Welcome to November

Bell Activity:  2-0
Go back to the K-W-L we did on Oct 18.  Fill out the L part.  Under the L you will write what you learned, or at least the best things you learned.


Today 11/1                                           Next Day  11/2
1. BA/CE                                              1 . BA/ CE
2. Good bye to Egypt                            2. Geography of Greece
3. Intro to Ancient Greece


Homework:
None...............yet

What are we learning?

1.  How Greece connects with Egypt and Mesopotamia.

All Hallows Eve

Bell Activity:  10/31
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
1.  What traditions does your family have for Halloween?
2.  Why is it fun to be scared?  (or is it fun?)


Today 10/31                                         Next Day  11/1
1. BA/CE                                              1 . BA/ CE
2. Halloween                                         2. Ancient Greece

Homework:
All missing assignments are due.  

What are we learning?

1.  Why do we celebrate Halloween?

2.  Where did the traditions come from?

Oct 28

Bell Activity:  10/27
None


Today 10/28                                         Next Day  10/31
1. No BA/CE                                        1 . BA/ CE
2. Egypt Test                                         2. Halloween

Homework:
All missing assignments are due on Oct 28

What are we learning?

Oct 27

Bell Activity:  10/27
No Ba, Yes CE


Today 10/27                                         Next Day  10/28
1. BA/CE                                              1 . NO BA/ CE
2. Egypt Acomplish                              2. Egypt Test
3. Review

Homework:
Egypt Test will be Friday Oct 28
All missing assignments are due on Oct 28

What are we learning?
1. The impact of massive culture change within a civilization.
2.  The impact of religion in Egypt.
3.  How Egyptian society favored the upper class (who were fewer in number than the lower class).

Oct 26

Bell Activity:  10/26
1.  Who was Akhenaten and what did he do to SHOCK Egypt?
2.  Why do you think Egyptians got upset with his religious changes?
3.  Imagine you lived during Akhenaten's reign, describe how you would feel.


Today 10/26                                         Next Day  10/27
1. BA/CE                                              1 . NO BA/ CE
2. Egyptian Society                               2. Egypt Acomplish
                                                              3. Review

Homework:
Movie Sheet- Oct 26
Egypt Test will be Friday Oct 28
All missing assignments are due on Oct 28

What are we learning?
1. The impact of massive culture change within a civilization.
2.  The impact of religion in Egypt.
3.  How Egyptian society favored the upper class (who were fewer in number than the lower class).

Oct 25 No Mr. Weston :(

Bell Activity:  10/25
NO Ba or CE.
Update your planners.
Get out your Green note paper.


Today 10/25                                         Next Day  10/26
1. NO BA/CE                                       1 . BA/ CE
2. Akhunaton                                        2. Egyptian Society 

Homework:
Movie Sheet- Oct 26
Egypt Test will be Friday Oct 28
All missing assignments are due on Oct 28

What are we learning?
1. The impact of massive culture change within a civilization.
2.  The impact of religion in Egypt.

Back to School

Bell Activity:  10/24
Watch the clip on mummification and answer the questions.
1. What did ancient Egyptians put in the canopic jars?
2. Why is the heart left?
3.  How did they get the brain out?
4. Why did they spend all the time mummifying?
5. Connecting this clip with last weeks lesson on the gods,  what importance  do you think religion and the promised after life play in ancient Egypt?


Today 10/24                                         Next Day  10/25
1. BA/CE                                             1 . No BA/ CE
2. Egyptian Civ                                    2. Akhunaton                                         

Homework:
Egypt Test will be Friday Oct 28
All missing assignments are due on Oct 28

What are we learning?
1. What made Egypt a successful and long lasting civilization.

2.  How geography affected Egypt.

Oct 19th then off for UEA!

Bell Activity:  10/19
No BA or CE but pull out your notebook anyway :)


Today 10/19                                         Next Day  10/20
1. no BA/CE                                         1 . UEA
2. Egyptian Religion                                              

Homework:

What are we learning?
1. Egyptian religion and polytheism.

Oct 18

Bell Activity:  10/18
Using about half the sheet of paper, divide the paper into 3 parts.
               K                                W                               L
K is for what you know                W is for what you want to learn         Leave L blank for today

In the next few minutes, fill out as much as you can for K and W on ancient Egypt.


(Pick up your Country Report posters after school, if you want them. Last day to do so.)


Today 10/18                                         Next Day  10/19
1. no BA/CE                                         1 . BA/ CE
2. Egypt                                                2. Egypt

Homework:

What are we learning?
1. The impact ancient Egypt had on our modern world.
2. The importance of studying ancient cultures.

Oct 17

Bell Activity:  10/17
No Ba today.  
Pull out your notebook, because we have some CE!
(Pick up your Country Report posters after school, if you want them.)


Today 10/17                                         Next Day  10/18
1. no BA/CE                                         1 . BA/ CE
2. Early Writing                                   2. Egypt

Homework:

What are we learning?
1. How writing developed in ancient Sumer.
2. The impact writing can have on a society.

Egyptian Vocab Words

The * means they are not in the textbook's glossary.  You can use the online textbook to help (the link is under Weston's links).  Other wise, use a dictionary or online source.

*Quarry                                                   *Fresco

Cataract                                                   *Faience

Expedition                                              Mummification

Polytheism                                             *Canopic Jars

Monotheism                                         *Sarcophagus

*Pectoral- an Egyptian necklace        Pharaoh

*Obelisk                                                      Delta

Papyrus                                                     *Shadoof    pg 84

*Sphinx                                                     *Inundation

*Rosetta Stone                                       *lotus

Scribe                                                         hieroglyphics

Oct 14

Bell Activity:  10/14
No Ba today.  
Pull out your notebook, because we have a full slate of CE!
(Pick up your Country Report posters after school, if you want them.)
Today 10/14                                         Next Day  10/17
1. BA/CE                                             1 . BA/ CE
2. Egypt Vocab                                    2. Early Writing

Homework:
-Finish defining the vocab if you don't finish in class
-Make sure your notebooks are ready for a notebook check

What are we learning?
1. We are learning key terms to help us better understand our study of ancient Egypt.
2. How to find definitions and how the terms connect.

Oct 13

Bell Activity:  10/13
No Ba today.  
1. Up date your planner.
2. Flip through your notebook and make sure each entry is labeled and dated.  If it isn't write in your planner to get on the blog tonight and fix your notebook.
3. Get your notebooks ready for some CE!

Today 10/13                                         Next Day  10/14
1. BA/CE                                             1 . BA/ CE
2. Egypt Vocab                                    2. Early Writing

Homework:
-Get on power school to check your grades and missing assignments. 
-Make sure your notebooks are ready for a notebook check
What are we learning?
1. We are learning key terms to help us better understand our study of ancient Egypt.
2. How to find definitions and how the terms connect.

Oct 12

Bell Activity:  10/12
Think of life in the stone age to answer the following questions.
1.  Write a few sentences on what it would be like to live a nomadic life.  (Give some thought to always moving, searching for food, shelter, etc, and never being stable)
2.  Write a few sentences on what it would be like to have wild animals around and the possibility of being injured with no real medical care?

Today 10/12                                         Next Day  10/13
1. BA/CE                                             1 . BA/ CE
2. Move to Farming/ Pre-test               2. Writing

Homework:
-Get on power school to check your grades and missing assignments. 
-Make sure your notebooks are ready for a notebook check
What are we learning?
1. We are figuring out how the move to agriculture happened, and why it is important.

Oct 11

Bell Activity:  10/11
Think of life in the stone age to answer the following questions.
1.  Write a few sentences on what it would be like to live a nomadic life.  (Give some thought to always moving, searching for food, shelter, etc, and never being stable)
2.  Write a few sentences on what it would be like to have wild animals around and the possibility of being injured with no real medical care?

Today 10/11                                         Next Day  10/12
1. BA/CE                                             1 . BA/ CE
2. Move to Farming/ Pre-test               2. Move to Farming/ Pre-test

Homework:
Get on power school to check your grades and missing assignments. 


What are we learning?

Egyptian Pre-test

 Here is the vocab pre-test

Oct 10

Bell Activity:  10/10
No BA. 

Today 10/10                                         Next Day  10/11
1. NO BA/CE                                      1 . BA/ CE
2. Geography Test                                2. Move to Farming

Homework:
Get on power school to check your grades and missing assignments. 


What are we learning?

Geography Test

Here is the geography test.  Click the link and take the test.

Have fun!!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDJhM1BJZUx5b0RYRC1OcUZrd2QzdVE6MQ

Friday the 7th

Bell Activity:  10/7
No BA.  Pull out your notebook for some CE.

Today 10/7                                         Next Day  10/10
1. BA/CE                                            1 . BA/ CE
2. Early Man                                       2. Geography Test

Homework:
Geography Vocab Map-10/7 (Today)
Study for the Geography Test 10/10


What are we learning?
1.We are learning how early man lived, and what they left behind.
2. We are gaining an understanding of the challanges early man faced.

Oct 6

Bell Activity:  10/5
No BA.  Pull out your notebook for some CE.

Today 10/6                                         Next Day  10/7
1. BA/CE                                            1 . BA/ CE
2. Vocab Mapping                              2. Early Man
3. Geography Review                                    

Homework:
Geography Vocab Map-10/7
Study for the Geography Test 10/10


What are we learning?
1.How to connect vocab terms with other terms.
2. We will see how the terms interconnect to create a whole picture on geography.

Back from PTC

Bell Activity:  10/5
1. In a complete sentence, write the best part of doing the country report.
2.  In a complete sentence, write the hardest part of doing the country report.
3.  Write a full paragraph on what you learned by working on and presenting your country report.  (I'm not just looking for information you learned on your country.  I want to know what you learned about presenting, working in groups, etc)


Today 10/5                                         Next Day  10/6
1. BA/CE                                            1 . BA/ CE
2. Vocab Mapping                              2. Geography Review
                                     
Homework:
Geography Vocab Map-10/7
Study for the Geography Test 10/7


What are we learning?
1.How to connect vocab terms with other terms.
2. We will see how the terms interconnect to create a whole picture on geography.

Oct 3

Bell Activity:
No BA.  
 Update your planner.  Then, put everything under your desk except your notebook and a pen/pencil to take notes.


Today 10/3                                         Next Day  10/4
1. NO BA/CE                                     1 . PTC 8-11
2. Presentations
3. PTC tonight 3-6                               
                                     
Homework:
Be ready to present!!
Come to PTC Tonight or Tomorrow 


What are we learning?
1.How to teach the class learned information.
2. Working with a group.
3. Researching and reporting skills.