1. Walk-In Take out notebook, folder, pencil box and agenda.
PUT AWAY BACKPACK.
Turn to back of notebook. Write the title Walk-In and today’s date.
Copy the question and answer in sentences:
What is the difference between a glossary and a dictionary? How are they the same?

2. Answer A glossary and a dictionary both give meanings to words.
However, the words in a glossary are focused on one subject, like a historical glossary in our textbook.

3. Measuring historic time

4. Measuring Time
Goal: Understand terms like BC, AD, BCE and CE. Be able to put events in order. Have a sense of how long ago something occurred.
Think of time on a timeline.
Very Long Past Now
long ago ago

5. Measuring Time
Follow along as we draw a timeline and mark important dates on it.
Let’s mark these times on it:
20 BC
20 AD
200 BC
200 AD
2000 BC
2000 AD

6. Measuring Time
Follow along as we draw a timeline and mark important dates on it.
No year zero!
BC = Before Christ
AD = Anno Domini (in the year of our Lord), not After Death (of Christ)
Bigger BC numbers go more into the past
Bigger AD numbers get closer to the present

7. Two More Terms
Some historians did not want to measure time relative to a religious event like the birth of Christ, so two more terms are used.
CE = Common Era (same as AD)
BCE = Before Common Era (same as BC)

8. Draw some dates on a timeline
Draw a timeline, and label the year 1 BCE and 1 CE.
Mark on:
3000 BCE (Stonehenge built)
20000 BCE (cave people lived)
1776 CE (America gets its freedom)
2005 or 2006 (year most of you were born!)

9. Video about time
Watch this video clip about times in history of famous ancient events!