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=Year 9 Cover Lessons for Mr. Tarr, May 2008=

Tuesday 20th May
a. Your homework was to create a biased timeline of the Middle East Conflict from EITHER a Palestinian OR an Israeli perspective. You will now develop this project today more thoroughly. i. Make sure that each event in the timeline is clearly biased (making your side sound "good" and the other side sound "bad") ii. Make sure you do not use any adjecive ("bias word") more than ONCE (otherwise it sounds repetitive). To help you get as many bias words as you can, you can right-click over any word and choose "synonyms" - but only use words you know the meaning of! iii. Highlight in **red** all of the words making your side sound "good" iv. Highlight in **blue** all of the words making the other side sound "bad"


 * By all means move on to next lesson's work if you get all of these tasks finished during the lesson** - but it's not a race! Do a good job!

Thursday 22nd May
Your timeline currently goes up to 1987. Use this lesson to add at least 10 more events covering the period 1988-2008. Google search terms such as "Middle East Timeline" will help you. Remember that each event needs to be made "biased" like the others - don't just "Cut and Paste" from the web and leave it at that!


 * By all means move on to next lesson's work if you get all of these tasks finished during the lesson** - but it's not a race! Do a good job!

Tuesday 27th May, Thursday 29th May
▪ Produce a resource entitled “The story of the Middle East Conflict”. ▪ You can do this in one of three possible ways: (a) ** **Level 1 (0-7 marks):** An illustrated 250 word news report in Publisher. This will require you to write in continuous prose and in the past tense (in other words, “the Jews are expelled…” will need to be turned into “the Jews were expelled” and so on). Include a bold headline and some captioned pictures. Make it as much like a "newspaper front page" as you can. You could even include a newspaper logo ("The Israeli Times" or "The Palestinian Daily" etc).  EITHER As (a), but record your report as a sound file using a tool such as Audacity. TIP: Don't speak too fast, or mumble! OR Produce your own "Middle East Rap" like the one that Ethan found - cram as many specific events into the lyrics as you can, and do not use any of the events in the original song (that would be too repetitive).
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 * (b)** **Level 2 (4-8 marks):**

**(c)** **Level 3 (7-10 marks):** EITHER As (a) but turn the account into a Google Earth Tour focusing on key places relating to the Middle East Conflict (TIP: Go through the events in the timeline first deciding what cities / places you can zoom into - e.g. Camp David is in the USA; Britain deciding to allow Jews into Palestine could be a placemark right on top of the Houses of Parliament - be creative!) OR As (b), but import your sound file into MovieMaker and turn it into a short film documentary using appropriate pictures and a soundtrack.


 * Email your completed work to me at russeltarr@hotmail.com when it is finished. Merits, Double Merits and Commendations will be awarded as appropriate.** If you wish to use the weekend to finish the project off, hand your work in to me in next Tuesday.

If you have any remaining lesson time after completing this project, do some history revision. Remember the exam is:

Section A: Sourcework on the Middle East Section B: Structured Question on Industrial Revolution Britain**
 * 55 minutes