Tomorrow, President Obama is going to be delivering a pretty big speech on what the US is going to do to try to take on ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria). This is the same group that has killed 2 American journalists over the past month and has killed thousands of people in Iraq and Syria in their quest to create a new Islamic country.
There's so much to learn about this topic, I thought we would start with a video that will probably raise more questions than answers, but that's ok!
Then, together in small groups, we're going to learn a bit more through a very cool website called vox.com
http://www.vox.com/cards/things-about-isis-you-need-to-know/what-is-isis
As a way to track questions and/or reactions, we're going to try something called a back channel. This is when you comment as you learn/read about the topic. The website that we will be using is called, Today's Meet.
https://todaysmeet.com/wmscurrentevents2
The idea is to use this space to: 1) ask questions, 2) react to what you are reading, 3)add details about what you know on the topic 4) react to others comments and ideas
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