Project

Update due to Covid19: You can still access your powerpoint project from home, details are here.  When completed, share the powerpoint with me and I can access your powerpoint and put it onto Zoom as a shared screen.  The important thing is your speech, which your powerpoint may help, but feel free to do your presentation without the powerpoint.

We have covered about 195,000 years of history. Click on the link above, Early People to Rome, to peruse what we have covered. Take your time on these links, find something that attracts your fancy to do a project on it. Blog below what your project topic will be. The teacher will publish your post to signify approval.

Read up on your topic, take your time, become our class expert.

Then create a presentation on your topic.

You will need to have a 2 1/2minute speech (150 seconds) with 10 pictures for your presentation.



Things to focus on:
1. Why they/are/it is famous.
2. Impact on today’s society?
3. How they/it advanced science/technology/literature/government/other?


You will be marked on the following:
1. The information presented.
2. Information being presented in an interesting manner.
3. Pictures used (make them relevant).

Rubric to come next week.

Step 1 READ

Step 2 Choose a Topic

Step 3 READ some MORE

Step 4 Gather Notes (15 marks)

______ Title (name of event/person/activity,and your name) 1 mark-Keep focused on the topic

_______Who/What (describe major people/groups/event/action/activity involved) 1-See above-Focus!

 ______ When (period it took place, try and be very specific)1-Focus

_______How (How it worked, happened, was created/created change)Multiple Marks

 ______ Why (purpose/significance of event/action/activity/person) was important. Impact on us today? Multiple Marks

 ______ Interesting facts and explanations Multiple Marks

Step 5 Presenting the Information (5 marks)

Finding a way to present the above notes during our physical isolation time

Sources for ALL FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ancient Egypt Review

All times are approximate

5000 BCE-Farming starts in Mesopotamia. Soon followed in Egypt

3500 BCE-Writing stars in Mesopotamia. 

3200 BCE-The first evidence of the wheel being used, again in Mesopotamia. 

3100 BCE-Heiroglyphics being used in Egypt.Also the first time Upper and Lower Egypt is united

2500 BCE-The great pyramds of Giza being built

  200 BCE-Rosetta Stone was created

1799 CE- Rosetta Stone taken by the French/British 

Writing

Oral history is often not given the respect it deserves in our culture that values things being written down. Here is an example. Still, being able to communicate by writing can be a big advantage, especially if you can't meet in person.  Writing first happened in the Fertile Crescent, about 3400 BCE, soon after farming became a lifestyle. A big push to start writing was that it was a good way to keep track of taxes. Egypt had writing soon afterwards, about 3100 BCE.  It was awhile before an actual alphabet was used. People drew pictures or symbols to convey their message. We still do today, such as with emoticons.


In your groups, and without using any alphabetical figures, communicate the following message on your sheet of paper.


Zuri is selling high quality grain, good for bread, for 10 chickens. 
Liam is selling lower quality grain, good for animal feed, for 5 chickens. 

Mesopotamia, Written Laws and Money

With the power of writing, Hammurabi gave Mesopotamia a set of rules to live by, with clear consequences for breaking those rules. This helped make everyone accountable, a clear set of rules for all to live by. How would written rules help those with little power? 

Here is a list of those rules put forth by Hammurabi 

Browse through the list. Blog the answers below

1. If Zuri's locker was robbed and we don't catch the robber, then what do we have to do?

2. How much would Liam have to be paid for working in the fields for a whole year?
3. What must a man do to separate from a woman with who he hasn't had children?
4. If Griffen punches his dad, what is the penalty that Griffen must pay?
5. If Sophia accuses Ayla of cheating, and Ayla is a good enough swimmer to swim by Grant's Old Mill, what will happen? If Ayla isn't a good enough swimmer to swim by Grant's Old Mill, what happens then?
6. What role does gender and wealth play in these rules?

7. The concept of money also began in Mesopotamia. Explain how without money what you might have to do to purchase onion rings at A&W and then walk down to 7-11 to purchase a slurpee.
8. Share a rule from above that you found to be  interesting
9. Create your own rule, in a similar style, and share it in the blog posting below.
10. The 2nd picture is Cuneiform writing, the earliest form of writing, dating back to about 3200 BCE. Writing was a huge advancement.  It was done by wedges, as its Latin name tells us. The writing was done on clay slabs. The 1st picture has to do with cuneiform, take an educated guess what the object in the picture was used for.

Blog your answers below.
(Hint, use the Find feature on your browser)

Mesopotamia

Often called the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia is widely regarded as the birthplace of agrarian living, the wheel, writing, and many technological firsts. From the previous blog posts and/or from class discussions.

1. What is an agrarian society?
2. Why would an agrarian society start in Mesopotamia?
3. Explain why writing and the wheel and sailboats and urban settlements are all said to have started in Mesopotamia. 

Mesopotamia

The Start of Agrarian Societies

The advent of agriculture changed how people lived. It is widely believed that this change started in Mesopotamia, the site of modern day Iraq, and is often called the Cradle of Civilization and the Fertile Crescent. Look at the map of the Fertile Crescent. Many parts of the world, such as where we live, is good farming land. The huge advantage that Mesopotamia had was access to crops and animals that can be easily farmed and domesticated.

Consider some of the crops and animals that they had access to and what this meant to changing their lifestyle from a hunter and gatherer to a farmer.   

Like where we live, ancient farmers in Mesopotamia had to deal with flooding and drought. They came up with an interesting solution. Click here and try your hand at being a Mesopotamia farmer. 

Sadly the above game is currently not working. In the meantime, here is a video we will discuss in class about a student in Mesopotamia and how farming was done.