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Land of Extremes—Morocco © January 2017 Contents Teacher’s Guide People, Places, and Cultures MAGAZINE ARTICLES Morocco: A Land of Extremes 8 Expository Nonfiction 1200L The Tastes of Morocco 12 Expository Nonfiction 1050L The Power & Beauty of Moroccan Mint Tea 16 Expository Nonfiction 1150L Human Versus Desert: The Marathon des Sables 18 Expository Nonfiction 1120L Mosques, Medinas, and the Mahkama: Exploring Casablanca 22 Expository Nonfiction 1260L Believer to Believer: The King Hassan II Mosque 26 Expository Nonfiction 1170L Temporary Tattoos: Henna-Style 29 Expository Nonfiction 1070L The Date Palm: More Than Just a Tree 30 Expository NonfictionBeliever 1210L to Believer pg. 26 • The Strait of Gibraltar pg. 36 Family Life 34 Expository NonfictionLAND 1130L OF EXTREMES: MOROCCO Let’s Speak Moroccan! 38 Expository Nonfiction 880L A Pound of Flesh 42 Play/Folktale 930L Faces: Land of Extremes—Morocco © January 2017 Contents Teacher’s Guide for Faces: OVERVIEW People, Places, and Cultures Land of Extremes—Morocco In this magazine, readers will learn how physical Using This Guide 2 and human characteristics Skills and Standards Overview 3 have shaped Believer to Believer pg. 26 • The Strait of Gibraltar pg. 36 LAND OF EXTREMES: MOROCCO Moroccan culture. Faces: Land Article Guides 4 of Extremes— Morocco includes information about Morocco’s physical geography, natural and Cross-Text Connections 15 man-made resources, and religion, as well as the people who live there. Mini-Unit 16 Graphic Organizers 19 Appendix: Meeting State and National Standards 21 ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How have physical and human characteristics of place shaped Moroccan culture? 1 Faces: Land of Extremes—Morocco © January 2017 Using This Guide We invite you to use this magazine as a flexible teaching tool, ideal for providing interdisciplinary instruction of social studies and science content as well as core literacy concepts Find practical advice for teaching individual articles or use a mini-unit that helps your students make cross-text connections as they integrate ideas and information READ INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES PAGES 4 – 14 Each article in this magazine is well-suited for teaching literacy concepts and content area knowledge For each individual article in this guide, you’ll find the following: Prepare to Read Essential Question CCSS Speaking and Listening 1, 2, 4 Content Concepts C3 Framework for Social Studies Close Reading and Text Analysis Next Generation Science Standards CCSS Reading 1-10 Key Vocabulary Writing/Speaking and Listening CCSS Reading 4 CCSS Writing 1, 2, 3 & 6 CCSS Speaking and Listening 1, 2, 4 TEACH A MINI-UNIT PAGES 16-18 SOCIAL Magazine articles can easily be grouped to make cross-text STUDIES connections and comparisons Our Mini-Unit allows students to read and discuss multiple articles and integrate ideas and information (CCSS Reading 9) Discussing multiple articles (CCSS Reading 9) prepares students to write texts to share and CORE publish in a variety of ways (CCSS Writing 2) LITERACY ARTICLES 2 Faces: Land of Extremes—Morocco © January 2017 Skills and Standards Overview Essential Question: How have physical and human characteristics of place shaped Moroccan culture? MAGAZINE CORE CONTENT LITERACY CORRESPONDING CCSS ARTICLES CONCEPT SKILLS ANCHOR STANDARDS Morocco: A Land of A single region can display • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 5 & 7 Extremes great diversity in physical • Analyze Text Structure Speaking & Listening 1 & 4 Expository Nonfiction geography • Interpret Visual Information • Collaborate The Tastes of Morocco The cuisine of a region is • Close Reading Reading 1, 3, 4 & 8 Expository Nonfiction determined by available • Interpret Figurative Writing 2 resources and cultural Meaning influences of the past • Evaluate Evidence • Create a Menu The Power and Beauty of Cultural practices are affected • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6 Moroccan Mint Tea by the history of a region • Analyze Mood Writing 2 & 7 Expository Nonfiction • Determine Point of View • Research and Write an Essay Human Versus Desert: The Geographic features inhibit/ • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 4 & 8 Marathon des Sables facilitate the movement of • Evaluate Evidence Speaking & Listening 5 & 8 Expository Nonfiction people • Analyze Text Structure • Give a Speech Mosques, Medinas, and Cultural practices are affected • Close Reading Reading 1, 3, 7 & 8 the Mahkama: Exploring by environmental and physical • Interpret Visual Writing 1 Casablanca characteristics of places Information Expository Nonfiction • Evaluate Evidence • Write an Op-Ed Believer to Believer: The Cultural practices are affected • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6 King Hassan II Mosque by the dominant religion of a • Interpret Figurative Writing 2 Expository Nonfiction region Language • Determine Author’s Purpose • Write an Expository Essay Temporary Tattoos: Henna- Human activities affect the • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Style cultural characteristics of • Analyze Word Choice Writing 2 Expository Nonfiction places and regions • Write a Business Plan The Date Palm: More Than Patterns of food consumption • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 4 & 6 Just a Tree are influenced by the available • Interpret Figurative Speaking & Listening 1 Expository Nonfiction resources in a region Meaning • Determine Point of View • Collaborate Family Life Cultural practices are affected • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 5 & 8 Expository Nonfiction by the dominant religion of a • Evaluate Evidence Writing 2 region • Analyze Text Features • Write a News Article Let’s Speak Moroccan! Language helps distinguish one • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 5 & 6 Expository Nonfiction place from another • Analyze Text Structure Writing 1 • Determine Point of View • Write a Speech A Pound of Flesh Oral traditions reflect human • Close Reading Reading 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Play/Folktale characteristics of place • Analyze Mood Speaking & Listening 1 & 4 • Analyze Text Structure • Debate Comparing Texts: Reading 9 Mini-Unit: Reading 1, 2 & 3; Writing 2 3 Faces: Land of Extremes—Morocco © January 2017 ARTICLE: Morocco: A Land of Extremes Magazine pages 8-11, Expository Nonfiction MOROCCO: A LAND OF EXTREMES The markets of Marrakesh attracts millions of tourists each year. Mountain Region: Of Sweethearts and Snow Sports In northern and central Morocco, the Rif, Mid Atlas, High Atlas, and Anti-Atlas Mountains dominate the region. Berbers, a group of 1200 people who lived in Morocco long before The extreme differences in the geography of Morocco the Arabs and Europeans arrived, live in the mountains and herd sheep and goats for a living. Because it is difficult to find a spouse in isolated mountain villages, Berber men and women sometimes travel by donkey to a affect how its people live From the Sahara Desert to Fiancées Fair, such as the one held in Imilchil, in the High Atlas Mountains. This festival features speed dating with a traditional twist. With just one glance, men and women can tell a lot about each other. A woman who has been married before wears a pointed hood, A Berber woman attends snowcapped mountains, the Moroccan people adapt to while a woman who has not been married by Pat Betteley a fiancées fair in the High wears a rounded one, and men looking for Atlas Mountains. WHERE you live affects HOW you live. Morocco is divided into four regions that include brides wear white headdresses. The couples beautiful beaches, rugged mountains, rolling plains, and a wide swath of the Sahara Desert. meet and make a quick decision based partly on eye contact. All women dress alike in Plains Region: Colorful Bazaars striped blue capes, but they wear differing Marrakesh is a famous city in the central region Coastline Region: have been filmed on location in Morocco, such amounts of silver and amber beads to show of western Morocco. Long ago, it was a stopping the resources of each region to make a living Beach Lovers’ Delight as The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, The their wealth. Their engagement is blessed at point for camel caravan routes. Visitors to Marrakesh Stretching along the Mediterranean Sea in the Bourne Ultimatum, Gladiator, and Mamma Mia. the tomb of Saint Mehreni, and the couple (also called the “Red City” because the buildings are north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Why do movie producers choose Morocco? It rides off together on the man’s donkey. the color of orange-red paprika) feel as if they have coastline of Morocco is 1,140 miles long. Not is inexpensive to film there, the light is beautiful, Strange as it may sound, in northern stepped back in time. The souk, or marketplace, surprisingly, many people who live along the and the ancient buildings can stand in for many Africa, skiing and snowboarding are popular in Marrakesh is considered the best in the entire coast make a living in the fishing and tourist cultures throughout history. sports. Tourists enjoy hiking the snowy peaks country. Donkeys loaded with goods squeeze exile Score: exile industries. Also like Hollywood, California, Morocco’s in winter and spring to see Berber villages, through the market’s crowded, narrow lanes, which Morocco is well known in the film industry Atlantic coast is a surfer’s paradise, with plenty of sparkling waterfalls, and the Barbary macaques feature Berber rugs, shiny brass lamps, and food as “the Hollywood of North Africa.” Many movies waves to catch. in the wild. vendors at every corner. L 8 a99 ESSENTIAL PREPARE TO READ QUESTION Show students a physical map of Morocco Have students make How have physical and human characteristics of predictions about
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