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

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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 7 th - 1/3/5 Due October 8 th - 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 City Building and Architecture- pg Scholarship and Learning- pg Science and Technology-pg Geography and Navigation-pg Mathematics- pg Medicine- pg Bookmaking and Literature- pg 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.

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Zoology Wrote books describing the structure of animal’s bodies Explained how to make medicine from animal parts In the 14 th 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 9 th 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