Learning Targets

• Students should be able to understand basic terms to describe different political systems (kingdom, president..)
• Students should be able to use the correct Arabic terminology to describe relationships between family members and identify family members based on descriptions they hear.
• Students will understand the cultural, economic, and religious factors which shaped and continue to shape Saudi Arabia.
• Students will be able to describe Vision 2030, attitudes towards it, and MBS's position in the royal family.

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COMMUNICATION

Interpersonal Communication (Activity # 1) - Students will speak, answer questions verbally and use the internet during class to research in Arabic and English facts and connections about the images by in the Pic-Collage . Students will be able to ask and answer simple questions regarding who, what, where, when and why. Students will practice forming basic nominal sentences, using correct human and non human plurals and agreement rules to share their findings with the class as the class as a whole works to decode the Pic-Collage via teacher guided discussion

Presentational Speaking & Writing (Activities # 2 and #3) - Students will work together to make a collective presentation about the Pic-Colage using Jamboard. Individual students will present to the class one Arab monarchy/or presidential monarchy, its origins, family tree, and connection to the country it rules while their classmates engage in Interpretive Listening to determine which country's monarchy is being described.

CULTURES

• Relating Cultural Practices to Perspectives: Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the marriage and political practices and perspectives of Saudi Arabia and the Arab world.

CONNECTIONS

• Making Connections: Learners build, reinforce, and expand their knowledge of history (WW I, Ottoman Empire, British Empire) the while using the language to develop critical thinking.

COMPARISONS

• Cultural Comparisons: Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the Saudi culture and their own.

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KNOWLEDGE CONSTRUCTOR

Students build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems.

• Students will achieve this by exploring the issue of how marriage and kinship aliances have impacted political appointments to key positions which in turn have hugely impacted recent Saudi foreign and domestic policy.

CULTURAL COMPARISONS

Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.

• Students will examine how a different family structure from what is the norm in the western world has assisted the political purpose of building a modern nation state ruled by a centralized authority.

Activities

Student Instructions