Today we completed our look at the contributions of Islam. We picked the six things which are most important to us today and ranked them 1 - 6. We then put this ranking on a spectrum from Most important to Least important.

For our Warm up we answered these three questions:

1. How did Muslims modify the land to adapt to the climate?
2. What is not allowed in Islamic Art?
3. What unified the Muslim empires?

In class we completed page 66 in our ISN.

Do Not Forget That We Have a Test

Tomorrow!

We continued our study of the contributions of Islam to civilization .

For our warm up we read sections 10.6 through 10.8.

In class we worked in partners to examine the placards around the room and write about them.

Some of the topics were:

1. Calligraphy
2. Geography and Navigation
3. Irrigation
4. Literature
5. Math
6. Medicine
7. Music
8. Polo
9. Zoology

For First and Fifth periods the homework was to answer all f the essential questions.

Many of the things we take for granted come from the worlds of Islam. From Math to Astronomy, from chess to medicine.

For our warm up we read 10.3 - 10.5

Then we discussed the following picture from a Medieval Arabic text.

Chess: Placard A, Section 10.10.

We them broke into partners and circulated around the room examining the other placards. We worked on pages 62 through 65 in the ISN: Reading Notes 10.

So far in unit two we have studied the geography of Arabia, the life of Muhammad, and the teachings of Islam. Now we are going to explore how the ideas and inventions from the Islamic world during the Middle Ages traveled through out the world, and how we use them today.

For our warm up we created a study guide from the key terms and the essential questions.

In class we did The Prereading Questions for chapter ten. We also defined the key terms.