11/3: How did Geography influence settlement in Mesopotamia?
Do Now:
1. Get the class set atlas packets
2. Answer: what are the ingredients for settlement?
3. With group, use packets to find examples of
Mesopotamia’s ingredients for settlement
11/3: How did Geography influence settlement in Mesopotamia?
Atlas Questions:
1. Why did civilization develop in the Fertile Crescent?
2. How did geography affect the location of cities?
3. How were trade routes affected by geography?
4. How does geography affect the reach of different
empires?
Cornell Notes:
-Topic on top
-Big Ideas on left
(or categories)
-Details on right
-Sum up on bottom
11/3: How did Geography influence settlement in Mesopotamia?
Directions:
1. Take Cornell Notes on Geography Packets
2. In DN section, draw and caption a diagram of
how irrigation technology improved
3. Answer “Section Assessment Questions”
11/5: How did civilization develop in Mesopotamia?
Do Now:
1. Answer with group:
• How is today’s EQ different from Monday’s?
• What are the features of a civilization? (Civ Wheel)
2. Get “Mesopotamian Civilizations PARCC Vocab Skills”
Writing System (Records)
Social Structure (Hierarchy)
Advanced Cities (Public/Residential Buildings,Economy)
Government (Leaders)
CIV
WHEEL:
Characteristics
Culture and the Arts (Social Life/Traditions)
Religion (Belief System)
of a Civilization
Technology (Tools)
Specialized Workers (Division of Labor/Jobs)
11/5: How did civilization develop in Mesopotamia?
Directions:
1. Use worksheet and reading to develop your vocab
decoding and categorizing skills for the PARCC
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Hints:
What is the main topic of the paragraph?
What is the main idea of each sentence before and after?
What are some possible meanings for the word?
Read the word as if your guess was the correct meaning –
does the rest of the paragraph make sense?
11/10: How did civilization develop in Mesopotamia?
Do Now:
1. Answer with group:
• What types of things do cities have?
• Think about types of places, buildings, people,
services, areas, etc.
11/10: How did civilization develop in Mesopotamia?
The City of Ur:
11/10: How did civilization develop in Mesopotamia?
The City of Ur:
11/10: How did civilization develop in Mesopotamia?
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Directions:
Get “Plan your own Mesopotamian City” Worksheet
Get the City of Ur map/diagram
Add “Giparu (Temple)” to your worksheet
Use the book and paper maps to locate these features
Write down the function/purpose
Extension:
1. Begin planning to create your own Mesopotamian city
11/11: How did different people live in Mesopotamia?
Do Now:
1. Answer with group:
• What is a social Hierarchy?
• Is there a social hierarchy in school? (be honest)
• Do we have one in our community or country?
2. Get “Social Classes” and begin reading/highlighting
11/11: How did different people live in Mesopotamia?
Social Hierarchy Terms:
• Social classes
• Social structure
• Social ladder
• Class divisions
• Economic status
• Social pyramid
• Socioeconomic Stratification
• Las clases sociales (spanish)
-Division of a population into levels of lifestyle based on:
• wealth/job, education, gender, ethnicity, birth, etc.
11/11: How did different people live in Mesopotamia?
Directions:
1. Read/highlight “Social Classes” and answer questions:
Questions:
1. Who belongs in each class? (And what are classes called?)
2. What factors determine a person’s place in the hierarchy?
3. How were people’s lives different depending on their
social class?
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Circle the evidence in the text that gives this answer
4. Ext: What more do you need to know to answer the EQ
better; write an EQ or GQ yourself that furthers this study
Highlighting Guidelines
• Is the sentence telling you something NEW or
IMPORTANT?
• What is the MAIN IDEA/ARGUMENT of the
sentence?
• Which words in the sentence are most important to
the main idea?
• When you study this reading, will the highlighted
parts help you understand the main argument of
the paragraph?
11/12: How did different people live in Mesopotamia?
Do Now:
1. Answer with group:
• What
Types of job
Do you think
They had?
• What
Types of job
Do you see
In this
Picture?
11/12: How did different people live in Mesopotamia?
Sumerian painting:
-What kinds of people do you see?
-Which classes do you think they’re in?
11/12: How did different people live in Mesopotamia?
Directions:
-Get “Jobs in Ancient Mesopotamia”
-Use iPads or textbooks to define jobs you don’t know
-Use iPads, textbooks, and inferences to place them in the
social pyramid
-Answer the 3 questions on the front of the paper
Supports/extensions
-iPads
-Textbooks
-www.hierarchystructure.com
11/13: How did religion influence people’s lives in Mesopotamia?
• Do now:
– With Group, come up with two GUIDING QUESTIONS
that would help lead you to an answer to the EQ
– GUIDING QUESTIONS are smaller questions that guide
your research and understanding to answer larger (EQ)
questions
11/13: How did religion influence people’s lives in Mesopotamia?
GQ1: What is religion and why do we have it?
-Practice note-taking while we discuss each topic: Record the main points for each!
Explanation
Purpose
Reasons for
Religion
Justice/Behavior
Hope
Solidarity
11/13: How did religion influence people’s lives in Mesopotamia?
GQ2: What did Mesopotamians do that was motivated by religion?
• Directions:
– Get “Gods and Goddesses” packet
– Read (individually or with group – your choice)
• Highlight main points
• CIRCLE points that help answer the GQ and/or EQ
– Answer question sheet on back
11/14: How did religion influence people’s lives in Mesopotamia?
• Do now:
– Get out “Gods and Goddesses”
– Compare answers to the question page on the back
– Write an answer to the EQ
Question/prompt:
How did religion influence the lives of Mesopotamians?
Your argument (thesis):
GQA: What is religion and
why do we have it?
GQB: What was the
Mesopotamian religion?
GQC: What religious things
did they do?
Ex A1. _____________________
Ex B1. _____________________
Ex C1. _____________________
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Ex B2. _____________________
Ex C2. _____________________
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Ex B3. ____________________
Ex C3. ____________________
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11/15: How did religion influence people’s lives in Mesopotamia?
Revision/
Further research Directions:
– Does each division help answer the EQ?
– Does each detail give specific info about
Mesopotamian religion (in its own category)?
– Resources:
• Gods and Goddesses packet and textbooks
• iPads (google these… 1st link is higher-level)
– “ancient history encyclopedia Mesopotamian religion”
– “ducksters mesopotamia religion”
11/17: How did religion influence people’s lives in Mesopotamia?
• Do now:
– Get out Brainstorming chart and compare in group
– Does each division help answer the EQ?
– Does each detail give specific info about Mesopotamian
religion? Does that info answer the EQ?
– What more can/should be added?
Question/prompt:
How did religion influence the lives of Mesopotamians?
Your argument (thesis):
GQA: What is religion and
why do we have it?
GQB: What was the
Mesopotamian religion?
GQC: What religious things
did they do?
Ex A1. _____________________
Ex B1. _____________________
Ex C1. _____________________
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Ex B2. _____________________
Ex C2. _____________________
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Ex B3. ____________________
Ex C3. ____________________
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11/17: How did religion influence people’s lives in Mesopotamia?
Revision/
Further research Directions:
– Does each division help answer the EQ?
– Does each detail give specific info about
Mesopotamian religion (in its own category)?
– Resources:
• Gods and Goddesses packet and textbooks
• iPads (google these… 1st link is higher-level)
– “ancient history encyclopedia Mesopotamian religion”
– “ducksters mesopotamia religion”
Date
10/31
Mesopotamia Unit
Mesopotamia Map/5 Themes Chart
10/31
Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent
11/3
11/5
Irrigation and Civilization (cornell, diagrams, SAQs)
Mesopotamian Civilizations (reading)
11/5
Mesopotamian Civilizations (Vocab sheet)
11/10
11/11
Plan your own Mesopotamian City!
Social Classes
11/12
Jobs in Ancient Mesopotamia
11/13
Gods and Goddesses
11/14
Religion Brainstorming Chart (cheesecake recipe)
11/18: Was Mesopotamian culture similar to, or different from, American Culture?
Do Now:
1. Put Brainstorming chart in period bin
2. Answer with group:
-What cultural traditions do Mesopotamians get from their religion?
-What is culture? (what kinds of things are cultural?)
11/19: How did government develop and what did it do?
• Do Now:
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Do we need a government?
What does it do?
Get “Mesopotamian Government”
Get out “Mesopotamian Civilizations” (High School page)
• Find the paragraph about beginnings of government
11/19: How did government develop and what did it do?
11/19: How did government develop and what did it do?
11/19: How did government develop and what did it do?
11/19: How did government develop and what did it do?
• Directions:
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Read and highlight: “Mesopotamian Government”
Read Hammurabi Biography on pg. 22; take Cornell notes
Answer focus questions and complete Twitter Feed
Answer EQ in 3 sentences
11/20: What can a code of laws do for a civilization?
GQ1. Were Hammurabi’s laws fair to women and all social classes?
• Do now:
– Put last night’s HW in period bin
– Get “Hammurabi’s Code of Laws”
– Answer with group:
• What would life be like without laws?
• Could a civilization survive?
195. If a son strike his father, his hands shall be hewn off.
196. If a man put out the eye of a nobleman, his eye shall be put out.
197. If he break a nobleman's bone, his bone shall be broken.
198. If he put out the eye of a common man, or break the bone of a
common man, he shall pay one gold mina.
199. If he put out the eye of a man's slave, or break the bone of a man's
slave, he shall pay one-half of its value.
28. If a chieftain or a man be caught in the misfortune of a king [killed in
war], if his son is able to enter into possession, then the field and garden
shall be given to him, he shall take over the fee of his father.
29. If his son is still young, and can not take possession, a third of the field
and garden shall be given to his mother, and she shall bring him up.
11/20: What can a code of laws do for a civilization?
GQ1. Were the laws fair to women and all social classes?
GQ2. What effect did his laws have on his empire?
• Directions:
– Read each case and all laws that apply
– Highlight key points to the case and the laws
– Write rationale and answer questions as a legal team
– Extension: analyze extra law sheets; answer Qs 2-5
128. If a man take a woman to wife, but have no children with her, this woman is no wife to
him.
209. If a man strike an upper-class woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay ten
shekels for her loss.
210. If the woman die, his daughter shall be put to death.
211. If a woman of the middle class lose her child by a blow, he shall pay five
shekels in money.
212. If this woman die, he shall pay half a mina.
213. If he strike the maid-servant of a man, and she lose her child, he shall pay two shekels in
money.
214. If this maid-servant die, he shall pay one-third of a mina.
146. If a man take a wife and she give this man a maid-servant as wife and she bear him
children, and then this maid assume equality with the wife: because she has borne him
children her master shall not sell her for money, but he may keep her as a slave, reckoning her
among the maid-servants.
11/20: What can a code of laws do for a civilization?
GQ1. Were the laws fair to women and all social classes?
GQ2. What effect did his laws have on his empire?
Homework:
-Choose 3 questions and write a response in THESIS format – argument + reasons
-You may write 2-3 sentences each to fully explain your answers
Extension: answer all 6 questions!
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Was Hammurabi’s Code a positive step for civilization?
Judging from these laws, what can we infer about the values of Babylonians?
Did Hammurabi promote justice?
If you were Hammurabi, what law(s) would you change or add?
Should, or did, our legal system borrow any ideas from Hammurabi’s Laws?
What effect did these laws have on Mesopotamian civilization?
11/21: What can a code of laws do for a civilization?
GQ1. What effect did his laws have on his empire?
GQ2. Did, or should, the U.S. borrow ideas from Hammurabi?
• Do now:
– Get out your Hammurabi Homework
– Discuss each answer with group
11/21: What can a code of laws do for a civilization?
GQ1. What effect did his laws have on his empire?
GQ2. Did, or should, the U.S. borrow ideas from Hammurabi?
• Directions:
– Choose a GQ to answer with a thesis
– Do research to create your thesis
• Use class sets of law sheets and iPads
– Theses should have three divisions with examples
City Maps:
Plan your own Mesopotamian City!
1. Research cities of Mesopotamia and use books to explain the function of the city features listed below:
-Ziggurat: __________________________________________________________________________________________
-Add “Giparu (Temple)”
-Fortress: __________________________________________________________________________________________
-Draw city plan on graph paper
-Residential area: ___________________________________________________________________________________
-Roads: ____________________________________________________________________________________________
-Commercial area: ___________________________________________________________________________________
-Make a key to label these items
-Include 1 sentence explaining each
feature of your city
-Palace: ___________________________________________________________________________________________
-City Walls: ________________________________________________________________________________________
-These should explain how your
city works by including key details
about each feature
-Water Source: _____________________________________________________________________________________
-Agricultural area: ___________________________________________________________________________________
-Giparu (temple):____________________________________________________________________________________
2. Use your research and the examples provided in the folder to design your own Mesopotamian City. Your map must
include ALL of the features listed above as well as a scale, key, compass rose, and any other feature you’d like to add!
-Use internet resources like:
-Ducksters
-Ancient History Encyc.
To do your research
-20 pts; Due