Essential and Guiding Questions for the Middle East Unit: • How has conflict affected the Middle East? • How does the culture of the Middle East impact the global community? • What are the core beliefs of Judaism, Christianity and Islam? • What events, figures, and processes have impacted the Middle East? • What issues currently affect the Middle East? • What factors influence the Middle East’s position in the global community? Theme(s)/focus: Conflict, Human Rights Violation, & Belief Systems. Do Now: • Dating back to the end of WWII, the Middle East & North Africa [the “Islamic world”] have both been in the news for a myriad (many/a lot) of reason. – Surrounding the state of the two aforementioned regions, what do you know about them and their current state/status? • In your notebooks students are asked to list and then briefly examine some of the news hailing out of the two regions &/or their basic knowledge, be it good or bad, it's totally up to students.