Word Wall Chapter 1 Part 2
Essential Questions:
What is a civilization?
What was life like in the earliest river valley civilizations?
Objectives: SWBAT (Students will be able to)
 describe characteristics of life in ancient river valley civilizations.
 evaluate how geography effects the lives of people in a particular place
Task:
1. Using your Pretest as a guide, highlight the vocabulary, people, and places
that were marked incorrect.
2. These incorrect words will become the choices for your Word Wall
Activities.
3. Choose one Word Wall Activity from the top two choices and one choice
from the bottom two choices.
4. All Word Wall activities are due _________________________________________
Word Wall Activities
1. Using the incorrect answers from your Pretest create at least 10 Flash Cards
using words and correct answers. Flash Cards can be made using paper
templates or any online flashcard maker (Quizlet, Study Blue). Paper
template is available from teacher. Index card may also be used.
OR
2. Word Unscramble- Design a handout that can be used as a class activity.
Chose 10 of your incorrect words, write them scrambled along with their
definitions. Then make another copy and compete it unscrambling the
words.
Follow the example:
NILIIZCAVOTI ______________________________ complex society
AND
3. Word Pictures- Select two of your incorrect words and illustrate them on a piece of
paper (fold paper in half). You may also use pictures from the Internet. On the back of
the paper write the word and the definition.
OR
4. Poetry- Write a poem related to our topic of study using as many incorrect words
as possible from your pretest (at least 5). Poems should clearly include the
meanings of the words.