Warm Up
How much does your
past affect who you are
today?
ACT Word: abbreviate…
Abbrev-a-what!?
ACT WORD!
• Abbreviate: (v) to shorten, abridge
My wiki site
• http://steven-j-sells.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/
Goal!
• Understand the acronyms BC, AD, CE, and BCE
and chronological thinking.
The When and Where of your life
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures23793149
What does your timeline look like?
• Create a short timeline of your life:
–Include your birth date
–Include three major events in your life
and write how they
today
still impact you
You just
thought about
chronology!
BUT… How does chronology effect
history!?
• Look at the following pictures… Do you think
they are radical or extreme!?
This portrait of the society beauty,
Madame Gautreau, reveals
décolletage and initially showed
her right strap off her shoulder.
Tame by 2014 standards, but the
Paris Salon of 1884 was mortified.
Le dé jeunersurl'herbe is a large oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet
created in 1862 and 1863. The painting depicts the juxtaposition of a female
nude and a scantily dressed female bather on a picnic with two fully dressed
men in a rural setting. Rejected by the Salon jury of 1863, Manet seized the
opportunity to exhibit this and two other paintings, in the 1863 Salon des
Refusés,[1] where the painting sparked public notoriety and controversy.
Duchamp’s
Fountain is a urinal
the artist found and
inscribed with the
signature R. Mutt.
It is considered to
be a major
landmark in 20th
century art in that
it probes viewers to
reconsider what
exactly it is that
makes an object a
work of art. From
1917-redefined
what constitutes
art.
If you take things out of order, they
lose their meaning..or take on new
ones!
Chronowhat?
• chronology--of when
events occurred and
in what order
–provides the
mental building
blocks for
organizing
historical thought.
What do
these
acronyms
mean?
•
•
•
•
BC
BCE
AD
CE
•Before Christ
•Before Common Era
•Anno Domini
•Common Era
What does this look like on a timeline?
BCE,
or BC
1300 AD
Or 1300 CE
Year
Zero
O
AD,
or CE
1200 AD
Or 1200 CE
Can you read a timeline?
• Frank Ocean needs your help!
He is trying to write an autobiography
and jumbled his own life events! Because
he is so important and does not have the
time to fix them, he hired you to help
him out!
He hired you to put his life events back in
order-but wait! His secretive assistant is out to
sabotage him and messed with the dates! All
the years are correct but he changed the years
and added BC, BCE, CE, and AD just to mess
with you!
Your Task:
• Place the events in order as fast as you can.
• As long as they are in the correct order, you’ve
completed your task.
So, now that you are experts on
chronology, let’s master another thing
that really affects you:
Geography
What continent can you find this on?
And this one?
What continent is this on?
Last one! Finish strong!
Turn and Talk: Where are you from?
Describe where you live and how
this affects your life
http://mapper.acme.com/
Notice how on the map, we found
locations using numbers and
directions. These are called
latitude and longitude.
Map Skills Worksheet: Learn the
Basics!
Exit Ticket Questions:
Put these dates in order from oldest to newest:
45BC, 78BCE, 100 AD, 1200 CE, 600BC
Using your map, what are the coordinates for
the prime meridian?
To finish or for homework
• Create a rap, song, or poem using our four
acronyms of the day!
• Must be creative and catchy!