Bellringer
• What are the four river valley
civilizations?
• Turn in your essay Thesis on the bell
ringer form
Agenda
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Cornell Notes
Lecture Notes Tips
Indus River Valley
Chinese Dynasties
Objectives
Students will be able to…
19.Summarize the major features of
Indus River Valley civilization.
20.Describe ancient Chinese
dynasties and religious beliefs.
Skills Objectives
Students will be able to…
S13. Use the Cornell Notes system to
take effective lecture notes.
S14. Identify key information
presented in lectures.
Reminders
• Unit Test: October 17
–Objectives 1-21 (that’s all of them)
–Get in your missing work!
Objective #S13
Cornell Notes
Why Cornell Notes?
• Effective notes improve retention
• Organized notes improve study habits
–Cornell Notes are a built-in study
guide
• Notes centered around key questions
help identify important themes
• Summarization is a key skill
How Does it Work?
• 1/3 of the page (on the left side) is
reserved for questions
• On right side, record notes in
paragraphs, grouping information
logically
• Get down main ideas; facts can be
added later
How Does it Work?
• Revise notes by
–Adding in questions on the left side
–Correcting any facts (dates, names,
terms) that were incomplete
–Fleshing out thoughts that were
too brief to be useful later
• Summarize in EXACTLY 20 words
Objective #S14
Lecture Tips
• Pay attention to slide titles
• Look ahead on your notes sheet
• Use the structure of the lecture
–Numberings, topic changes
• Think before you write!
–Don’t copy every word you hear or
see!
Objective #19
Indus River Valley
Interpreting Pictures
• On the back of your Cornell Notes
sheet, write down what you think
you can tell about this civilization
based on the pictures
A City Block
A City
Interpreting Pictures
• What do you think you can see?
Main Things We Know
• Main things we know
–Planned cities and plumbing
Main Things We Know
• Main things we know
– Great uniformity (of cities and bricks),
citadel indicates strong rulers
Main Things We Know
• Main things we know
–Identical houses indicates equality
Main Things We Know
• Main things we know
–More territory than Egypt or
Sumer
–Wiped out with almost nothing left
Why Don’t We Know
More?
• No translation of their writing!
Geography
Mesopotamia
(Sumer’s disadvantages)
Indus Valley
Unpredictable flooding Unpredictable flooding
Monsoon rains
No natural defensive
barriers
Himalaya Mountains
(the subcontinent)
No natural resources
Abundant stone and
other precious rocks
Trade
• We know the Indus people traded
with Mesopotamia
–How?
Major Cities
• Harappa (a.k.a. Harappan civilization)
• Mohenjo-Daro
• Last from around 2500 to 1700 BCE –
then disappear
Summarize!
• EXACTLY 20 words
–Not 19, not 21 – 20
Summary
• Indus civilization is a mystery due to
untranslated writing. It had planned
cities, plumbing, and trade, and
probably strong kings.
Objective #20
Chinese Dynasties
Vocabulary
• Prosperity
• Mandate of Heaven – belief that the
gods choose the rulers
• Dynastic Cycle – process by which
dynasties gain and lose power in
China
Dynastic Cycle
New
dynasty
established
New family
claims
Mandate of
Heaven
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Revolution
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fights
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dynasty.
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Dynasty
loses
mandate of
heaven
Period of
prosperity
Decline,
corruption,
disasters
Cartoons!
• Make a cartoon to illustrate the
Dynastic Cycle, with one partner
–Draw pictures and write captions in
each box
–Cut out boxes and arrange the
panels on construction paper
–You can draw arrows and add text