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China
Group 1: Geography
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Read pages 160-161 in textbook at home. *Important homework.
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Take notes as you read. You will need these notes for class tomorrow.
you focus on the following topics:
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Size
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Natural barriers
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Gobi Desert
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Pacific Ocean
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Himalayas and Tibet
Climate
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Monsoons
Rivers
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Huang He
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Chang Jiang
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During class, your group will discuss the notes you took. You will decide what you
think the most important information is for your classmates to know.
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Next, your group will create a poster to share your information with the class. Your
teacher will provide poster board or chart paper, crayons, markers, construction paper,
and the internet for photos. You may also bring in supplies and colored internet
photos from home.
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Then, your group will create 3 questions based on the information you have learned.
Questions will be used as part of your final assessment.
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Good questions:
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Contain why, how, explain, compare, contrast, analyze, summarize
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How did the invention of the _______ affect China?
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Why was _______ a problem?
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Have more than one word as an answer
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Usually don’t include: list, name, who, when, where
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China
Group 2: Qin Dynasty
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Read pages 172-173 in textbook at home. *Important homework.
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Take notes as you read. You will need these notes for class tomorrow.
you focus on the following topics:
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Make sure
Ying Zheng
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Laws
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Books
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Empire
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Military
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During class, your group will discuss the notes you took. You will decide what you
think the most important information is for your classmates to know.
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Next, your group will create a poster to share your information with the class. Your
teacher will provide poster board or chart paper, crayons, markers, construction paper,
and the internet for photos. You may also bring in supplies and colored internet
photos from home.
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Then, your group will create 3 questions based on the information you have learned.
Questions will be used as part of your final assessment.
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Good questions:
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Contain why, how, explain, compare, contrast, analyze, summarize
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How did the invention of the _______ affect China?
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Why was _______ a problem?
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Have more than one word as an answer
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Usually don’t include: list, name, who, when, where
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China
Group 3: Qin Achievements
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Read pages 174-175 in textbook and the Great Wall worksheet at home. *Important
homework.
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Take notes as you read. You will need these notes for class tomorrow.
you focus on the following topics:
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Laws
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Money
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Writing
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Roads
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Water canals
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Transportation
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Irrigation
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Great Wall-Worksheet
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How advancements affected trade
Make sure
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During class, your group will discuss the notes you took. You will decide what you
think the most important information is for your classmates to know.
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Next, your group will create a poster to share your information with the class. Your
teacher will provide poster board or chart paper, crayons, markers, construction paper,
and the internet for photos. You may also bring in supplies and colored internet
photos from home.
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Then, your group will create 3 questions based on the information you have learned.
Questions will be used as part of your final assessment.
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Good questions:
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Contain why, how, explain, compare, contrast, analyze, summarize
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How did the invention of the _______ affect China?
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Why was _______ a problem?
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Have more than one word as an answer
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Usually don’t include: list, name, who, when, where
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The Great Wall-Group 3
What is it?
The Great Wall of China is a wall that covers much of the northern border of China. If
you take the length of the entire wall, plus various branches, it is around 5,500 miles
long! No wonder they call it the Great Wall.
Great Wall of China
Why did they build the wall?
The wall was built to help keep out northern invaders like the Mongols. Smaller walls
had been built over the years, but the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, decided
that he wanted a single giant wall to protect his northern borders. He ordered that a
single strong wall be built with thousands of lookout towers where soldiers could guard
and protect his empire.
Who built it?
The original Great Wall was started by the Qin Dynasty and following dynasties
continued to work on it. Later the Ming Dynasty rebuilt the wall. Much of the Great Wall
that we know today was built by the Ming Dynasty.
The wall was built by peasants, slaves, criminals, and other people that the emperor
decided to punish. Soldiers were involved in building the wall and in managing the
workers as well.
It is estimated that millions of people worked on the wall over the course of over 1000
years. Some scientists think that up to 1 million people died while building the wall.
People building the wall were not treated very well. Many people were just buried under
the wall when they died.
What did they build it with?
Generally the wall was built with whatever resources were available nearby. The earlier
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walls were built with compacted dirt surrounded by stone. Much of the later Ming wall
was built with bricks.
Was it just a wall?
The wall was really a fortification to protect the northern border. It was a wall, but also
had watchtowers, beacon towers to send signals, and blockhouses to house soldiers.
There were soldiers guarding the walls and towers. There were also towns built along
the wall to garrison soldiers so they could quickly get to the wall in case of a large
attack. It is estimated that over 1 million soldiers guarded the great wall during the
height of the Ming Dynasty.
A wide road on top of the wall where soldiers could defend
Fun Facts about the Great Wall of China
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There are over 7,000 lookout towers that are part of the Great Wall.
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Today the walls continue to erode, however historians are trying to protect what
sections they can.
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The height and width of the wall varies over its length. The current wall built by
the Ming Dynasty averages around 33 feet tall and 15 feet wide.
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It is the longest man made structure in the world.
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Wide moats were often dug outside the wall in flat areas to make an enemies
approach more difficult.
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Smoke signals were used to indicate an attack. The more enemies that were
attacking, the more smoke signals they would make.
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It was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.
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Many people say that the Great Wall can be seen from the Moon without aid.
However, this is just a myth.
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The wheelbarrow, which the Chinese invented, no doubt was a great help in
building much of the wall.
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The wall extends through all sorts of terrain, even into the mountains. Its highest
point is over 5,000 feet above sea level.
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China
Group 4: Terracotta Soldiers
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Read pages 174-175 (bottom), 177, and the worksheet on Terracotta soldiers in
textbook at home. *Important homework.
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Take notes as you read. You will need these notes for class tomorrow.
you focus on the following topics:
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What were they
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Who made them and why
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Excavation
Make sure
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During class, your group will discuss the notes you took. You will decide what you
think the most important information is for your classmates to know.
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Next, your group will create a poster to share your information with the class. Your
teacher will provide poster board or chart paper, crayons, markers, construction paper,
and the internet for photos. You may also bring in supplies and colored internet
photos from home.
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Then, your group will create 3 questions based on the information you have learned.
Questions will be used as part of your final assessment.
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Good questions:
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Contain why, how, explain, compare, contrast, analyze, summarize
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How did the invention of the _______ affect China?
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Why was _______ a problem?
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Have more than one word as an answer
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Usually don’t include: list, name, who, when, where
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Terracotta Army- Group 4
The Terracotta Army is a part of a massive burial tomb built for Emperor Qin Shi Huang,
the first emperor of China. There are over 8,000 life size statues of soldiers buried along
with the emperor.
Tomb for Emperor Qin
Emperor Qin wanted to live forever. He spent much of his life and resources searching
for immortality and the "elixir of life". He also spent a huge amount of resources building
for himself the largest single tomb built to a leader in the history of the world. He felt this
huge army would protect him and help him to keep his power in the afterlife. He died
and was buried in 210 BC, over 2000 years ago.
The Soldiers
The soldiers of the Terracotta Army are life-size statues. They average around 5 feet 11
inches tall with some soldiers being as tall as 6 foot 7 inches. Despite there being so
many statues, no two soldiers are exactly alike. There are soldiers of all ages with
different ranks, facial features, and hair styles. Some of the soldiers look calm, while
others look angry and ready to fight.
The soldiers were even designed with different clothing and armor.
Men from the cavalry are dressed different than foot soldiers. Some
soldiers don't have armor. Perhaps they were supposed to be
scouts or spies.
As impressive as the soldiers are today, they were likely much
more impressive 2,000 years ago. The soldiers were painted to look
even more realistic and then covered with a lacquer finish. They
also held real weapons such as crossbows, daggers, maces,
spears, and swords.
How did they build so many soldiers?
To build 8,000 life size statues must have taken a large army of workers. Archeologists
estimate that over 700,000 craftsmen worked on the project for several years. The
bodies of the soldiers were made in an assembly line fashion. There were molds for the
legs, arms, torsos, and heads. These pieces were then assembled together and custom
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features such as ears, mustaches, hair, and weapons were added later.
There are between 8 and 10 different head shapes for the soldiers. The different head
shapes represent people from different areas of China as well as different personalities
of the soldiers. The heads were made from molds and then customized and attached to
the bodies.
Other Statues
The tomb is most famous for its large rows of soldiers, but there were plenty of other
statues to accompany Emperor Qin in the afterlife. There were 150 life-size cavalry
horses and 130 chariots with 520 horses buried with the army. In other areas of the
tomb, figures of government officials and entertainers have been found.
Archeologists have had to reconstruct the soldiers from thousands of pieces
When was the army discovered?
The Terracotta Army was discovered by farmers digging a well in 1974, over 2,000
years after it was covered over during the burial of Emperor Qin. The army was located
about a mile from the tomb of the emperor.
Interesting Facts about the Terracotta Army
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The horses in the army are saddled. This shows that the saddle had been
invented by the time of the Qin Dynasty.
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There are four main pits that house the army. They are around 21 feet deep.
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The bronze weapons of the soldiers were found in excellent condition because
they were coated with a thin layer of chromium which protected them for
thousands of years.
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Most of the statues were found broken into many pieces which archeologists
have been carefully putting back together for many years.
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Terracotta is a common type of hard-baked clay. Once the soldiers were shaped
with wet clay, they would have been allowed to dry and then baked in a very hot
oven called a kiln so the clay would harden.
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Group 5: Han Dynasty
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Read pages 178-179 in textbook and the worksheet on Mandate of Heaven at home.
*Important homework.
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Take notes as you read. You will need these notes for class tomorrow.
you focus on the following topics:
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Mandate of Heaven (Worksheet)
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Lui Bang
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Government
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Taxes
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Laws
Make sure
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During class, your group will discuss the notes you took. You will decide what you
think the most important information is for your classmates to know.
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Next, your group will create a poster to share your information with the class. Your
teacher will provide poster board or chart paper, crayons, markers, construction paper,
and the internet for photos. You may also bring in supplies and colored internet
photos from home.
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Then, your group will create 3 questions based on the information you have learned.
Questions will be used as part of your final assessment.
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Good questions:
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Contain why, how, explain, compare, contrast, analyze, summarize
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How did the invention of the _______ affect China?
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Why was _______ a problem?
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Have more than one word as an answer
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Usually don’t include: list, name, who, when, where
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The Dynastic Cycle and the Mandate of Heaven
Mandate of Heaven:
The Chinese believed that heaven gave the leader the mandate, or right, to rule. The people must
respect that mandate and owed complete loyalty and obedience to the leader. In exchange for this
loyalty, the people had the right to expect good leadership. If there were problems in the dynasty
(war, famine, floods, drought) this was a sign of the ruler had lost the Mandate of Heaven. The
Mandate of Heaven helped explain the Dynastic cycle which is explained in the diagram below
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Group 6: Han- Family and social classes
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Read pages 180-181 in textbook at home. *Important homework.
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Take notes as you read. You will need these notes for class tomorrow.
you focus on the following topics:
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Social classes
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Family life
Make sure
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During class, your group will discuss the notes you took. You will decide what you
think the most important information is for your classmates to know.
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Next, your group will create a poster to share your information with the class. Your
teacher will provide poster board or chart paper, crayons, markers, construction paper,
and the internet for photos. You may also bring in supplies and colored internet
photos from home.
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Then, your group will create 3 questions based on the information you have learned.
Questions will be used as part of your final assessment.
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Good questions:
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Contain why, how, explain, compare, contrast, analyze, summarize
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How did the invention of the _______ affect China?
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Why was _______ a problem?
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Have more than one word as an answer
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Usually don’t include: list, name, who, when, where
Name:
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China
Group 7: Han Achievements
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Read pages 182-183, 186-187 in textbook at home. *Important homework.
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Take notes as you read. You will need these notes for class tomorrow.
you focus on the following topics:
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Paintings
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Poetry
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Writings
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Paper
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Sundial
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Seismograph
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Acupuncture
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Iron
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Farming tools
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Silk
Make sure
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During class, your group will discuss the notes you took. You will decide what you
think the most important information is for your classmates to know.
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Next, your group will create a poster to share your information with the class. Your
teacher will provide poster board or chart paper, crayons, markers, construction paper,
and the internet for photos. You may also bring in supplies and colored internet
photos from home.
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Then, your group will create 3 questions based on the information you have learned.
Questions will be used as part of your final assessment.
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Good questions:
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Contain why, how, explain, compare, contrast, analyze, summarize
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How did the invention of the _______ affect China?
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Why was _______ a problem?
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Have more than one word as an answer
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Usually don’t include: list, name, who, when, where