2. MIDDLE EAST PRE-UNIT SURVEY 2 minutes ENTRY TASKOBJECTIVE What do you know about the Middle East? The Middle East includes which countries? SWBAT IDENTIFY ELEMENTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST BY COMPLETING AN OEC CHART

3. WHAT IS A STEREOTYPE? GENERALIZATIONS ABOUT A GROUP OF PEOPLE BASED ON AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF SOME OBSERVED OR IMAGINED TRAIT

4. MOVING BEYOND STEREOTYPES BY RECOGNIZING THE STEREOTYPES WE HOLD ABOUT OTHERS -- AND OTHERS HOLD ABOUT US -- WE CAN BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER BETTER AND COMMUNICATE OUR POSITIONS MORE CLEARLY.

5. STEREOTYPES OF AMERICANS ALL AMERICANS ARE RICH. AMERICANS HAVE NO FAMILY VALUES. MEN ARE MORE QUALIFIED THAN WOMEN True or False?

6. U.S KNOWLEDGE OF MIDDLE EAST RECENT POLLING SHOWS THAT TWO-THIRDS OF ALL AMERICANS CAN'T POINT TO IRAQ ON A MAP ABOUT ONE-HALF OF AMERICANS SHARE PREJUDICIAL AND STEREOTYPICAL VIEWS OF ARABS AS ANGRY, BACKWARD, VIOLENT FANATICS. ON AVERAGE, AMERICANS CORRECTLY ANSWER 16 OF THE 32 RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS – 50%

8. “FOR DECADES, THE MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION, THE US'S PREMIER ORGANIZATION OF ACADEMICS SPECIALIZING IN REGIONAL STUDIES, WARNED THAT ITS TEXTBOOKS EITHER OUTRIGHT IGNORED THE MIDDLE EAST OR, WHEN THEY DEALT WITH IT, CONVEYED "AN OVERSIMPLIFIED, NAIVE, AND EVEN DISTORTED IMAGE" OF THE REGION AND ITS PEOPLES” -THE NATIONAL, OCTOBER 10 TH, 2010, US INTERESTS DEMAND A BROADER KNOWLEDGE OF THE MIDDLE EAST

9. COMMON STEREOTYPES ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST THE MIDDLE EAST IS A CLEARLY DEFINED PLACE THERE IS NOTHING BUT DESERT AND OIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST EVERYONE IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS MUSLIM EVERYONE IN THE MIDDLE EAST HATES THE UNITED STATES ISLAM IS A VIOLENT FAITH ALL MUSLIMS ARE OPPRESSED AND UNEDUCATED ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY CANNOT WORK TOGETHER