Achieve 3000: Complete at home if undone.
One Smart Bird

Achieve 3000 to be finished if not completed in class.
The title of the article is:
My World in Words

Homework:  Achieve 3000

Ancient Greece and Rome: RIP, Western Roman Empire

Please submit your Egypt Project Form by November 9 (Thursday).

Homework:  Finish Achieve 3000

P6
Article Name:

U.S. History...in Germany

P 2 and P 4
Article Name:

A New Dinosaur Family Tree?

Homework: Achieve 3000
Article :

China: What Qianlong Left Behind

Please make sure that you have these notes for Unit 1 Section 2 Mesopotamia Civilization
Note:  Because students did a project for this section, the notebook was not checked.  This section is being scored with Unit1 Section 3.

Sargon
Conquered all of Mesopotamia creating the first world’s empire

Hammurabi

• King of Babylonia
• Developed law code

civilization

Society that has cities, organized government,

art, religion, class divisions, and

a writing system.

irrigation

Watering plants through

• Dams and channels
• Walls, waterways and ditches

city-state

Sumerians protected city-states with mud-brick walls.

cuneiform

• Sumerian writing system
• Contains hundreds of wedge-shaped marks cut into damp clay tablets with sharp reeds

code

a set of laws or regulations

Mesopotamia

• Means the “land between rivers”
• Tigris River and Euphrates River

First Civilization

• Formed in river valleys
• Farming
• Fresh Water

Techonology

• Mathematical ideas: geometry, number system based on 60

(Thank you for 60 minutes in an hour!  And 360 degree circle!)

Quiz Monday - October 30

- content Unit 1 Section 3
- notebook will be scored for Unit 1 Section 3 and Unit 1 Section 2

Content of Unit 1 and Section 3

• King Nebuchadnezzar

                Of Chaldeans

province
Political district

caravan
Groups of traveling merchants (p. 146)

astronomer

• People who study the heavenly bodies
• Mapped the stars, the planets, and the phases of the moon

Assyrian

• Around 900 BC, started

       to conquer rest of Mesopotamia

Why Were the Assyrians So Strong?

• Iron weapons!!!
• Soft?
• Hittites develop iron technology
• Heat iron ore
• Hammer
• Rapidly cool

First library in Nineveh

Chaldeans Accomplishments

7 day week

• Chaldeans  with the Medes  defeat the Assyrian army
• Babylon Located on major trade route between Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf

Homework
Draw map on page 146 into notebooks.
- labels
- legend
- globe is extra credit
- color
- Tigris and Euphrates

If you did not finish Achieve 3000, please complete for homework:

The article name is

Bhutan Star

Homework: Finish Achieve 3000 article called
Ancient Middle East: A Sweet Find

My apologies to the 6th Period.  This HW does not apply to you.

Every Wednesday, the students do Achieve3000.  If the activity is not completed in class, then it becomes homework.  If the student does not have access to internet from home, then the student needs to work out Chromebook usage at school with the teacher.

Title for today:

Ancient Middle East: Will This Pyramid Draw Crowds?

Period 2 and 4
Students have selected topic and groups for a Mesopotamian presentation due October 9.
Notebooks will also be collected on October 9.  There will be no quiz on Unit 1 Section 2 because students will demonstrate knowledge with the project presentation.

Period 6  is currently behind in the curriculum.  This period has a due date of October 10.

• Mesopotamia
• Means the “land between rivers”
• Tigris River and Euphrates River
• Map on Page 144 (Homework)
• Map includes
• key
• labels
• color
• "the map"
• Globe is extra credit
• in notebook (can be on loose paper taped into notebook)
• use color pencil or crayon (no markers)

Unit 1 Section 2 Mesopotamian Civilization
Read pages 132 to 141.

Stone Age story is absolutely due on Friday (9/15) with no penalty.  After Friday, one point will be taken off.

NOTEBOOK COLLECTED on FRIDAY!!
Make sure your Cornell Notes are complete.

First Quiz on FRIDAY
The Quiz covers Unit 1 Section 1
Here are the facts on the quiz:   (In progress for update)

anthropologist    (page 123)
Scientist who focuses on human society


archaeologist   (page 123)
A scientist who hunts for evidence buried in the ground

artifact   (page 123)
Things made by humans like weapons and tools.

domesticate  (page 127)

Tame animal for human use

specialization  (page 131)

The development of different kinds of jobs

Lucy   (page 123)

Hominid found by American Donald Johanson.

Old Stone Age (Paleolithic)

• Early humans spent most of their time searching for food.
• The human artifacts marking the hunter-gatherer society are stone tools and weapons.

Why Was Farming Important?

Neolithic Age:  Agricultural Revolution   (page 127)

People began to farm, build communities, and trade.

The Growth of Villages:  Jericho   (page 130)

• Early human communities in the Middle East
• West Bank between what are now Israel and Jordan
• Dates back to about 8000 BC

The Growth of Villages:

Catal Huyuk  (chah*tahl hoo*yook)

(page 131)

• Well-known Neolithic community: early human communities in the Middle East.

Always check Cornell Notes (CN)

Writing Assignment (longer than 1 paragraph and less than 2 sides of binder paper)

1. Pick a Stone Age:  Paleolithic, Mesolithic, or Neolithic
2. Your character can be a man or woman.
3. Identify 3 facts from the textbook.  Make sure you know the page number.
4. Using all this information, write what the character did for a day on BINDER paper.
5. Grammar must be correct.  
6. The story has to be realistic to that Stone Age.
7. Provide 3 page numbers from the textbook.

For example, here is a start,

I am a man in the Paleolithic Age.  Today, I started the day with making a flint spearhead.  (p. 126)  I had a hard time finding a stone that I could use to chip the flint.

Check Cornell Notes (CN) every night.
Complete any missing sections:  questions and/or summary

If you missed class, please get the notes from another student or arrange a time for the teacher to give you the notes to copy.

Homework
Unit 1 Section 1
Read page 122-131

Shared with Period 4 on Aug 28, 2017

Quiz and notebook collection will be on May 26 (Friday).

Quiz Content
Confucius was ancient China’s first great thinker and teacher.

Daoism (also called Taoism) is based on the teachings of Laozi.  Laozi, or the Old Master, lived around the same time as Confucius.

Early Chinese society had three main social classes:

• landowning aristocrats
• peasant farmers
• merchants

filial piety -- Children had to respect their parents and older relatives.

Legalism -- they argued for a system of laws.

The family was the basic building block of Chinese society.

• Many began to look for ways to restore peace and order to society

Three major theories about how to create a peaceful society

• Confucianism
• Daoism
• Legalism

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Notebook Content

Completed ALL Cornell Notes

Life in Ancient China (page 285)

What was Life Like in a Chinese

Family? (page 286)

Chinese Thinkers (page 287)

The quiz Unit 5 Chapter 1 China's First Civilization
Quiz day: May 10 (Wednesday0
Facts for the Quiz
Huang He (Huang He)
Rich yellow soil carried from Mongolia to the Pacific Ocean

Anyang (p. 278)
First capital of China

Wu Wang
Aristocrat who led a rebellion against the Shang.

• Aristocrat
• Leads rebellion against Shang
• Begins new dynasty called Zhou

aristocrat (p. 279)
Nobles acquire wealth from land they owned

pictograph

Characters that stand for objects

ideograph (p. 280)-Join two or more pictographs to represent an idea.

mandate -A formal order

Who did the Shang worship? Ancestor or honor departed family members

The Mandate of Heaven gave a Zhou king the power to rule.

Period of the Warring States : Local Zhou rulers battle each other.

  (p. 282)

Homework: Shang Empire  

     (Worth 4 points + 1 Bonus point)

• Page 282
• Copy map into notebook
• Should look very similar
• Key/ Legend
• Do not need to copy globe inset
• Bonus 1 point for globe

Plan on quiz day to be Tuesday (May 9)

Homework

- Cornell Notes

- Second Map

• Worth 4 points
• Page 278
• Copy map into notebook
• Should look very similar
• Key/ Legend
• No globe necessary

• Check nightly whether you have Cornell Notes to complete.
• Map HW worth 11 points
• Draw map and label as seen on page 277
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Mongolia
  • Himalaya
  • China
  • Yellow River
  • Chang Jiang
  • Copy map into notebook
  • Should look very similar
•   No mountains drawing necessary
• Copy map into notebook
• Should look very similar
• No globe inset needed