HonOct

10/22/09 Meghan Roderick Homework: Read pages 69-75 and make a graphic organizer that shows how Religious beliefs connect to the afterlife and the burial and the pyramids: due Monday Handouts: Chapter two exam Notes: [|The Gift of the Nile] - river allowed for irrigation systems -waterfalls, deserts, and the Mediteranean Sea helped protect Egypt from invasions Writing -Mesopotamians are credited with first written language because their writing developed from ideograms to pictograms to cuneiform while the Egyptians always used Hieroglyphics

The rest of the period was used to finish vocabulary and notes.

10/21/09 Stephen Rissmiller Homework: Chapter 3 Vocab definitions and connections due Friday and read pages 65-69 in textbook

In class we read The Father of History Looks at Egypt

Herodotus(484-435 B.C.) was first Historian, but was not the best Historian. Historiography is the study of History. There is no true interpretation on history, because there is to much background knowledge and opinion involved in the interpretations on history. __**Influences**__ 1. Personal Feelings 2. Resources at your disposal 3. Values 4. Your personal experience 5. Religion

10/15/09 Ryan Morgan

Homework: Podcasts due Friday Chapter 2 Test Monday 10/19

Part 3- Codes for our Current Setting in School 4. If you instigate a fight in sports, then you would get kicked off the sports team.
 * 1) If you are caught with alcohol and drugs on school grounds, then you will have to do community service and take classes that will help those troubles.
 * 2) No resident with any previous criminal offense should be allowed to own a gun.
 * 3) If the student is caught cheating on a test or homework, then they will get a zero. If this happens more than once then they will get a zero and a detention.

In our time it is very difficult to agree on laws, but back in Ancient Mesopotamia time, their laws were set and weren't changed.

10/14/09 Meredith Meyer

Homework: Podcasts due Friday Chapter 2 test Monday 10/19 Part 2: Identifying Similarities and Differences (due tomorrow)

Ancient Law and Order: Analyzing the Code of Hammurabi: Part 1 List of Codes Category:Trade 1)Money returned if something dies Category: Punishment for physical abuse 1)Eye for an eye 2)Son hits father- loses hands 3) Knock someone's teeth out in own social class- own teeth knocked out Category:Slavery 1) If a slave gets a disease- they can be returned for money 2) Slave deny relationship-ear cut off 3) No slaves outside the city Category:Money 1) Est. minimum wage for labor 2) Money back slave guarantee 3) Boat fees Category:Medicine 1) Fees for success in operation 2) Penalty for malpractice- lose hands 3) Veterinarians fees Category:Military 1) Replacement for drafted persons should profit 2) If soldier fighting for King is captured, and house is then used, gets land back 3) Partial rights of women(wife) if young child inherits

10/13/09-Olivia McMechen

HOMEWORK: Due tomorrow: pg. 59 worksheet-Ancient law and order:Analyzing the Code of Hammurabi part one :) Chapter 2 test on Monday: STUDY :) Podcasts due on Friday: limited class time

Characteristics of City States

-Typically 5000 people, max 35-40000
 * Larger than Villages

-Oligarchies- priests, military, wealthy (kings) -By c 2800 BCE kings are hereditary -Would it be better to be ruled by an oligarch or a king?
 * Move from oligarchies (a clearly defined group of people who have power) to a kingship

King(dies)-Brother (might kill the kings son) \ 5 y/o son (might get killed by the kings brother)

Who gets the throne? The brother, or the son? Whoever the gods support. The military might support the 5 y/o instead of the brother.

-city as center if religion -**Ziggurats** as home to a god -priestly class -sacared marriage in New Year's Ceremonies -Religious roles of kings highlighted by royal tombs. -Military and the King can't really do anything w/o the support of the gods/priests.
 * Important role of religion

-art and artisanship -trade (Mesopotamia lacks __natural resources)__ -Why could specialization develop better here then in the village or a hunter-gathering culture
 * Specialization
 * Service for Goods*


 * Monumental Architecture

-pictograms to ideograms to cuneiform -use of writing for the records and for literature -Case of //The Epic of Gilgamesh// -Case of the law codes (Hammurabi)
 * Writing

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10/8-10/9-Mr. Johns
Annotated bibliographies were collected for the group projects. Projects are due at the end of the period on Monday. HW: Read pp 59-62 of your text. Complete the Ancient/Modern City Comparison and Contrast Activity. If you did not get it in class today it can be found on moodle.

10/6/09- Neil May
Began by watch Bill Nye video about written language.

Spent rest of period working on project.

Annotated Bibliography -Friday Projects Due -Monday

October 5th- Mr. Johns
Mrs. Cairns was in to teach us garageband today. This is where students will complete their podcasts for the Urban Planning project.

HW: Chapter 2 pp 54-59 Reading and 1 page of notes(your format). They will be collected for a 10 point grade. No notes necessary on Gilgamesh and The Code of Hammurabi.

During the first part of class we discussed the key points of the reading in chapter 2(pg 45-53)
 * //October 1-Name?//**

Things discussed in class... Why were goats the first to be domesticated? Tools The first cities
 * they eat almost anything
 * need small number of calories
 * Humans can digest there milk easily
 * Need tools for specific jobs: cutting, grinding, ect
 * pottery is considered art and a tool
 * pottery used for: transportation, storage, cooking, ect.
 * pottery designs are time and region specific, which helps dating villages and identifying who lived there.
 * domestication done by innovation( figuring it out on your own)
 * Diffusion, learning about others ideas and applying it to yourself, was used for pottery

The rest of the period was given to us to organize our groups for our projects, and assign tasks No Homework, but you should use today to start your project.

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