8/12/14 Good Morning!

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8/12/14Good Morning!

• Please be seated where you were yesterday.
• Sticker person will get your composition books.
  Once you receive you books please answer the
  following.
• Which class do you think will be your most
  successful, and why?
• Which class do you think you will need to work a
  little harder? Why? What are you going to do
  about that?

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8/13

• Write a short explanation of what you would hope
  to study this year in Social Studies, and give a
  reason as to why you would find that interesting.
  What activities would you think would help make
  it interesting to study and learn social studies?
  Group projects, reader theater.

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8/14

• Good Morning D
• Write a tweet/hashtag or post about your first
  days/week of middle school.
• How does it compare to what you were expecting.
  Are your concerns/fears put to rest now?
• Do you have new concerns?
• What are you excited about most?
• What is one KIK, post or comment you have
  already posted about your first days this week.?
  (Example when she got her schedule..my daughter
  posted on Instagram whohasmrwalters.

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8/18

• Good Morning!
• There are 7 continents. Write down as many as
  you can.

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8/19

• Good Morning my darlins
• What does A.D. stand for? What does B.C. stand
  for? Do you know any other ways to represent
  these?

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8/20

• Good Morning beautiful! ?
• What IS geography? Can you list 4 geographic
  landforms and the definitions in your own words?
• Reminder write question for F.O.As

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8/21

• What are some jobs that involve Social Studies or
  History?
• Reminder! Write the date and Questions!

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8/22

• Good Morning my bright and shining faces!?
• What do you know about Latitude and Longitude?
  What tricks do you use to help yourself remember
  each one?
• Reminder write the question

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8/25

• What is the difference between an anthropologist
  and archeologist?

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8/26

• We have talked about Cardinal directions and
  intermediate directions. What are they?

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8/27

• Using your textbook, Pg. RA3 what city would
  you be in if you were 35N and 80W?

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• 8/28
• Draw a timeline.. Put these eras in order
• Prehistory up to 3500 BC
• Ancient History 3500 BC to AD 500
• Middle Ages 500 AD to 1400
• Modern History AD 1400 to present
• TBT Me in Washington D.C.
• Age 7

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8/29

• Write down 5 Geography terms and either
• Illustrate them or define them
• Heads up!!!! F.O.A. quiz on Tuesday ?

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9/3/14

• List 3 Characteristics of the Paleolithic Age

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9/4/14

• Describe how you would be living (what life would
  be like) in the Paleolithic Age
• Describe how you would be living in the Neolithic
  Age (what was your home like? Activities?)

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9/8/14

• What does Agriculture mean? Why was it
  important?
• What does nomad/nomadic mean? Why arent we
  nomadic anymore?

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9/9/14

• NO F.O.A.

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9/15/14

• Put these years in order on a timeline..
• 3000 B.C.
• A.D. 500
• A.D. 2014
• 2700 B.C.
• 2000 B.C.
• What are the years AFTER the birth of Christ
  referred to? BEFORE the birth of Christ?

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9/17/14

• Explain the importance of Hammurabis Code.
• Analyze how the Tigris and Euphrates River
  impacted the growth of Mesopotamia.

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9/18/14

• Draw a timeline and label the following
• Prehistory
• 1 B.C.
• A.D. 1
• B.C./B.C.E
• A.D./C.E.

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9/23/14

• A person that could read and write, held high
  status was called .
• What did the Mesopotamians use for building
  material, because building resources were scarce?

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9/24/14

• What was domestication?
• What is irrigation?
• What are some major advantages of these two
  advances?
• Heyhey..hey guess what day it is!

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9/29/14

• What was Sargons major contribution to
  Mesopotamia?
• What was Hammurabis major contribution to
  Mesopotamia?

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9/30/14

• Write these words down, in sentence form
• -scribes
• Polytheism/monotheism
• City-states
• Sargon
• Hammurabis Code

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10/13/14

• Welcome Back!
• What modern day country was Mesopotamia located
  in?
• What is agriculture?
• What is metallurgy?

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10/14/14

• How did the Nile River help the Egyptian
  Civilization?
• What was the nickname given to Egypt?

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10/15/14

• How were Egyptians protected by their natural
  environment?
• What kind of writing did the Egyptians develop?

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10/16/14

• What was the land like around the Nile River?

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10/17/14

• Which group is the largest on the social pyramid
  in Egypt?
• Which group is the most respected?