Tuesday 10/01/13• Objective:

• Students take Quarter 1 bench mark• Students will be able to find examples of

cultural diffusion in a fictional story• Homework• Story of Islam Children's book• Due Tuesday October 15th

• Do Now:• Get ready for the Benchmark

Islam unit project

Cultural Diffusion• You regularly

experience and even benefit from something called cultural diffusion• Cultural diffusion is the

spread of cultural elements such as: food, art, music, sports, language, and ideas, from one culture to another

McDonalds around the world

Wednesday 10/3/13• Objective: Students will be able to create an

informational poster that explains one Islamic achievement

• Homework• Islam Achievement billboard• 1/3/5-due tomorrow• 4/6-due Friday

• Islam Children's book• Due October 7th- 1/3/5• Due October 8th- 4/6

• Do Now:• Open your textbook to pg. 105

Cultural diffusion• In this lesson, you will learn how cultural

diffusion affected early Muslim life• Remember their geography allowed them

to be in contact with many different cultures

•Muslims during this time developed new technology and made adaptations to existing technology, scholarship, art, music, and so forth• This knowledge spread to different areas of

the world

You will be assigned one of the following sections

• 10.3- City Building and Architecture- pg.107• 10.4- Scholarship and Learning- pg.108• 10.5- Science and Technology-pg.109• 10.6 Geography and Navigation-pg110• 10.7- Mathematics- pg. 111• 10.8- Medicine- pg. 112• 10.9 Bookmaking and Literature- pg. 113• 10.10 Textiles and Music in Muslim Spain- pg. 115

You will be reading your section on your own and creating a billboard• Your billboard must include:• Title• Three facts in your own words from your

section•How did this influence other cultures,

countries, civilizations….•One slogan•One picture

Thursday 10/3/2013• Objective:

• Students will be able to complete a note taking guide of for Muslim Achievements• Students will be able to complete a concept formation

activity as a form of review for our Islam unit exam• Homework• Islam children book• Due 10/14

• Islam Exam• Thursday 10/10

• Do Now:• Take out your billboard

Muslim innovations and adaptations

• Follow these steps to learn about Muslim inventions and adaptations• Take a walk around the room to

complete our note taking guide• After you have completed your note taking

guide, answer the following questions: What achievement are you going add into your Rise of Islam Children's Book? Why

•You will have 25 mins.

• Empire of faith part 2 3:33

Zoology• Wrote books describing

the structure of animal’s bodies• Explained how to make

medicine from animal parts• In the 14th century

Muslims books where used to write an encyclopedia of animals called The Lives of the Animals

Libraries of Cordoba• The capital city of

Cordoba, Spain became a center of learning and intellectual life.• Library contained more

than 440,000 books• People of Cordoba also

collected books for their home

Algebra• They spent hours trying

to stump one another with difficult mathematical puzzles• The science of algebra as

we know it today was introduced by Muslims.• Algebra comes from the

word “al jabr” which means “the bringing together of separate parts.”

Hospitals• Established the world’s first

hospitals, which served as teaching centers for doctors

• By the 9th century there where hospitals in all large Muslim towns

• The most advanced hospitals attracted outstanding medical scholars and were housed in large buildings with classrooms, libraries, laboratories, and patient rooms with beds

Geometric and Floral designs• Muslim art was mostly

abstract, which meant that pictures did not represent real subjects like humans or animals• It was believed that

human images would distract worshipers from praying to Allah.• Arabesque= winding stem

of leaves and flowers that formed a spiraling design