1. Warm Up: POSERS Complete the following task on your warm up page 1
Write these letters going down –skip lines P O S E R

2. POSERS P – People. Who is in the picture
O – Objects. What objects do you see
S – Setting. Where are they
E – Engagement. What are they doing
R – Relationship. How are people related
S – Summary. Summarize the picture
POSERS

4. How should they best be remembered?
Aztec’s

5. I am learning to evaluate historical sources from different points of view.
The purpose of this is to be able to determine how the Aztecs should best be remembered.
Essential Question

6. Research Question: How Should the Aztecs be remembered?
Aztec DBQ

7. Sources to Analyze Growth of the Aztec Empire
Justification for Aztec Reign over Central Mexico
Hernan Cotes on seeing Tenochtitlan
Young Scribe’s impression of Ritual Sacrifice
The Scale of Sacrifice
Understand Aztec Sacrifice
Floating Gardens
Diego Rivera Mural
Tribute Demands
Sources to Analyze

8. Analyzing Artifacts: Document 1
Look at Document 1
Who is the Author or Source?
What is the Title of the Document?
Why Type of Document is this?
Complete the organizer for Document 1, stating what the MAIN IDEA of the document is and by citing textual evidence to help support you.
Analyzing Artifacts: Document 1

9. Which aspect of your thesis does this document help support?
Conquest?
Sacrifice?
Agriculture?
Determine which aspect(s) the document helps support, and write that next to that document
Which aspect of your thesis does this document help support?

10. Warm Up:
Take out your DBQ packet and complete the following for document 2:
Look at Document 2
Who is the Author or Source?
What is the Title of the Document?
Why Type of Document is this?
Complete the organizer for Document 2, stating what the MAIN IDEA of the document is and by citing textual evidence to help support you.

12. Which aspect of your thesis does this document help support?
Conquest?
Sacrifice?
Agriculture?
Determine which aspect(s) the document helps support, and write that next to that document
Which aspect of your thesis does this document help support?

13. How should the Aztecs best be remembered?

14. I am learning to evaluate historical sources from different points of view.
The purpose of this is to be able to determine how the Aztecs should best be remembered.
Essential Question

15. Research Question: How Should the Aztecs be remembered?
Aztec DBQ

16. Analyzing Artifacts: Document 3
Look at Document 3
Who is the Author or Source?
What is the Title of the Document?
Why Type of Document is this?
Complete the organizer for Document 1, stating what the MAIN IDEA of the document is and by citing textual evidence to help support you.
Analyzing Artifacts: Document 3

17. Which aspect of your thesis does this document help support?
Conquest?
Sacrifice?
Agriculture?
Determine which aspect(s) the document helps support, and write that next to that document
Which aspect of your thesis does this document help support?

18. Continue this process for Document 3, 5, 6

19. Warm Up:
Take out your DBQ packet and complete the following for document 6:
Look at Document 6
Who is the Author or Source?
What is the Title of the Document?
Why Type of Document is this?
Complete the organizer for Document 6, stating what the MAIN IDEA of the document is and by citing textual evidence to help support you.

20. Which aspect of your thesis does this document help support?
Conquest?
Sacrifice?
Agriculture?
Determine which aspect(s) the document helps support, and write that next to that document
Which aspect of your thesis does this document help support?

21. How should the Aztecs best be remembered?

22. I am learning to evaluate historical sources from different points of view.
The purpose of this is to be able to determine how the Aztecs should best be remembered.
Essential Question

23. Research Question: How should the Aztecs be remembered?
Aztec DBQ

24. Analyzing Artifacts: Document 7
Look at Document 7
Who is the Author or Source?
What is the Title of the Document?
Why Type of Document is this?
Complete the organizer for Document 7, stating what the MAIN IDEA of the document is and by citing textual evidence to help support you.
Analyzing Artifacts: Document 7

25. Which aspect of your thesis does this document help support?
Conquest?
Sacrifice?
Agriculture?
Determine which aspect(s) the document helps support, and write that next to that document
Which aspect of your thesis does this document help support?

26. Continue this process for Document 8, 9, 11

27. You have been analyzing the Aztecs, what do you feel they should be remembered for? Why
Warm Up

28. How should the Aztecs best be remembered?

29. I am learning to evaluate historical sources from different points of view.
The purpose of this is to be able to determine how the Aztecs should best be remembered.
Essential Question

30. Research Question: How should the Aztecs be remembered?
Aztec DBQ

31. Aztec Video

32. How should the Aztecs be remembered?
This is to be a 5 paragraph paper that answers the question,
“ How should the Aztecs be remembered”?
Your paper should have the following:
- Introduction paragraph
- Body paragraph about Conquest & its importance to the Aztecs
- Body paragraph about Sacrifice & its importance to the Aztecs
- Body paragraph about Agriculture & its importance to the Aztecs
- Conclusion paragraph
Make sure to cite from the documents a minimum of 3 times:
ex: “our god ordered us to call this place Tenochtitlan” (Doc 2)
How should the Aztecs be remembered?