Test Review Assignment Due Thursday

Create one of the following to review for the test about ancient Greece.  At least 20 specific items and definitions must be included in whichever option you choose.
A. Create an outline.
B. Create a detailed web.
C. Create notecards.

Melian Dialogue

Choose one:

A. Read the dialogue with a parent/guardian and ask for his/her signature that you've read.

B. Re-write three exchanges of the dialogue (3 Athenians, 3 Melians).

Melian Dialogue: Reading and Response Due Friday 12/13

"The Zenith and Transformation of Classical Greece" Due Monday 12/1

Please complete the reading in the time frames specified in class.

Make dot notes on the reading.

Write notes on the page started in class!

This should take no more than 45 minutes total!

Have a great Thanksgiving!

Greek Art: Inquiry into Pottery Due Tuesday 11/26

Complete the assignment provided in class using the visuals and descriptions provided.

Rapidly Read the Greeks!

Read Rapidly to Comprehend II

Name_____________________________________  date________/12

Goal: Learn to read rapidly and increase your comprehension.

Homework: Use a timer, your textbook, and a piece of paper and pen to complete this assignment.

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1. Read pages 143-145: Athens and the Development of Democracy:  Take 7 minutes only.

2. Turn your book over and do not look at it while you make notes. Take 3 minutes only

3. Choose 4 key terms/name and write a brief definition from the text.  Take 1 1/2 minutes only.

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4. Read page 146-147. War with Persia : Take 6 minutes only..

5. Turn your book over and do not look at it while you make notes. Take 3 minutes only

6. Choose 2 key terms/name and write a brief definition from the text. Take 1 minute only.

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7. Read page 154-155 The Conquests of Philip : Take 3 minutes only.

8. Turn your book over and do not look at it while you make notes. Take 1 minute only

9. Choose 2 key terms/name and write a brief definition from the text.  Take 1 minute only.

Rapid Reading Due Wednesday

1. Period 4: Test corrections due Weds.

2. Bring text to the next class!

3. Read Rapidly to Comprehend

Goal: Learn to read rapidly and increase your comprehension.

Homework: Use a timer, your textbook, and a piece of paper and pen to complete this assignment.

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1. Read pages 150-152: The Limits of City-State Democracy:  Take 7 minutes only.

2. Turn your book over and do not look at it while you

Make notes from the reading

3. Choose 4 key terms/name and write a brief definition from the text. You may use the text.  Take 1 1/2 minutes only.

  

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4. Read page 147. Athens: from City-State to Mini-Empire : Take 1 minute only.

5. Turn your book over and do not look at it while you

Make notes from the reading

6. Choose 2 key terms/name and write a brief definition from the text. You may use the text.  Take 1 minute only.

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7. Read page 148.Golden Age of Athenian Culture : Take 4 minutes only.

8. Turn your book over and do not look at it while you

Make notes from the reading

9. Choose 2 key terms/name and write a brief definition from the text. You may use the text.  Take 1 minute only.

Comparisons and Text due next lesson

1. Complete the comparison, sentence selection and vocabulary pages from today's lesson and reading from Thomas Cahill's book about the Greeks.

2. Bring your textbook next lesson.

3. Period 1A only: Test correction assignment: 5 test corrections required.  10 additional are optional.  (Note: 4A will do this next week!)

Guardian-Warrior Education and Greeks: Chapter 5

1. Discuss Socrates' ideal education for Warrior-Guardians with an adult.  Extra credit for an adult response/signature on the reading.

2. Complete notes for chapter 5: empires by THURSDAY next week.

Thinking and Sharing

1. Ask an adult to answer the question, "What is the relationship of how you think to what you think?

2. With a parent/guardian or adult read the Smith and Kimball article from the Atlantic Monthly, "The Myth of 'I'm Bad at Math".

3. Discuss the article and note at least three points of your discussion.

4. Ask the adult to write one sentence about the article and/or their reaction to the article and to print their name.

Extra credit: Repeat this with another adult!

Test Preparation

1. Create a review list organized by topic (you should already have this done) of terms, names,dates, locations related to our study of Prehistory, Qualities of Civilization, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Ancient Americas.

2. TODAY create a set of TWO additional practice exercises such as
-quizzes (30 items)

-- flashcards with definitions

-- timeline(s)

-- maps

-- sketches to compare artifacts and civilizations -- webs of related information.

We will have a test on Wednesday; multiple choice and short answer.

Test Preparation I

Prepare a list of terms, names, events, qualities of each of the following topics as a first step in preparation for our test next Friday.  Use your class notes chapter notes, and all work we have done in class.  Now would be a good time to organize your notebook!

Pre-history and early humanity, early civilizations, Mesopotamia, Egypt, ancient Americas

Olmec Heads Hypothesis

Create explanations for any three of our questions about the Olmec heads.

Art as an Expression of Royal Authority: Due Friday 10/11

Please complete thoughtful descriptions and interpretations of the examples of art provided in class.  Sketches should be simple, but thoughtful and more detailed than stick figures.  This material is from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on-line book.  If you want to see color images click the title: Art of the Ancient Near East.

Due Wednesday

1. Use the list of facts you created from your observations about ancient civilizations based on visual evidence.  Create 5 or more inferences.  Beside each inference write the number of two or more facts.  Refer to our class notes for an example.

2. Compose a 5-8 sentence paragraph answering the question: How can ancient cities be described?  Your paragraph should include the following:

-- a direct answer

--2 or more inferences and the facts that support each inference. 

-- correct spelling and grammar

1A and 4A Homework

Period 1A

1. Complete CHESS notes for Egyptian civilization.

Many of you have made excellent notes from chapter three!  The CHESS notes should serve as a review.

2. Read any news report that is good news from a region of the world's first civilizations.

a. Summarize the report in 1 paragraph.

b. Write your own thoughts and reactions in a second paragrah.

c. Note the author, date, and publication

Period 4A

Complete notes for chapter 3: River Valley Civilizations.  Use the notes rubric provided in class.

Turn each heading and subheading into a question and answer the question with evidence from the section.  

Oracle Bones and Ancient Documents

Please answer the questions related to Oracle Bones of the Shang.  Question 9 should be answered in paragraph format with evidence from at least two of the documents we discussed in class.

Great work on the discussion today!

Early Civilizations: Document Delve 2

Due Tuesday, 10/1

Guns Germs Steel

A. Complete notes and project in response to evidence from Jared Diamond's work: Guns, Germs, and Steel.

B. Notebook check on Friday! 

Please check your grades online!  

1A and 4A Complete Chapter 2 Notes & Study for Reading Quiz Next Wednesday

Complete notes for all of chapter 2; you already started this!

Turn each heading & subheading into a question and answering each question with a list of evidence from the text.  Remember the feedback I gave to each of you during our review of the first set of notes!  There will be a quiz next Wednesday on the vocabulary and main ideas of this chapter.

Great work on our discussion today about civilization and inequality!

-S.

1A and 4A: World Civilisation (spelling is correct)

Please read the World "Civilisation" essay and respond.  Be prepared to discuss this in the next lesson.

1A 4A Complete Textbook Inquiry Assignment & Study for Reading Quiz

a. Complete the textbook inquiry assignment started in class today and 

b. the graphs of world data and

c. STUDY your notes from pages 36-50 for a reading quiz next lesson!

Have a great weekend!

Mr. S

1A and 4A Early Villages and Civilization Reading

Please read pages 36 to 50 in your textbook.

Turn each heading and sub-heading into a question.

Answer each question in list format with specific evidence from the text such as: names, places, events, qualities, and developments.

1A Graphing Data and World View

a. Please complete the World View chart of your personal world view.

b. Please create one graph of data using the Modern World statistics assignment.  A second graph may be created for your enjoyment.  Try the UNDP Data Explorer for ideas about graphing: http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/explorer/.

4A Origins and Time and Data Representation

a. Please complete the Origins and Time reading with one quotation and your response for each page.

b. Please create one graph of data using the Modern World statistics assignment.  A second graph may be created for your enjoyment.  Try the UNDP Data Explorer for ideas about graphing: http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/explorer/.

4A: World View Assignment

Using the world-view matrix (handout) complete your personal world-view chart.  Look up words that you don't understand from the handout if necessary.

1A: "Origins and Time" essay

Continue reading "Origins and Time" essay.

From each page select one phrase or sentence as a quotation. Enclose the quotation in quotation marks.  After the quotation note the page in parenthesis.

Add a one sentence reaction or question to the quotation.