BREAKING NEWS!

Another family has come and invaded your home. They’ve taken everything that belongs to you.

Your house, your room, your belongings! You still have to live in your home but your entire

family lives in one room and you can’t live your house freely- the group that has invaded blocks your house and you can only leave at certain times during the day

This just in…

Think quietly: How does this make you feel?

What could have possibly made this happen? Power Conference: In your group, discuss how

it makes you feel. How are you going to handle it? What are you going to do to regain your living space again?

What’s going on?

Do you know of any time in history in which

something was taken away from a group of people? (Think about culture and the past)

Think about current times- is there anybody or group of people that are experiencing something being taken away from them?

Let’s Think!

It’s happening RIGHT NOW!

In a part of Ukraine- in the Ukrainian peninsula called Crimea

Towards the end of February, Russian forces invaded the Crimean peninsula and took it over leaving the Crimean people stuck and forcefully guarded by the Russian army

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mnJCzLR

BWg http://www.channelone.com/ukraine-unrest/ http://

news.yahoo.com/video/ukraine-unrest-spreads-beyond-kiev-040103190.html

In Medieval Europe, during an event called the

Crusades. In this event, land belonging to religious groups was conquered and taken over in wars that lasted for years.

We will learn more about that tomorrow

This also happened…

During the Middle Ages, the Crusades

happened as a result of conflict over land and culture. Although this is a past problem, the Crimeans are experiencing the same issue today as Russian forces have invaded and taken over their territory because of cultural conflicts. Students, acting as the Crimean people, will develop a plan to make peaceful contact with the Russian government and army and reclaim their borders.

Crimea and the Crusades

The civilizations in the Middle Ages fought to

take back their land So…

How can we, as Crimeans, develop a plan to reclaim our

land?

With this project, you will be responsible for individual products and a group product.

Individual products: Research notebook Timeline for Crimea and the Crusades Compare and contrast visual of the Crusades and Crimea

Group product- Choice of: creation of propaganda product in the form of poster, song,

video a military strategic plan, step-by-step guide including

illustrations (Both choices will educate and inform the audience on the

background of the conflict and give culture, geography, government/social structure, and economical background of Crimea.)

Crimea and the Crusades

We will discuss the final product in more detail

later As for right now, we will begin working on our

research notebook

Crimea and the Crusades

Must have 13 pages: The 1st page is the cover page:

Crimea and the Crusades Research Notebook Name, Core

The 2nd page will be reserved for the title CRIMEA

The Research Notebook

3rd page: Brief history of Crimea and

background of conflict with Russia 4th page: Culture 5th page: Geography 6th page: Government/social structure 7th page: Economic background

8th page: reserved for the title Crusades 9th page: Brief history of Crusades 10th page: Culture of Middle Ages 11th page: Geography of the Crusades 12th page: Government/social structure of the

wars- who was involved? 13th page: Economic background- how was it

funded? How much money did the Crusades cost?