HW# 10

Create a set of ten laws, and their punishments for the classroom. 

HW#9 (Due Thursday)

HW#9 (Due Thursday)
Read pages 16-23
Answer Question
1. What is civilization?(pg 17)
2. Why were river valleys important?(pg 17)
3. What were city states?(pg 19)
4. How did Mesopotamian's control the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers? (pg 20)
5. What kind of written language did the Mesopotamian's use?(pg 21)

Aim: Have you ever heard of the Mesopotamian's (Sumerian's)?

Do Now:  List four facts about the Neolithic Revolution

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 Smartboard lesson

Lesson: (1) Vocabulary Review

1. City States- cities and the surrounding territories

2. Artisans - Skilled workers

3. Ziggurats- Mesopotamian temples

4. Cuniform- Sumerian writing made up of wedge -shaped sign

5. Scribe - Sumerian writer

6. Priest King- Sumerian governmental and religious leader

Aim: What changes marked the Neolithic Revolution?

Do Now: Define: Revolution-____________________________________________________

List the historical inaccuracies (problems) with the television show the Flintstones.

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Flintstones Theme

Flinstones theme 2

Powerpoint

Cloze notes

Aim: How would you have handled life before recorded history?

Do Now: What would happen without the internet?



Powerpoint
Cloze Worksheet

Aim: How can we compare economic systems?

Do Now:

1.How is a need similar to want?

2. What would happen if money didn’t exist?

Powerpoint 

Homework

•A newly independent nation has emerged and needs to create a government. As an adviser to that nation you have been asked to analyze one of the political systems listed below.

• •Parliamentary Democracy
• •Absolute Monarchy
• •Totalitarian Dictatorship
• •Theocracy
• •Direct Democracy

1. •Discuss one strength of that system.
2. •Discuss one weakness of that system
3. •Identify a nation (past or present) that used that political system. (You cannot discuss the United States.)