​World History Resources​
HW Due Friday, February 21st:
  • Ch2 Reading Notes (all)

In Class Wednesday, February 19th - Ch2 The Development of Feudalism in Western Europe:
  • Ch2 Inquiry Design Model: Peruse the pages, headings, images, captions for Ch2 individually. Then individually design closed and open ended questions to guide our new chapter on Feudalism. Then go over questions in our teams and label the questions as closed or open-ended. Then choose the top 3-6 best guiding questions for our chapter. Then each team share their top choice.
  • Look at art from Rome (Ch1) and the Middle Ages (Ch2). Round Robin compare and contrast art from the periods
  • Look at images of life in the Middle Ages in Ch2. Rally Robin with diagonal partner on what we think life was like in the Middle Ages
  • Review Ch2.2 Reading Notes in teams. All Record Round Robin: share our answers, add more and correct mistakes with a different pen color
  • Finish the rest of Ch2 Reading Notes in teams
  • Monarchs were fair - Talking Chips debate on this statement, must use evidence
  • Exit Slip: Monarchs were fair or unfair - explain your stance with evidence

HW Due Wednesday, February 19th:
  • Ch2.2 Reading Notes

In Class Monday, February 17th - Ch37 The Legacy of Rome in the Modern World:
  • Decorate our new interactive student notebook covers
  • Return old text books and get new text books from the library
  • Share our Ch37 Project presentations together, inside outside circles, 3 minute rounds that contain extended conversations
  • Ch2 Preview
  • Share Ch2 Previews, Hand Up, Pair Up, Share Up, share our definitions and stories and combine forces to make the ultimate perfect definition of loyalty. Share with other teams
  • Begin reading Ch2 aloud
  • Learn Ch2 Reading Notes requirements
  • Exit Slip: Summative Reflection

HW Due Monday, February 17th:
  • Ch37 My Mixed Media Roman Legacy Project

In Class Thursday, February 13th - Ch37 The Legacy of Rome in the Modern World:
  • Learn requirements for Ch37 Project
  • Brainstorm plans for the project. Get plans approved by the teacher
  • Leave the class to work on the project, taking photos, videos, interviews, etc
  • Begin designing the project
  • Exit Slip: Excited About It

HW Due Thursday, February 13th:
  • Ch35 & 37 Assessment

In Class Tuesday, February 11th - Ch37 The Legacy of Rome in the Modern World:
  • Pictionary Vocab Review Game
  • Share Processing - Inside Outside Circles
  • Quiz Quiz Trade review game
  • Get started on Ch35 & 37 Assessment
  • Exit Slip: Make a Quiz

HW Due Tuesday, February 11th:
  • Ch37 Vocab (all)
  • Ch37 Processing

In Class Friday, February 7th - Ch37 The Legacy of Rome in the Modern World:
  • Drawing & Discussion Activities:
    • Draw: political reasons Rome collapsed, Numbered Heads Together
    • Draw: economic & social reasons Rome collapsed, Numbered Heads Together
    • Draw: capital move leading to collapse, Numbered Heads Together
    • Draw: 3-5 Roman art influences, scatter, hands up, pair up, share.
    • Draw: 3-5 architecture & engineering influences, diagonal partner discussion
    • Discuss: language influences, Talking Chips
    • Discuss: stoicism, Talking Chips
  • Rome Aqueduct video, write answer to how we think they work, share with shoulder partners
  • Teacher honeymoon to Rome, photos and discussion
  • Ch37 Processing directions
  • Work on Ch37 Processing & Ch37 Vocab with shoulder partners
  • Exit Slip: Modern World

HW Due Friday, February 7th:
  • Ch37 Vocab (only first 7 words)

In Class Wednesday, February 5th - Ch37 The Legacy of Rome in the Modern World:
  • Bellringer: Take us on a tour of your city. Find 3 places that have an influence from Ancient Rome - a place where we easily see the legacy of Rome. Describe each place and describe what the Roman influences are. Only one influence from a section from the book.
  • Sponge Activity: Re-read Ch37.2 and draw symbols that represent political, economic, and social reasons Rome collapsed.
  • Share Bellringers through scatter, timed pair, share, share out.
  • Review Ch37 Reading Notes in teams. All Record Round Robin: share our answers, add more and correct mistakes with a different pen color
  • Pause from checking Reading Notes many times and teacher conducts review Q&A through Rally Robin Talking Chips and Sage and Scribe Drawing and some solo drawing
  • Begin Ch37 Vocab
  • Exit Slip: Vocab in Your Own Words

HW Due Wednesday, February 5th:
  • Ch37 Reading Notes

In Class Monday, February 3rd - Ch37 The Legacy of Rome in the Modern World:
  • Movement Debate. Use our Ch37 Previews to aid discussion and calibration. Choose a spot, 1-10 (but not 5), on agreement or disagreement with this statement:
    • Ancient Rome influences the modern world
    • Speak with people that have similar and opposing views
    • Recalibrate, share why we stayed put or moved
  • Finish Ch35 Microskits with new Shoulder Partners
    • 2 minutes to plan, then take turns - 1 minute to perform for other pairs, pairs debrief after the performance with remaining time, then switch
    • Must be a commercial
    • Must teach us the 2 most important concepts from the assigned section
    • Must persuade people to move to Ancient Rome
  • Ch37 Inquiry Design Model: Peruse the pages, headings, images, captions for Ch37 individually. Then individually design closed and open ended questions to guide our new chapter on Rome. Then go over questions in our teams and label the questions as closed or open-ended. Then choose the top 3-6 best guiding questions for our chapter. Then each team share their top choice.
  • Begin reading Ch37 aloud
  • Begin Ch37 Reading Notes
  • Exit Slip: Modern World

HW Due Monday, February 3rd:
  • Ch37 Preview

In Class Wednesday, January 22nd - Ch35 Daily Life in Ancient Rome:
  • TIL: Fast Food
  • Teambuilding: Group Stretch
  • Share Ch35 Processing Inside Outside Circles
  • Review Ch26 Reading Notes in teams. All Record Round Robin: share our answers, add more and correct mistakes with a different pen color
  • Microskits with Shoulder Partners
    • 2 minutes to plan, then take turns - 1 minute to perform for other pairs, pairs debrief after the performance with remaining time, then switch
    • Must be a commercial
    • Must teach us the 2 most important concepts from the assigned section
    • Must persuade people to move to Ancient Rome
  • Ch37 Preview directions and time to work
  • Exit Slip: Slogan/Jingle

HW Due Wednesday, January 22nd:
  • Ch35 Reading Notes
  • Ch35 Processing

In Class Monday, January 20th - Daily Life in the Roman Empire:
  • TIL: Gladiators
  • Finish reading the first pages of Ch35, pause along the way and perform roles of people in Rome we read about
  • Directions for Ch35 Reading Notes
  • Conduct Ch35 Reading Notes stations
  • Directions for Ch35 Processing
  • Exit Slip: Most Interesting Thing You Learned

HW Due Monday, January 20th:
  • Ch35 Vocab

In Class Thursday, January 17th - Ch35 Daily Life in Ancient Rome:
  • Teambuilding
  • Share our Ch35 Previews Classbuilding Hand Up, Pair Up, Share
  • Rome 101 Video - I See I Think I Wonder. Share with Face Partners, 2 minute rounds, answer I Wonder questions. Share out top responses.
  • View intro image for Ch35 on p334. Rally Robin guess what we see. Then view image of Roman Forum modern day and discuss.
  • Listen to music from Ancient Rome and peruse the chapter silently.
  • Ch35 Inquiry Design Model: Peruse the pages, headings, images, captions for Ch35 individually. Then individually design closed and open ended questions to guide our new chapter on Rome. Then go over questions in our teams and label the questions as closed or open-ended. Then choose the top 3-6 best guiding questions for our chapter. Then each team share their top choice.
  • Begin reading Ch35 aloud
  • Begin Ch35 Vocab
  • Exit Slip: Most Interesting Thing You Learned

HW Due Thursday, January 16th:
  • Ch35 Preview

In Class Tuesday, January 14th - The Legacy of Ancient Greece:
  • Learn requirements for feedback we will give each other while we listen to our songs:
    • Positive comments
    • Ideas you want to borrow
    • Your favorite parts
  • Break into two large groups, set up in far ends of the room. Share songs. Provide feedback while listening.
  • Greek Mythology video I See I Think I Wonder
  • Learn requirements for Ch35 Preview
  • Exit Slip: Summative Reflection

HW Due Tuesday, January 14th:
  • Ch31 Ancient Greece Song Project: lyrics decorations, performances​

In Class Friday, January 10th - The Legacy of Ancient Greece:
  • Work on our song projects the entire period
  • Classbuilding: Share our favorite lyrics with each other
  • Exit Slip: Sing our favorite lyrics to teacher on way out the door

HW Due Friday, January 10th:
  • Half of song lyrics written
  • Ch26 & 31 Assessment

In Class Wednesday, January 8th - The Legacy of Ancient Greece:
  • TIL: music = learning. Teams discuss our ideas on this through Round Robin
  • New seating chart
  • Teambuilding: Story from last country you visited Timed Round Robin
  • Work on Ch31 Song Project. Show song choice, titles, and lyric writing progress to teacher, consult, and move in the right direction
  • Classbuilding: Share our favorite lyrics with each other
  • Exit Slip: Sing our favorite lyrics to teacher on way out the door

HW Due Wednesday, January 8th:
  • 1-3 potential song choices
  • 1-3 potential song titles
  • Write lyrics for 1-3 sections
  • Art supplies for lyrics decorations

In Class Monday, January 6th - The Legacy of Ancient Greece:
  • Teambuilding: Fun over vacation Timed Round Robin
  • Group Stretch Ch31 Review (open book, refresh our memories after the break)
  • Talking Chips debate: modern democracy vs. modern medicine
  • Talking Chips debate: modern theater vs. modern sports
  • Ch31 Song Project intro and directions
  • Work on Ch31 Song Project
  • Exit Slip: Excited About it

HW Due Monday, January 6th:
  • Have fun over winter break!

In Class Thursday, December 12th - The Legacy of Ancient Greece:
  • Bellringer: What are the two biggest ways Greece influences YOUR modern world or life today? List and then describe each influence with supporting details
  • Sponge Activity: Add more stamps to Ch31 Processing
  • Share our Bellringers Timed Pair Share
  • Share Ch31 Processing Times Inside-Outside Circles
  • Poems for Two Voices (Rally Coach writing format) on assigned sections from Ch31. Pairs recite poems to other pairs. Debrief when finished.
  • Review the rest of Ch31 Reading Notes in teams. All Record Round Robin: share our answers, add more and correct mistakes with a different pen color
  • Exit Slip: Riddles

HW Due Thursday, December 12th:
  • Ch31 Processing

In Class Tuesday, December 10th - The Legacy of Ancient Greece:
  • Shortened class due to assembly
  • Teambuilding activity
  • Mirrored Motions vocab and content review game
  • Quiz Quiz Trade review game
  • Ch31 Processing directions and team discussion brainstorming session
  • Exit Slip: Vocab in Your Own Words

HW Due Tuesday, December 10th:
  • Ch31 Reading Notes (all)
  • Ch31 Vocab (all)

In Class Friday, December 6th - The Legacy of Ancient Greece:
  • Teambuilding activity
  • Reveal the guiding questions for the chapter (results of Inquiry Design Model activity from last class)
  • Greek Contributions to Today listicle on smartboard. Take notes on the interesting things we learn. 
    • Talking Chips discussion and debate about this article and the notes we've taken so far:
    • Prompt 1: What are your favorite contributions Greece made to the world
    • Prompt 2: Describe the ways we see Greek contributions today.​
  • ​Review Ch31 Reading Notes in teams. All Record Round Robin: share our answers, add more and correct mistakes with a different pen color
  • Read aloud & complete Reading Notes in new teams All Record Round Robin
  • Begin Ch31 Vocab with shoulder partners
  • Exit Slip: Modern World

HW Due Friday, December 6th:
  • Ch31 Reading Notes (only up through section 6)

In Class Wednesday, December 4th - Ch31 The Legacy of Ancient Greece:
  • Teambuilding: Dance
  • Share our Ch31 Previews Timed Pair Share
  • Ch31 Inquiry Design Model: Peruse the pages, headings, images, captions for Ch31 individually. Then individually design closed and open ended questions to guide our new chapter on Greece. Then go over questions in our teams and label the questions as closed or open-ended. Then choose the top 3-6 best guiding questions for our chapter. Then each team share their top choice.
  • Ch31 Preview activity: School of Athens painting Rally Robin guess who these people are or what the chapter will be about
  • Stand-up Sit-Down Q&A on if we like the 10 contributions of Greece (bottom of 1st page of chapter)
  • Begin reading Ch31 aloud as whole class
  • Learn directions for Ch31 Reading Notes
  • Read aloud and complete Ch31 Reading Notes in teams All Record Round Robin
  • Exit Slip: Most Interesting Thing You Learned

HW Due Wednesday, December 4th:
  • Ch31 Preview

In Class Monday, December 2nd - Ch26 The Rise of Democracy in Ancient Greece:
  • Teambuilding activity
  • Share our Ch26 Pictoword Poster Projects with Inside-Outside Circles
  • Story Time Vocab review game with Talking Chips
  • Three-Step Interview to discuss and review why and how forms of government transitioned and cause and effect of transitions
  • Ancient Greek music - I Hear I Think I Wonder
  • Ancient Greek direct democracy vs. modern representative democracy simulation
  • Ancient Greek direct democracy vs. modern representative democracy open discussion
  • Directions for Ch31 Preview

HW Due Monday, December 2nd:
  • Ch26 Vocab
  • Ch26 Pictoword Poster

In Class Tuesday, November 26th - Ch26 The Rise of Democracy in Ancient Greece:
  • Teacher gone at MUN
  • Work on Ch26 Projects and Ch26 Vocab the entire period

HW Due Tuesday, November 26th:
  • Art supplies for Ch26 Project
    • ​Poster paper 
    • Markers and colored pencils

In Class Friday, November 22nd - Ch26 The Rise of Democracy in Ancient Greece:
  • Review Ch26 Reading Notes in teams. All Record Round Robin: share our answers, add more and correct mistakes with a different pen color
  • While reviewing our Reading Notes, review the most important concepts we must include in notes, teacher asks guiding questions, students Rally Robin Record answers
  • Mirrorred Motions
  • 4 Forms of Government music choice simulation, note taking, and Talking Chips discussion
  • Learn directions for Ch26 Processing
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HW Due Friday, November 22nd:
  • Ch26 Vocab (first 10 words only, not all 13)

In Class Wednesday, November 20th - Ch26 The Rise of Democracy in Ancient Greece:
  • Bellringer:
  1. Choose your LEAST favorite form of Ancient Greek city-state government and describe WHY with supporting details.
  2. Then choose your MOST favorite form of Ancient Greek city-state government (besides democracy!) and describe WHY with supporting details.
  • ​Sponge Activities: Add more to Reading Notes or draw symbols that represent the 4 forms of government
  • Reveal the guiding questions for the chapter (results of Inquiry Design Model activity from last class)
  • Share our Bellringers through Talking Chips discussion
  • Ch26 Vocab Find Someone Who & Both Record Rally Robin
  • Movement Debate: Monarchy was good
  • Exit Slip: Vocab in Your Own Words

HW Due Wednesday, November 20th:
  • Ch26 Reading Notes

In Class Monday, November 18th - Ch26 The Rise of Democracy in Ancient Greece:
  • Teambuilder in our new teams
  • Ch26 Inquiry Design Model: Design closed and open ended questions to guide our new chapter on Greece. Use the picture on p253 as our guide. Each student writes individually. Then go over questions in our teams and label the questions as closed or open-ended. Then choose the top 3-6 best guiding questions for our chapter.
  • Begin reading Ch26 aloud.
  • Rally Robin with shoulder partners: compare or contrast first page of Ch26 to Korea.
  • Rally Robin in our teams: Predict the chapter - make predictions based on what we think the picture on p253 represents.
  • Ch26 Reading Notes in our teams. Each team member must provide an answer at least once, come to a consensus, record our answers.
  • Exit Slip: Would you want to live in a Greek monarchy? Why or why not?

HW Due Monday, November 18th:
  • Ch9 Processing

In Class Thursday, November 14th - Ch9 Daily Life in Ancient Egypt & Ch26 The Rise of Democracy in Ancient Greece:
  • Ch9 Processing. Start alone. Might not have time to finish.
  • Share Ch9 Processing with Inside Outside Circles
  • Ch26 Preview - individually list all things we think we know about Greece or want to know about Greece. Share through Rally Robin.
  • Geography Challenge - Concept Map - draw concept map of 3 places we have studies so far and the new, 4th place - label the map (first humans, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Greece)
  • Compare our maps with our Shoulder Partners, then view accurate map and fix mistakes
  • ​Ancient Greece 101 video with I See I Think I Wonder note taking
  • Share notes with Diagonal Partner
  • Exit Slip: I See I Think I Wonder

HW Due Thursday, November 14th:
  • Cosplay Reflection Essay (printed before class begins)
  • Cosplay project packet/rubric (you filled out Part 3 during the Cosplay)
  • Cosplay Research Profile and 6 Questions & Answers (that you prepared before the Cosplay)

In Class Tuesday, November 12th - Ch9 Daily Life in Ancient Egypt:
  • Time to get changed into our cosplay costumes
  • Go over cosplay directions again
  • Conduct the cosplay
  • Review Reflection Essay directions
  • Group photos
  • Exit Slip: Summative Reflection

HW Due Tuesday, November 12th:
  • Ch8 & Ch9 Assessment
  • Ch8 & Ch9 Egypt Cosplay Project (costume, props, discussion research)

In Class Friday, November 8th - Ch9 Daily Life in Ancient Egypt:
  • Continue working on our costumes, props, and discussion research
  • Go over requirements for project again
  • Begin Ch8 & Ch9 Assessment
  • Exit Slip: Excited About It

HW Due Friday, November 8th:
  • Half of Cosplay Project Discussion Research (Part 2)
  • Bring back costume and prop design materials

In Class Wednesday, November 6th - Ch9 Daily Life in Ancient Egypt:
  • Teambuilding activity
  • Work on our costumes, props, and discussion research
  • Go over requirements for project again
  • Exit Slip: Explain a question you will be asking a peasant for the Cosplay Project

HW Due Wednesday, November 6th:
  • Costume and prop design materials​
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In Class Monday, November 4th - Ch9 Daily Life in Ancient Egypt:
  • Make second set of quiz questions and answers from our previously assigned sections, then conduct another round of Quiz Quiz Trade
  • Story Time vocab review game
  • Mummification videos with I See, I Think, I Wonder note taking and sharing
  • Learn Cosplay Project requirements
  • Exit Slip: Questions about project

HW Due Monday, November 4th:
  • All of Ch9 Vocab
  • Bring back Quiz Quiz Trade cards

In Class Thursday, October 30th - Ch9 Daily Life in Ancient Egypt:
  • Bellringer: 1. Analyze the Ancient Egyptian social pyramid and social classes. What parts do you agree with? WHY? Use supporting details. 2. What parts do you disagree with? WHY? Use supporting details. 
  • Continue Ch9 Vocab alone while we wait for everyone to finish
  • Share our Bellringer writing: Talking Chips
  • Review Ch9.5 through Ch9.7 Reading Notes in teams. All Record Round Robin: share our answers, add more and correct mistakes with a different pen color
  • While waiting for all teams to finish, have a Talking Chips debate topic: If you could restructure or change the Egyptian social pyramid, what would you do?
  • Each student assigned a page or section from the book to make quiz questions and answers, then conduct Quiz Quiz Trade
  • Continue Ch9 Vocab with Face Partners
  • Exit Slip: Vocab in Your Own Words

HW Due Thursday, October 29th:
  • All of Ch9 Reading Notes
  • Only 5 of the Ch9 Vocab words (must go in order)

In Class Tuesday, October 27th - Ch9 Daily Life in Ancient Egypt:
  • TIL: First artifact evidence of prosthetics - mummy's toe
  • Classbuilding activity - mix, pair, share
  • Review Ch9.3 & 9.4 Reading Notes in teams. All Record Round Robin: share our answers, add more and correct mistakes with a different pen color
  • I Hear I Think I Wonder - Ancient Egypt Music - Mix, Pair, Share
  • Finish Ch9 Reading Notes with shoulder partners, All Record Consensus
  • Go over Ch9 Vocab directions
  • Exit Slip: Group Stretch - connect Egyptian social classes to today

HW Due Tuesday, October 27th:
  • Ch9.3 & 9.4 Reading Notes

In Class Friday, October 23rd - Ch9 Daily Life in Ancient Egypt:
  • Share Ch9 Preview - Mix, Pair, Share
  • Ch8 Social Media Images game in teams. Many variations of Numbered Heads Together, or on other rounds sharing with shoulder partners, face partners, diagonal partners, mix-pair-share, etc
  • Ch8 Reading Notes with face partners, All Record Consensus
  • Exit Slip: Excited About It
 
HW Due Friday, October 23rd:
  • Ch9 Preview​

In Class Wednesday, October 21st - Ch8 The Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs:
  • Share our Choose Your Own Adventure Research through 3-Step Interviews (3 minute interview rounds, 1 minute sharing rounds)
  • Miniskits - On assigned sections of Ch8, Rally Coach skit plans, must teach 3 most important concepts. Small groups pair up and perform for each other, debrief after each skit.
  • Ch9 Preview directions and Round Robin our initial ideas
  • Exit Slip: My Favorite Pharaoh with 3 reasons why

HW Due Wednesday, October 23rd:
  • Choose Your Own Adventure Egypt Research (directions for assignment on Google Classroom)

In Class Monday, October 21st - Ch8 The Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs:
  • Teambuilding activity
  • Vocab review - Numbered Heads Together
  • Vocab review - Simultaneous Rally Table
  • Round Robin - what do you like/dislike about pyramids?
  • Group Interview - 4 different pharaohs of Ch8
  • Exit Slip: What do you like about these new class changes?

HW Due Monday, October October 21st:
  • Ch8 Reading Notes
  • ​Ch8 Vocab

In Class Thursday, October 18th - Ch8 The Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs:
  • Hidden chamber discovered in Great Pyramid of Giza - video - Fill out I See I Think I Wonder notes, then share with Talking Chips, then share out
  • Review Ch8.3 & Ch8.4 Reading Notes in assigned small groups. Share our answers, correct mistakes
  • Get started on Ch8 Vocab in assigned groups
  • Work on the rest of Ch8 Reading Notes in assigned small groups
  • Continue working on Ch8 Vocab in assigned groups
  • Exit Slip: Butterfly Effect
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HW Due Thursday, October 17th:
  • Read all of Ch8
  • Ch8.1 & 8.2 ONLY (p61-62) Reading Notes

In Class Tuesday, October 15th - Ch8 The Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs:
  • Finish final presentations from last class
  • Share Ch8 Preview answers with assigned groups, share out
  • Why did we conduct this preview? Ch8 Prediction discussion with partners, share out answers
  • Ancient Egypt 101 video, I See I Think I Wonder note taking, share our notes, then share out
  • Rally Robin our opinions on first photo of Ch8 in assigned pairs
  • Begin reading Ch8 aloud
  • Learn requirements for Ch8 Reading Notes
  • Begin Ch8 Reading Notes
  • Exit Slip: Most Interesting Things You Learned

HW Due Tuesday, October 15th:
  • Ch8 Preview (see attachment posted in Google Classroom with the questions)
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In Class Friday, October 11th - Ch5 Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization?:
  • Last minute presentation practice
  • Ch5 Photo Essay presentations
  • Audience must write I Think and I Wonder notes while watching, will share in pairs in between presentations

HW Due Friday, October 11th:
  • Ch5 Photo Essay Project

In Class Wednesday, October 9th - Ch5 Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization?:
  • View previous exemplary projects for creative inspiration
  • Continue working on Ch5 Photo Essay Projects
  • Exit Slip: Summative Reflection

HW Due Wednesday, October 9th:
  • Ch5 Assessment

In Class Monday, October 7th - Ch5 Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization?:
  • Share our Ch5 Scavenger Hunts through Speed Dating, share out differences we found through our discussions
  • Ch5 Kahoot Review Game
  • Ch5 Assessment in assigned pairs
  • Learn requirements for Ch5 Photo Essay project
  • Get started on projects
  • Exit Slip: Project Plan

HW Due Monday, October 7th:
  • Ch5 Standard of Ur Scavenger Hunt

In Class Thursday, October 3rd - Ch5 Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization?:
  • Best of the Best: Share our Ch5 Processing in assigned groups. Each person shares their modern day comparisons, people defend their choices, group debates and chooses best. Share out. Repeat for rounds 2 through 7, change up groups throughout the activity.
  • Ch5 Standard of Ur Scavenger Hunt in assigned pairs
  • Exit Slip: Now What?

HW Due Thursday, October 3rd:
  • Ch5 Processing (3 examples each category, examples must be connected to text book content)

In Class Tuesday, October 1st - Ch5 Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization?:
  • Simple List Vocab Review Game
  • ​Learn directions and get started on Ch5 Processing in assigned groups
  • Continue Ch5 Social Media Images game in assigned teams
  • Group Stretch

HW Due Tuesday, October 1st:​
  • Ch5 Vocab

In Class Friday, September 27th - Ch5 Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization?:
  • Bellringer: Choose any 3 different, specific characteristics of past civilization and compare and contrast them with modern civilization & your life today. Each characteristic of the past gets a short paragraph, so write 3 short paragraphs. Please write about a major theme from the chapter, not something minor.
  • Listen to music from Mesopotamia of today: Syria. Omar Souleyman
  • Continue Ch5 Vocab
  • Best of the Best: Share our Bellringers in assigned groups. Each person shares their first comparison, people defend their choices, group debates and chooses best. Share out. Repeat for rounds 2 and 3.
  • Review Ch5.7 through Ch5.9 Reading Notes in assigned small groups. Share our answers, correct mistakes
  • Continue Ch5 Vocab in groups
  • Ch5 Social Media Images game in assigned teams
  • Exit Slip: Social Media

HW Due Friday, September 27th:
  • All of Ch5 Reading Notes
  • Only 6 of the Ch5 Vocab Words

In Class Wednesday, September 25th - Ch5 Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization?:
  • Review Ch5.3 through Ch5.6 Reading Notes in assigned small groups. Share our answers, correct mistakes
  • Continue Ch5 Reading Notes in new groups
  • Listen to Ancient Mesopotamian music: I Hear, I Think, I Wonder discussion while we listen. 
  • Begin Ch5 Vocab in assigned pairs
  • Exit Slip: Make a Quiz

HW Due Wednesday, September 25th:
  • Ch5.3-5.6 Reading Notes (stop at 5.6)

​In Class Monday, September 23rd - Ch5 Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization?:
  • Learn requirements for Ch5 Preview​
  • Begin Ch5 Preview in assigned pairs/groups.
  • Share our Ch5 Previews in newly assigned small groups. Compare and contrast answers and ask each other challenging questions. Then choose top examples of civilized societies and why we chose them, then share out.
  • Predict Ch5 in our small groups - why did we do the Ch5 Preview? Rally Robin then share out our top answers.
  • ​View the graphic organizer on p41 of Ch5 and again, predict the chapter with a Rally Robin discussion, then share out.
  • The graphic organizer had "social structure" as a part of civilized society. Look back at p40, Rally Robin, discuss the proof in this picture that shows social structure in a civilized society, then share out our top ideas.
  • Read aloud Ch5 as a whole class
  • Learn requirements for Ch5 Reading Notes
  • Begin Ch5 Reading Notes in assigned pairs/groups.
  • Exit Slip: Jokes

HW Due Friday, September 14th:
  • Ch5 Preview
  • Read all of Ch5

In Class Wednesday, September 12th - Ch3 From Hunters & Gatherers to Farmers:

  • Learn requirements for Ch3 Test
  • Take Ch3 Test
  • Begin Ch5 Preview after we finish test
  • Begin reading Ch5 individually
  • Peer grade Ch3 Test
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HW Due Monday, September 23rd:
  • Ch3 Assessment

In Class Thursday, September 19th - Ch3 From Hunters & Gatherers to Farmers:
  • Share our Comic Strip Projects. Rotate and learn from a new person or pair for each section of an assigned analysis sheet. 
  • Complete Comic Strip Project self assessment
  • Learn requirements for Ch3 Assessment
  • Work on Ch3 Assessment in assigned pairs
  • Exit Slip: Plan

HW Due Thursday, September 19th:
  • Ch3 Comic Strip Project

In Class Tuesday, September 17th - Ch3 From Hunters & Gatherers to Farmers:
  • TIL: Ants invented agriculture 60 million years before humans. View video and have discussion on connections between video and key concepts of the chapter, pair up, share out.
  • Traveling for trade led to a major growth in the spread of knowledge: Share some fun travel stories. Connect this to the major themes of Ch3, pair up, share out.
  • Work on our Ch3 Comic Strip Projects
  • Consult with teacher and move in the right direction
  • Exit Slip: Vocab in Your Own Words​

HW Due Tuesday, September 17th:
  • Bring back art supplies and large posters for Comic Strip project

In Class Thursday, September 5th - Ch3 From Hunters & Gatherers to Farmers:
  • Finish Ch3 Skit performances, fill out Skit Reflection worksheets while we view skits
  • Ch3 Comic Strip project directions. View exemplar examples from previous students.
  • Time to work on Ch3 Comic Strip projects.
  • Exit Slip: Slogan / Jingle

HW Due Thursday, September 5th:
  • Bring back skit rubrics, skit plans, & skit reflection worksheets
  • Bring art supplies and large posters for Comic Strip project

In Class Tuesday, September 3rd - Ch3 From Hunters & Gatherers to Farmers:
  • Story Time vocab review game
  • ​Mirrored Motions Ch3 content review game
  • Ch3 Skit directions and skit writing time
  • Ch3 Skit performances, fill out Skit Reflection worksheets while we view skits
  • Group Stretch

HW Due Tuesday, September 3rd:
  • Ch3 Reading Notes
  • Ch3 Vocab

In Class Friday, August 30th - Ch3 From Hunters & Gatherers to Farmers:
  • Bellringer:
  1. Compare and contrast the Paleolithic Age to the Neolithic Age. Describe 2 similarities and 2 differences.
  2. Compare and contrast the Neolithic Age to your life or the modern world. Describe 2 similarities and 2 differences.
  • Begin Ch3 Vocab individually
  • Share our Bellringers in assigned groups, question #2, debate and choose top responses, then share out
  • Review Ch3 Reading Notes HW in assigned groups. Discuss our responses, correct mistakes.
  • Finish reading Ch3.7 and complete 3.7 Reading Notes in assigned groups
  • Continue working on Ch3 Vocab in assigned groups
  • Get feedback on Ch1 Cave Painting projects and learn Project Correction policy
  • Exit Slip: Dialogue

HW Due Wednesday, August 28th:
  • Ch3 Reading Notes, only 3.3 through 3.6

In Class Wednesday, August 28th - Ch3 From Hunters & Gatherers to Farmers:
  • Learn test correction and retake policy
  • Share our Ch3 Previews in assigned pairs. Listener must ask a challenging question for the reader, conduct Q&A and short debate, then switch roles, then share out.
  • Rally Robin discussion - why did we do the Ch3 Preview? Predict what Ch3 will be about.
  • Rally Robin discussion: Share ideas about what the picture on p24 represents, then share out
  • Begin reading Ch3 aloud
  • Get directions & begin Ch3 Reading Notes in assigned pairs
  • Exit Slip: Time Machine

HW Due Wednesday, August 28th:
  • Ch3 Preview
  • Read Ch3

In Class Monday, August 26th - Ch3 From Hunters & Gatherers to Farmers:
  • TIL: Lucy
  • Human origins mystery map w/ guessing questions. Pair and Share.​
  • Begin reading Ch3 aloud when finished writing and waiting to pair up.
  • Video and discussion to differentiate the concept of human migration: How humans migrated across globe
  • Rally Robin Recorder: speak w/ neighbor and answer questions together, trade answering & writing duties, then share w/ class:
  1. How did early humans get food?
  2. How did humans change from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to be able to stay in one permanent spot and become a civilization?
  3. Where did early human civilizations first develop? WHY?
  4. Where does our food come from today (how is it made)?
  • Learn requirements of Ch3 Preview and get started
  • Exit Slip: Most Exciting Thing You Learned

HW Due Monday, August 26th:
  • Ch1 Assessment

In Class Thursday, August 22nd - Ch1 Investigating the Past:
  • Share our Ch1 Processing Cave Paintings with the Cave Painting Analysis worksheet in assigned pairs.
  • Learn directions for Ch1 Assessment. Get started on Ch1 Assessment in assigned pairs.
  • Exit Slip: Explain your plan to finish the Ch1 Assessment
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HW Due Thursday, August 22nd:
  • Ch1 Cave Painting project

In Class Tuesday, August 20th - Ch1 Investigating the Past:
  • Bellringer:
  1. Read section 1.2 again. Which of these 3 jobs would you love: archaeologist, historian, or geographer? Describe 3 important and totally different reasons for your choice.
  2. Social scientists have done research to determine how they think people lived thousands of years ago. What was the most important way people lived that you read about in sections 1.4 through 1.9? Choose a way of life and describe why it seems so important to you - with supporting details.
  • ​Learn requirements for Ch1 Cave Painting project. Begin brainstorming ideas.
  • Ch1 Vocab charades review game
  • Review the rest of Ch1 Reading Notes HW in assigned groups. Discuss our responses, correct mistakes.
  • Ch1 Images and Discussion PPT in assigned groups
  • Exit Slip: Modern World

HW Due Tuesday, August 20th:
  • Ch1 Reading Notes
  • Ch1 Vocab

In Class Friday, August 16th - Ch1 Investigating the Past:
  • Review Ch1 Reading Notes HW in assigned groups. Discuss our responses, correct mistakes.
  • Continue working on remainder of Ch1 Reading Notes in assigned pairs
  • Learn directions for Vocab for the year
  • Begin working on Ch1 Vocab in assigned pairs
  • Exit Slip: Doodle It

HW Due Friday, August 16th:
  • Ch1 Reading Notes (only half, only p10, section 1.4-1.6)

In Class Wednesday, August 14th - Ch1 Investigating the Past:
  • Share Ch1 preview in assigned small groups, share out with class
  • Begin reading Ch1 aloud as a whole class
  • Learn Ch1 Reading Notes directions. Begin Ch1 Reading Notes in assigned pairs.
  • Virtual Tour of Lascaux Cave, I See I Think I Wonder while touring. Share in assigned pairs, then share out 
  • Exit Slip: I See I Think I Wonder

HW Due Wednesday, August 14th:
  • Ch1 Preview

In Class Monday, August 12th - Intro to World History:
  • Finish going over syllabus, routines, any other helpful orientation topics for the class
  • Collect syllabus signature form
  • World History Course Preview: in assigned pairs, draw and label a timeline of earth's history from the beginning of time to today. Guess history milestones and place events and dates on timeline.​
    • View History of Earth on football field video. View Earth History on 24 Hour Clock ASAP Science video. View Human Prehistory & History timeline. Take I See I Think I Wonder notes.
    • Share I See I Think I Wonder notes in assigned groups then share out
  • Directions for Ch1 Preview then get started individually
  • Rally Robin with partner: thoughts on why we did this sort of activity for the preview
  • Exit Slip: Most Interesting Thing I Learned

HW Due Monday, August 12th:
  • Signed student-parent syllabus form (last page of the syllabus)

In Class Thursday, August 8th - Course Intro:
  • Seating Chart
  • Go the library for the text book
  • Decorate the front covers of our Interactive Student Notebook
  • Day 1 Questionnaire
  • Discuss class routines, storage locations, room tour, nurse pass, art supplies, where to find the WH6 Extras tray, etc.
  • Class attention chant routine
  • Paper passing routine
  • TIL​