October. 3-October 7

Monday, October 3, 2016
Key Terms and Objectives in your notebook

Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Get Ready for Black Rock

Wednesday, October 5-Friday, October 7
Have a good week at Black Rock!  No Homework!

Comic Strip Project--Due Oct. 21---please check to make sure that you have met the requirements

    Project #1—Comic Strip

Directions:  Create a Historical comic strip based the following topics.

·         Old & New Stone Age

·         The Fertile Crescent

Requirements:  The comic must have

·         8-10 indivual scenes

·         Each scene must have at least 1 fact attached to the picture

·         The scene may be hand drawn but may not be stick people.

·         All scenes must be in color

·         The paper must be submitted on white or colored paper.  NO NOTEBOOK PAPER IS ALLOWED

·         Students may use a comic builder website but must print out their work.  This must be in color too. 

·         This is a suggested website but not the only sites that may be used

·         http://city.lego.com/en-us/ComicBuilder/mycomics.aspx 

·         http://www.bitstrips.com/create/comic/

·         http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/comic/

Date Due:____________________________

Thursday, September 29

No Homework!  Good Job on your test!

Thursday, Sept.28

Study for your test on Thursday on Chapter 1

Review Questions

Vocabulary:
archaeolgist
artisian
domesticate
history
irrigation
nomad
oral traditions
prehistory
surplus

Key Concepts

What does the word pre mean?
How did scientists learn about the iceman's body?
Human prehistory took place when?
Differences between Old Stone Age/Middle/New
How did people in the Old Stone Age get their food
How did farming change the way people lived?
What did surplus lead to?
What did people need in order to live in a city?

Tuesday, September 27

Social Studies 

Page 27 Practice Test Prep

The following are the questions if you cannot get onto the page via the text book:

Self-Test

The Beginnings of Human Society

Click the button next to the response that best answers the question.

1. To understand societies that existed in the past, historians study

• cave paintings.
• bones and tools.
• written records.
• fossils.

2. Scientists believe modern humans originated more than 100,000 years ago in

• Asia.
• Northern Europe.
• Africa.
• Australia.

3. The frozen body of the Iceman was found

• on Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa.
• in the Himalayas.
• in the Alps.
• in the Andes.

4. Cities formed governments to

• keep order and provide services.
• ensure that all people were treated equally.
• develop occupations for people to keep people employed.
• keep track of who was moving into the city.

5. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

• Having surplus food meant that families could be larger.
• Having surplus food meant that some people could do work other than farming.
• Having surplus food meant that food could be stored.
• Having surplus food meant that crops did not need to be planted every year.

6. An artisan is someone who

• paints portraits for a living.
• is especially good at whatever he or she does.
• makes things like baskets or pottery by hand.
• is crafty in business dealings.

7. Archaeologists use all of the following to study prehistoric cultures EXCEPT

• writing on stone.
• bones.
• tools.
• spear points.

8. Ideas and information spread from city to city through

• universities.
• people who were taken captive.
• trade.
• invasions by armies.

9. Geography refers to climate, landscape, and

• population.
• location.
• culture.
• food supply.

10. Pastoral nomads travel from place to place to

• find good places to grow food.
• find food for their animals.
• find good places to establish trade routes.
• avoid having to fight with their enemies.

Friday, September 23, 2016

Have a great weekend!

Test on Thursday, September 29th
Finish page 26 # 1-5 if you didn't finish it in class.

Week Four--Sept 19-Sept 23

Chapter 1 Section 3

Monday, Sept. 19
Guided Reading and Review Page

Tuesday, Sept. 20
Section Assessment page 24 # 1 & 2

Wednesday, Sept. 21
Vocabulary Development

Thursday, Sept. 22
Study for your quiz on Chapter 1 Section 3 for Friday

Friday, Sept. 23
No Homework :)

Week Three

Chapter 1-Section 2

Monday, September 12
Guided Reading and Review page 14 in your handouts

Tuesday, Sept 13
Section Asst. page 17

Wednesday, Sept. 14-Thursday, Sept. 15
Study for a quiz on Friday on Chapter 1 Section 2

Friday, Sept. 16
Copy Key Terms and Objectives for Chapter 1 Section 3

Week Two

Chapter 1--The Beginnings of Human Society
Section 1--Geography and History

History is studied in many different ways. Archaeologists study objects found in the ground, caves, and ancient historical sites. If documents are available, historians research and study the written documents of the time to find out what, where, and why events occurred.

Objectives: 
Learn what tools are used to understand history
Find out between the connection of geography and history


Monday, Sept 6, 2016
                    Homework: GRR page 10

Tuesday,Sept. 7, 2016
Homework: Section Asst. Page 9 in your textbook # 1 (abc) 2 (abc)
Please write in complete sentences on notebook paper

Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016
Quiz tomorrow...Study Chapter 1-1 Vocab/GRR/Section Asst.

Friday, Sept. 9, 2016
Read Chapter 1 Section 2 Pages 12-17