Oil Brings Changes to the Middle East

Today you will use Journal Entry #11 to help you review for your Unit Test. At the end of this lesson, you will answer 5 questions that will be a formative quiz grade.

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You can do this! You are super smart students!

​Middle East Test Review

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Let's review

What you should know...

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​Journal Entry #11 Article

​Journal Entry #11 Graphic Organizer

​On a PINK Sheet

​From the article, we learned a lot about oil in the Middle East

Look at paragraph #1 in the article "Oil Brings changes to the Middle East".

​We read about a grandfather and grandson both living in the Middle East. This passage explains how life has changed between 1940 and 1980.

Multiple Choice

Which statement explains how advancement in technology changed or influenced life in the Middle East?

• Modes of transportation changed from riding animals to gasoline powered vehicles, trains, boats and planes.

• People now have advanced degrees from colleges which allows them to be qualified for modern jobs.

• Military weapons changed from swords and crossbows to semi-automatic weapons and jet fighters.

• All of these thoughts are correct.

If you answered

all are correct....you chose the right answer!

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Now, on the back of your graphic organizer, write these notes:​

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​Changes to the Middle East:

Modes of transportation

​Higher education access

Improved military weapons​

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​Now, look at Paragraph #2:

​"In 1960 a trade organization called the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was formed by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

Paragraph #2 and #3 were about OPEC. We also watched a video about this organization.

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Highlight this sentence in Paragraph #2:​

"Oil was not only improving the Middle East’s standard of living, but building the fast-growing economies of Japan, Europe and the United States."​

Multiple Choice

Based upon these paragraphs, why was OPEC formed and what is its job?

• OPEC was formed to control the price of oil

• OPEC was formed to protect Middle Eastern countries from being taken advantage of by the US and other countries.

• Countries joined OPEC to provide a united group to protect from a country declaring war to get oil.

• All of these thoughts are correct.

​Yes!

All of those are the reasons that OPEC was created.​

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Reasons OPEC was formed:

1. to control the price of oil

2. to protect Middle Eastern countries from being taken advantage of

3. to keep a country from declaring war to get oil

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Multiple Choice

What type of governing body is OPEC?

• communist

• Confederation

If you answered

confederation....you chose the right answer!

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Now, on the back of your graphic organizer, write this sentence:

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OPEC is a confederation

A group of people with the same belief​ or goals

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Now, back to the article

Find the last paragraph on the back of the pink page:

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It looks like this:

4. "Iran had been ruled since 1941 by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi."​

Show me a thumbs up sign when you find it

​Highlight the LAST SENTENCE of the passage:

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"They then placed an embargo against the US and Great Britain.​"

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Multiple Choice

How would an Iranian embargo on the US increase the oil prices and cause an oil shortage in the US?

• The Iranian government wanted to sell more oil to the US

• The US would have to do without.

• There would be less oil, thus causing prices to rise

• Terrorism started from Iran against the US

​Yes!

rising prices

was the correct answer​

​Now, on the back of your graphic organizer, write these notes:​

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​​An Iranian embargo on the U.S. would create:

less oil

rising prices

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​Now you are ready to take your quiz!

Put #11 back in your notebook

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Go to the Homework Assignment for 9/12 and answer the 5 questions. You have multiple attempts. Good luck!​