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aInternet Quest - Islam - Final Assessment

Use the Internet, Across the Centuries, encyclopedias, your class notes, team caravan logs, and the websites contained on this page to find your information.

You are being asked to show what you know about Islam and research, by creating a newspaper with four sections.
You are investigative reporters for an assignment on Islam. Your quest is to find information for your newspaper on how Islam originated, by investigating Muhammad, the geography of the area where Islam began, the basic principles of Islam, and its early history.

Process
Step One - Give your paper a name, example, “The Middle Eastern Times”, or the “The Islamic Chronicle”. Each member of the team will become an editor of a subject for their newspaper.
1. Editor of Geography of North Africa and the Middle East
2. Editor of Muhammad’s History
3. Editor of the Basic Principles of Islam
4. Editor of the Early History of the Islam Empire

Step Two
Each editor will access information from web sites, classroom texts, and the resources available in the school library.
Introduction: http://www.mrdowling.com/605-islam.html

Step Three
Write a feature story answering the newspaper questions, who? what? where? when? why? and how? for your topic.

Step Four
With this information each editor will create a time line, map, or chart depending on the topic of the section.

Step Five
Draw a puzzle, cartoon, or write a letter to the editor for your section.

Step Six
All editors work together and collect all created documents and format them into a newspaper with four sections.

Sources: General
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/index.htm
http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/siteindex.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/index.shtml

History (with timeline) http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/history/history.htm
http://eawc.evansville.edu/chronology/ispage.htm
Environment (with maps)
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/environment/index.htm
Religion
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/religion/index.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/index.shtml
Clothing
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/clothing/index.htm
Economy
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/economy/index.htm
Games
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/games/index.htm
Literature
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/literature/index.htm
Science (medicine)
http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/innomedicine.html
Mathematics
http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/innoalgebra.html
Food
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/food/index.htm
People
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/people/index.htm
Art
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/art/index.htm
Architecture
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/islam/architecture/index.htm


Grading:
Evaluation

Editors, use the rubric to evaluate your section of the newspaper.

Factual
4 - Answer all 5 (6) newspaper questions and writing has a “spark” to make it interesting (who, what. when, where, why, and how?)
3 - Answer 5 questions
2 - Answer 3 of the questions
1 - Less then 3 answers given
0 - No answers given

Neat & Grammatical
4 - Proof read and no spelling or grammar errors, editor has filled a page or section with information neatly typed or legibly hand-written in black ink
3 - Less than 3 spelling and grammar errors, editor has filled a page or section with information neatly typed or legibly hand-written in black ink
2 - Less than 10 errors,editor has almost filled a page or section with information neatly typed or legibly hand-written in black ink
1 - More than 10 errors, editor has completed only one article for the page or section with information neatly typed or legibly hand-written in black ink
0 - No articles written

Headlines (Titles)
4 - All headlines express the main idea of the article
3 - All but one headline had the main idea or headlines are details
2 - Headlines are all detail items
1 - Headlines aren’t closely related to the article
0 - No headlines given

“Chart”(timeline or map) and Drawing(Letter)
4 - Both items show research and are done neatly
3 - Both items show some research and are done neatly
2 - Both items completed with only information from text and done
1 - Both items done
0 - No items completed

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