Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Ch. 2 Schedule


QUARTER 1              WEEK 2                     AP WORLD HISTORY                                  TAMM
AUG 26-AUG 29

MON
Pg. 26-32 Quest for Order in Mesopotamia
“How did Mesopotamia’s political history progress in ancient times?”
Vocab: civilization, Mesopotamia, specialization of labor, Sumerian city-states, ziggurat, sargon, Hammurabi, babylonia, Assyria, Nebuchadnezzar, hanging gardens
Primary Source: Thomas Cole and the Rise and Fall of Empires cycle, Demarast model
Activity: Notes overview, discussion, people list
Homework: read 2, map 2, short answers 2

TUE
Pg. 32-36 Social and Cultural Mesopotamia
“How do literature, art and law reflect social classes in Mesopotamia?”
Vocab: stele, bronze age, iron age, wheel, trade network, social class, patriarchal society, standard of ur, lex talionis, cuneiform, epic of gilgamesh
Activity: primary source 36 hammurabi’s code, Code of the Assura
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/1075assyriancode.asp
Activity: Partner Day identification worksheet
Homework: short answers 2

WED
37-39 Hebrews
“When did the tradition of ethical monotheism begin in the Levant and how do the 10 Commandments compare to Hammurabi’s Code?”
Vocab: Bani Israel, Levant, Old Testament, YHWH, monotheism, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, joseph, moses, Joshua, david, Solomon, temple of Solomon, Jerusalem, river Jordan,
Activity: primary source: Ten Commandments
Activity: primary source 41: Isrealites relation with neighboring peoples
Homework: map

THU
40-45: Phoenicians and Indo-Europeans
“How did the alphabet make writing easier and what impact did the Indo-European migrations have technologically?”
Vocab: Phoenicians, baal, Astarte (Ishtar), alphabet, indo-european, PIE, ethnolinguistic family, heimat, pontic steppes, hittites, aryan, chariot, iron, indo-european migrations
Activity: Phoenician alphabet soup
Homework: review

FRI
Test Ch. 2: Ancient Near East
Homework: Map 3 (place, geography, events); Short Answers 3/7 (Pol, Soc, Econ, Cult)
                        Read Ch. 3 and 7, check class website and blog

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