Monday, December 17, 2018

Activity for Week of December 17, 2018

Monday:  + Prove that you have notes from textbook 
                   or library book
                + Last day that class time will be used for research
       HW:  Cornell Notes (Due Tomato!!! 12/18)

Tuesday:  + Checking for vocabulary notes and collecting
                + U2S2 Vocab (Slide #8)

Wednesday:  + Cornell Notes U2S2 
                              Period 1&5 -Slide #11

Thursday:  + CN U2S2 
                     Period 5 - Slide #12
                  + Community Meeting

Friday: + CN U2S2 
                   Period 1 - Slide Slide #12

Monday, December 10, 2018

Activity for Week of December 10, 2018

Monday: + Period 1- Cornell Notes (Slide #36)
               + Period 5 CN U2S1 (Slide #37)

Tuesday: + Period 1- Working on project
               + Period 5 - Assigning projects

Wednesday:  Period 1 & Period 5: 
                      + Revisiting Bibliography
                      + In class research on project

Thursday:  + Community Meeting
                  + Period 1: Cartouche
                  + Period 5: Book research 

Friday:  Egypt's Ten Greatest Discoveries
Period 1 (53)
                  Period 5 (54)


Monday, December 3, 2018

Unit 2 will have no quizzes.
There will be a project.

Cornell Notes must still be completed.

U2S1 Notes


Table of content

Chapter 2: Ancient Egypt & Kush
Section 1:  The Nile Valley


=====item #1
Egypt

Land located in the green Nile River Valley
=====item #2
Nile River

  • On African continent
  • “Runs through a narrow, green valley”
=====item #3
cataract

Steep rapids formed by cliffs and boulders

in a river
========item #4
delta
Area of fertile soil at the mouth of a river
====item #5
hieroglyphics
A system of writing made up of picture symbols developed by the ancient Egyptians
======item #6
dynasty
line of rulers from the same family


Activity of the Week for December 3, 2018


Monday:  U2S1
                     Period 1- Cornell Notes (Slide #22)
                                    
                     Period 5- Cornell Notes (Slide #26) 

                                 Egypt - "The Gift of the Nile" (4 mins)


Tuesday: U2S1
                     Period 1- Cornell Notes (next Slide #28)
                                    
                     Period 5- Cornell Notes (Slide #30) 

                            Bonus Points:  Where is lower and upper

                                                           Egypt?
                                    (Write answer on paper.)

Wednesday: + George HW Bush and Half-staff
                    + U2S1
                            Period 1- Cornell Notes (Slide #28)
                               
                             Period 5- Cornell Notes (Slide #30) 

Thursday:  + Community Meeting
                  + U2S1 Period 5 CN (Slide #36)
                               Period 1- Cornell Notes (Slide #28)



Friday: 
               + Period 5 CN U2S1 (Slide #37)
               + Period 1 Pearl Harbor 
               
Sadly, the enrichment video is no longer available for free!
We cannot watch it!        
Period 1- Cornell Notes (Slide #17)
                                     Walking the Nile (Episode #1 27 mins)
                     Period 5- Cornell Notes (Slide #17)
                                     Walking the Nile (Episode #1 28 mins)

Monday, November 26, 2018

Activity for the Week of November 26, 2018

Monday:   + Previewed the Egypt project
                       Projects selection after Section 1 done
                   +  Begin vocabulary for Unit 2 Sec 1 
                         Period #1 - slide 3
                         Period #5 - slide 5

Tuesday:  U2S1 Vocab
                      Period #1 -- slide #11                  
                      Period #5 - slide #11

Wednesday: U2S1
                     Period 1- Cornell Notes (Slide #9)
                     Period 5- Cornell Notes (Slide #8)

Thursday: +Community Meeting
                 +Prepare for full lockdown drill

Friday: U2S1
                     Period 1- Cornell Notes (Slide #17)
                                     Walking the Nile (Episode #1 27 mins)
                     Period 5- Cornell Notes (Slide #17)
                                     Walking the Nile (Episode #1 28 mins)
            
                    

Thursday, November 15, 2018

U1S3 Quiz Content


Item #1
  • King Nebuchadnezzar

                Of Chaldeans
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Item #2
province
Political district
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Item #3
caravan
Groups of traveling merchants
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Item #4
astronomer
  • People who study the heavenly bodies
  • Mapped the stars, the planets, and the phases of the moon
====================

Item #5
The Assyrians
  • Around 900 BC, started
       to conquer rest of Mesopotamia
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Item #6
Why Were the Assyrians So Strong?
  • Iron weapons!!!
    • Soft?
    • Hittites develop iron technology
      • Heat iron ore
      • Hammer
      • Rapidly cool
==========
Item #7
First library in Nineveh

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Item #8
Chaldeans Accomplishments
7 day week
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Item #9
Chaldeans  with the Medes  defeat the Assyrian army

Babylon
Located on major trade route between Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf

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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Activity for the Week of November 12, 2018

Monday: Veteran Holiday

Tuesday: Substitute - Independent Work - Draw p. 146 map
                         Homework:  Complete map

Wednesday:  Period 5 - U1S3 (Slide #20)
                     Period 1 - U1S3 (Slide #20)

                     QUIZ:  Friday

Thursday:  Community Meeting -- Grateful
                  Post Quiz content

Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Activity for the Week of November 5, 2018

Monday:  Substitute
                Video on Hanging Garden 
                               (Stopped at 45mins)

Tuesday:  Period 5- Unit 1 Section 3 
                            Vocabulary (Slide #13)
             Period 1 - Unit 1 Section 3 
                            Vocabulary (Slide #12)

Wednesday: Period 5: Unit 1 Section 3 (Slide #13)
                                     Political Argument - done
                    Period 1: Political Argument - begin

Thursday:  Period 5 U1S3 (Slide #15)
                   Period 1: Political Argument - 
                                     Middle of Debate

Friday: Period 5 (U1S3 (Slide #18)
             Period 1: Political Argument - 
                                     Middle of Debate - End

Monday, October 29, 2018

Activity for week of October 29, 2018

Monday:  
        Period 1: Unit 1 Section 2 
                              Presentations begin
       Period 5:  Extra day for presentation project
                        (this class got project later)
                       Unit 1 Section 3 
                              Vocabulary (Slide #8)

Tuesday:  Unit 1 Section 2 Presentations
                (Both Periods)

Wednesday:  Unit 1 Section 2 Presentations
                Period 1: Unit 1 Section 3 
                              Vocabulary (Slide #4)
                Period 5: Unit 1 Section 3 
                              Vocabulary (Slide #8)

Thursday:  
Period 1:  Finished presentation
                              Unit 1 Section 3 
                              Vocabulary (Slide #?)
Period 5: Finished presentations
                                  Unit 1 Section 3 
                                  Vocabulary (Slide #9)
                               
Friday: Period 5- Unit 1 Section 3 
                            Vocabulary (Slide #12)
             Period 1 - Unit 1 Section 3 
                            Vocabulary (Slide #8)

                 

Monday, October 22, 2018

Activity for Week of October 22, 2018

Monday:  Project time in class
                 Project:  presentation 
                               start Monday  10/29

Tuesday:  Enrichment Video 
                       P5 stop 24:53
                       P1 stop 9:11 and then
                 class time for project 

Wednesday:  Quiz on Unit 1 Section 2
                         Enrichment Video 
                                P5 stop 27

Thursday:  Community Meeting
                   Enrichment Video
                         P5 stop 41
                         P1 stop 29

Friday:  Junior Achievement
              Last Day

Monday, October 15, 2018

Activity for Week of October 15, 2018

Monday:  Unit 1 Section 2 
                  Period 1: Slide 57
                  Period 5: Slide 62
                  HW for Period 5:  Select your team of
                              3-4 students only

Tuesday:  Unit 1 Section 2 
                 Period 1:  Slide 58
                 Period 5:  Slide 63
                                  Teams formed and topics
                                  assigned.
                HW for Period 5 :Presentation 
                       Project in 
                       Google Classroom.  Due Oct 26.

Wednesday:  Unit 1 Section 2
                      Period 1: Slide 63
                             HW:  Create groups of 4
                      Period 5: Done with slides
                      Quiz next week
                             Date announced when
                                    Period 1 is caught up.

Thursday:  Brief Community Meeting
                   Period 5:  Group project in class

Friday:  Project time in class

Monday, October 8, 2018

Activity for Week of October 8, 2018

Monday:  Unit 1 Section 2 
                Mesopotamia Civilization
                      Period 1:  Slide 53
                      Period 5:  Slide 56

Tuesday:  Substitute read with class
                       Unit 1 Section 2

Wednesday:   Unit 1 Section 2
                       Period 1: Slide 56
                       Period 5: Slide 57

Thursday:  Community Meeting

Friday:  Junior Achievement

Monday, October 1, 2018

Quiz U1S2 Content  -- In progress

Item #1
Sargon
Conquered all of Mesopotamia creating the first world’s empire
===============================

Item #2
Hammurabi

  • King of Babylonia
  • Developed law code
===================

Item #3
civilization

Society that has cities, organized government,

art, religion, class divisions, and

a writing system.

============================
Item #4

Irrigation


Watering plants through

  • Dams and channels
  • Walls, waterways and ditches
    (the bullets couldn't be removed...the app hangs)
  • =========
  • Item #5
  • city-state
  • Sumerians protected city-states with mud-brick walls.

===============================================

Item #6
cuneiform

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



================

Item #7

code
a set of laws or regulations

==============
Item #8
Mesopotamia

  • Means the “land between rivers”
    • Tigris River and Euphrates River
    ==============
    Item #9
    First Civilizations

    • Formed in river valleys
      • Farming
      • Fresh Water
      =========
      #10
      • Mathematical ideas: geometry, number system based on 60
      (Thank you for 60 minutes in an hour!  And 360 degree circle!)



Activity for the Week of October 1, 2018

Monday:  Unit 1 Section 2  finished vocabulary frontload
                 Started Cornell Notes

Tuesday:  Unit 1 Section 2 Cornell Notes (CN)
                 HW:  Complete CN
                           Copy map on page 144 as exact as possible
                                include labels and key
                                (globe is bonus point of 1)
                 Stopped at Slide 49  (Period 5)
                                   Slide 48  (Period 1)


Wednesday:  Show examples of maps in notebook
                      Unit 1 Section 2 Cornell Notes (CN)
                            Stopped at Slide 50 (Period 5)
                            Next Slide 50 (Period 1)
                      HW:  Complete CN

Thursday:  Community Meeting

Friday:  Junior Achievement

Monday, September 24, 2018

Activity for Week of  September 24, 2018

Monday:  Reviewed content of notebook
                The test was suppose to be today; however, I apologized
                that the content of the notebook was only put up today.
                The test is now TOMORROW.

                Check notebooks:  content, questions, and summary
                            Notebooks are due on TEST day.

Tuesday:  Test day

Wednesday: Unit 1 Section 2

Thursday: Community Meeting

Friday: Junior Achievment

Quiz Chapter 1 Section 1 -- Content

#1

anthropologist
Scientist who focuses on human society

==========================
#2
archaeologist
A scientist who hunts for evidence buried in the ground

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#3
artifact
Things made by humans like weapons and tools.

=========================
#4
domesticate
Tame animal for human use

=======================
#5
specialization
The development of different kinds of jobs

==========================
#6
Lucy
Hominid found by American Donald Johanson.

=============================
#7
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.

=============================
#8
Why Was Farming Important?

Neolithic Age:  Agricultural Revolution
People began to farm, build communities, and trade.

=======================
#9
The Growth of Villages:  Jericho
The Growth of Villages:
Catal Huyuk  (chah*tahl hoo*yook)
  • early human communities in the Middle East.


Thursday, September 20, 2018

Stone Age Story

  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.
  5. Grammar must be correct.  
(Extra Credit:  Picture included)
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.