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Today in class my teacher told us that we were just typing in information to our blogs and not our opinions so he said instead of putting 5 of the most interesting things you’ve learned put 1 and write a paragraph about it.

1. Speaking Arabic means you are an Arab

I highly disagree with this so called fact because many people who were born raised and are purely American or European or even Chinese Speak Arabic but that doesn’t make them an Arab. My opinion of an Arab is someone that like i said before is from an Arabic country or your father or mother are from an Arabic country. I believe that you are from were you are from , not because you speak the language of the country but if it is in your blood and in your past. I believe that your Racial identity is not verified by the language you speak alone but by your heritage, culture and values in one personality.

My teacher assigned us another assignment to write five of the most interesting things we learned about so here are mine:

1. More then 20% of the former USSER were muslim.

2. Islam forbids eating pork.

3. Prophet Mohammad recieved revelations from God when he was 40.

4. Sufism is a branch of Islam.

5. The Chalif of Baghdad Almansoor had alot of space in his palace. Where he put Islamic art and furniture.

Today in class we played a game that gave us information about the Islamic empire my teacher asked me to list 5 of the most interesting things i learned so here they are

1. 1.4 million Arabs are Christians

2. Saudi Arabia was a natural trading center.

3. Arabs means lacking moisture

4. Arabs contributed 3 things to the society of education calligraphy numbers and art.

5. Back in the days of Prophet Mohammad  Iran  was called Persia

In Social Studies we have recently started the Islam unit. My teacher has given us some questions to answer the questions are…

1. What do you think about this coming unit?

I think this up coming unit is very interesting because i have never been taught Islam in this way . Actually doing the procedures of Haaj and trading and working to survive the way Muslims do to survive in a class room will be interesting.

2. What question do you have?

I have questions about what activities we will be doing in the class room ? and how this lesson will turn out?