• 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.