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November 21st
Warm Up:
1. What is a civilization? How many elements can you name?
2. How do we know about early civilizations?
3. What do we learn from stories, poems, legends, documents?
Create a story or a poem about a superhero(name, upbringing, special skills or superpower, mission or quest, picture
Mesopotamia
Slide share
Epic of Gilgamesh-questions
November 20th
Warm Up:
1. What does B.C.E mean?
2. How do we use Timeline?
3. What is culture?
4. What is society?
5. What does it mean to be civilized?
5. What is a civilization?
On the next odd numbered page in your IN create this graph.
Vocabulary words
Match activity: match the definitions of the features of civilization and the pictures
Essential Question: What is a civilization? How are the elements of civilization the same and different than the elements of culture?
Homework: USA Civilization
Reflection: Is the USA a civilization? Why?
Warm Up:
1. What is a civilization? How many elements can you name?
2. How do we know about early civilizations?
3. What do we learn from stories, poems, legends, documents?
Create a story or a poem about a superhero(name, upbringing, special skills or superpower, mission or quest, picture
Mesopotamia
Slide share
Epic of Gilgamesh-questions
November 20th
Warm Up:
1. What does B.C.E mean?
2. How do we use Timeline?
3. What is culture?
4. What is society?
5. What does it mean to be civilized?
5. What is a civilization?
On the next odd numbered page in your IN create this graph.
Vocabulary words
Match activity: match the definitions of the features of civilization and the pictures
Essential Question: What is a civilization? How are the elements of civilization the same and different than the elements of culture?
Homework: USA Civilization
Reflection: Is the USA a civilization? Why?
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November 19th
Warm Up: Study guide with answered questions on the desk!
10 minute review of your notes and answers.
Close notebooks! Pass the study guide to the teacher!
Do your best on the test!
When finished read independently and quietly!
Homework: None
Reflection: How did I do on the test? Should I have studied more?
Essential Question: Why was the establishment of agriculture an essential step in the development of civilization?
Words: Settlement, Resource, Barter, Specialization, Surplus, Social structure
Log on to Achieve 3000/ Open mailbox/ Email from Mrs. Strawn Nov. 16th/ Read article: "Earliest Peoples: Scientists Strike out gold"/Do the activities and thought question
Partner work: create a fact-filled “superhero” poster for the hominid group you find most interesting
Exit ticket
Homework: Study Guide
STUDY! STUDY! STUDY!
Reflection: What is a civilization?Game
Words: Settlement, Resource, Barter, Specialization, Surplus, Social structure
Log on to Achieve 3000/ Open mailbox/ Email from Mrs. Strawn Nov. 16th/ Read article: "Earliest Peoples: Scientists Strike out gold"/Do the activities and thought question
Partner work: create a fact-filled “superhero” poster for the hominid group you find most interesting
Exit ticket
Homework: Study Guide
STUDY! STUDY! STUDY!
Reflection: What is a civilization?Game
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November 17th
Warm Up: 1. What continent was inhabited last? a. Africa b.Australia c. Americas d. Europe 2. All of the earliest civilizations developed near which of these geographical feature? a. rivers b. mountains c. deserts d. peninsulas 3. The Paleolithic Era refers to the time people did what? a. mastered fire b. developed agriculture c. began to organize governments d. domesticated animals |
4. Which of the following describes the life of people in hunter- gatherers societies?
a. People spend all their time producing food b. There was job specializations because the men hunted c. People spend much of their time moving from a place to place d. population boomed because of the more plants and animals. 5. What was the greatest benefit when people began farming? a. more time to relax b. had a large supply of food c. better tasting food d. enough water for crops |
Essential Question: How do we learn about the Neolithic Revolution?
Interpret the sources: Document 1; Document 2; Document 3; Document 4
Glue the source in your notebook. Answer the question that comes with it?
Log on to Discovery Education/Social Studies Techbook/Chapter 2 Agriculture and Settlement/Neolithic Revolution
Quest: In what way did the agricultural revolution change human life?
Homework: Vocabulary words Myth, Cultural diffusion, Deity, Civilization, Aborigines
Reflection: Why we trust primary sources? How do we define REVOLUTION?