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MONDAY, 11/14/16

We did a review of Chapter 3 from start to finish on a worksheet.  Students completed that in class and then read a page about Leonard Wooley, the famous archaeologist who dug up sites in Sumer and answered 6 questions about him for homework.  Here are the 2 worksheets below :)
chapter_3_review_worksheet.doc
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chapter_3_leonard_wooley.pdf
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Tuesday, 11/15/16

We are doing a Google Drawing that shows SPRITE GAL for SUMER.  Here's the link to the file....open it and then click FILE, MAKE A COPY and RENAME it and begin work.
SPRITE GAL google drawing
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Wednesday, 11/16/16

We did an activity on Chapter 4, lesson 1 where students rotated from one station to the next and learned about the following areas:  Biography, Laws, Day of Misfortune, Legacy, and a Hammurabi Webquest.  I'll post the worksheet that guided students through the activity below.

And, here's the website we used for the Hammurabi Webquest:
www.phillipmartin.info/hammurabi/homepage.htm
hammurabi_activity_chapter_4_lesson_1.doc
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Thursday/Friday 11/17 & 11/18

Today, we're extending the learning about the world's first Empire, the Akkadians and then the Babylonians to include Mesopotamia's next 2 empires:  The Assyrians and the New Babylonians.  We read the following handout from the History Alive textbook on all 4 Empires, then took notes about each empire in a jigsawed discussion, and then began creating a Google Slide about these 4 empires.  I created a template to start the students on their way and here's that Google Slide template:

https://docs.google.com/a/lbusd.org/presentation/d/1XHgZlPesELZFRoVFpsTGeSr0ssH37Rm0bWHDPMFu-ss/edit?usp=sharing
4_mesopotamian_empires_best.docx
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chapter_4_empires_packet.pdf
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Click on the Calendar to find the homework!