World History

1. HOMEWORK DUE AT START OF HOUR TOMORROW (9-10-19) : Quiz #1 study tool vocabulary and questions.
2. NOTE: I have learned how to add media to this new iblog theme so the quiz will be tomorrow for sure. :0) I wanted to be fair so I gave you an extra day.
3. BW: Q’s 1-5 Philosophers in Greece
4. Video: Ancient Greece (23 minutes)
5. Class Work: Quiz #1 Study Tool (10-12 minutes)
6. Tomorrow: Quiz will be 30 points.
7. Type of Quiz: M/C, matching, T/F and short answer. No retakes.

I cannot get the study tool to attach. I will write out as much as it will let me.

Mesopotamia: cuneiform, stylus, scribe, dam, irrigation

1. What does Mesopotamia mean?
2. What two rivers act as borders for the Fertile Crescent?
3. Why did people, like Sumerians, settle in Mesopotamia?
4. Explain how the Sumerians successfully controlled water to farm their land.
5. How did the Sumerians record their daily business? What did they write with and on?
6. What inventions did the Sumerians leave us that we still use today?
7. EGYPT: pyramid, mummy, hieroglyphics, pharaoh, polytheism, cataracts
8. What main river flows through Egypt? Direction?
9. What is one of the best areas for growing in Egypt? What makes this possible?
10. How many Kingdoms make up Egyptian history?
11. Identify one item that distinguished the separate Kingdoms. Ex: which Kingdom were the pyramids in?
12. Who was Hatsheput and what was she known for? Who was King Tut and why was Howard Carter important to this find?
13. GREECE: Trojan Horse, city-state, Homer, Olympics, Sophists
14. Who were the Minoans? Where were they located? Two theories what happened to them?
15. What did the Iliad and the Odyssey explain? Who wrote them?
16. Who were the Mycenaean? Who did they get in a fight with? Why?
17. What group of people brought the “Dark Ages” to the Greeks?
18. What is a philosopher? What did Socrates, Plato and Aristotle emphasize?
19. Explain what the Socratic Method is and how we benefit from using it in education/work today.

1. Housekeeping. Putting binder in order/return papers
2. Finish Geo. Map / turn in
3. Discussion of Power Point notes on Ancient Greek
4. Discussion on Greek Philosophers (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle)
5. Exit: game ball to learn peer names :0)
6. Quiz: Monday, 9-8-19 on Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Greece. Read over all your notes and bell work/exit slips.
7. NOTE: I cannot get the media set to download the study guide. I will keep trying. Sorry.

1. Bell Work: Review notes
2. Short Quiz: Mesopotamia and Egypt
3. Power Point Notes: Greece
4. Guided P.P. Notes
5. Finish Geography Maps from yesterday
6. Exit Slip

THURSDAY, 9-5-19 Open House: I will have a ten minute increment schedule on my door arranged by emailing me in advance. You can reach me at hal@dearbornschools.org I will email back a convenient slot to meet. I will be meeting with those interested parents at open house who contact me. You need to sign-up in advance please. The slots run from 6:00 to 7:30 PM. Remember, Open House will not be used to talk about student grades. Thank You!!

1. Bell Work Review: 12 formative points.
2. GEOGRAPHY: Mesopotamia / Egypt / Greece / Rome
3. Newslea: King Tut
4. Exit Review
5. Note: THURSDAY, 9-5-19 Open House: I will have a ten minute increment schedule on my door arranged by emailing me in advance. You can reach me at hal@dearbornschools.org I will email back a convenient slot to meet. I will be meeting with those interested parents at open house who contact me. You need to sign-up in advance please. Thank You!!

1. Bell Work: review half sheet. Only first hour picks up their planners.
2. Check bell work and collect. 10 formative points.
3. Power Point: Egypt (Old, Middle, New Kingdoms)
4. Five minute clip on King Tut (6th hour only)
5. Checking for binder, college paper, construction paper and parent/guardian signature on syllabus. Will call each of you up to the desk.
6. Check: Newslea article on Mesopotamia villages and farming. 20 formative points.
7. Exit: go over planners. Each hour works on a quick planner item from administration.
8. NOTE: PICTURE DAY IS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9TH!
9. THURSDAY, 9-5-19 Open House: I will have a ten minute increment schedule on my door arranged by emailing me in advance. You can reach me at hal@dearbornschools.org I will email back a convenient slot to meet. I will be meeting with those interested parents at open house who contact me. You need to sign-up in advance please. Thank You!!

1. Bell Work: review from this week. Check in class. 10 point summative.
2. Remember: if you are tardy or late to class, bell work is a zero and you still have to do bell work for your binder credit.
3. Power Point: Cloze reading notes on MESOPOTAMIA
4. Short video clip on the Fertile Crescent
5. NEWSLEA article on Mesopotamia (all hours except 6th)
6. Exit Ticket (10 points)

1. THURSDAY, 9-5-19 Open House: I will have a ten minute increment schedule on my door arranged by emailing me in advance. You can reach me at hal@dearbornschools.org I will email back a convenient slot to meet. I will be meeting with those interested parents at open house who contact me. You need to sign-up in advance please. Thank You!!

1. Bell Work: Styles of learning and multiple intelligence survey
2. Power Point (PP): Classroom Expectations and how to succeed in class with group discussion
3. Pre-assessment exam: on the Middle Ages
4. Work Sheet: discipline and rewards in class
5. Exit Ticket: Q’s 1-5 about your access to a computer and knowledge of emailing and making power points.

1. THURSDAY, 9-5-19 Open House: I will have a ten minute increment schedule on my door arranged by emailing me in advance. You can reach me at hal@dearbornschools.org I will email back a convenient slot to meet. I will be meeting with those interested parents at open house who contact me. You need to sign-up in advance please. Thank You!!

1. Find assigned seats
2. Cell phones in pouch daily
3. Bell Work: Syllabus/Procedures
4. Go over syllabus (student signs) take home for parent to sign DUE DATE: Sept. 3RD Tuesday
5. Revisit supplies needed for class
6. Pre assessment: on continents and oceans / went over answers after
7. Exit Ticket: written review of six questions about syllabus

THURSDAY, 9-5-19 Open House: I will have a ten minute increment schedule on my door arranged by emailing me in advance. You can reach me at hal@dearbornschools.org I will email back a convenient slot to meet. I will be meeting with those interested parents at open house who contact me. You need to sign-up in advance please. Thank You!!

1. Find Assigned Seats
2. Pick Up Bell Work
3. Pick up small list for room supplies
4. Supplies: 1.5 ” binder, loose college bound paper, pencils, package of 100-240 colored construction paper DUE DATE: 9-3-19
5. Seat number is the number you drop off cell phone in pouch
6. Written Profile Explanation
7. Due: tomorrow (8-27-19) Paragraph writing. 10 summative points