Middle East Day 5: Iran

ORANGE:  Friday, May 25

BLUE:  Tuesday, May 29

The Iranian Revolution and Iran:  What is a theocratic republic?

Warm Up:

Look at your map and identify Iran's geographic neighbors.
Look up the main language of Iran and the main ethnicity.

Objective:

I can understand the challenges leading to the Iranian Revolution and the creation of a theocratic republic.

Agenda:

1)  Introduction geographically. Here are the slides. Here is a GO.
2)  Card sort:  Causes, the Revolution, Effects

3)  Video (5 min)

4)  If time, we can check out the Iranian Constitution.

HW:

1)  You should review 33.4 (1980 - 1981) about the Iranian Revolution.  But you also should know the classwork we did today well.


EXTRAS!!!

Here is a grear Crash Course about the Iranian Revolution.