
2. Where does Arabic originate?
3. What is the relationship between.... OR To what extent does Arabic influence...

Next meeting: Research notes completed, discuss connections to the novel and to Syria (today's lesson)

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Compelling Question:
Why is the experience of a Syrian refugee challenging?

Supporting Questions:
1. What is a refugee?
2. What events in Syria led the majority of its people to become refugees?
3. Where do Syrian refugees seek asylum? (find a new home that is safe)
4. What are challenges Syrian refugees face? (give 3 examples)
5. How does this topic connect to Escape from Aleppo?

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Next meeting:
1. Finalize compelling and supporting questions with Catherine.
2. Research on Assad's presidency and his impact on the Syrian people.
3. Make connections:
Cause = Assad's leadership and the government system (one-party)
Effect = Civil War

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Next meeting:
1. Finish research.
2. Drafting art piece + list of materials.

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1. Ok
2. How was Assad able to abuse his power?
3. What evidence is there to show that Assad is responsible for the Syrian Civil War?

Two-column notes and project idea - due Wed. Feb 3

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1. How were countries' economies affected by the Arab Spring?

2. What is the relationship between religion and the Arab Spring? OR What influence did religion have on the Arab Spring? (Boyan)

3. What impact did the Arab Spring have on the government? (Boyan)

4. How did the drought influence the Arab Spring? (Chase)

5. How did the Arab Spring influence the Syrian Civil War and economy? (Chase)

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Cause and Effect relationship

What is happening to Syrian refugees? (cause)
What effect does their struggle have on them? (effect)

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Compelling Question:
How can street art be a tool for political activism?

Relationship: Street art and political activism --> How are these two ideas related?

Street art is often found in public spaces so lots of people see it and therefore, it spreads awareness

Project idea:
Street art examples: Arab Spring, refugee crisis

Next meeting:
1. Research and analysis (relationship) completed.
2. Project idea

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1. Connections to the novel
2. Project idea

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1. How have mosques and ancient ruins changed before and after the war? (past and present events)

2. What is the cultural significance of mosques and ancient ruins in Syria? --> Why are these places important?

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Revise compelling question:
What impact did the Syrian government have on the Syrian Civil war?
-Historical events connect to government
-Government censored social media (blocked it)

Analyze research:
Cause = Government
Impact = Civil War
Explain this relationship

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Ms.Calderon, so my three questions are:

1:How did the Arab Spring influence the Syrian Civil War and economy?
2: How did the drought influence  the Arab Spring?
3: How were countries’  environment affected by The Arab Spring?

Is that correct?

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Compelling Question:
How does the destruction of historical sites impact Syrians' identity?

Cause = Destruction of historical sites
Effect = Syrians' identity

Need to explain HOW does one impact the other.

ex. Macchu Pichu
- destruction of their civilization
- piece of history

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Cause = Assad's leadership and the government system (one-party)

Effect = Civil War

Applying Disciplinary Concepts ---> be able to explain the cause-effect relationship

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1. Sketch of art piece
2. Sketch of display layout

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1. Finish research
- define: authoritarian, revolution, Arab Spring
- connect to Syria
- connect to novel
- idea for your project

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1. Actually answer your compelling question by applying disciplinary concepts.
Cause = Syrian Civil War
Effect = ability to access food

2. How does your question/topic connect back to the book?

3. Project idea

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Cause = Syrian Civil War
Effect = food accessibility

1. Explain the relationship between these two things.
2. Connection to the novel
3. Connection to Syria

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2. Connect to Syria.
3. Project idea

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Interactive activity question ideas:

1. What makes for successful governance? The type of leader or the type of government?

2. In your opinion, in Syria's history was most impactful in contributing to the war/protests?

3. Bashar al Assad affected Syrian history by....