Jason Erndteman SST309

Integrated Literacy Assignment

7th Grade MI GLCE• In the first era of human history, people

spread throughout the world. As communities of hunters, foragers, and fishers, they adapted creatively and continually to a variety of contrasting, changing environments in Africa, Eurasia, and Australia.

• 7 - W1.1.2 Explain what archeologists have learned about Paleolithic and Neolithic patterns of living in Africa, Europe, and Asia.

http://pb-archaeology.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html

BOOKS

You Wouldn't Want to Be a Mammoth Hunter by John Malam Interest Level 3-5 grade

Early Humans by Roy A. Gallant Interest level 6-8 grade

Food: Its Evolution Through the Ages by Piero Ventura Interest Level 6-8 grade

Mbutiby Onukaba Adinoyi-OjoInterest LevelGrade 7 & Up

Poetry

http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_neolithic1.htm - Poem and Informational Text

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aNbydZMCZY - Jonathan Jones reading a poem written by Rudyard Kipling.

“In the Neolithic Age” - 1892

http://www.answers.com/topic/rudyard-kipling

Music, Songs, Videos

Published on Dec 17, 2012The Globular Flute is a Neolithic musical instrument more than 6000 years old, found in the Republic of Macedonia. Dragan Dautovski, professor at the Faculty of Musical Arts in Skopje, plays on the original artifact and this is the sound it produces.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW-uoJ9fLis

Uploaded on Jan 13, 2009

My tour guide playing the Xun at Banpo Neolithic village. The Xun was a musical instrument used by the Neolithic people of Banpo. Banpo was located near modern Xian, China.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggDGvI_FQWo

http://www.s-o-n.net/xunbp01.htm

http://www.asza.com/ixun.shtml

Brookhaven Lab Expert Helps Date Flute Thought to be Oldest Playable Musical Instrument Bone flute found in China at 9,000-year-old Neolithic site

http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/1999/bnlpr092299.html

ArtWorkLascaux is the setting of a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings. They contain some of the most well-known Upper Paleolithic art. These paintings are estimated to be 16,000 years old.http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?%20id=7331

The two clay statuettes were found in 1956 in Cernavoda, Romania, in a tomb near the Danube. They come from the Hamangia culture, an early farming society emerging in the sixth millenium B.C…sources dating them anywhere from 2500 B.C.  to 6000 B.Chttp://erikatakacs.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/the-thinker/

Web Resources• http://journalofcosmology.com/Consciousness155.html - This website has lots of great

pictures that will help students connect with the material.

• http://www.diffen.com/difference/Neolithic_vs_Paleolithic#Important_Discoveries_and_Inventions – This website highlights the differences between Paleo and Neolithic communities (definitions, short explanations, and charts).

• http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CC4QFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffranceschini.cmswiki.wikispaces.net%2Ffile%2Fview%2FStone%2BAge.doc&ei=QhdoUo3vLaTC2QXpwoCIBQ&usg=AFQjCNHMue3ryi-RoJDkxkw4TKpbN0-yjQ – This website has a 51 page reading packet that addresses MI GLCEs and provides basic information about early humans

• http://www.rivervalleycivilizations.com/neolithic.php - Great information about: Nile River Valley, Indus River Valley, Yellow River Valley, Tigris-Euphrates, and Paleo vs. Neo.

Citation:

• http://pb-archaeology.blogspot.com/2010_04_01_archive.html• http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/mbuti• http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/book/you-wouldnt-want-be-mam

moth-hunter• http://www.abebooks.com/Food-Evolution-Ages-Piero-Ventura-Hought

on/768037555/bd

• http://www.abebooks.com/9780761409601/Early-Humans-Gallant-Roy-A-0761409602/plp

• http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_neolithic1.htm• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aNbydZMCZY• http://www.answers.com/topic/rudyard-kipling• http://www.asza.com/ixun.shtml• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW-uoJ9fLis

Citation cont.

• http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/1999/bnlpr092299.html• http://www.s-o-n.net/xunbp01.htm• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggDGvI_FQWo• http://journalofcosmology.com/Consciousness155.html• http://www.diffen.com/difference/Neolithic_vs_Paleolithic#Import

ant_Discoveries_and_Inventions

• http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CC4QFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffranceschini.cmswiki.wikispaces.net%2Ffile%2Fview%2FStone%2BAge.doc&ei=QhdoUo3vLaTC2QXpwoCIBQ&usg=AFQjCNHMue3ryi-RoJDkxkw4TKpbN0-yjQ

• http://www.rivervalleycivilizations.com/neolithic.php• http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?%20id=7331• http://erikatakacs.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/the-thinker/