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:
- Preview Chapter 4 Type 1 Writing: Think of a recent problem you have faced and what you did to solve it.
- Define Key Content Terms in SS notebook.
- 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:
- What were some advantages of living in the foothills of the Zagros Mountain?
- Describe the problem that occurred around 5000 B.C.E.
- How did farmers living in the foothills solve the food shortage?
- Who were the Sumerians?
Assessments:
- Key Content Terms
- Section 4.2 Type 2 Writing
- 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:
- Review Key Content Terms.
- 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:
- Why was it difficult to raise crops in Sumer?
- Describe the problem caused by an uncontrolled water supply.
- How did the Sumerians solve the problem of an uncontrolled water supply?
- Describe how Sumerian irrigation systems were built.
- In what other ways did the Sumerians control the water supply?
– Section 4.5 Type 2 Writing: Answer these questions using complete sentences:
- What new problems occurred after Sumerian farmers created irrigation systems?
- What could happen to an irrigation system that was not maintained?
- Why could Sumerian farmers no longer live apart, or in small groups?
- How did Sumerians keep their complex irrigation systems working?
- What was the long-term result of the Sumerians working together?
– Section 4.6 Type 2 Writing: Answer these questions using complete sentences:
- Why did Sumerian cities fight with each other?
- How did the physical geography of Sumer leave its cities unprotected?
- What did the Sumerians do to protect their cities?
- Why do historians call the cities of Sumer “city-states”?
Assessment:
- Class discuss on Key Content Terms
- 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:
- Read about British archaeologist Leonard Woolley in History Alive! The Ancient World p. 40-43. Type 2 Writing: Answer these questions using complete sentences:
- How was early 1900s archaeologist approach to research different from Leonard Woolley’s approach to research?
- How did Woolley and his team begin excavating the city of Ur? Why?
- What are some discoveries Woolley and his team made?
- What was Woolley’s Most Famous Discovery?
- Why were there many other bodies in the tombs?
- What happened after the expedition?
- What was Woolley’s major contributions toward us understanding Sumerian Life?
- What are the three stages archaeologists work through?
- Analyzing Artifacts Activity
- 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:
- Type 2 Questions
- Analyzing Artifacts Activity
- 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:
- Mesopotamia Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle
- Mesopotamia Videos and Type 1 Notes
- 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:
- How did geographic challenges lead to the rise of city-states in Mesopotamia? Letter.
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.