Download Overview of Week 6 October 3-October 7, 2016

Overview of Week 6
October 3-October 7, 2016
Concept: Geography and Civilization
Essential Questions:
How do people get the things that they need and want?
What does it mean to be an organized civilization?
Weekly Objective: Good Historians will …
1.
2.
Identify basic needs of Early Civilizations (Food, Water, and
Shelter) and work together to create a small civilization in
which the members are able to survive by working together.
LIST GROUP & LABEL all know people, places, events and ideas of
Early Civilizations using Primary and Secondary Source
Documents.
Transfer Goal:
Students will be able to independently use their learning to analyze and evaluate the
emergence of civilizations, societies, and regions over time.
Quote of the Week:
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope”
~Martin Luther
Quote of the Week:
“Everything that is done in the world is done by hope”
~Martin Luther
Monday, October 3, 2016
Essential Questions:
How do people get the things that they need and want?
What does it mean to be an organized civilization?
Weekly Objective: Good Historians will …
Compare Early Civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus River
Valley, and China
Social Studies
● Review the Elements of
Civilizations. Complete the
Ranking Activity
To-Do Upon Arrival
Find your new
Assigned Seats
• Pick up your
● Farming Chart in Comp. Book
Composition Books
and “Atlas of the
● “Atlas of World History”
World” book and
Students will work together
worksheet
to discuss Agriculture, Early
● Pass out Progress
Settlements, and Civilization
Reports!
in Ancient Mesopotamia
Quote of the Week:
•
No Homework Packet today! “Everything that is done in
Get Progress Reports Signed the world is done by hope”
~Martin Luther
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Essential Questions:
How do people get the things that they need and want?
What does it mean to be an organized civilization?
Weekly Objective: Good Historians will …
Compare Early Civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus River
Valley, and China
Social Studies Lesson
• Discuss First Civilizations and why
settlements were established in
areas with Rivers, Fertile Soil,
Forests, and Mountains
• Create “First Civilizations” Chart
• Within your group, Rank the 4
Geographical Areas in order of
importance. Place your civilization on
the map in the front of the
classroom.
•
• Begin Lesson on Ancient Mesopotamia.
• (See Tuesday’s Slides.)
Warm-Up
SEE BOARD
Create “First
Civilizations” Chart
on the next clean
page of your SS
Comp. Book
Quote of the Week:
“Everything that is
done in the world is
done by hope”
~Martin Luther
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Essential Questions:
How do people get the things that they need and want?
What does it mean to be an organized civilization?
Weekly Objective: Good Historians will …
Compare Early Civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus River
Valley, and China
Social Studies
Warm-Up
• Ancient Mesopotamia
Slide Presentations and
Note to Self
Open List Group Label
Notes Activity
Document on Shared Drive!
• (See Tuesday and
Wednesday slides at the
end of this document.)
• All of the Slides, Notes
and Links are there.
Quote of the Week:
This lesson will be
“Everything that is done in
presented in a Discussion the world is done by hope”
~Martin Luther
Format.
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Essential Questions:
How do people get the things that they need and want?
What does it mean to be an organized civilization?
Weekly Objective: Good Historians will …
Compare Early Civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus River
Valley, and China
Social Studies
• “List Group Label”
Mesopotamia.
• Discuss as a Group.
• Take the Early
Civilizations Quiz
Warm-Up
Get out Sticky Notes.
Answer ONE of the
following Questions:
1. Why was Mesopotamia
a civilization?
•
2. Why was Mesopotamia
successful?
3. Write a sentence about
Grade:
one thing you learned
• Early Civilizations Quiz
about Mesopotamia.
Quote of the Week:
“Everything that is done in the world is done by
hope”
~Martin Luther
List, Group, and Label Activity
See the
“List Group Label”
Google Slide Presentation
for Directions
Friday, October 7, 2016
Essential Questions:
How do people get the things that they need and want?
What does it mean to be an organized civilization?
Weekly Objective: Good Historians will …
Compare Early Civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus River
Valley, and China
Social Studies
1. Begin the Study of
the Ancient EGYPT!!!
REMINDERS!
•
Quote of the Week:
“Everything that is done in
the world is done by hope”
~Martin Luther
Guiding Questions
Guiding Questions:
1. These early civilizations were the first to form
politically centralized societies. Why were they able
to do so?
2. What commonalities do you see among the early
civilizations?
3. What distinguishing characteristics set each civilization
apart? Explain how they were able to form a unique identify
from the other civilizations.
4. What role did geography play in the
development of these early civilizations? Explain.
Monday’s Lesson/Slides
(See Above)
Tuesday and Wednesday
Lesson/Slides
Ancient Mesopotamia
“The Fertile Crescent”
“Land Between Two Rivers”
“Cradle of civilization”
1.
Cornell Note taking
Divide your paper like this
example
2. The column on the left is for
Key Terms and Ideas
3. The large box to the right is for
writing notes.
4. Skip a line between ideas and
topics.
5. Don't use complete sentences.
Use abbreviations when
possible.
Introduction
ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA
song by Mr. Nicky
• Early Civilizations RAP Video
Notes
Songhttps://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=fdblRch6
m3g
Review/Things to Know/
Remember
• River Valleys were prime locations for
cultures to develop into civilizations- good for
travel, trade, and farming. Other things a
civilization would want to settle near would be
Mountains to shelter from weather and
enemies who may attack, Fertile Soil that is
good for farming, and Forests to get supplies
and wood for fire or shelter.
• A civilization is a highly developed culture
complete with religion, government, social
class structure, and writing system. What
were the other 4 elements?
Fertile Crescent
• Eastern part of Fertile Crescent
• Area of the Middle East where civilization
began
• Present day – Iraq (Syria and Turkey)
• “Land between 2 Rivers”
– 1. Tigris River
– 2. Euphrates River
Great place to grow crops
due to fertile soil and
being close to the rivers for irrigation
What geographical features were the reasons
Mesopotamians settled here?
Ancient Civilizations for Children
Video
• Show the students “Ancient Mesopotamia”
(Minutes 6-12)
What were City States?
The earliest known people of the
Fertile Crescent were the
Sumerians. They lived in southern
Mesopotamia in a number of
independent city-states.
Each city-state consisted of a
small city and its surrounding
area. The rulers of these
city-states constantly warred
with one another for control of
land and water. For protection,
people turned to courageous and
resourceful war leaders.
The ruler of each city state was responsible for maintaining the
city walls and the irrigation systems. He led armies in war and
enforced the laws.
The ruler also had religious duties. He was seen as the chief
servant of the gods and led ceremonies designed to please them.
Hammurabi
• Hammurabi was the king of
the city-state of Babylon.
About 1800BC, Hammurabi
conquered the nearby
city-states and created the
kingdom of Babylonia.
• The Code of Hammurabi were
laws engraved in stone and
placed in a public location.
Hammurabi required that
people be responsible for
their actions.
• Some of Hammurabi’s laws
were based on the principle
“An eye for an eye, a tooth
for a tooth.”
Hammurabi continued…
• 282 laws
• Laws for trade, loans, theft, marriage,
injury, and murder.
• Ideas still in laws today.
• Specific penalties with class specification.
• Written for all to see.
• Example: Law 196. If a man put out the eye of another
man, his eye shall be put out.
•
Hammurabi ruled for 42 years and the
Babylonian Empire fell shortly after his death
Hammurabi's Code Video
Cuneiform
•
By 3200 B.C., the Sumerians had invented the earliest known
form of writing called cuneiform.
•
The Sumerians employed a sharp-pointed instrument made
from a reed- called a stylus - to inscribe wedge-shaped
characters on soft clay tablets, which were then hardened by
baking in the sun.
Cuneiform Writing
As time progressed, Cuneiform changed a bit (from more pictures into
characters or symbols), see the chart below.
Deciphering Cuneiform
Hammurabi’s Code Written in
Cuneiform
Scribes
• During this time, everyone could NOT
read and write. That was the job of a
scribe.
• Scribes were society’s record keepers
and served the needs of the temple,
royal government and businesses.
• Most scribes were children of
government officials, priests and
wealthy merchants (a.k.a. a higher class)
• Scribe school lasted from sunrise to
sunset.
• There were 600 different characters to
memorize
• Scribes read out loud to audiences since
most people could not read.
– For example, Hammurabi’s code/laws were
posted in a public place. Scribes would
periodically have to read them aloud to groups
of people so they would know the laws.
Religion
• Sumerians were polytheistic, worshipping or
believing in many gods. These gods were
thought to control every aspect of life,
especially the forces of nature.
• Each city-state had its own special god or
goddess to whom people prayed and offered
sacrifices of animals, grain, and wine.
• They believed in an afterlife. At death, a
person descended into a grim underworld
from which there was no release.
Ziggurats were pyramid-temples
that soared toward the heavens.
Their sloping sides had wide steps
that were sometimes planted with
trees and shrubs. On top of each
ziggurat stood a shrine to the chief
god or goddess of the city.
Ziggurat at Ur
▪ Temple
▪ “Mountain
of
the Gods”
The Class System
Three Major Classes
– Highest class: the ruling family, leading officials, & high
priests.
– Middle class: merchants, artisans, and lesser priests and
scribes.
– Bottom: majority of people who were peasant farmers.
Some had their own land, but most worked land belonging to
the king or temples.
Sumerians also owned slaves. Most slaves had been captured in war. Some had
sold themselves into slavery to pay their debts. But once they paid the debt, their
masters had to set them free.
Mesopotamian Trade
“The Cuneiform
World”
Literature
A long, narrative Sumerian poem,
The Epic of Gilgamesh, is one of
the oldest works of literature in
the world. This epic is a collection
of stories about a hero named
Gilgamesh. In one of these
Gilgamesh travels the world in
search of eternal life. On his
journey, he meets the sole
survivor of a great flood that
destroyed the world.
Gilgamesh Epic Tablet:
Flood Story
Epic of Gilgamesh Video
Summary
Farming/Irrigation
• Using the canals, farmers would flood
their fields and then drain the water to
restore nutrients to the soil.
• This was a type of irrigation they used to
get water to their crops from the river.
Notes
Songhttps://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=fdblRch6
m3g
Review
ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA
song by Mr. Nicky
• Early Civilizations RAP Video
Life of a Sumerian
• http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=024d7
6bf-f379-4353-b4be-6c04d9744dec#
• What events and other records did the ancient Sumerians document?
• How did the Sumerians write down their laws, myths, and other
records?
• What was the importance of scribes in Mesopotamia?
• What is the moral of the story of Gilgamesh
Mesopotamia Vocabulary
• Read the definitions on your paper, & choose the
correct vocabulary term from below.
• Then write down Key Words & draw Pictures to
help you remember the term.
Polytheism
Hammurabi’s Code Fertile Crescent
Epics
Surplus
Division of labor
Ziggurat
Pictographs Monarch
Canals Cuneiform Priest
Irrigation
Empire City-State
Thursday’s Lesson/Slides
List-Group-Label
Lesson/Slides
Friday’s Lesson/Slides