1. To do list for Thursday, Aug. 11
Bell Ringer: How to annotate?
Read Workbook: Ch. 1, Sect. 1,2,3 and annotate each reading.
Moe Notes: Ch. 1, Sect. 1,2,3 (Use Cornell Notes/ Split-page notes)
Assign Home Study due Friday
Annotate Class Syllabus (Must turn in Friday signed by a parent or guardian for a grade!)

2. How to annotate?

3. Chapter Introduction Chapter 1, Section 1: Understanding Our Past
This chapter will focus on the development of humans from prehistory, through the Neolithic Revolution, to the establishment of civilizations.
Chapter 1, Section 1: Understanding Our Past
Chapter 1, Section 2: Turning Point: The Neolithic Revolution
Chapter 1, Section 3: Beginnings of Civilization

4. Essential Questions:
What have scholars learned about our ancient ancestors in the past?
How has the introduction of agriculture and farming changed human civilization?
How did the world’s first civilizations arise and develop?

5. Section 1: Understanding Our Past
“Lucy”
1950’s – Mary and Louis Leakey found clues in East Africa of ancient stone tools that were developed as survival tools.
1959 – Mary discovered “Lucy” a skull of an early hominid. Lucy dated to 3 million years.
1974 – David Johansson found remains of a hominid skeleton in Ethiopia. Johansson names Mary’s skull “Lucy” while digging for remains and listening to “Lucy in the Sky with Diamond.”

6. Human Evolution Timeline Interactive
Finding Lucy
Who is Lucy?
Ending credits of the movie “Across the Universe”
original song from the Beatles

8. Prehistory Eras Paleolithic or Old Stone Age
Neolithic or New Stone Age
During both periods people made stone tools.
During Neolithic age, new skills and technologies that led to major changes.

9. Nomads: http://www.stoneagetools.co.uk/neolithic-gallery.htm Weapons
Fire
Animal skin turned into clothes
Spoken language
Burial traditions
Belief systems like religion and spiritual world
Cave painting which started art
Animism – World full of spirits and forces in animals, objects, or dreams

10. The Neolithic Age made several contributions to modern civilization:
Food production creating surpluses
Permanent settlements
Domestication of plants and animals
The Neolithic Age Explained

11. Section 3: Beginnings of Civilization
Eight Features of Civilizations:
Rise of cities
Organized governments
Complex religions
Job specialization
Social classes
Arts and architecture
Public works & projects
Writing and communication

12. The ancient system of government in the land of the Pharaohs

13. Polytheism versus Monotheism
Poly – The belief in many gods.
Mono – The belief in one god.
Cultural diffusion is the spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group to another. The mixing of world cultures through different ethnicities, religions and nationalities has increased with advanced communication, transportation and technology.

14. Cultural Diffusion leads to the rise of city-states and then later to the rise of empires.
Home Study due Monday:
Annotations, Reading Check, Vocabulary Strategy, Reading Skill, and Review Questions for pages 10, 12, & 14.

15. Moe Notes’ Summaries
Closure: Answer the essential questions in complete sentences and in your own words at the bottom of the Moe Notes. Be prepared to read your summaries aloud. When the electronic seating chart is made next week, you will be randomly selected to read your summaries as a closure at the end of class.

16. Video: Forgotten Empires Secrets of the of Ancient Mesopotamia Full Documentary
Directions: Watch the video and write down one example of each of the eight features of civilization.

17. Chapter Introduction Section 1: City-States of Ancient Sumer
This chapter will focus the rise of civilization, the rise and spread of empires, Egyptian civilization, and the beginning of Judaism.
Section 1: City-States of Ancient Sumer
Section 2: Invaders, Traders, and Empire Builders
Section 3: Kingdom on the Nile
Section 4: Egyptian Civilization
Section 5: Roots of Judaism

18. Chapter Introduction
This chapter will cover the development of civilizations in ancient India in China, including the evolution of two major religions and several early Chinese dynasties.
Section 1: Early Civilizations of India and Pakistan
Section 2: Hinduism and Buddhism
Section 3: Powerful Empires of India
Section 4: Rise of Civilization in China
Section 5: Strong Rulers Unite China