1. Warm-up Questions
Read the following passage:
“Go to school, stand before your ‘school-father,’ recite your assignment, open your schoolbag, write your tablet… After you have finished your assignment and reported to your monitor (teacher), come to me, and do not wander about in the street.”
What answer best describes the meaning of the passage?
Sumerians had few students to go to school.
Sumerians valued education for their children.
Monitors were very strict and demanded much from their students.

2. Mesopotamia Farming and Cities Ancient Civilizations
Mr. Hollingsworth’s World History
Thursday – September 6, 2018

3. Today’s Learning Targets
I will use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.
I will identify the physical and cultural features of this region on a map.
I will outline Sumerian achievements.
I will outline Sumerian achievements.

4. Warm-up Questions
Read the following passage:
“Go to school, stand before your ‘school-father,’ recite your assignment, open your schoolbag, write your tablet… After you have finished your assignment and reported to your monitor (teacher), come to me, and do not wander about in the street.”
What answer best describes the meaning of the passage?
Sumerians had few students to go to school.
Sumerians valued education for their children.
Monitors were very strict and demanded much from their students.

5. Ancient Sumer
You are going to answer a series of questions about ancient Sumer. Glue the questions into your notebook on page 6 (regular classes), page 5 (preAP classes):

6. Key Terms Review More than needed. Human-made waterways. surplus
Canals
I can use the academic vocabulary
of this region and time
appropriately.

7. Key Terms Review A way of supplying water to an area of land
irrigation
When each worker specializes in a particular task or job.
Division of labor
I can use the academic
vocabulary of this region and
time appropriately.

8. Key Terms Review A large arc of rich, or fertile farmland
Fertile Crescent
A mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks
Silt
I can use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.

9. Map of Mesopotamia

10. Today’s Learning Targets
I can use the academic vocabulary of this region and time appropriately.
I can identify the physical and cultural features of this region on a map.
I can outline Sumerian achievements.
I will outline Sumerian achievements.