Regional Study: Africa and the Middle East: Social Studies Unit 7, Grade 9 (Letters & Devotion)

Description

Regional Study: Africa and the Middle East is Unit 7 of World Geography: Physical Systems, Human Patterns, and Regions (Grade 9), the Letters & Devotion Social Studies course, complete in one printable PDF: 11 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 97 pages.

• Physical geography and resource distribution of Africa and the Middle East (Sahara, Sahel, oil reserves)
• Colonial partition (Berlin Conference) and resulting arbitrary borders
• The two-link causal chain from colonial-era decision to post-independence conflict trigger
• Divergent post-independence outcomes despite similar colonial histories
• Rentier states and the resource curse
• Rentier-state mechanism applied to an untaught Middle Eastern case
• The colonial-boundary-to-conflict causal mechanism applied to a genuinely novel country case
• The selective framing of Africa and the Middle East through conflict coverage and who benefits from that frame
• Regional organizations (African Union, Arab League)
• Voluntary regional integration (AU) as a structural contrast to imposed colonial partition
• The full causal-chain-and-resource-evaluation case study across two regions

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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