1. Warm Up Grab your spiral as well as a blank sheet of paper
Answer the following question on your warm up pages 1-3
Name three things you can do to make sure this spiral helps you the rest of the school year

2. Aztec vs Mayan Writing Assignment

3. Prompt – Write this down
Using the atlas, identify the differences in the environments that the Aztecs and the Mayans lived in. Explain how these differences may have contributed to a different way of life between the two tribes.

4. CUCC
C – Circle U – Underline C – Count C – Check

5. CUCC C – Circle the action words U – Underline the specifics
What is the prompt asking you to do?
U – Underline the specifics
What, exactly, am I explaining?
C – Count how many steps you have to do
Is there more than one part?
C – Check them off afterward
Did I do everything I was supposed to do?

6. Prompt – CUCC
Using the atlas, identify the differences in the environments that the Aztecs and the Mayas lived in. Explain how these differences may have contributed to a different way of life between the two tribes.

7. Things that will help you
Use your atlas
Pages will show you physical characteristics
Page 32 will show you environment and climate info
Remember, the Aztecs lived in the very center of Mexico
Remember, the Mayas lived in the Yucatan Peninsula

8. Aztecs
Mayans

9. Warm Up
Take out your rough draft from yesterday

10. Writing Prompt
Using the atlas, identify the differences in the environments that the Aztecs and the Mayas lived in. Explain how these differences may have contributed to a different way of life between the two tribes.
Remember our CUCC
Identify the differences in environments
Explain how they may have contributed to a different way of life
2 tasks in this prompt

11. Writing your paragraph
Use your prewriting of the differences in environments
Closeness to the water
Elevation and land features
Climate
Use your atlas if you need more information
Page 32 (two maps) and 62

12. Remember, there are TWO tasks
IDENTIFY the differences in environments
Suggestion – discuss at least two differences in environments
The Aztecs lived in ____________, while the Maya lived in ___________.
For each difference, add a detail from the atlas
EXPLAIN how those differences may have contributed to different lifestyles.
Make sure that you are using the environmental differences you’ve already identified.
Because they lived in such a flat area, close to the water, the Maya were probably able to ________.

13. CUCC
C – Circle the action words U – Underline the specifics C – Count how many tasks you are supposed to do C – Check them off now that you’re finished

14. Editing Underline the differences in environment
Use the atlas to determine if those differences can be found in there
Circle the differences in lifestyle
Underline the references to the environment again

15. Prompt
Using the atlas, identify the differences in the environments that the Aztecs and the Mayas lived in. Explain how these differences may have contributed to a different way of life between the two tribes.

16. Final copy due at the beginning if class tomorrow!