11/3: how did geography influence settlement in mesopotamia? do now: 1.get the class set atlas...

11/3: How did Geography influence settlement in Mesopotamia?

Do Now:1. Get the class set atlas packets2. Answer: what are the ingredients for settlement?3. With group, use packets to find examples of

Mesopotamia’s ingredients for settlement

Atlas Questions:

1. Why did civilization develop in the Fertile Crescent?

2. How did geography affect the location of cities?

3. How were trade routes affected by geography?

4. How does geography affect the reach of different empires?


Cornell Notes:-Topic on top-Big Ideas on left(or categories)-Details on right-Sum up on bottom

Directions:1. Take Cornell Notes on Geography Packets

2. In DN section, draw and caption a diagram of how irrigation technology improved

3. Answer “Section Assessment Questions”


11/5: How did civilization develop in Mesopotamia?

Do Now:1. Answer with group:• How is today’s EQ different from Monday’s?• What are the features of a civilization? (Civ Wheel)

2. Get “Mesopotamian Civilizations PARCC Vocab Skills”

Name: _____________________________________________ Date: _______________ Period: _________________ #: ________

Writing System (Records)

Technology (Tools)

Specialized Workers (Division of Labor/Jobs) Religion (Belief System)

Government (Leaders)

Culture and the Arts (Social Life/Traditions)

Advanced Cities (Public/Residential Buildings,Economy)

Social Structure (Hierarchy)

CIV

WHEEL: Characteristics

of a Civilization


Directions:1. Use worksheet and reading to develop your vocab

decoding and categorizing skills for the PARCC

Hints:2. What is the main topic of the paragraph?3. What is the main idea of each sentence before and after?4. What are some possible meanings for the word?5. Read the word as if your guess was the correct meaning –

does the rest of the paragraph make sense?


Do Now:1. Answer with group:• What types of things do cities have?• Think about types of places, buildings, people,

services, areas, etc.


The City of Ur:

Directions:1. Get “Plan your own Mesopotamian City” Worksheet2. Get the City of Ur map/diagram3. Add “Giparu (Temple)” to your worksheet4. Use the book and paper maps to locate these features5. Write down the function/purpose

Extension:6. Begin planning to create your own Mesopotamian city


11/11: How did different people live in Mesopotamia?

Do Now:1. Answer with group:• What is a social Hierarchy?• Is there a social hierarchy in school? (be honest)• Do we have one in our community or country?

2. Get “Social Classes” and begin reading/highlighting


Social Hierarchy Terms:• Social classes• Social structure• Social ladder• Class divisions• Economic status• Social pyramid• Socioeconomic Stratification• Las clases sociales (spanish)-Division of a population into levels of lifestyle based on:• wealth/job, education, gender, ethnicity, birth, etc.

Directions:1. Read/highlight “Social Classes” and answer questions:

Questions:2. Who belongs in each class? (And what are classes called?)3. What factors determine a person’s place in the hierarchy?4. How were people’s lives different depending on their

social class?• Circle the evidence in the text that gives this answer

5. Ext: What more do you need to know to answer the EQ better; write an EQ or GQ yourself that furthers this study


Highlighting Guidelines

• Is the sentence telling you something NEW or IMPORTANT?

• What is the MAIN IDEA/ARGUMENT of the sentence?

• Which words in the sentence are most important to the main idea?

• When you study this reading, will the highlighted parts help you understand the main argument of the paragraph?

11/12: How did different people live in Mesopotamia? Do Now:1. Answer with group:• WhatTypes of jobDo you thinkThey had?• WhatTypes of jobDo you seeIn thisPicture?


Sumerian painting:-What kinds of people do you see?-Which classes do you think they’re in?


Directions:

-Get “Jobs in Ancient Mesopotamia”-Use iPads or textbooks to define jobs you don’t know-Use iPads, textbooks, and inferences to place them in the social pyramid-Answer the 3 questions on the front of the paper

Supports/extensions-iPads-Textbooks-www.hierarchystructure.com

11/13: How did religion influence people’s lives in Mesopotamia?

• Do now:– With Group, come up with two GUIDING QUESTIONS

that would help lead you to an answer to the EQ– GUIDING QUESTIONS are smaller questions that guide

your research and understanding to answer larger (EQ) questions


GQ1: What is religion and why do we have it?-Practice note-taking while we discuss each topic: Record the main points for each!

Reasons for Religion

PurposeExplanation

Hope Solidarity

Justice/Behavior

11/13: How did religion influence people’s lives in Mesopotamia?GQ2: What did Mesopotamians do that was motivated by religion?

• Directions:– Get “Gods and Goddesses” packet– Read (individually or with group – your choice)• Highlight main points• CIRCLE points that help answer the GQ and/or EQ

– Answer question sheet on back


• Do now:– Get out “Gods and Goddesses”– Compare answers to the question page on the back– Write an answer to the EQ

Question/prompt: How did religion influence the lives of Mesopotamians?

Your argument (thesis):

GQA: What is religion and why do we have it?

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GQC: What religious things did they do?

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GQB: What was the Mesopotamian religion?

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Revision/Further research Directions:

–Does each division help answer the EQ?–Does each detail give specific info about

Mesopotamian religion (in its own category)?–Resources:• Gods and Goddesses packet and textbooks• iPads (google these… 1st link is higher-level)– “ancient history encyclopedia Mesopotamian religion”– “ducksters mesopotamia religion”


• Do now:– Get out Brainstorming chart and compare in group– Does each division help answer the EQ?– Does each detail give specific info about Mesopotamian

religion? Does that info answer the EQ?– What more can/should be added?

Question/prompt: How did religion influence the lives of Mesopotamians?

Your argument (thesis):

GQA: What is religion and why do we have it?

Ex A1. _____________________

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GQC: What religious things did they do?

Ex C1. _____________________

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GQB: What was the Mesopotamian religion?

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Revision/Further research Directions:

–Does each division help answer the EQ?–Does each detail give specific info about

Mesopotamian religion (in its own category)?–Resources:• Gods and Goddesses packet and textbooks• iPads (google these… 1st link is higher-level)– “ancient history encyclopedia Mesopotamian religion”– “ducksters mesopotamia religion”

Date Mesopotamia Unit10/31 Mesopotamia Map/5 Themes Chart

10/31 Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent

11/3 Irrigation and Civilization (cornell, diagrams, SAQs)11/5 Mesopotamian Civilizations (reading)

11/5 Mesopotamian Civilizations (Vocab sheet)

11/10 Plan your own Mesopotamian City!11/11 Social Classes

11/12 Jobs in Ancient Mesopotamia

11/13 Gods and Goddesses11/14 Religion Brainstorming Chart (cheesecake recipe)

11/18: Was Mesopotamian culture similar to, or different from, American Culture?

Do Now:1. Put Brainstorming chart in period bin2. Answer with group:-What cultural traditions do Mesopotamians get from their religion?-What is culture? (what kinds of things are cultural?)

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http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRw&url=http://becuo.com/sumerian-clothing-men&ei=dF5jVPLJJNHLsAS2rYL4Bg&psig=AFQjCNGU1Zm6vOUxpVDDAFMglv55zJAS8w&ust=1415884742836374

11/19: How did government develop and what did it do?

• Do Now:– Do we need a government?– What does it do?– Get “Mesopotamian Government”– Get out “Mesopotamian Civilizations” (High School page)

• Find the paragraph about beginnings of government


• Directions:– Read and highlight: “Mesopotamian Government”– Read Hammurabi Biography on pg. 22; take Cornell notes– Answer focus questions and complete Twitter Feed– Answer EQ in 3 sentences

11/20: What can a code of laws do for a civilization?GQ1. Were Hammurabi’s laws fair to women and all social classes?

• Do now:–Put last night’s HW in period bin–Get “Hammurabi’s Code of Laws”–Answer with group:• What would life be like without laws?• Could a civilization survive?

195. If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off.

196. If a man put out the eye of a nobleman, his eye shall be put out.

197. If he break a nobleman's bone, his bone shall be broken.

198. If he put out the eye of a common man, or break the bone of a common man, he shall pay one gold mina.

199. If he put out the eye of a man's slave, or break the bone of a man's slave, he shall pay one-half of its value.

28. If a chieftain or a man be caught in the misfortune of a king [killed in war], if his son is able to enter into possession, then the field and garden shall be given to him, he shall take over the fee of his father.

29. If his son is still young, and can not take possession, a third of the field and garden shall be given to his mother, and she shall bring him up.

11/20: What can a code of laws do for a civilization?GQ1. Were the laws fair to women and all social classes?

GQ2. What effect did his laws have on his empire?

• Directions:– Read each case and all laws that apply– Highlight key points to the case and the laws–Write rationale and answer questions as a legal team– Extension: analyze extra law sheets; answer Qs 2-5

128. If a man take a woman to wife, but have no children with her, this woman is no wife to him.

209. If a man strike an upper-class woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten shekels for her loss.

210. If the woman die, his daughter shall be put to death.

211. If a woman of the middle class lose her child by a blow, he shall pay five shekels in money.

212. If this woman die, he shall pay half a mina.

213. If he strike the maid-servant of a man, and she lose her child, he shall pay two shekels in money.

214. If this maid-servant die, he shall pay one-third of a mina.

146. If a man take a wife and she give this man a maid-servant as wife and she bear him children, and then this maid assume equality with the wife: because she has borne him children her master shall not sell her for money, but he may keep her as a slave, reckoning her among the maid-servants.

Homework: -Choose 3 questions and write a response in THESIS format – argument + reasons-You may write 2-3 sentences each to fully explain your answersExtension: answer all 6 questions!

1. Was Hammurabi’s Code a positive step for civilization?2. Judging from these laws, what can we infer about the values of Babylonians?3. Did Hammurabi promote justice?4. If you were Hammurabi, what law(s) would you change or add?5. Should, or did, our legal system borrow any ideas from Hammurabi’s Laws?6. What effect did these laws have on Mesopotamian civilization?

11/20: What can a code of laws do for a civilization?GQ1. Were the laws fair to women and all social classes?

GQ2. What effect did his laws have on his empire?

11/21: What can a code of laws do for a civilization?GQ1. What effect did his laws have on his empire?

GQ2. Did, or should, the U.S. borrow ideas from Hammurabi?

• Do now:–Get out your Hammurabi Homework–Discuss each answer with group

11/21: What can a code of laws do for a civilization?GQ1. What effect did his laws have on his empire?

GQ2. Did, or should, the U.S. borrow ideas from Hammurabi?

• Directions:–Choose a GQ to answer with a thesis–Do research to create your thesis• Use class sets of law sheets and iPads

– Theses should have three divisions with examples

Name: ____________________________

Plan your own Mesopotamian City!

1. Research cities of Mesopotamia and use books to explain the function of the city features listed below:

-Ziggurat: __________________________________________________________________________________________

-Fortress: __________________________________________________________________________________________

-Residential area: ___________________________________________________________________________________

-Roads: ____________________________________________________________________________________________

-Commercial area: ___________________________________________________________________________________

-Palace: ___________________________________________________________________________________________

-City Walls: ________________________________________________________________________________________

-Water Source: _____________________________________________________________________________________

-Agricultural area: ___________________________________________________________________________________

-Giparu (temple):____________________________________________________________________________________

2. Use your research and the examples provided in the folder to design your own Mesopotamian City. Your map must include ALL of the features listed above as well as a scale, key, compass rose, and any other feature you’d like to add!

City Maps:

-Add “Giparu (Temple)”

-Draw city plan on graph paper

-Make a key to label these items

-Include 1 sentence explaining each feature of your city

-These should explain how your city works by including key details about each feature

-Use internet resources like:-Ducksters-Ancient History Encyc.

To do your research

-20 pts; Due

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