Absent Log
World History
First Term
Date
Monday and
Tuesday, August
25 and 26
Wednesday,
August 27
What we Did
1. Student Survey
(yellow)
2. Class Syllabus
(green)
3. Introductions (Bass
and students)
4. Find Someone Who
Exercise on World
History
5. Tear a World Map
activity in your
teams
1. Log #1 Why did I
have you do the
“Tear a Map”
exercise in class on
Monday?
2. Geography
Scavenger Hunt
3. Continent clues and
match them with
the continent
4. Ask questions that
you have about the
class
5. Tic-Tac-Toe game
on the class
syllabus
6. Syllabus quiz
(team)
7. Define History with
word scramble
8. Read Wilfred
Gordon McDonald
What you
need to do
1. Get the handouts from Ms. Bass and turn in
the yellow questionnaire
2. Keep the other items for your portfolio
3. Read the disclosure/syllabus and come to
class with two questions that you have about
the class
4.
1. Make up the log
2. Get a green scavenger hunt paper from Ms.
Bass and complete it
3. Ask Ms. Bass any questions that you have
about the class
4. Make up the syllabus quiz by next
Wednesday, September 3
5. Write a definition of history and give it to Ms.
Bass
6. See the personal artifact history assignment
due next class that is o the calendar box for
Friday, August 29 (website)
Friday, August 29
Wednesday,
September 3
Partridge
9. Bass box of places
where she finds
history
1. Index card—write
1. Write what you learned in class this week
what you learned
and turn it in
this week in World
2. Get a green PST paper and football DBQ from
Civ.
pass and complete the assignment + log
2. Interpret
classmates’
*Due next class: Interview 5 people about their
personal artifacts
views on the origins of human history. Write their
3. Learn about
names and responses.
primary, secondary,
and tertiary
sources of history
(line up)
4. Green PST page—
Log #2
5. Football DBQ
analysis on the
credibility of
sources (rank and
defend)
6. Read the Three
Little Pigs story
from the wolf’s
perspective—talk
about point of view
in history
7. Telephone exercise
1. Log # 3
1. Make up the log
Of the sources in a murder
2. Get the checkbook writing papers from Ms.
trial, which would be the
Bass before or after school and she will
most reliable and why?
explain what to do.
A. An eyewitness
3. Turn in your 5 interviews on human origins
B. The accused
4. Get two early human origins stories from Ms.
murderer
Bass and complete the Similarities and
C. The journalist
Differences chart
covering the
**Homework due on Friday: Current Event
story
presentation on any event around the world.
D. A jury member
Provide a summary, two discussion sparks, and a
2. Checkbook writing
note of the source from which you obtained the
exercise—writing a
information.
coherent history
3. Stories about
human origins
(share your
interviews); role
play of Cheyenne
story; similarities
and differences
chart and 4 stories
from various parts
of the world
Friday,
September 5
Tuesday,
September 9
Thursday,
September 11
1. Log #4: Write as
many ways that
humans and other
animal species
differ as you can.
2. Evolution OK
Volleyball
3. Evolution
Simulation
4. Evolution
connections paper
5. Evolution clip—are
we still evolving?
6. Current Event
presentations in
group
7. Ms. Bass presents
her current event
1. Log #5 Draw or
describe what you
think the earliest
humans looked like
2. Plan for your early
human
archaeological dig
(Bass
demonstrated with
the
Austrolopithecus)
3. Survival Simulation
for the Early
Humans
4. Current Events
1. Log #6 How old do
you think the earth
is?
2. Pink calendar notes
on the history of
the earth
3. envelope line up of
earth’s history
1. Make up the log
2. Research the theory of evolution as one
among several theories on human origins.
Make a power point with your findings
3. Turn in your current event research that was
due today.
4. Get notes from a classmate from the current
event presentations that you missed today.
5. Homework: e-mail Ms. Bass for an assigned
early human group. Conduct and print
research materials on that group and bring
them to class.
1. Make up the Log
2. Find out which early human group you
should study and get the information packet
and chart from Ms. Bass
3. Turn in the research that you conducted on
your early human group
4. Get the current event notes that you missed
from a classmate
1. Make up the log
2. Get the pink calendar sheet from Ms. Bass
and the notes from a classmate
3. Get the early human chart notes (white) from
a classmate and see Ms. Bass for ways to
make up the dig.
4. Get the current event notes that you missed
from a classmate
4. Group Early Human
archaeological
dig—white chart
5. current event
presentations
Monday,
September 15
Wednesday,
September 17
Friday,
September 19
1. Log #7 Yellow
Neolithic
Revolution
documents and
questions handout
2. Pink chart (turn in)
for the Neolithic
Revolution Crash
Course video
3. WLD exercise on
the characteristics
of a civilization—
Log #8
4. Current Event
Presentations
1. Log #9 Write all the
rivers you can think
of
2. Finish Civilization
WLD
3. Is I t a Civilization
partner work
4. Build your own
civilization in teams
5. Read Westlandia
6. Current Event
Presentations
1. Log #10 What does
the river represent
in the song?
2. Map of River
Civilizations (due
next class period)
3. Cause and Effect
connection activity
for rivers and what
they supplied the
earliest civilizations
4. Contributions
“Cow” activity for
the contributions of
the Earliest River
1. Get the yellow Neolithic Revolution handout
and complete it
2. Watch the crash course clip on the
Agricultural Revolution (You Tube) with John
Green—answer the questions on the hot pink
chart (get from Ms. Bass)
3. Get the list of characteristics of a civilization
from a classmate and place in Log #6
4. Get current event notes that you missed
from a classmate
1. Make up the Log
2. Get notes on additional characteristics for a
civilization from a classmate and add them to
Log #8
3. Get the “Is it a Civilization” assignment from
Ms. Bass
4. Get the “Build your Civilization” assignment
from Ms. Bass
5. Get the Current Event notes that you missed
from a classmate
6. Watch the Crash Course on the
Mesopotamians and take notes (You Tube)
1. Make up the log by getting the lyrics from
Ms. Bass
2. Get a map packet from Ms. Bass and
complete
3. Get the Current Events from a classmate
4. Due next class: River Civs. Map
5.
Tuesday,
September 23
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Thursday,
September 24
6.
1.
2.
Monday,
September 29
3.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Civilizations
Current Event
Presentations
Map Review for
Moo-lah exercise
on the river
civilization map
DBQ questions 1-2
in the river
civilization
contributions
packet
Yellow Sumer times
reading Log #11
similarities and
differences from
today
Listen to Euphrates
River Song and
discuss what you
learn from the song
Prepare your team
song about the
Mesopotamians
Current Events
Log #12 Timeline
questions about
the early river
civilizations (green
timeline)
Mesopotamia Song
Presentations and
recordings
Current Events
Log #14 What
punishments
should be enacted
for murder, theft,
and plagiarism?
Clip on the Code of
Hammurabi
Hammurabi Role
Play
Hammurabi chart
and comparisons
Current Events
1. Turn in your River Civilization map
2. Get a DBQ from Ms. Bass and answer the first
two questions
3. Get a yellow Sumer reading from Ms. Bass
and complete the log
4. Get with your team to find out how you can
help with the song
Homework: bring materials that you will use in your
song
1. Make up the log (get the green handout and
questions from Ms. Bass)
2. Write and record your own song for the
Mesopotamians (get the blue reading
materials from Ms. Bass)
3. Get the current event notes that you missed
from a classmate.
1. Make up the log
2. Watch this clip and take notes in Log #15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO1r2dv
LSKo
Get the Role Play from Ms. Bass and write
three things that you learn after reading it
3. Get the purple Hammurabi Chart from Ms.
Bass and complete it.
4. Get the current event notes that you missed
from Ms. Bass
**Homework: find and print information on the
ancient Chinese Civilization