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Choices at a Glance

40 Curriculum Units

Web Resources Support Units Over 700 Scholars Online videos “Teaching with the News” lessons

Professional Development Webinars & Leadership Summer

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Historical Turning Points

21ST C SKILLS

Historical Turning Points Series

2 Parts

Why Did the U.S. Invade Iraq?

Essential Question

A Global Controversy: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq

Student Readings

Teachers Book

Teacher Resource Book

Support Materials Reading Strategies and

Suggestions

Key Terms

Issues Toolbox

Integration Tips

Advanced Study Guides

Lessons The Geography of Iraq

Life in Iraq 1932 (Alternative)

The Media and the Iraq War

Options Role Play

Reflecting on the War

Blogging the War: Voices form Iraq (Alternative)

Unit Lessons and Their SkillsLife in Iraq 1932

Document Analysis, Prediction skills, Visual Literacy

The Media and the Iraq War

Point of View, Persuasive Techniques, Rhetoric Analysis, Critical Thinking

Reflecting on the WarCritical Thinking

Blogging the War in Iraq

Media Literacy, Document Analysis, POV

Geography of IraqMap Interpretation Skills

Part I: Provides a brief overview of the people and the history of Iraq. It includes early history, Iraq under Saddam Hussein, and the first Persian Gulf War.

Part II: Leads students up to the March 2003, with material on sanctions, a new security strategy, 9/11, and the buildup to the decision to invade. The Options Role Play is found here.

Part III: Provides information on the war in Iraq, including the invasion, the occupation and the effects of the war.

Student Readings

Found in Student BookFound in Student Book

OPTIONS ROLE PLAY

Adaptability of Unit

You Control the Information You Give Students for Each Option

Values & Beliefs

Action Steps

Supporting Arguments

Excerpts from Historical Records

Concluding Activity: What are the Lessons of the Iraq War?

P. 53 ofStudents draw their own conclusions, based on readings, discussions, lessons and Scholars Online.

Unit Outcomes

The geography and history of Iraq;

Multiple perspectives on why the U.S. invaded Iraq;

How the decision to invade Iraq impacted the U.S. and Iraq; and

How the U.S. presence in Iraq impacted the region as a whole.

Students will walk away with an understanding of:

Deepen the learning with Scholars Online

Use to:

Introduce the unit

Reinforce concepts for visual/oral learners

Advanced assignments

Your own professional development

Organized by Student Readings & Lessons

Scholars Online Participants

Lee RobertsPublic HealthColumbia University

P. Terrance HopmanPolitical ScienceBrown University

Jarat ChopraU.N. Peacekeeping Brown University

Michael OttermanHuman Rights Consultant

How has the 2002 invasion of Iraq fueled

terrorism?

How has the 2002 invasion of Iraq fueled

terrorism?

Why did the U.N. impose sanctions on

Iraq?

Why did the U.N. impose sanctions on

Iraq?

Charles TrippPolitical ScienceUniversity of London

Ricardo LagosFormer President of Chile

Thomas M. NicholsNational Security AffairsUnited States Naval War College

Senator Jack ReedU.S. Senator from R.I.

Teaching with the News

5 Teaching With the News Lessons on Iraq, dating back to 2002, can be found at:

http://www.choices.edu/resources/archives.php

Lessons of Iraq (2010) "What Have We Learned

from Iraq?," by K.T. McFarland

"Obama Wants Us to Forget the Lessons of Iraq," by Andrew Bacevich

"The Surge and Afghanistan," by Senator John McCain

"The Lesson of Iraq," by Don Kraus

Best Maps http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/asia.html

Confronting Iraq: An Interactive Media Guide

http://www.mcclatchyinteractive.com/creative/iraq07/

Pre -2008 Blogs

Timelines

Maps

Charts

Articles

News-sponsored Lessons

The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: Teaching Resources and Essential Questions

Oxfam U.K. Education ResourcesIraq War and Peace:

5 Useful Activities Detailed Background Information

The War: What We Know

Interpreting Different Viewpoints

News Board

Can a War Ever Be Just?

Resolving Conflict

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/iraq/?35

Costs of War Website

http://costsofwar.org/

Includes Human, Economic, Political, Social Costs

Includes Information on Benefits, Alternatives and Recommendations

Housed at Brown University

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special_reports/

struggle_for_iraq/

BBC News: Struggle for Iraq

TIMELINES

FACTS AND FIGURES

NEWS ARTICLES

GRAPHIC PHOTOS

Literature for the Classroom

Iraqigirl: Diary of a Teenage Girl in Iraq edited by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field (2009)

War Is…Soldiers, Survivors, and Storytellers Talk About War edited by Marc Aronson and Patty Campbell (2008)

Bull Rider by Suzanne Morgan Williams (2009)

Heart of a Shepherd by Rosanne Parry (2009)

High Dive by Tammar Stein (2008)

Purple Heart by Patricia McCormick (2009)

Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers (2008)

http://www.nhpr.org/node/32400

Two Beautiful Books for Young Students

Silent Music by James Rumford

A boy who loves soccer, music and calligraphy.

The Librarian of Basara by Jeanette Winter

One woman’s attempt to save the jewels of Basara.