It’s a new semester! Congratulations! Week of 1.25.17 It’s a new semester! Congratulations!

Instructions Find your name on a desk and then sit at that desk.

Directions Fill out the Student Information Sheet. You have 10 minutes.

Ice Breaker 1. Group it up! 2. Assign each person a number (1-4) 3. Number 1’s, you are up first!!!

Ice Breaker Directions 1. If you are a number 2, you must write the name of a famous person on one of your sticky notes. (Number 1’s, overt your eyes!) 2. Place the sticky note on the forehead of Number 1. 3. Number 1 has twenty questions to guess the person. 4. Number 2 keeps track of how many questions.

Ice Breaker Directions Continued 1. If you are a number 3, you must write the name of a famous person on one of your sticky notes. (Number 2’s, overt your eyes!) 2. Place the sticky note on the forehead of Number 2. 3. Number 2 has twenty questions to guess the person. 4. Number 3 keeps track of how many questions.

History as a Weapon Read the text and answer the two questions. You have 7 minutes. Be prepared to share your answers.

Turn and Talk Turn and talk to your partner. Each of you will discuss your answers for each question. If you are closest to the window, you are a 1. If you are closest to the door, you are a 2. 2’s go first.

History of You. Write these directions down. 1. Brainstorm of a list of the top 10 things that have happened in your life.

Writing Prompt Imagine you work at a pet store after school. One day, 3000 mice escape from their cages and are running all around the store. What do you do? Spend 5 minutes writing about what you would do in that situation.

Writing prompt. What does your “perfect” day look like? Make it realistic, not sci- fi.

What is the worst thing about school? Writing prompt. What is the worst thing about school?

What am I expected to do now? 1. Start brainstorming your list of 10 important life events 2. Think about what you are going to do to create your timeline 3. Begin writing the rough draft of “The History of You.”

1.26.17 Thursday American I Directions: We will usually have a daily “Warm Up” question that relates to the previous day’s objective. You should carve out a section of your notebook for “Warm Ups.” By the end of the unit they become a great study guide for the test. Warm Up Question: Write three sentences on “The Age of Exploration.”

What it looks like…. 1.26 Write three sentences on the Age of Exploration. Here is a sentence. Look, I’m writing another sentence! Wow, I can’t believe I’ve already written THREE SENTENCES! I’m the best! (That last one was extra. I’m going to Yale).

Homework 1.26 Read pages 36-48 in the online textbook. Get out your phones and lets practice looking at the textbook. Go to mrmoran.pbworks.com

1.26.17 World History Directions: We will usually have a daily “Warm Up” question that relates to the previous day’s objective. You should carve out a section of your notebook for “Warm Ups.” You should write the date, the question, and the answer. By the end of the unit they become a great study guide for the test. Warm Up Question: List the 5 characteristics of Civilizations

What it looks like…. 1.26 List the 5 characteristics of civilizations. 1. Something 2. Another thing 3. A third thing 4. Here’s a fourth thing 5. Oh, a fifth thing! (I did it!)

1.27 Warm Up In 4-5 sentences, describe the positives and negatives of the Columbian Exchange.

Answer The Columbian Exchange resulted in an increase of trade and was the first step toward globalization. New foods and crops were exchanged between the Old World and the New. Some negatives, however, were that many species became extinct, and diseases from the Old World devastated Native American populations.

1.27 Warm Up Describe Hammurabi's Code and explain its significance.

Answer Hammurabi's code was a very harsh set of laws in Ancient Babylonia. It had very specific punishments for very specific crimes. It was the first set of laws that were written down. This is significant because now everyone knew the laws so no one could manipulate them. This was especially good for the lower class of the social hierarchy because there write were protected in print.

Task! Read through the packet information on the History of the Colony and annotate up that text! When you get to the theories, do the same, however you need to be EVALUATING each theory. After you finish the theories you need to choose the one you feel is most credible. You have 20 minutes.