1. Teacher Guide This lesson is designed to teach kids to ask a critical thinking question that you can’t just put into a search box to solve. To do that, we encourage them with smaller questions that search can help them answer. Make sure that you read the notes for each slide: they not only give you teaching tips but also provide answers and hints so you can help the kids if they are having trouble. Remember, you can always send feedback to the Bing in the Classroom team at BingInTheClassroom@Microsoft.com. You can learn more about the program at bing.com/classroom and follow the daily lessons on the Microsoft Educator Network. BingInTheClassroom@Microsoft.combing.com/classroomMicrosoft Educator Network Want to extend today’s lesson? Consider using Skype in the Classroom to arrange for your class to chat with another class in today’s location, take a Skype lesson on today’s topic, or invite a guest speaker to expand on today’s subject. And if you are using Windows 8, the panoramas in the MSN Travel App are great teaching tools. We have thousands of other education apps available on Windows here. Skype in the Classroom another class take a Skype lesson invite a guest speaker MSN Travel App here Nell Bang-Jensen is a teacher and theater artist living in Philadelphia, PA. Her passion for arts education has led her to a variety of roles including developing curriculum for Philadelphia Young Playwrights and teaching at numerous theaters and schools around the city. She works with playwrights from ages four to ninety on developing new work and is especially interested in alternative literacies and theater for social change. A graduate of Swarthmore College, she currently works in the Artistic Department of the Wilma Theater and, in addition to teaching, is a freelance actor and dramaturg. In 2011, Nell was named a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and spent her fellowship year traveling to seven countries studying how people get their names. This lesson is designed to teach the Common Core State Standard: Reading—Informational Text CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.3CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.3Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.5CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.5 Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.9CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.9 Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

2. Using Morocco as an example, can you explain how the language spoken in a particular place can tell us about its history? © Art Wolfe/Mint Images

3. Some might imagine that a hot-air balloon ride would be the ideal way to travel through the Dadès Gorges in Morocco. Sounds lovely to us, anyway. But with a road like this, just driving the mountain pass gives a travel experience like few others. At the bottom of the valley lies the Dadès River, and to the north is Marrakesh. Between them lie the rust-toned slopes of the Atlas Mountains. Along this highway, full of hairpin turns to make the switchbacks, small Amazigh (Berber) villages host markets where an adventurous traveler can try local food and see creations of the local craftspeople. Using Morocco as an example, can you explain how the language spoken in a particular place can tell us about its history?

4. 1 Web Search/Thi nking Does the United States have an official language? Why do you think this is? 2 Web Search What is the official language of Morocco? 3 Web Search What languages are spoken in Morocco? 4 Web Search/Thi nking Why do people speak French in Morocco? 5 Web Search/Thi nking What does it mean for a language to be an official language? Using Morocco as an example, can you explain how the language spoken in a particular place can tell us about its history?

5. 5 Minutes Using Morocco as an example, can you explain how the language spoken in a particular place can tell us about its history?

6. 1 Web Search/Thi nking Does the United States have an official language? Why do you think this is? 2 Web Search What is the official language of Morocco? 3 Web Search What languages are spoken in Morocco? 4 Web Search/Thi nking Why do people speak French in Morocco? 5 Web Search/Thi nking What does it mean for a language to be an official language? Using Morocco as an example, can you explain how the language spoken in a particular place can tell us about its history?

7. 1 Web Search/Thi nking Does the United States have an official language? Why do you think this is? Using Morocco as an example, can you explain how the language spoken in a particular place can tell us about its history?

8. 2 Web Search What is the official language of Morocco? Using Morocco as an example, can you explain how the language spoken in a particular place can tell us about its history?

9. 3 Web Search What languages are spoken in Morocco? Using Morocco as an example, can you explain how the language spoken in a particular place can tell us about its history?

10. 4 Web Search Why do people speak French in Morocco? Using Morocco as an example, can you explain how the language spoken in a particular place can tell us about its history?

11. 5 Web Search/Thi nking What does it mean for a language to be an official language? Using Morocco as an example, can you explain how the language spoken in a particular place can tell us about its history?