DO NOW What would you would do with $1,000.. STOP, DROP, and READ! (15 minutes) Announcements Write HW in agenda Advisory Homework: Bring SDR book Everyday!

DO NOW

What would you would do with $1,000.

• STOP, DROP, and READ! (15 minutes)• Announcements • Write HW in agenda

Advisory Homework:Bring SDR book Everyday!Bring Agenda everydayReplace any materials needed for classes(pencils, pens, paper, notebooks, markers, etc.)Look up grades online due FridayFinish Multiple Intelligence Inventory worksheet

Complete in your notebooks

• Who was Hammurabi? What was Hammurabi’s Code? What effect did Hammurabi’s Code have on his people? Who were scribes? Why were they important

• Answer in 5 complete sentences

Do Now

WHO WAS HAMMURABI??

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• Think about your friends in 6th grade now. In 20 years from now, what do you think you will be doing in your life? What if you saw your friends from 6th grade 20 years from now? What would they look like? What would they be doing?

Benchmark Review Continued!

• Agenda:

1.Mesopotamia Test Review 2.Mesopotamia Video 3.Study Guide (completion)4.Homework 5.Jeopardy!

Mesopotamia Test Review

• 5: Advanced• 4: Proficient• 3: Basic• 2: Not Proficient• 1: Below Basic

Did we meet our class goals? You will be able to come in to re-take any

standards you missed afterschool, but you must make an appointment!

Individual Trackers!

• Let’s complete our individual trackers for Unit 2: Mesopotamia.

• I will complete one on the board so please follow along!

Ancient Civilizations Mesopotamia Video

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Mesopotamia

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Study Guide

• You will be receiving your second large index card.

• This one is for your Study Guide for Mesopotamia.

• Please copy down the notes on the index card to use as an additional study tool on top of your notes

Mesopotamia Study Guide

• Mesopotamians (Sumerians) all relied on floods for a good harvest

• Sumerians first written symbols were pictographs

• Cuneiform was developed by Sumerians• Phoenicians are given credit for our English

Alphabet• According to Sumerians, each city-state

was ruled by its own gods

• In the Babylonian culture, Hammurabi’s Code was used to govern society.

• Hammurabi’s Code of laws were important to Sumerian society because these laws included the corresponding punishment

• Hammurabi’s Code listed 282 laws that were important because they were displayed for the public

Mesopotamia Study Guide

• Review notes from Early Humans to prepare for the Benchmarks

• Review notes from Mesopotamia to prepare for the Benchmarks

• Review both study guides! • Sleep early!• Eat a good breakfast!

Homework

• JEOPARDY!! • Early Humans• Mesopotamia

Early Humans

I. Geography A. Africa 1. adapted to

natural environmentII. Religion A. everything in

nature had a spirit B. Worshipped spiritsIII. Achievements A. language-

developed their own language

I. Geography

Mesopotamia

Early Humans

III. Achievements B. prehistoric art-

created art they could carry

C. cave paintings told stories of how they lived

D. developed a way to make and control fire

E. Made the 1st tools to improve life

Early HumansIV. Politics A. larger villages

needed an organized government to keep order

B. Leadership C. Made laws to make

their community safe and stable

V. Economy A. Trade or Barter B. Surplus of goods

Mesopotamia

Early Humans

C. Public buildings 1. shrines and

other accommodations

for gatherings of people

VI. Social Structure A. social classes:

groups with similar trainings and incomes

B. Nomadic- moved from place to place