Today students will be

  • working on improving writing skills
  • we will be doing an assignment to help students develop their imagination
  • the writing assignment sets the students up in a time when the hominids roamed the earth
  • assignment is posted below:

 

You have learned about different geography (such as forests, jungles, mountains and prairies), how might this affect the development of hominids. Take a minute to think about the area where you live. Now, imagine that there was no modern technology: no homes, no heat, no running water, and no buildings at all. Imagine you are early Homo sapiens who have just arrived in this area about 7000 years ago (roughly 5000 BC). How will you adapt and survive? For this assignment, give a brief description of your environment, and then tell me how you would survive.

Make sure you address all of the following in your paper:

  • What sorts of things must you create in order to survive?
  • How would you create them?
  • What materials might you use?
  • How are you going to feed yourself?
  • Remember to explain how you would survive during all 4 seasons of the year.

Make sure that anything you use, create or do is something that Homo sapiens were able to do 7000 years ago. Use evidence from your reading in this module to support your argument.

Your paper must be 1 page at least.

TEST ALERT FRIDAY OCTOBER 7TH