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monday, November 5, 2018

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We finished our projects today and will turn in time permitting tomorrow, Tuesday.
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HOMEWORK:  finish Mesopotamian Travel Ad

tuesday, November 6, 2018

Mesopotamian Empires station rotation activity.

Follow this link for Hammurabi's Webquest:

​​www.phillipmartin.info/hammurabi/homepage.htm
HOMEWORK:  finish any part of the station rotation from today

WEDNESDAY, November 7

We are doing a deeper dive for information on those first 4 Mesopotamian Empires.  We are reading an excerpt from the History Alive book about these empires...We took "bubble notes" from a reading on these empires in order:  
  1. Akkadian Empire
  2. Babylonian Empire
  3. Assyrian Empire
  4. New Babylonian Empire

I'm posting the pages from that handout below... and the bubble notes as well.

4_mesopotamian_empires_best_2017_with_map.pdf
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HOMEWORK:  15 minutes of work on these bubble notes

thursday/friday, november 8 and 9

Follow these steps:
  1. FINISH all 4 Mesopotamian Empires in your packet...complete it thoroughly!
  2. Then, watch this video about the Akkadians:  edpuzzle.com/media/5bd751f12fa46940d10acc0c
  3. Afterwards, check this one out, it's a fun one about the Akkadians!  www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdblRch6m3g
  4. Okay, let's move on to the Babylonians!  Here's a short one about Hammurabi and the Babylonians:  edpuzzle.com/media/5bd861b59a0c2f4060dc388e
  5. ​Then, go here for the Assyrians...watch the video then click, THINK and then DIG DEEPER and explore the links!  ed.ted.com/lessons/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-assyrian-empire-marian-h-feldman#watch
  6. ​Now, we go to the New Babylonians!!!  watch this next video...
  7. ​​edpuzzle.com/media/5bca6d212b3ffe404533602e
  8. ​ NOW, the most important REVIEW VIDEO, watch this and then create a 4 slide Google Slide about each of these 4 empires:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sPVe5mjphA&t=181s

If you have time, check out the glorious city of Babylon!  www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM4JqBqT2ao    AND  www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yGXrvrWTsk