- Respond to blog invitation – make sure you are able to post to the blog
- Get into assigned group with netbooks.
- Read about your topic – research all you can. Don’t just Google or Wikipedia it! While that may be a good starting point at times, I have provided you with a powerful set of links right on the blog. Put them to great use!
- Create a post (yes, this will go right onto the class blog). You must include:
- A Title
- A paragraph-long summary written by you. Sure you can just cut and paste something, but the goal here is to write it in a way your classmates and the readers of this blog will understand. Plus, presenting the work of another person as your own is called plagiarizing.
- Links. You will create links to three different sources of information. These will probably be some of the ones you use for step 3 above – keep track of which ones work best.
- Photographs and / or video. You will include at least five of these within the body of your post. This should also include at least one map.
- A personal response, written by you and your group. Here is where your voice will come in – let us know what you think about this event. What did you learn about for the first time? What surprised you? What do you want to know more about? What questions do you have? What was the process of learning about this like for you today? What connections can you make between this event and current events?
- With your group you will read through the other six entries created for this activity. After reading each one, you will post a brief comment.
Topics:
• Rise of Zionism / First Zionist Congress
• Balfour Declaration / British Mandate for Palestine
• United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 (Partition Plan) / Declaration of Independence
• War of Independence (1948)
• Sinai Campaign (1956)
• Six Day War (1967)
• Yom Kippur War (1973)
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