Catherine Boege- Team Pegasus Ancient Civilizations Welcome! Catherine Boege- Team Pegasus Ancient Civilizations Look on the sides of the board for a special message from your student… and feel free to write back! 6:35 – 6:45 A Yellow Class 6:50 – 7:00 B 7:05 – 7:15 C Blue Class 7:20 – 7:30 D Green Class 7:35 – 7:45 E 7:50 – 8:00 F Red Class 8:05 – 8:15 G

A little bit about me… 8th year teaching middle school social studies 5th year at Diamond Undergraduate Degree: Secondary Education and History- University of Vermont Graduate Degree: Reading- American International College Licensed Reading Specialist

Pegasus Team Leader Please contact me for any general inquiries (i.e. planned absences, scheduling conferences, team related questions, general student concerns) cboege@lexingtonma.org In January, Mrs. Moser will be taking over as the Team Leader and will become the Team Pegasus point person hmoser@lexingtonma.org

Homework 6th grade- approximately 1 hour per night 15-20 minutes per assignment

6th grade Ancient Civilizations Units and Topics   Geography Study Archaeology Early Humans & Early Farming Ancient Mesopotamia Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece

6th grade Ancient Civilizations Yearlong Essential Questions   How does where people live affect how they live? How do social scientists interpret the past? What is at the heart of a civilization? What major similarities and differences exist between civilizations of the past? What legacies have civilizations of the past left behind?

Year Long Skills Historical Thinking Research Argumentative Writing Skills are vertically aligned 6-8

Historical Thinking Skills Close Reading Interpreting texts and documents Inferring cause and effect Taking different perspectives Recognizing bias Corroborating ideas  

Research Skills Generating questions Finding appropriate web, book and database sources Creating proper citations Note taking- recording and synthesizing what’s important  

Argumentative Writing Crafting a claim statement Supporting claim statement with evidence from text Analyzing evidence to explain how it supports the claim Students will be able to construct an argument by…

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