{"id":451,"date":"2019-11-18T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/?p=451"},"modified":"2019-11-18T15:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:50:19","slug":"extra-credit-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/2019\/11\/18\/extra-credit-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra Credit Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

7th grade Ancient History students have an opportunity to earn extra credit. The directions and rubric are below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sumerian City-State Project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extra Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due Date: Thursday, Dec. 5th<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create a model of a Sumerian City- State using Minecraft\/ similar construction program (on Minecraft MUST be on flat-land setting<\/strong>), OR you can create a 3-D scale model. Models must be historically accurate (from the textbook) and depict all 7 characteristics<\/strong> of a civilization<\/strong> in Sumerian society. Each characteristic should have a sign as shown below in boldface. Listed below is what your signs should say.  
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Throughout your Sumerian City-State we should see signs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign 1: Title\/Student Names <\/strong>\u2013 Ex: Jake Paul and Steph Curry Presents: An Ancient Sumerian City-State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign 2: <\/strong>Ancient Sumer flourished in Mesopotamia between 3500 \u2013 2300 B.C.E. Each City- State was like an independent country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign 3:  Moat, city wall.<\/strong> (see p. 39 in textbook)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign 4: Stable Food Supply: <\/strong>Irrigation Systems \u2013 canals, dams, reservoirs. Farmland with plows, crops, and animals<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign 5:  Social Structure: <\/strong>We should see houses for Top level, middle level, and bottom level as described on p. 48<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign 6: Government:<\/strong> We should see military sites or king’s palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign 7: Religion: <\/strong> We should see Ziggurat (tallest building) stairway and shrine at the top<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign 8:  The Arts \u2013 <\/strong>Depicts examples of the arts in Sumerian Civilization<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign 9: Technology \u2013 <\/strong>Depicts examples of technology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sign 10: Writing- <\/strong>Depicts examples of Writing in Sumer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ancient Sumerian City- State Model Rubric<\/strong>
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Student Name(s)________________________________<\/strong>
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Title\/Name \/ 4 pts._____<\/strong>\t<\/strong>\t<\/strong>\t<\/strong>Government\/4 pts _____<\/strong>
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Time period (sign 2)\/<\/strong> 4 pts.____<\/strong>\t<\/strong>\t<\/strong>\t<\/strong>\t<\/strong>Religion\/10 pts _____<\/strong>
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Moat & Wall\/ 5 pts._____<\/strong>\t<\/strong>\t<\/strong>\t<\/strong>The Arts \/5 pts_____<\/strong>
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Stable Food Supply \/5 pts._____<\/strong>\t<\/strong>\t<\/strong>Technology\/4pts ____<\/strong>
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Social structure\/ 6 pts.____<\/strong>\t<\/strong>\t<\/strong>\t<\/strong>Writing\/3 pts ____<\/strong>
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_____\/50 pts Total Score<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-mail address:  farkass<\/strong>@dearbornschools.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Make a video of a tour of your city state, upload it on YouTube, and send me the link.  Or bring in a video file on a usb, or make screen shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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7th grade Ancient History students have an opportunity to earn extra credit. The directions and rubric are below: Sumerian City-State Project Extra Credit Due Date: Thursday, Dec. 5th Create a model of a Sumerian City- State using Minecraft\/ similar construction … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1093,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1093"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/farkas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}