RAK Culture

Make a padlet about culture in RAK.

Use the Discussion questions from task 7 in the textbook as your guide.

You have 10 minutes to make this padlet.

You must have at least six (6) slides with a sentence for each in your padlets.

Write sentences that include these phrases:

1)

traditional industry of RAK

modern day industry of RAK

2)

Young people from RAK (stay in/move to) _________ because

3)

a family tradition in RAK

(Nuclear/extended) families are more popular in RAK because

young people in RAK like to

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Email your teacher your padlet link. If you had a partner, include your partners name in the email.

Culture list

Make a list a list of different arts, beliefs, customs, and traditions within the following cultures:
My Family	RAK	Emirati	GCC	Arabic	World

Brief Writing Task: 
Choose one of the items from the list you made about your family's, RAK, or Emirati culture
and describe how it is different from another location.

Unit 1 Project: Animals in UAE

For this mini-project you will: 1) Make a Padlet about an animal in the UAE. 2) Make a poster about the animal (using powerpoint, keynote, or another image making app.) *** When finished, you will email your teacher your padlet link and a flipsnack link of your poster. Include your ST number and your class number. For your topic, you have two options:
Animal 1:	Animal 2:
Choose an endangered species native to the UAE:  Helpful sites: Pictures: Arkive.org/uae/ Info:  Timeoutabudhabi.com Info: Wikipedia List You will have to google for more information.	Choose an exotic animal that is held as a pet in the UAE. Helpful sites: UAE bans Import of Exotic Pets Dark Side of UAE's Exotic Animals CNN's Endangered Animal Pets You will have to google for more information.
Part 1: Make a Padlet with three (3)  pictures and three (3) paragraphs. An Example Padlet can be found here: Padlet.com/wall/a9l41kx4svm5
The text for Animal 1 Picture A must answer these questions: What is the animal’s conservation status? Is it known how many live in the wild? If so, how many? What is the animals natural habitat? What is causing the animal to be endangered? Find a picture of the animal in its natural habitat.	The text for Animal 2 Picture A must answer these questions: What is the animal’s conservation status? Is it known how many live in the wild? If so, how many? What are some countries where the animal naturally lives? What is difference between the animal’s natural habitat and the UAE? Find a picture of the animal in its natural habitat.
The text for Animal 1 Picture B must answer these questions: What is the animal’s average size? What does the animal eat for its diet? What makes the animal unique? Why do you think people care about this animal? Find a picture of that shows the animal’s size, diet, or what makes it unique.	The text for Animal 2 Picture B must answer these questions: What is the animal’s average size? What is the animal's natural diet? What does it eat as a pet? What makes the animal unique? Why do you think people want this animal as a pet? Find a picture of the animal eating or doing something special.
The text for Animal 1 Picture C must answer these questions: What is being done to protect the animal? What do you think the UAE government should do? What could you do to help conserve or protect the animal? Find a picture of the animal being protected or in captivity.	The text for Animal 2 Picture C must answer these questions: Are you for or against people about keeping this animal as a pet? Why? What do you think the government should do about this issue? Why? Find a picture of the animal as a pet.
Part 2: Make a poster  (using powerpoint, keynote, or another image making app.) Include a picture with your poster.
Make poster encouraging people to protect the endanger animal.  Your poster must briefly say: *what makes the animal special *what is the problem/why is it endangered *how can people help.	Option 1) Make a poster encouraging people to keep an exotic animal as a pet. Your poster must briefly say: *what makes the animal special, *what the animal needs to live * why people should have an exotic animal as a pet. Option 2) A poster encouraging people to not keep an exotic animal as a pet. Your poster must briefly say: *what makes the animal special, *what the animal needs to live * what should be done so people will not have these animals as pets.
Animal Poster Example:	Animal Poster Example:
Save the keynote or powerpoint file as a pdf or jpg then upload it to flipsnack.com You must  register in flipsnack.com   Send your teacher the flipsnack link and the padlet link. Include your ST number and your class number. Troubleshooting: If you accidentally close your padlet window, then search your web browser history for padlet. You will find the link. DO NOT EMAIL  a PDF. Only email a padlet link or a flipsnack link.

compare review

Write the correct form of the adjective (______er, more _______, ____ier)

1: Giraffes are (tall) than humans.
Comparative form:

2: The monkey is (dangerous) than the hamster.
Comparative form:

3: Puppies are (cute) than kittens.
Comparative form:

4. Bears are (angry) than.
Comparative form:

5. It is (difficult) to fight a kangaroo than a koala.
Comparative form:


Fill in the sentence with the correct word. Both or Neither.

6. _____ kangaoos and koala live in Australia.

7. _____ an ostrich or a penguin can fly.

8. _____ leopards and jaguars are cats.

9. _____ kolas or pandas are bears.


Whereas or But?


10. Polar bears are white, ______ grizzly bears are brown.

11. Elephants have tusks, ______ rhinos have horns.

12. Bears like to eat meat, _____ bears will eat anything.

13. Kangaroos have long tails, ____ rabbits have long ears.

14. Most mammals don’t lay eggs, _____ the platypus lay eggs.

15. Sharks eat humans, _____ humans eat shark.

Unit 1 Homework: Compare/Contrast animals

Write a 200 word essay comparing and contrasting two animals from one of posted the videos.

With a partner, use https://TitanPad.com/ 

You must include
* an introduction about the two animals
* a paragraph about size, shape, color (w/ specific details)
* a paragraph about diet, behavior, conversation status
(w/ specific details)
* a conclusion of what opinion you can draw from comparing the animals
 * comparative language ([adjective]-er than, more [adjective] than, whereas, both, neither)

Both you and your partner must sign your names into TitanPad.

Each team will have their unique animal pairing.

You may use Google, Wikipedia, or Diffen.com to search for information about each animal. However, you may not copy and paste.

Use the Whale and Tiger Shark essay from the packet as an example. An example of that essay is below the videos at the bottom of this page.

To turn in this assignment, email your https://TitanPad.com  link to your teacher. Make sure you include both your name and your partner's name.

1) Animal Face-Off: Elephant vs. Rhino	2) Animal Face-Off: Polar Bear vs. Walrus
3) Animal Face-Off: Hippo vs. Bull Shark	4) Animal Face-Off Bear vs Tiger
5) Animal Face-Off: Lion vs. Crocodile	6) Animal Face-Off: Wolf vs. Cougar
7) Animal Face-Off: Gorilla vs. Leopard	8) Animal Face-Off: Croc vs. Great White
9) Animal Face-Off: Alligator vs. Black Bear	10) Animal Face-Off: Anaconda vs. Jaguar

EXAMPLE ESSAY

Introductory paragraph: The diagram gives information about two kinds of large tropical shark, the whale shark and the tiger shark.

Body paragraph 1: The sharks have a number of differences in terms of size, shape, and color. The whale shark is much larger than the tiger shark. It is six meters longer and 8.5 tonnes heavier. It is more than twice as long and weighs 18 times as much as its smaller cousin. Both sharks are blue with a white underbelly as well as similar in shape. However, their skin patterns are different. The whale shark has dots on its body, whereas the tiger shark has stripes.

Body paragraph 2: The sharks are also different in terms of diet, behavior, and conversation status. The whale shark eats very small animals like plankton and krill, whereas the tiger shark has a diet of large sea creatures, such as tuna, dolphins, and turtles. Tiger sharks attack humans because humans are nearly the same size as tiger sharks’ normal prey so they sometimes make a mistake. A whale shark is not very aggressive so that may be a reason why its conservation status is more endangered than the tiger shark.  

Concluding paragraph: Overall, it is clear that the whale shark is much larger animal, but it is a gentle giant, whereas the smaller tiger shark is much more dangerous.

COPY AND PASTE THE FOLLOWING INTO YOUR TitanPad

 Write a 200 word essay comparing and contrasting two animals from one of the Animal Face-off videos.


Step 1: Make a chart to organize information

                             Animal 1              Animal 2
Size:
Shape/Body:
Color:

Diet:
Behavior:
Conservation:


Step 2:  Make sure to find one or two similarities between the animals. Also, find one or two differences.

Step 3: Write comparative sentences about the animals.

Example: * The Whale shark is larger than the tiger.
                * Both sharks are blue with a white underbelly as well as similar in shape.
                * The whale shark eats very small animals like plankton and krill, whereas the tiger shark has a diet of large sea creatures, such as tuna, dolphins, and turtles.
                * Neither of the sharks are extinct however, the whale shark is endangered.

Step 4: Write intro an intro statement:

                    The video gives information about a face-off between two [adjective noun], the [Animal 1] and the [Animal 2].

Step 5:   Write body paragraphs.

Topic Sentence 1: 

The [Animal 1] and the [Animal 2]  have a number of differences in terms of size, shape, and color.

Include details and comparisons

Topic Sentence 2 : 

The [Animal 1] and the [Animal 2]  are also different in terms of diet, behavior, and conversation status.

Include details and comparisons

Step 6: Write conclusion.

In conclusion, it is clear that the [Animal 1 or 2] is much a [adjective] animal, whereas the [Animal 1 or 2] is much more [adjective]. In a fight between the two, [Animal 1 or 2] would win because it [reason]. 


  ESSAY: [Animal 1] vs [Animal 2]

Introductory paragraph:

Body paragraph 1: 

Body paragraph 2: 

Concluding paragraph: