​World History Resources​
Deadlines for Test Retakes:
  • Monday, October 21st Test Retakes

Deadlines for Project Meeting & Corrections:
  • Friday, October 18th Project Meeting
  • Wednesday, October 23rd Project Corrections

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​