1. 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

2. 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

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

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

5. 6th grade Ancient Civilizations
Units and Topics
Geography Study
Archaeology
Early Humans & Early Farming
Ancient Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece

6. 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?

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

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

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

10. 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…

11. Web Sources https://lps.lexingtonma.org/Page/6346