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Teacher SEILER, CLEMONS, POWELL
Content Social Studies
Grade 6th Grade
Unit Topic: Mesopotamia
Unit Essential Question(s):
How does geography influence the way people live?
Concept:
Geography/History
Concept:
Concept:
History
History
Learning Target: What
Should Students Be Able to Do?
What Do Students Know?
Learning Target: What
Should Students Be Able to Do?
What Do Students Know?
Learning Target: What
Should Students Be Able to Do?
What Do Students Know
Learning Target: What
Should Students Be Able to Do?
What Do Students Know?
-How Gilgamesh relates to
modern day literature
-Sumerian inventions and ideas
passed on to other civilizations
-Contributions to society made
by Sumerians, Assyrians &
Babylonians.
-What it was like to live in
Sumer
-How civilization developed in
Mesopotamia
Lesson EQ:
Why did people settle in
Mesopotamia?
Assessments:
Formative:
Oral Questioning
Review Questions
Reading Strategies
Summative:
Concept:
Lesson EQ:
What ideas & inventions did
Sumerians pass on to other
civilizations?
Assessments:
Lesson EQ:
Assessments:
Chapter Test/Exam
Formative:
Oral questioning
Review Questions
Reading Strategies
Summative:
Chapter Test/Exam
Formative:
Oral questioning
Review Questions
Reading Strategies
Summative:
Chapter Test/Exam
Informational Texts
-Textbook
-“Hanging Gardens”
Informational Texts
-Textbook
-“Epic of Gilgamesh”
Informational Texts
-Textbook
-“Code of Hammurabi”
Strategies:
Strategies:
Lesson EQ
How did Mesopotamians first
empires develop?
Strategies:
Assessments:
Formative:
Summative:
Informational Texts
Strategies:
Activating:
-Warm-ups
-Reading
Activating:
-Warm-ups
-Reading
Activating:
-Warm-ups
-Reading
Activating:
Teaching:
-Powerpoint
-Graphic Organizer
-Vocabulary
-Group Work
Summarizing:
-“Sum-up”
-Review Questions
Teaching:
-Powerpoint
-Graphic Organizer
-Reading Strategy
-Video-Nomads to farmers
-Map Activity
Summarizing:
-“Sum-up”
-Keyword Summary
Teaching:
-Group Work
-Reading Strategy
-Lesson Quiz
Summarizing:
-“Sum-up”
-Study Guide
Teaching:
Estimated Length of
Lesson:
1-2 Days
Estimated Length of
Lesson:
2-3 Days
Estimated Length of
Lesson:
2-3 Days
Summarizing:
Estimated Length of
Lesson: