December 19th
Warm Up:
Write down these questions on an odd numbered page in your notebook
to answer them while watching the movie.
Title: EGYPT
1. What continent is Egypt on?
2. What river flows throughout Egypt?
3. Who was in charge in Egypt?
4. Does Egypt have a social structure similar to Mesopotamia?(draw the pyramid and try to place the different classes that you see and hear)
Prince of Egypt -the movie
Egypt-documentary
Essential Question: What do we know about Ancient Egypt?
Reflection: Can we learn from movies?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
December 18th
Warm Up:
Review on Mesopotamia
Essential Question: How has my knowledge and understanding of Social Studies increased? Why do we need to know about the past?
Take out all the work that we have done on Mesopotamia:
Mesopotamia Picture Dictionary
Geography of Mesopotamia
Was Sumer a civilization?
Mesopotamia's Contributions and Achievements
The Code of Hammurabi
Test-booklet filled out by using notes
HW: None
Reflection: How should I make next quarter better in Social Studies?
December 17th
Warm Up: Homework on the desk.
Achieve 3000-Mailbox/ Email/Article: "Found:Riches From a Queen"; "Ancient Middle East:What's under the sand"
Discovery education
Student Log In: Username: Student#_cms
Password: Student#
Techbook: WORLD HISTORY
Unit 2 ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS(c3500-300 BCE)
Chapter 3 Mesopotamia
3.2 Mesopotamian Society: HOW DID RELIGION AND GENDER INFLUENCE MESOPOTAMIAN SOCIETY?
Answer these questions: 1. What is polytheism? 2. What were the religious monuments in the center of the city-states called? 3. Why did their temples have steps on the side? 4. What is the Sumerian story of the the Great Flood? 5. How was Mesopotamian society divided? 6. What do artisans do? 7. What do merchants do? 8. What do scribes do? 9. Were Mesopotamian women taught how to read and write?
Warm Up:
Write down these questions on an odd numbered page in your notebook
to answer them while watching the movie.
Title: EGYPT
1. What continent is Egypt on?
2. What river flows throughout Egypt?
3. Who was in charge in Egypt?
4. Does Egypt have a social structure similar to Mesopotamia?(draw the pyramid and try to place the different classes that you see and hear)
Prince of Egypt -the movie
Egypt-documentary
Essential Question: What do we know about Ancient Egypt?
Reflection: Can we learn from movies?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
December 18th
Warm Up:
Review on Mesopotamia
Essential Question: How has my knowledge and understanding of Social Studies increased? Why do we need to know about the past?
Take out all the work that we have done on Mesopotamia:
Mesopotamia Picture Dictionary
Geography of Mesopotamia
Was Sumer a civilization?
Mesopotamia's Contributions and Achievements
The Code of Hammurabi
Test-booklet filled out by using notes
HW: None
Reflection: How should I make next quarter better in Social Studies?
December 17th
Warm Up: Homework on the desk.
Achieve 3000-Mailbox/ Email/Article: "Found:Riches From a Queen"; "Ancient Middle East:What's under the sand"
Discovery education
Student Log In: Username: Student#_cms
Password: Student#
Techbook: WORLD HISTORY
Unit 2 ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS(c3500-300 BCE)
Chapter 3 Mesopotamia
3.2 Mesopotamian Society: HOW DID RELIGION AND GENDER INFLUENCE MESOPOTAMIAN SOCIETY?
Answer these questions: 1. What is polytheism? 2. What were the religious monuments in the center of the city-states called? 3. Why did their temples have steps on the side? 4. What is the Sumerian story of the the Great Flood? 5. How was Mesopotamian society divided? 6. What do artisans do? 7. What do merchants do? 8. What do scribes do? 9. Were Mesopotamian women taught how to read and write?
December 16th
Warm Up:Imagine you were a leader and had a law against cheating on homework…What would your law be? What would the punishment be for breaking this law? What do they think you are looking at in the image? Do you know what language it was written in? |
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Essential Question: How does Hammurabi's Code of laws represent the time it was made in?
Take notes: Who was he? What did he do? When did he live? Where did he post his laws? Why were the laws so important? Who had to abide by the laws?
Code of Hammurabi
Babylonian society
Laws and government
Hammurabi's Code of law
Homework: Write 5 laws for your bedroom that everyone in your house has to abide by. Write down the punishments for those that break your laws.
Reflection: Why are laws important?
Take notes: Who was he? What did he do? When did he live? Where did he post his laws? Why were the laws so important? Who had to abide by the laws?
Code of Hammurabi
Babylonian society
Laws and government
Hammurabi's Code of law
Homework: Write 5 laws for your bedroom that everyone in your house has to abide by. Write down the punishments for those that break your laws.
Reflection: Why are laws important?
December 15th
Warm Up:
Think-Pair-Share:
1. What is a contribution?
2. What is an achievement?
Each student will write an analogy. (A contribution is like…)They will share answers with class.
Essential Question: How did the environment influence the development of the Mesopotamian technology?
Technology breakthroughs
3d Printing
Web Quest: Log in to Discovery Education
ID: Student#_cms
Password: Student#
Social Studies techbook/ Unit 2 Ancient Civilizations/ Chapter 3 Mesopotamia/ 3.3 Mesopotamian innovations and contributions
Primary Sources
Mesopotamia contributions and achievements