1. Monday, October 3  DO NOW  Have out textbook and ISN.  JOURNAL  You live in a town in Arabia, in a large merchant family. Your family has grown rich from selling goods brought by traders crossing the desert. Your house is larger than most others in town, and you have servants to wait on you. Althought many townspeople are poor, you have always taken such differences for granted. Now you hear that some people are saying rich people should give money to the poor. How might your family react to this idea?

2. Tuesday, October 4  DO NOW  Have out textbook and ISN opened to yesterday’s Geo Challenge JOURNAL  None

3. Today’s Agenda  Work with a partner on Geography Challenge  Page 40-41 in ISN  Use “cards” to answer questions on page 40 and mark items on the map on page 41  If time, complete Preview 7 on page 43

7. Getting Started  Discuss adaptations-Preview & Environments  Read 7.1page 75  Discuss graphic organizer  Read 7.2 page 76

8. Wednesday, Oct 5th   Answer the following questions, in complete sentences, in your journal:   1. What does it mean to adapt?   2. What is a Caravan?   3. Why is the Arabian Peninsula a peninsula and not an island?   4. Arabia's position made it important for what activity?

9. Chapter 7  You will learn about the geography of the Arabian Peninsula and how the Arab people adapted to it. You will participate in an activity to examine four environments – the desert, oases, coastal plains and mountains. You will discover how they affected ways of life on the Arabian Peninsula.

10. Preview  Complete the map on page 43

11. Preview  What if you came to class each day and had to work with little to no light?  No excuses… Just had to do it.  Your grade depends on it.  How might you change your behavior to be successful? What might you bring to class to help you with a task like the one you just tried to complete?

12. Adaptation  What does this word mean?  This will be a key concept in this chapter to explore specific places and time

14. Arabian Peninsula  Keeping the picture you just saw in mind….  Where was this taken from?  What geographic features can you see?  What part of the world is this picture of?

15. Arabian Peninsula  Keeping the picture you just saw in mind….  People on Arabian Peninsula live in a challenging environment that has required

16. Sections 1 and 2 Reading Check  Some people call Arabia, al-Jazeera which means “The Island” – why is Arabia a peninsula rather than an island?   What did Arabia’s location make it important for? (what activity? – people cam through there to do what?)   What does it mean to adapt?   What are the 2 bodies of water that surround Arabia?

17. Bellringer 10-8-09  What is a caravan?

23. Friday, October 7 Journal  Name two adaptations used in the desert environment.

30. Monday, October 10  Describe 2 adaptations in the Oases environment – try not to use your book