Ancient Greek Gods-7 minute video:
http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=16454&CategoryID=4076ebsites:
www.carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/AA/aaflashfront.htm (The Americas)
www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/ancient.america.htm (The Americas)
www.historywiz.com/anc-america.htm (The Americas)
https://www.classzone.com/net.explorations/U4/U4_article1.cfm
www.coolmath-games.com/0-pre-civilization-bronze-age
https://iho.asu.edu (Lucy project)
humanorigins.si.edu (Lucy Project)
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/.../060920-lucy.html (Lucy Project)
www.typingweb.com
www.connected.mcgraw-hill.com
http://Egypt.mrdonn.org/achievements.html
http://www.ancientegyptianfacts.com/ancient-egyptian-achievements-and-contributions.html
Year At A Glance:
Historians:
Create a Personal/Global timeline (5 events for each; occurring in the same year)
Unit 1- Artifact finders
Topic 1: History
Unit 2 Wooly Mammoth
Topic 3- Pre-History
Unit 3- Maya Mia- Emerging Civilizations
Topic 14: The Americas
Unit 4: It’s All Greek to Me!
Topic 7: The Ancient Greeks
Topic 8: Greek Civilizations
Unit 5: Return of the Mummy
Topic 5: Ancient Egyptian & African Civilizations
Unit 6: Hail Ceasar
Topic 11: Rome: Republic to Empire
Topic 9: Ancient India
Unit 7: Let MyPeople Go
Topic 6: Israelites
•Beginnings
•Israelite Kingdom
•Dev. of Judaism
•Mediterranean World
Unit Test
PROJECT:
Design “Front Page News” newspaper..
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Topic 10: Early China
http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=16454&CategoryID=4076ebsites:
www.carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/AA/aaflashfront.htm (The Americas)
www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/ancient.america.htm (The Americas)
www.historywiz.com/anc-america.htm (The Americas)
https://www.classzone.com/net.explorations/U4/U4_article1.cfm
www.coolmath-games.com/0-pre-civilization-bronze-age
https://iho.asu.edu (Lucy project)
humanorigins.si.edu (Lucy Project)
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/.../060920-lucy.html (Lucy Project)
www.typingweb.com
www.connected.mcgraw-hill.com
http://Egypt.mrdonn.org/achievements.html
http://www.ancientegyptianfacts.com/ancient-egyptian-achievements-and-contributions.html
Year At A Glance:
Historians:
Create a Personal/Global timeline (5 events for each; occurring in the same year)
Unit 1- Artifact finders
Topic 1: History
- Why Study History
- What is History?
- Studying the Past
- Role of Historians
Unit 2 Wooly Mammoth
Topic 3- Pre-History
- Paleolithic Age
- Neolithic Age
- Characteristics & Emergence of Civilizations
Unit 3- Maya Mia- Emerging Civilizations
Topic 14: The Americas
- 1500 B.C.- A.D. 1500
- Settlement
- Early Cultures
- The Maya, incas, Aztec, Olmec, Anasazi, etc.
- N. Am. People
Unit 4: It’s All Greek to Me!
Topic 7: The Ancient Greeks
- 2000 B.C. -400 B.C.
- Rise of Greek Civilization
- Sparta and Athens
Topic 8: Greek Civilizations
- 700 B.C. – 212 B.C.
- Greek Culture
- Greek Mind
- Alexander’s Empire
- Hellenistic World
- Debate Socrates Guilt or Innocence of Treason
Unit 5: Return of the Mummy
Topic 5: Ancient Egyptian & African Civilizations
- 3500 B.C. – A.D. 350
- The Nile River
- Life in Ancient Egypt
- Egypt’s Empire
- The Nubians
- The Kushite Kingdom/ Axum
- Greece & Persia
- Glory, War, Decline
Unit 6: Hail Ceasar
Topic 11: Rome: Republic to Empire
- 500 B.C. –A.D. 180
- Founding of Rome
- Rome as a Republic
- The End of the Republic
- Project: Create a Game Board re: the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
Topic 9: Ancient India
- 3000 B.C. – A.D. 500
- Indus Valley Civilization
- Aryan Migration & Settlements
- Religions of Ancient India
- Mauryan & Gupta Empire
- Create an A to Z Book containing facts about ancient India utilizing vocabulary words from the unit (Partners)
Unit 7: Let MyPeople Go
Topic 6: Israelites
•Beginnings
•Israelite Kingdom
•Dev. of Judaism
•Mediterranean World
Unit Test
PROJECT:
Design “Front Page News” newspaper..
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Topic 10: Early China
- 1750 B.C.-A.D. 220
- Birth of Chinese Civilization
- Society & Culture
- Qin Dynasty
- Han Dynasty
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Roman Empire- Chap. 11
Vocabulary:
republic
legion
artifact
Latin
citizenship
consul
veto
praetors
legislature
Senate
Assembly of Centuries
Tribunes
Civic duty
Dictator
Twelve Tables
Law of Nations
Rule of law
Innovation-
small moveable bridge
latifundia
triumvirate
Pax Romana
Proconsul
Aqueducts
Veni vidi vici
Pilum
gladius
People:
Romulus
Remus
Virgil (The Aeneid)
Aeneas
Etruscans
Roman legionary
Roman Confederation
Patricians
Plebians
Cincinnatus
Hannibal (Carthaginian)
Scipio
Tiberius Gracchus
Gaius Gracchus
Marius
Sulla
Crassus
Pompey
Julius Caesar
The Celts
Brutus
Cassius
Anthony
Cleopatra
Octavian (Augustus)
“I found Rome a city of brick, and left it a city of marble”
Cicero
Tiberius
Caligula
Claudius
Nero
Vespasian
Titus
Domitian
Events/ Places:
Tiber River
Latium
Grape and olive farming
The Forum
Punic Wars (1st, 2nd, and 3rd)
Carthage
Sicily
Battle of Cannae
Battle of Zama
Mediterranean Sea
Gaul
Rubicon River
Reforms by Caesar (p. 325)
The “Ides of March”
Julian Calendar
Gregorian Calendar
Coliseum
Pompeii
5 Good Emperors:
Nerva (A.D.96-A.D.98)
Trajan (A.D.98-A.D. 117
Hadrian (A.D. 117-A.D.138)
Antonius Pius
(A.D.138-A.D.161)
Marcus Aurelius
(A.D.161-A.D.180)
“Hail Caesar!” – The Roman Empire Game Board Guidelines:
Create Game cards:
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Globe Book Guidelines
Research information specific to your assigned role within your group
http://Egypt.mrdonn.org/achievements.html
Vocabulary- Chapter 8- Greek Culture
philosopher, satrap, Socratic Method, democracy, phalanx, direct democracy, tragedy, ritual, solid geometry, Zoroastianism, circumference, representative democracy, plane geometry, fable, oral tradition, oracle, ephor, rhetoric, polis, Hellenistic Era,peninsula, Hippocratic Oath, colony, tyrant, bard, Spohists, comedy, helot, oligarcht, Stoicism, cavalry, myth, Epicureanism, drama
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Roman Empire- Chap. 11
Vocabulary:
republic
legion
artifact
Latin
citizenship
consul
veto
praetors
legislature
Senate
Assembly of Centuries
Tribunes
Civic duty
Dictator
Twelve Tables
Law of Nations
Rule of law
Innovation-
small moveable bridge
latifundia
triumvirate
Pax Romana
Proconsul
Aqueducts
Veni vidi vici
Pilum
gladius
People:
Romulus
Remus
Virgil (The Aeneid)
Aeneas
Etruscans
Roman legionary
Roman Confederation
Patricians
Plebians
Cincinnatus
Hannibal (Carthaginian)
Scipio
Tiberius Gracchus
Gaius Gracchus
Marius
Sulla
Crassus
Pompey
Julius Caesar
The Celts
Brutus
Cassius
Anthony
Cleopatra
Octavian (Augustus)
“I found Rome a city of brick, and left it a city of marble”
Cicero
Tiberius
Caligula
Claudius
Nero
Vespasian
Titus
Domitian
Events/ Places:
Tiber River
Latium
Grape and olive farming
The Forum
Punic Wars (1st, 2nd, and 3rd)
Carthage
Sicily
Battle of Cannae
Battle of Zama
Mediterranean Sea
Gaul
Rubicon River
Reforms by Caesar (p. 325)
The “Ides of March”
Julian Calendar
Gregorian Calendar
Coliseum
Pompeii
5 Good Emperors:
Nerva (A.D.96-A.D.98)
Trajan (A.D.98-A.D. 117
Hadrian (A.D. 117-A.D.138)
Antonius Pius
(A.D.138-A.D.161)
Marcus Aurelius
(A.D.161-A.D.180)
“Hail Caesar!” – The Roman Empire Game Board Guidelines:
- Game board must have at least 45 squares arranged in a cohesive path from “Start” square” to “End” square
- Design the background before adding any “squares”; Add squares to create a path (Appearance of game board- 5% of your score)
Create Game cards:
- Use vocabulary, people, events, and places as the content of your game cards. (95% of your score)
- Create at least 45 game cards. – Each card must contain a higher-level statement that reflects understanding of events, people, places, and vocabulary related to the beginning, the rise, and the decline of the Roman Empire. (List is on this website) We will do 5 cards per day in class
- Decide if your statement had a positive or negative effect on the Roman Empire.
- If the effect is positive, your card should direct the player to move ahead a determined number of spaces. For a negative effect, move back a determined number of spaces. You may also include 1 or 2 “start over” cards.
- Print out 2 copies of your statements with directions (move ahead, lose a turn, move back, etc.) Leave 1 copy intact and submit to teacher; separate the other copy into statements and glue to your index cards.
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Globe Book Guidelines
Research information specific to your assigned role within your group
- Cartographers (1)
- Create and label a map of ancient Egypt
- Timeline Developers (2)
- Create a timeline of important events of
ancient Egypt (3000 B.C.- 750 B.C.)
- Create a timeline of important events of
- Illustrators (1 or 2)
- After consulting with the text authors, design appropriate graphics
- Text Authors (3)
- Research achievements of ancient Egypt. Choose 3-4 to exemplify Egyptian achievement and their effect on modern day life
http://Egypt.mrdonn.org/achievements.html
Vocabulary- Chapter 8- Greek Culture
philosopher, satrap, Socratic Method, democracy, phalanx, direct democracy, tragedy, ritual, solid geometry, Zoroastianism, circumference, representative democracy, plane geometry, fable, oral tradition, oracle, ephor, rhetoric, polis, Hellenistic Era,peninsula, Hippocratic Oath, colony, tyrant, bard, Spohists, comedy, helot, oligarcht, Stoicism, cavalry, myth, Epicureanism, drama
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