Geography: ✴ Make travel brochure for a trip back to a city in ancient Mesopotamia. ✴ Use Excel to make graphs like climographs, population density graphs, harvest record graphs, or whatever other statistical data you can find on Mesopotamia ✴ Make a boy/girl scout handbook of ancient Mesopotamia showing how to survive in that environment. ✴ Create a game in which players have to travel through Mesopotamia, facing various geographical hazards, challenges, etc… ✴ Compile a list of ancient Mesopotamian cities and the dates they were founded and make a timeline. ✴ Mesopotamian City Map – make an paper map of what a Mesopotamian city probably looked like. Make inset pictures on the map showing close-ups of a ziggurat, market, houses, etc. ✴ Build a model/diorama of a Mesopotamian city including labels (*labels need to be typed!). Roles in Mesopotamian Socie: ✴ Write and deliver a speech convincing the citizens of ancient Mesopotamia that they should pay taxes to support government projects such as city walls, irrigation canals, roads, etc… ✴ Day in the life of a Scribe journal entries – journal/diary entries that describe the daily tasks of a scribe or a scribe student. ✴ Create and perform a skit or mime showing….Mesopotamian farming, scribing/writing, a priest-king ruling his people, the role of priests/priestesses ✴ Hall of Fame Mesopotamia – biographical descriptions of important Mesopotamians (Sargon, Hammurabi, Moses, Nebuchadnezzar, etc…). Maybe have the class or groups rank them based on importance and have a debate on who should be in and who should be out. ✴Social classes of Mesopotamia Art/Diagram – make a graphic organizer showing the various social classes of ancient Mesopotamia. Get “out there” if you choose and get really creative, metaphorical, and expressive in how you make your diagram/organizer. (i.e. Inspiration is a GREAT graphic organizer program - see me if you need help!) Mesopotamian Achievements: ✴ Write an extension story for one of the stories in the Epic of Gilgamesh . ✴ Build a model, diorama, sculpture or replica of: a ziggurat, a Mesopotamian invention, the Standard of Ur, the Hammurabi Code, or any other famous Mesopotamian person. Include who/what the person is and why he/she/it was important. ✴ Make a model/diorama of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. ✴ Write and/or perform a radio, TV commercial, or print ad selling one of the many Mesopotamian inventions. ✴ Write a proposal to King Hammurabi explaining why you like/dislike certain laws in his code. ✴ Hammurabi’s Code Art – pick various laws from Hammurabi’s Code and depict them in visual form. As an extension/ alternative to the Social Classes Diagram. (*look above - it’s the last option under “Roles in Mesopotamian Society”) You could make pictures to show how different social classes would be treated under the law according to Hammurabi. Culminang Projects: ✴Mesopotamia Collage - Have students use the computer to find photos (or magazines, if available) to make a collage showing different aspects of Mesopotamian civilization. ✴ Make a picture book of Mesopotamian life or a PowerPoint including everything from its geography to the rule of Babylon and Assyria, etc… ✴ Make a timeline of Mesopotamian history ✴ Create a poster or PowerPoint explaining what plant and/or insect species your area and Mesopotamia have in common and collect specimens. ✴ Write national anthems for each civilization (or even city-states) of ancient Mesopotamia and include who their God was. ✴ Write and perform a song or rap about how the rivers made life in Mesopotamia possible to how the Babylonians conquered Mesopotamia, etc, etc… you can even dress up for your performance! Student Name: ____________________________________________ Mesopotamia Culminating Project ✓ Objective: demonstrate your knowledge of Mesopotamia by choosing one project below to complete with a partner or individually ✓ Due Date: Monday, Jan. 31st ✓ Total Points: 20