1. Day 1 Vocabulary Study : Chapter
Day 1 Vocabulary Study : Chapter. 2 The First People Bell ringer: September 6, 2017
Take out your composition book and some colors.
Paste the map of Africa
Color the map green
Draw and label the Nile River blue pg.29
Around the map define the following words using colors: prehistory, hominid, ancestor, tool, Paleolithic Era, society, hunter-gathers

2. Vocabulary
Around the map define the following words using colors: prehistory, hominid, ancestor, tool, Paleolithic Era, society, hunter-gathers
Use your textbook to define each term pg.28-32

3. Bell Ringer Day 2 September 6
Take out your composition book and some colors.
Next to each definition, draw a picture that helps your understanding of the key term
Example
Tool – a hand held object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task.

4. Annotation of an Article
Day 2
Annotation of an Article

7. Day 3 Bell ringer: September 7, 2017
What’s the question?
(No definition please)
-Answer: tools

8. Chapter 2 The Stone Ages and Early Cultures
* Society *Hunter-Gathers *Tool *Paleolithic Era *Hominid *Ancestor * Prehistory *Anthropology

9. Prehistory – the time before there was writing Anthropology– the study of humans
Writing was not invented until about 5,000 years ago.
Historians rely on the work of archaeologist and anthropologist to study prehistory.

10. Hominid– an early ancestor of humans Ancestor– a relative who lived in the past
Scientist classify early humans as hominids
Modern day humans are called “Homo sapiens” also known as “wise men”
They appeared in Africa about 200,000 years ago

11. Paleolithic Era– The first part of the Stone Ages also known as the Old Stone Age Tool-- any handheld object that has been modified to help a person accomplish a task
Examples:
Hand ax
-break tree limbs
-dig
-to cut animal hides
Spear
- Could allow the humans to throw the tools and catch larger animals

12. Society– a community of people who share a common culture
Hunter-Gathers– people who hunt animals and gather wild plants, seeds, fruits, and nuts to survive
Distribute– to divide among a group of people

13. *Society*Hunter-gathers*Distribute
Hunters-gathers lived in small groups and during bad weather they were sheltered by caves.
They sometimes had to move when water or food became scarce.
Men usually traveled in herds to hunt.
Women usually gathered fruits, wild plants, seeds, etc. and stayed close to home to take care of the children.

14. Language, Art, Religion Language = most important development
Art = way to communicate and make hunting easier
Religion = believe to have started due to artifacts and food being found in burial sites.

15. Group - Alone - Partner

16. Choose your answer….

17. Day 4 Bell ringer: September 8
Take out your composition book.
Define land bridge. (Chp 2.2)
Look at a map of the world and identify a land bridge that still exist today.
Cut and paste ICE AGE image into composition book.

18. Chapter 2 Section 2
Early Human Migration

19. Ice Ages- a period of time of freezing weather Migrate- to move land bridge- a strip of land connecting two continents
Climate patterns—
-Shaped the earth’s geography
-caused Old Stone Age people to migrate
-these freezing weather patterns = ice ages
Land bridges = how stone age people crossed to other continents
Each continent had people living there except Antarctica

20. Mesolithic Era- Middle Stone Ages
Basic Needs:
Adapting to very cold climates= fire and sewing animal skins for clothing
Shelter= caves-----pit houses (roofs of branches and trees)
Advancements:
Shelter= mammoth houses because wood was scarce in Central Asia
smaller and more complex tools
Hooks and fishing spears
Canoes to travel on rivers
Pottery
Dogs to help hunt and protect
Mesolithic Era- Middle Stone Ages

21. 3,2,1 3- Tell three things you’ve learned about the Stone Ages.
2- Tell two ways you identify with the Stone Age people.
1- Tell one thing you still have a question about.