Month: September 2014

Lesson Plan 9/29/2014-10/03/2014

Monday 9/29/14

Essential Question: How did geographic challenges lead to the rise of city-states in Mesopotamia?

Warm-Up: Channel One News Type 1 writing: Select 1 topic and write 3 details about it.

Key Content Terms: Mesopotamia, Euphrates River, Irrigation, Silt, Tigris River, Sumer, Levee, city-state

Activity:

  1. Preview Chapter 4 Type 1 Writing: Think of a recent problem you have faced and what you did to solve it.
  2. Define Key Content Terms in SS notebook.
  3. Read  History Alive! The Ancient World Chapter 4 Sections 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3 pages 32- 35.

– Section 4.2 Type 2 writing: List five words that characterize the geography of Mesopotamia. Explain which characteristic would pose the biggest challenge and why.

– Section 4.3  Type 2 Writing: Answer these questions using complete sentences:

  1. What were some advantages of living in the foothills of the Zagros Mountain?
  2. Describe the problem that occurred around 5000 B.C.E.
  3. How did farmers living in the foothills solve the food shortage?
  4. Who were the Sumerians?

Assessments:

  1. Key Content Terms
  2. Section 4.2 Type 2 Writing
  3. Section 4.3 Type 2 Writing                   

Tuesday 9/30/14

Essential Question: How did geographic challenges lead to the rise of city-states in Mesopotamia?

Warm-Up:Channel One News Type 1 writing: Select 1 topic and write 3 details about it.

Key Content Terms: Mesopotamia, Euphrates River, Irrigation, Silt, Tigris River, Sumer, Levee, city-state

 Activity:

  1. Review Key Content Terms.
  2. Read History Alive! The Ancient World Chapter 4 Sections 4.4, 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7 pages 36-39.

– Section 4.4 Type 2 Writing: Answer these questions using complete sentences:

  1. Why was it difficult to raise crops in Sumer?
  2. Describe the problem caused by an uncontrolled water supply.
  3. How did the Sumerians solve the problem of an uncontrolled water supply?
  4. Describe how Sumerian irrigation systems were built.
  5. In what other ways did the Sumerians control the water supply?

– Section 4.5  Type 2 Writing: Answer these questions using complete sentences:

  1. What new problems occurred after Sumerian farmers created irrigation systems?
  2. What could happen to an irrigation system that was not maintained?
  3. Why could Sumerian farmers no longer live apart, or in small groups?
  4. How did Sumerians keep their complex irrigation systems working?
  5. What was the long-term result of the Sumerians working together?

– Section 4.6 Type 2 Writing: Answer these questions using complete sentences:

  1. Why did Sumerian cities fight with each other?
  2. How did the physical geography of Sumer leave its cities unprotected?
  3. What did the Sumerians do to protect their cities?
  4. Why do historians call the cities of Sumer “city-states”?

Assessment:

  1. Class discuss on Key Content Terms
  2. Type 2 Writing: Section 4.4, 4.5, 4.6.

Homework: The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution

 

Wednesday 10/1/14

Essential Question: Why is an archaeologist’s job important?

Warm-Up: Channel One News Type 1 writing: Select 1 topic and write 3 details about it.

Key Content Terms: Mesopotamia, Euphrates River, Irrigation, Silt, Tigris River, Sumer, Levee, city-state

Activity:

  1. Read about British archaeologist Leonard Woolley in History Alive! The Ancient World p. 40-43. Type 2 Writing: Answer these questions using complete sentences:
  2. How was early 1900s archaeologist approach to research different from Leonard Woolley’s approach to research?
  3. How did Woolley and his team begin excavating the city of Ur? Why?
  4. What are some discoveries Woolley and his team made?
  5. What was Woolley’s Most Famous Discovery?
  6. Why were there many other bodies in the tombs?
  7. What happened after the expedition?
  8. What was Woolley’s major contributions toward us understanding Sumerian Life?
  9. What are the three stages archaeologists work through?
  10. Analyzing Artifacts Activity
  11. Personal Artifacts Type 1 Writing: List five personal artifacts that you own. Then write a paragraph describing one conclusion a future archaeologist might make about you. Details about the personal artifacts should strongly support the conclusion.

Assessment:

  1. Type 2 Questions
  2. Analyzing Artifacts Activity
  3. Type 1 Paragraph.

 

Thursday 10/2/14

Essential Question: How did geographic challenges lead to the rise of city-states in Mesopotamia?

Warm-Up:Channel One News News Type 1 writing: Select 1 topic and write 3 details about it.

Key Content Terms: Cuneiform, Papyrus

Activity:

  1. Mesopotamia Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle
  2. Mesopotamia Videos and Type 1 Notes
  3. Write a letter to your family answering How did geographic challenges lead to the rise of city-states in Mesopotamia? Answer the question using 4-5 sentences and then rewrite your letter in cuneiform.

Assessment:

  1. How did geographic challenges lead to the rise of city-states in Mesopotamia? Letter.

Homework: Mesopotamia 101

 

Friday 10/3/14

Essential Question:How did geographic challenges lead to the rise of city-states in Mesopotamia?

Warm-Up: Channel One News Type 1 writing: Select 1 topic and write 3 details about it.

Assessment: Chapter 4 Assessment.

Lesson Plans 9/22-9/26

Monday

Essential Question:

  1. What were the Advantages and Disadvantages of the Neolithic Revolution?
  2. What were the Causes and Effects of the Neolithic Revolution?

Warm-Up: Type 1 Writing- What do the words “Cause” and “Effect” mean? Give an example of a “Cause and Effect” situation.

 Vocabulary: Cause and Effect.

 Activity:

  1. Use Close Reading Strategies to read “The Neolithic Revolution Reading #1”
  2. Answer Text Based Questions.
  3. Use Close Reading Strategies to read “The Neolithic Revolution Reading #2”
  4. Create a Multi-Flow Map identifying the Causes and Effects of the Neolithic Revolution
  5. Watch Channel One News
  6. Type 1: Identify 1 topic from today’s Channel One News and write down 3 details about it.

 Assessment:

  1. Text Based Questions
  2. Multi-Flow Map

 

Tuesday

Essential Question: Why is the Neolithic Revolution considered the most important technological advancement ever?

Warm-Up: Type 1 Writing- What does domestication mean? Explain in 3-4 sentences.

Vocabulary: Domestication

 Activity:

  1. Vocabulary Map: Domestication
  2. Use Close Reading Strategies to read “The Neolithic Revolution”
  3. Type 1 Writing: Why did Agricultural Innovations lead to an increase in the world’s population?
  4. Use Close Reading Strategies to read “Nurishtar Invents the Ard”
  5. Answer Text Based Questions on “Nurishtar Invents the Ard”
  6. Watch  Channel One News
  7. Type 1: Identify 1 topic from today’s Channel One News and write down 3 details about it.

Assessment:

  1. Text Based Questions on “Nurishtar Invents the Ard”

 Homework: Should Cell Phones be Allowed in Schools?

 

Wednesday

Essential Question: How did people live during the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages?

 Warm-Up: Primary Source vs. Secondary Source

 Vocabulary: Primary Source, Secondary Source

Activity:

  1. Create a Comic Book  about a topic from this week: Early Hominids or the Paleolithic Age vs Neolithic Age.
  2. Watch  Channel One News
  3. Type 1: Identify 1 topic from today’s Channel One News and write down 3 details about it.

 Assessment:

  1. Comic Book

 

Thursday

Essential Question: How did people live during the Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages?

Warm-Up:    

  1. Watch  Channel One News
  2. Type 1: Identify 1 topic from today’s Channel One News and write down 3 details about it.

Activity:

  1. Chapter 3 Quiz
  2. Complete Comic Book

Assessment:

  1. Chapter 3 Quiz
  2. Comic Book

 Homework: Should Cell Phones be Allowed in Schools?

 

 

Friday

Essential Question: How do some people today try and live a “Paleolithic” style life?

 Warm-Up: “Should Cell Phones be Banned in School?” small Group Discussion.

Vocabulary: Paleofantasy, Paleomythic

 Activity:

  1. Use Close Reading Strategies to read “Paleomythic: How People Really Lived During the Stone Age”
  2. Identify the Topic, Main Ideas, and Supporting Details in “Paleomythic: How People Really Lived   During the Stone Age” by using a Tree Map.
  3. Watch Channel One News.
  4. Type 1 Writing: Identify 1 topic from today’s Channel One News and write down 3 details about it

 Assessment:

  1. Topic, Main Idea, Supporting Details Tree Map.

Lessons for 9/15-9/18

Monday September 15, 2014

Essential Question: What capabilities helped hominids survive?

 Warm-Up: Channel One News: Type 1- Select One Topic and list Three Details about it.

 Vocabulary: Hominids, Paleoanthropologists, Before Common Era

 Activity:

  1. Introduce Early Hominids page 13.
  2. In small groups use History Alive! The Ancient World pages 12-23 to research the 1 type of Early Hominids.
  3. Complete Early Hominids Jigsaw Activity getting information about the 4 other types of Early Hominids.

 Assessment:

  1. Jigsaw Puzzle
  2. Type 2 writing: Answer Essential Question: What capabilities helped hominids survive?

 

Tuesday September 16, 2014

Essential Question:

  1. Who was Francis Scott Key?
  2. How do you use Map Skills to gain information?

 Activity:

  1. Complete Francis Scott Key Packet.
  2. Complete Map Skills Document Packet.
  3. Watch Channel One News

 Assessment:

  1. Completed Francis Scott Key Packet.
  2. Completed Map Skills Document Packet.

 Homework: Should Cell Phones be Allowed in School?

 

Wednesday September 17, 2014

Essential Question:

  1. Who was George Washington Carver?
  2. Why is the US Constitution an important document?

 Activity:

  1. Complete George Washington Carver Packet.
  2. Complete U.S. Constitution Document Packet.
  3. Watch Channel One News

 Assessment:

  1. Completed George Washington Carver Packet.
  2. Completed U.S. Constitution Document Packet.

 

Thursday September 18, 2014

Essential Question: How did the development of agriculture change the daily life in the Neolithic Age?

 Warm-Up: Watch Channel One News: Type 1- Select One Topic and list Three Details about it.

 Vocabulary: Paleolithic Age, Neolithic Age, Fertile Crescent, Domesticate, Agriculture, Nomad

 Activity:

  1. Chapter 2 Quiz
  2. Create a Double Bubble Map that Compares and Contrasts the Paleolithic Age and the Neolithic Age. Use History Alive! The Ancient World pages24-31 to gather details.

 Assessment:

  1. Chapter 2 Quiz
  2. Double Bubble Map Comparing and Contrasting the Paleolithic Age and the Neolithic Age

 Homework: Should Cell Phones be Allowed in School?

 

Friday September 19, 2014  

Essential Question: Should Cell Phones be allowed in School?

 Warm-Up: In groups read and discuss opinion paragraphs about Should Cell Phones be Allowed in School? Whole Group discussion.

 Activity:

  1. Channel One News: Type 1- Select One Topic and list Three Details about it.
  2. Create a Comic Book  about a topic from this week: Early Hominids or the Paleolithic Age vs Neolithic Age.

 Assessment:

  1. Final Copy of the Comic Book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lessons 9/8-9/12

Monday 9/8/2014

Essential Question: Who Am I?

Warm-Up: Channel One News: Type 1 writing about 1 news topic and 3 details about it.

Review: CHAMPS Classroom Rules

Activity: Create a Bubble Map that describes “Who I Am”

Assessment: Completed “Who Am I” Bubble Map

***Announcement: Please bring a book, magazine, or newspaper to read in class on Wednesday 9/10.***

 

Tuesday 9/9/2014

Essential Question: What events in my life are important?

Warm-Up: Channel One News: Type 1 writing about 1 news topic and 3 details about it.

Review: CHAMPS Classroom Rules

Activity: Create a “My Life” Flow Map that puts 5 important events from my life in chronological order and explains why these events are important.

Assessment: Completed My Life Flow Map

***Announcement: Please bring a book, magazine, or newspaper to read in class on Wednesday 9/10.***

 

Wednesday 9/10/2014

Essential Question: What do I already know about Ancient History?

Warm-Up: Channel One News: Type 1 writing about 1 news topic and 3 details about it.

 Review: CHAMPS Test and Quiz Classroom Rules

Activity: Ancient History Pre-Test

Assessment: Ancient History Pre-Test

 

Thursday 9/11/2014

Essential Question: What happened on 9/11/2001?

Warm-Up: Channel One News: Type 1 writing about 1 news topic and 3 details about it.

Review: CHAMPS Classroom Rules

Activity

  1. Video: What Happened? The Story of September 11, 2001 and use Type 1 writing to take notes about video: http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/nick-news-what-happened-the-true-story-of-september-11th-full-episode.html
  2. Read Article What Happened 9/11? interacting with text using Close Reading Strategies. http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3756477&print=1
  3. Type 2 writing: What Happened on 9/11/2001?

Assessment: Type 2 writing: What Happened on 9/11/2001?

 

Friday 9/12/2014

Essential Question: Should Students be able to use Cell Phones in School?

Warm-Up: Channel One News: Type 1 writing about 1 news topic and 3 details about it.

Review: CHAMPS Classroom Rules

Activity: Read 3 articles and Interact with these articles by using Close Reading Strategies.:

1. More Schools Use Cell Phones as Learning Tools http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/personal/2013/08/07/views-shift-on-cell-phones-in-schools/2607381/

2. Should cell phones be banned in school? http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/debate/index.asp?article=d1211

3. Cell Phones at School: Should They Be Allowed? http://life.familyeducation.com/cellular-telephones/school/51264.html?page=1&detoured=1

4. Create a T-Chart listing the Pros and Cons of Cell Phones in School.

5. Type 2 writing: Should Students be allowed to use Cell Phones in School? Cite three details from the articles that support your opinion.

6. Class Debate about Should Students be able to use Cell Phones in School?

Assessment

  1. Complete T-Chart of Pros and Cons.
  2. Type 2 writing: Should Students be allowed to use Cell Phones in School? Cite three details from the articles that support your opinion.