Ancient River Civilization Lesson #4

Thursday and Friday

Ancient River Civilizations Lesson #4

1. Grade Quiz/records results
2. Egypt Culture Jigsaw/Informercial----Presentation
1. Religion shapes Life in Ancient Egypt
2. How Egyptian view the afterlife
3. Organization of Egyptian Society
4. Advances in Egyptian Learning
5. Egyptian develop Arts and Literature
6. Ancient Israelites/Unique Belief System
7. Law and Morality

3. Show John Greene Clip of Ancient Egypt
1. Each table something new learned from video
4. New Kingdom---Next block
5. 10 Minutes Prep for Debate
6. Debate
7. Becoming a Pharaoh Game

Objectives

1. Describe Ancient Egyptian Life
2. List essential descriptions of Old, Middle, and New Kingdom of Egypt
3. Synthesize information into a infomercial presentation
4. Evaluate information and sources and present a logical historical argument.

Prezi--Ancient Egypt

Power Point Review---Becoming a Pharaoh Review Game

Ancient River Civ Lesson 3

“What can you do?”  8 minutes
Chapter 3 Study Guide---Test next week Wednesday and Thursday September 24th and 25th

Read pages 44-48 (10 minutes to read)

Reading comprehension quiz (can use any notes they take)

Objectives

1. Understand the ways in which geography helped shape ancient Egypt
1. Herodotus (484-425BC) First to investigate Egypt
2. Nile River
2. Analyze the achievements of the Old Kingdom in Egypt
1. Preview:
1. Rosetta Stone
1. 4.5 ‘ high, 3 languages
2. Pre-Rosetta, Hieroglyphs were mummy’s curses?
3. Champollion figures them out
2. 3100, Menes of Upper Egypt, unites the two Egypts
3. But first “king” likely the “Scorpion King” (symbol was the scorpion)
4. Not “The Rock”
5. Here’s a list of kings
   
2. View:  Old Kingdom
1. Ca. 2575-2130
2. Djoser is first king, or Pharaoh
3. Step Pyramid
3. Describe the events that brought turbulence to Egypt’s Middle Kingdom
1. Ca. 1938-1630 (SBU lecture put it at 2025-1795 [D. 12; but new school goes to D.14])
2. Notable Pharaoh:  Amunemhet I (1983-1954)
1. Non-noble vizier, became Pharaoh
2. Only other non-vizier was Joseph, of Jacob of Isaac of Abraham
3. Moved Capital from Thebes to Itz-Towy, just S. of Memphis
4. Known as “The Good Shepherd” or “Herdsman” (a little foreshadowing?)
3. The Hyksos Invasion
1. Ca. 1675, settle in Goshen?
2. Conquer much, but not all Egypt
3. Introduce the chariot to Egypt’s armed services
4. Possibly Canaanites (Josephus’ description, based on Manetho)
5. Others suggest West Africans?  No one knows for certain
6. Joseph, of Jacob, of Isaac, of Abraham:
1. Became Vizier 1885
2. Died 1805
4. Explain how Egypt grew strong during the New Kingdom

Debate:  

Resolved -or- Affirmed:

“It is Affirmed that the Exodus of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery occurred in ca. 1446BC during the reign of Thutmoses III, not in ca. 1250BC during the reign of Ramses II.”

Lesson 3: Hammurabi's code and Parliamentary Procedure

Coming to class:  Sit where the students sat last block.  Find someone who knows activity for Sumerian quiz.

Preparation for delegate debate---10 minutes

Parliamentary Procedure -21 minutes

Debate -- 10 minutes

Read Chapter 2 section 3 and answer each check point question on Egypt---What don't get done is homework.

Show the 9/6 Watters’ World clip

Pass out, introduce the law codes.  

Discuss Parliamentary Procedure, for a House Floor Debate session, after various law codes are studied.  Rest of class.  ~15 minutes.  (Record who is at which table, for next class session)

Hammurabi,Jewish Law, Greek,  Roman, Medieval English, Islamic Sharia, USSR, DPRK, American Constitution

Before the Bell:

Remind students of the Political Map, that it will be visited soon (next period).  Introduce them to the Middle East Geography game page and the Asia Geography game page.  Playing these two pages will help their understanding of the political environment.  

Second Day:

Open with ensuring all students return to the same desks.  Open the Law Codes file.

Replay the House Floor Debate Session.  Remind them that they will be advocating the passage of a new (or keep our current) criminal law system.

Babylon

Hammurabi’s Code

Judaism

Old Testament Law Code

Greece

Criminal Procedure of Ancient Greece

Rome

The Twelve Tables

Roman Legal Tradition

Middle Ages England

Crime and Punishment in Medieval England

History of Capital Punishment in Med. England

Islamic Sharia Law

Origins of Islamic Law

Severity of Islamic Law

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

North Korean Law

Union of Soviet Socialist Republic

Criminal Law in the Soviet Union

United States of America

The Bases for US Criminal Law

Ancient River Civilization

Ancient River Civilizations Lesson #2

SABPK:  1.5 minutes each table; each prepares and presents one of the 7 attributes/characteristics of an advanced civilization 10 to 12 minutes

Introduce the various civilizations/empires.  Maps on Google Slides.  10 minutes max

Blank maps, fill in the ancient civs, regions, water bodies.  15 minutes

Assign each table a civilization.  Read, present to class.  Emphasize the presenters are to speak in 1st person.  Consider it to be a “persuasive speech”  Each must participate or nickels/pennies are forfeited.

1. Sumerian

2. Akkadian

3. 1st Babylonian

4. Hittites

5. Phoenician

6. Assyrian

7. 2nd Babylonian

Total time on task:  30 minutes

Ancient River Civilization Lesson 1

Ancient River Civilization Lesson 1

Each table task find one current event issue associated with the area of the Middle East

1. One current event related to Middle East--Each table

2. Report those results

5.  A brief 20th/21st history of Iraq/Middle East/conflicts…

Ottoman Empire:  Google Slide of Fertile Crescent Today

1.  Began in 1299 C.E.

2.  Lasted, give or take real estate,  into WWI--Ottoman Empire allied with Germany

3.  Actions cause Ripples:  "Blowback" is the International Relations term.

6. After WWI, broken up into several parts, split internationally.  
7.  Israel gets their own country in 1948

8.  ISIS/ISIL and its crimes

Lesson 1:  Introduction to City-States to Ancient Sumer

Importance of writing

World History Crash course Mesopotamia

What do you remember?

Pages 30 to 36

25 minutes

Provide examples to support the city-states of Ancient Sumer being a civilization

Organized Government

Complex Religion

Arts and Architecture

Public Works

Writing

Specialization

Social Classes

HW: Read 36 - 43 and outline 5 pts