Tomorrow is the Trade Routes Test.  Use this powerpoint presentation to study.

Monday, December 15, 2014

Today we are handing in our Trade Route Map and working on our Trade Route Journal.  We'll also go over more Trade Route vocabulary.  Here is a comprehensive list of the vocabulary.

Monday, November 24th, 2014

Today we are finishing the Ancient Civilization Test.  We may have to extend time to finish the test to tomorrow.

Test is tomorrow.  Here the review game.  Good luck!

Friday, November 14th, 2014

Today is our final day to work on the Human Ingenuity Ancient Civilization project.  Here are the Rubrics: A B C D
The 3 paragraph essay and visual display are due on Monday, November 17th.

Thursday, November 6th, 2014

Today we continued researching our Ancient Civilizations Human Ingenuity project.  Here are the requirements of the project.

These are a collection of all the Ancient civilization projects, which we finished today.  Congrats!!


3rd hour Africa
3rd hour Egypt
3rd hour Egypt posters: 1 2 3 4 5
3rd hour Rome
3rd hour Rome Prezi
3rd hour China
3rd hour Greece

5th hour Africa
5th hour China
5th hour Egypt
5th hour Rome Posters: Vocabulary,1 2 3
Greece 5th hour Greece Timeline - Greek Building 

6th hour Egypt
6th hour Greece
6th hour Rome
6th hour China Vocabulary  China Timeline 
6th hour Africa Posters: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Friday, October 24th, 2014

3rd hour Africa
3rd hour Egypt
3rd hour Egypt posters: 1 2 3 4 5
3rd hour Rome
3rd hour Rome Prezi

5th hour Africa
5th hour China
5th hour Egypt

6th hour Egypt
6th hour Greece
6th hour Rome

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

5th hour China

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014

Today's Presentations:

5th hour Egypt
6th hour Egypt

Today the warm up was watching CNN Student news, responding to prompts and sharing our responses with the class.

We then used Ipads to go back through yesterdays presentations and complete our notes.  Those who gave the presentations answered questions and helped other students with their notes.  Here are the links.

3rd Hour Ancient Africa

5th Hour Ancient Africa

6th Hour Ancient Greece

Monday, October 6th, 2014

Today we were in the computer labs preparing out ancient civilizations presentations.  We will begin presentations on Monday, October 13th.  Here is the rubric for the presentations.

Thursday, September 25th, 2014

Today for a warm-up students drew images from the ancient civilization they are doing a project on. They were also required to label the drawing and add a caption.

Today and tomorrow we're taking a break from researching and doing mini-lesson on Egyptian pharaohs and monuments.  There will be a mini-lesson on each ancient civilization interspersed throughout the student's research.  To read about the project the students are preparing for see the September 24th blog entry.

Wednesday, September 24th, 2014

Today our warm up was to find an interesting fact from the past few days of research, place it into one of the seven characteristics of a highly civilized culture and to explain why it fit into that characteristic of civilized culture.  

We then researched for the Ancient Cultures Project using a number of different resources (videos, non-fiction books, Apps, websites and magazines.  

Today in class we watched a video about a lesser know but amazing story that happened on 9/11/2001.

When then finished a quiz on Brain Pop and introduced and stared an exercise on Hammurabi's Code. 

9-9-2014

In class today we started by watching the September 8th 2014 CNN Student News with English Subtitles.  Students then wrote a response according to the prompt.  The students then shared their responses in their groups.

Then we made two "foldables" which were a timeline and a map for our Ancient Times Unit.  The actual foldables will need to be picked up in person from Mr. Pollert, but here are the directions.  Enjoy!