Transcript week1 - kennelly

Day 1
• Where is Iraq?
• What religion do most of the people in
Iraq follow?
• Who is at war in Iraq?
Iraq
• What should the USA do next?
• 1. We need to first know the people,
history, and region
Ethnic v. Linguistic v.
Religious Background
•
•
•
•
•
Define ethnic background
Provide an example of an ethnic background
Define religious background
Provide an example of an ethnic background
What is the difference between one’s religious and
ethnic backgrounds
• Ethnic group: a sizable group of people
sharing a common and distinctive racial,
national, religious, linguistic, or cultural
heritage.
Sect:
• Sect: a denomination of a larger
religious group
• Islam has 2 major sects Shia (Shi’I) and
Sunni
Religious Background
• Followers of Islam-- a world religion that teaches
peace and toleration
• Split in 632 over death of Muhammad
• Imam, Ayatollah, Caliph:leader
• Shi’I, Shiite, Shi’a
– Minority in world but the majority in Iraq
– Followers of Ali and martyr Hussein
– Equity, Social Justice, Family
– History of oppression in Iraq and world
QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
• Sunni
– Sunni Iraqi Minority but Islamic Majority
– Follow Abu’Bakr
– Emphasize Conformity and Social
Stability
– Believe their Majority status and power
is a result of the rightness of faith.
– In power under Saddam Hussein
Other religions
• Christians, Jews, Atheist
Islam's Sunni-Shiite split
• List 3 things Shiites and Sunni believe
in common
• Explain the split that divided between
Shiite and Sunni
• Why does the author think the SunniShiite split is about something different
than religion?
Day 2
• Define Ethnic Background
• What is the religious background of
most Iraqi’s?
• What are the major sects of Islam?
Level 1 ?’s
• Factual information
• Info can be found directly in text
• John ran in a 20 yard touch down to win
the game.
• How many yards did john run?
– John ran 20 yards.
Level 2 ?’s
• Level 2 ?’s drawn inferences
• Answers are understood
• John ran in a 20 yard touch down to win
the game.
• What game was John playing?
– John was playing football
Level 3 ?’s
• Answer big questions that can not be
answered from text
• Questions raised from reading the text?
• John ran in a 20 yard touch down to win the
game
– Why do people need to score a
touchdown to win a game?
Cinderella
Levels of questions
• 5 level 1 questions
• 3 level 2 questions
• 2 level 3 questions
• Write out question and answer
DAY 3
Define a level 2 question
Define a level 3 question
What is the difference between a level 2
and level 3 question?
Long path to Iraq's
sectarian split
•
•
•
•
Levels of questions
5 level 1 questions
3 level 2 questions
2 level 3 questions
• Write out question and answer
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/47503
20.stm
• Day 4
• Who do Shia believe the successor to the Prophet
Mohamed should be?
• Who do Sunni believe the successor to the Prophet
Mohamed should be?
• What was the main point of the Sunni/Shia article?
Ethnic Background
• Kurd’s- 1/4 of population and Sunni Muslim’s
– nomadic herders that live in the North
– Hope to create their own nation
• Speak Kurdish
• A Kurd is a person in the Iranian-speaking ethnolinguistic group indigenous to a region often referred
to as Kurdistan, an area that includes adjacent parts
of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.
• 2/3 Arab
• An Arab is a person whose language
is Arabic, who lives in an Arabic
speaking country, who is in sympathy
with the aspirations of the Arabic
speaking peoples.
• Speak Arabic
Iraqi Ethnic/
Sectarian Groups
Shi’a
60%
Sunni
20%
Kurd
17%
Other
3%
TURKEY
Why Iraq is so
vital to regional
stability
Dahuk
Tall Afar
Mosul
Kurd
Irbil
Mixed
Kirkuk
Tikrit
SYRIA
Al Qa’im
IRAN
Samarra
Baqubah
Sunni Arab
Ramadi
Fallujah
Ar Rutbah
JORDAN
Karbala
Hillah
Al Kut
Mixed
SAUDI
ARABIA
BAGHDAD
An Najaf
Shi’a Arab
Al Amarah
As Samawah
An Nasiriyah
Al Basrah
Iraq situated on sectarian fault lines…
Regional balance and world security at stake
QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Foldable
ETHNIC BOX
1. Fold your paper into 4 sections
2. Draw an inner square that contains a part of the 4
folded squares
3. In the inner square Define Ethnic Group
2. Title the four outer square’s Sunni, Shia, Kurd, Arab
3. List the characteristics of the title in each square
4. In the inner square answer: How does the information
in the four outer square connect to the information in
the inner-square
Week Work (Mon)
Define Arab?
Define a Kurd ?
What sect of Islam are the Kurds?
Why did Saddam not like the Kurds?