WEEK 1: September 3 - 7 Monday: No School (Labor Day).
Tuesday: -Find Your Seat Activity. -Random Question Generator. Start with 1 partner across the room, double your group size each round (2 Q's per round). -Introduction to Mr. Digsby. -Kahoot! What did you learn last year? What will you learn this year?
Thursday: -Pass out text books and complete the Get to Know Your Book Activity. -Sign Up for TCI Online (chromecart). Walk through resources together, explore if time.
WEEK 3: September 17 - 21 Monday: -Constitution Day -Complete the Timeline Review Questions and the Geography Review. -Using the Geography Challenge Slideshow, discuss the Geography Review and introduce the Geography Challenge. -Ancient History Geography Challenge #1 - Begin #1-8 questions and use both Maps in the Text.
Wednesday: -Read and discuss sections 1.1 - 1.3 in Ch. 1 - Investigating the Past. Complete 1.2 and 1.3 in the Ch. 1 ISN.
Thursday: -Play the Lascaux Cave Painting video link as student walk in the class. -Introduce the Cave Painting Activity (Bring a Flashlight or Smartphone). Complete Cave Painting 1.4 as a class, then in pairs complete the next 2 paintings today. -Students will explore a simulated "cave" and analyze various cave paintings for meaning (Use the Pictures in the Book of each artifact if you were not in class to view them Pages 8-11).
Friday: -Finish the Cave Painting Activity (final 3 paintings). Finish Ch. 1 ISN section questions. -Watch wrap up video clip on the Lascaux Cave Paintings. -Go over responses and read the Ch. 1 Summary.
WEEK 4: September 24 - September 28 Monday: -Complete the Ch. 3 Preview Activity - From Hunters and Gatherers to Farmers. -Read and discuss 3.1 - 3.2. -Complete the key terms and 3.2 questions in the Ch. 3 ISN: From Hunters and Gatherers to Farmers.
Tuesday: -Read and discuss 3.3 - 3.5. Complete 3.3 - 3.5 in your Ch. 3 ISN.
Wednesday: -Read and discuss 3.6 - 3.7. Complete 3.6 - 3.7 in the Ch. 3 ISN. Read the chapter summary (3.8). -Pass out the Ch. 1 & 3 Study Guide - Ch. 1 & 3.
Thursday: -Introduce and begin working on the Neolithic Comic Book. -Early Release Day.
WEEK 5: October 1 - 5 Monday: -Last day to work on the Neolithic Comic Book.
Tuesday: -Review the Ch. 1 & 3 Study Guide. -Complete the Ch. 1 and 3 - TCI Online Reading Challenges (chromecart #2).
Wednesday: -Ch. 1 & 3 Quiz. -Begin Ch. 4 - Rise of Sumerian City-States. -Complete the Preview Activity and Key Terms (Mesopotamia, Sumer, Irrigation, City-State).
Thursday: -Share Preview responses with your group. Read and discuss 4.1 - 4.2. Complete 4.2 - Share responses with your group. -Conduct the group problem/solution scenario for section 3 (food shortage) - vote and explain group responses. -Read 4.3 and complete 4.3 questions in the Ch. 4 ISN.
Friday: -Ch. 4 activity on problem/solution scenarios using the TCI presentation (follow steps from yesterday with new challenges). Complete scenarios for 4.4 - 4.5.
WEEK 6: October 8 - 12 Monday: -Complete the problem/solution scenario for 4.6. -Read and discuss 4.7. Complete 4.7 questions in the Ch. 4 ISN. Go over answers in a class discussion. -Watch "Mankind: The Story of Us" episode 1 - Inventors (23:30 minutes) and complete guided notes.
Tuesday: -Read 4.8 - Chapter Summary. -Complete the Ch. 4 Check for Understanding Questions. -Complete the Ch. 5 Preview - Was Ancient Sumer a Civilization? Read and discuss 5.1 and 5.2. Complete 5.2 questions.
Wednesday: -Read and discuss 5.3 - 5.5. Complete 5.2 - 5.5 question in the Ch. 5 ISN (skip activity questions until later).
Thursday: -Read and discuss 5.6 - 5.9. Complete 5.6 - 5.9 question in the Ch. 5 ISN (skip activity questions until later).
Friday: -Upstander Program in the Media Center.
WEEK 7: October 15 - 19 Monday: -Ch. 5 Ancient Sumer Placard Activity (8 stations of placards, groups will rotate and look for evidence to match). -Pass out the Ch. 4 and 5 Study Guide (Unit 1 Test - Ch. 1, 3, 4, 5 on Tuesday).
Tuesday: -Watch Ancient Sumer video clip (3 min). -Work on Ch. 4 & 5 Study Guide and/or TCI Online Review (chromecart #2). -Study Tips - Look at your Reviews, ISN's and TCI Reading Challenges for Ch. 1, 3, 4, 5 - Test Tomorrow.
Thursday: -Unit 1 Student Reflection -Intro to Unit 2 - Ancient Egypt and the Near East. Complete the Unit 2 Geography Challenge questions #1-8, 9 & 14.
Friday: -Review the Geography Challenge 2. -Complete the Ch. 7 Group Preview activity. -Ch. 7 Pre/Post Questions. WEEK 8: October 22 - 26 Monday: -Read and discuss 7.1 - 7.4 as a class (Geography and Early Settlement of Egypt, Kush, and Canaan). -Complete the 7.3 - 7.4 questions.
Tuesday: -Complete the Ch. 8 Preview & key terms (Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs). -Read and discuss 8.1 - 8.2. Complete the 8.2 question in the Ch. 8 ISN.
Wednesday: -Watch the 39:30 of "What the Ancients Knew: Egypt" and complete the CoT Activity.
Thursday: -Begin the Felucca Boat Tour - Students will travel on an Egyptian Felucca up the Nile. -Conduct day 1 tour stops 1 & 2 (Pyramids of Giza and White Chapel at Karnak). -Read and discuss 8.3 - 8.4 and complete the 8.3 - 8.4 question in the Ch. 8 ISN.
Friday: -Felucca Boat Tour stops 3 & 4 (Temple at Dayr al-Bahri, and Abu-Simbal). -Read and discuss 8.5 - 8.6 and complete the 8.5 - 8.6 question in the Ch. 8 ISN.
WEEK 9: October 29 - November 2 Monday: -Egyptian Pyramid Lesson on Articles A-C (SHEG).
Tuesday: -Egyptian Pyramid Lesson on Articles D-E and final claim (SHEG).
Wednesday: -Early Release Day. -Ch. 7 & 8 Check for Understanding. -Begin Ch. 9 (Daily Life in Ancient Egypt). Complete the Preview. -Read and discuss 9.1.
Thursday: -Team 701 Day!
Friday: -Read and discuss 9.2 and complete the 9.2 question in the Ch. 9 ISN. -Create and illustrated dictionary for the Ch. 9 Key Terms. -End of Term 1.