BELLRINGERS
THIRD
QUARTER
2013-2014
3rd Quarter Bellringers Due TBD
To earn full credit on this assessment you must…
• Write down each and every bellringer with the
proper heading (Bellringer # then the date).
• Write down the question as it is written on the
board.
• Write down your answer.
• If your answer is wrong then it should be corrected
because we went over it in class.
• On the following slides you will find the latest bellringers. There will be more…
Not all the pictures, sounds, and video will carry over to this post because it would
take up too much space. In some cases the answer is on the slide in others I put the
answers on the white board in the classroom. It is the student’s responsibility to make
sure that they are writing the answers down and correcting their work. If you are
missing answers I suggest talking to a seat partner or a study buddy.
Bellringer #1 1/8/14
Are we like them? Explain.
HAVE YOUR
PACKETS OPEN
TO PAGE 6!
Bellringer #2
January 9th 2014!
WRITE THIS DOWN!
Keystone-the wedge-shaped stone
at the highest point of an arch that
locks the others in place
Bellringer #3 1/13/14
1. Get out your homework.
The word Punic means
Phoenician. Why are the
wars between
and
Carthage
was Rome
originally
Carthage
called
the
Punic
set up as a Phoenician
Wars?
colony.
Bellringer #4 1/14/14
Roman ships were called
quinqueremes. These ships had five
levels of rowers and were the fastest
vessels of their time.
Corvus
Bellringer #5 1/15/14
Punic Wars Paragraph One
The Greek king Pyrrhus
_______ came to Italy to
Greek colonists. He was
help the _______
driven out of Italy by Roman troops and
then sailed to the island of Sicily
________. The
Greeks were also being attacked by the
Carthaginians
_________________on
the island of
Carthage
Sicily. _______
Rome and __________teamed
up to defeat the Greeks and take over the
island of Sicily.
GET OUT
HOMEWORK!
Carthaginians / Carthage / Greek / Pyrrhus / Sicily / Rome
Paragraph Two
Carthage
The alliance between ______and
________
Rome
faded because Rome felt threatened.
Sicily in order to
Both wanted control of _______
control trade on the ______________
Mediterranean
Sea. Rome set up a base of operations at
___________
while Carthage set up their
Syracuse
base of operations in _______________.
Agrigentum
war
A _____was
about to begin between
Rome and Carthage.
War / Sicily/ Syracuse / Mediterranean/ Agrigentum / Carthage/
Rome
Paragraph THREE
Over the first several months of the Punic
war______
______and
_______
battles, ______
sieges, disease,
famine
inflicted heavy losses on both Rome and
Carthage. Rome defeated Carthage in a
Agrigentum
land battle at _________________.
_____
Carthage were master ____________and
shipbuilders
Sailors
__________and
they wanted to fight
sea
Rome on the______.
Sea/ sailors/ shipbuilders/ land / famine/ disease/ battles/ sieges/
Agrigentum
Paragraph Four
corvus
• Rome invented the _________it
was a
drawbridge that allowed soldiers to fight a
land
_______like
battle on a boat. The
Romans used quinqueremes
_______________ which
was a boat with five levels of rowers.
ROME
________wins
the first Punic war.
Corvus/ quinqueremes/ Rome/ land /
Bellringer #6 1/23/14
President Barack Obama was elected on the promise of
change. What is another name for change?
Vocab- Reform = Change
All you need to do is write
this down quietly, pick up
your new packet and a
textbook, and hand in your
homework
Bellringer#7
1/27/14
Bellringer #8 1/28/14
Read Caesar: Three Views (page 5).
Then you will be assigned a role:
1. Soldier
2. Worker
3. Senator
You will write one paragraph about how
you are either for or against Julius
Caesar. Make sure to explain your
position!
BELLRINGER #9 1/29/14
Complete the
following statement
If you’re
stuck see
page 4!
Julius Caesar is for
the plebs because…
BELLRINGER #10 1/30/14
Complete the
following statement
If you’re
stuck see
page 4!
Julius Caesar is
against the
patricians because…
Bellringer #11 1/31/14
Document-based questions
What did Julius Caesar mean
when he said, “It is not these
well-fed long-haired men that I
fear, but the pale and the
hungry-looking”?
The “pale and hungry-looking” are more
likely to riot which would lead to
instability in Rome.
Bellringer #12
2/12/14
Caesar Augustus (Octavian) , the first
Roman emperor, ruled for 45 years.
Rome went on to greatness under the
Empire, but the Roman Republic was no
more. For 45 years, Rome was at peace.
This period is the beginning of the Pax
Romana, or Roman Peace.
YES, YOU NEED TO WRITE
THIS DOWN.
PICK UP PAPERS!
Bellringer #13 2/21/14
READ PAGE ONE OF THE
POMPEII PACKET QUIETLY.
THEN COMPLETE THIS
BELLRINGER.
Why do people live near Mount Vesuvius
knowing that it could erupt again?
Bell Ringer #14 2/26/14
• Jesus claimed he was the son of god
which angered the Roman Emperor
(divine spirit).
• Jesus claimed to be the King of the
were
the Christians
JewsWhy
which
angered
the Roman
Emperor
persecuted by the Romans?
• Christians were blamed for the
decline of Rome’s economy.
Bellringer#15
March 17th
What is Chivalry?
The qualities of an ideal knight- the
combination of qualities expected of the
ideal medieval knight, especially courage,
honor, loyalty, and consideration for others,
especially women.