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TITLE:  MIDDLE EAST INFORMATION BROCHURE

AUTHOR:  Les Morse, Juneau-Douglas High School;
         Juneau, Alaska

GRADE LEVEL: 9-12;  World History or Current World Events

OVERVIEW:  This assignment involves working with groups of
three to four other students to create an information
brochure for the United States government.  The brochure
will cover basic data about a certain Middle Eastern area,
and be a "guide" for our foreign diplomacy corps.

PURPOSE:  The purpose of this assignment is to familiarize
the participants with some basic information about the
Middle East, and to experience teamwork.  Your group will
use your brochure and all other brochures to put together a
comparison chart.

ACTIVITIES AND PROCEDURES:
Your group will have less then two weeks to research, type,
and format the brochure.  The final product will be totally
formatted and ready to copy when you are finished.  You will
receive a group grade and an individual grade.

The group grade (100 points) will include:

( 5)  Bibliography
(10)  Rough Draft of content and format
(30)  Content/research/accuracy
(15)  Organization
(15)  Mechanics/sentence fluency/word choice
(15)  Quality of work/neatness
(10)  Overall format/impression/creativity

The individual grade (30 points) will include:

( 5)  Individual Notes from research
      (Take notes while researching.)
(10)  Daily Time on Task, measured by teacher
      observation.
(15)  Individual Contribution to total Project, measured
      with work log which each group must turn in with
      the  final brochure.

The final Brochure is Due Monday 3/7/94.
This is a team project, so everyone experiences the same
group grade.

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Information in your brochure should include, but not be
limited to the following information:

political system/current leaders/military
educational levels/languages
GNP/economics/trading partners
geography/transportation
brief history (focus on this century)
religion/customs/cultural patterns/women's roles
social/political conditions today/foreign policy (focus on
     how the present government gets along with the United
     States)
health conditions and issues

At the end of the first planning period your group is
required to turn in a group plan of tasks and assignments
made to each group member.  Tasks that might be assigned
include:

     Who will research what countries/topics (all need to
          take part in research)
     Record keeper - work log.
     Bibliography
     Typist/layout/Artwork/computer expert.
     Editor/content check.
     Proofreader/mechanics checker.

At the end of each work period you will need to demonstrate
what work you have completed in a work log.  Your work log
should be maintained by one group member, and is due when
the final project is turned in.  When you complete work
outside of class you are responsible for reporting that to
the person who keeps the log, and they must record that
information.  This will determine part of your individual
grade.  Work logs will be provided.

Places to find information includes;
     Books, Info-trac, Newsbank, World Book Information
Finder, Global Studies handouts.  Looking in encyclopedia's
will not be real useful as current information is not
available in those locations.  Using the computers in the
library to look up newspaper articles and magazines will be
the best place to find information.

Good luck, and have fun!