1. Bellringer
Find your new seat and start work on the text book scavenger hunt worksheet
Reminders:
Take today’s papers
Turn in syllabus signatures

2. Agenda Pass out books Complete book worksheet Finish Pre-History notes
The Paleolithic Era
Hunter-gatherer life
Summarizing Text

3. Objectives Students will be able to… Define and describe culture.
List the major advances early humans made during the Paleolithic Era.
Describe hunter-gatherer life.

4. Skills Objectives Students will be able to…
Take effective notes from textbook readings.
Interpret information presented in charts and graphs.
Create efficient summaries of written texts. S S S

5. Charts and Graphs

7. Greek Name Roman Name Responsibilities Aphrodite Venus
goddess of beauty and love
Ares
Mars
god of war
Artemis
Diana
goddess of hunting and childbirth
Athena
Minerva
goddess of war, wisdom, and crafts
Demeter
Ceres
goddess of the harvest
Hera
Juno
protector of women; wife of Zeus/Jupiter
Hermes
Mercury
messenger of the gods
Hades
Pluto
god of the Underworld
Poseidon
Neptune
god of the sea
Zeus
Jupiter
king of the gods

11. Binder Organization Front: Assignment Log, Syllabus Tabs Bellringers
Current Unit
Reviews and Exams
Tools
Glossary

12. Objective #1
Prehistory
The class is organized around the Objectives. You’ll see what objective we are talking about in the upper right hand corner. Everything after this slide is in Objective 1, until you see something that says Objective 2.
Prehistory – the time in human history before the invention of writing
What sources can we use to understand the “prehistoric” world?
Pay attention to your notes sheet and what is next. This is an honors class – I’m not going to call out every time you need to write.
But you can always ask!
Words you see in bold, underlined red need to be added to your glossary! Sometimes the slide will define the word. Sometimes you have to listen for the definition!

13. Unwritten History
Oral histories
Drawings
Stuff they left behind

14. Oral Histories
Storytellers prized in many cultures, and stories are passed down for generations
Problems:
“Whisper down the lane” effect
Dead people don’t tell stories

15. Drawings
Mostly, cave paintings
Famous pictures from Lascaux (France)

16. Cave Paintings Art is in the eye of the beholder Stories?
Actual events?
Religious beliefs?
Nice pictures?
Textbooks?

17. Artifacts
Something made by people

18. Fossils
Solidified remains of living things

19. Using Artifacts Some assembly required
Like a giant puzzle with no idea what the picture will be
What if we use things for different purposes?
If we know what, do we know when?
Some things get lost

20. Objective #2
Studying the Past
Archeology
Anthropology

21. Archeology
The study of the human past by examining artifacts and remains
Excavation
Hoping to find ancient settlements, burial sites, tools, etc.

22. Carbon Dating
A scientific test used to analyze the age of artifacts and fossils
(based on the half-life decay of Carbon-14… ask a science teacher)
Pretty accurate for the last 40,000 years or so

23. Anthropology Study of human origins, relationships, and cultures
Try to determine how humans evolved (physically and culturally)
Archeology is a subfield of anthropology
What is culture?

24. Objective #3
Culture
Culture is a system of beliefs, values, and assumptions about life that guide behavior and are shared by a group of people
Everyone has culture
What does culture include?

25. Our Culture
What will archeologists and anthropologists use to understand our culture in 10,000 years?

26. HW: Textbook Notes Tips for effective note taking
Not just reading; note taking
Your first (real) homework assignment!
Entering class procedure: turn in homework to your class inbox

27. Objective #4
Early Humans

28. Early Humans
Start our story at the dawn of the Paleolithic Era, about 2.5 million years ago
the Old Stone Age
Humans created the first tools made out of stone

29. Better than Monkeys Early humans developed Simple stone tools
Control of fire
Oral language
All keys to cooperating in hunts, which bring food and resources

30. Wise Man
Smarter, larger-brained humans known as homo sapiens (Latin for “wise man”)
Developed technology
Clothing
Shelter
Art
Homo sapiens are modern humans

31. Out of Africa Homo sapiens arose in Africa about 200,000 years ago
Migration to all continents (except Antarctica) beginning around 100,000 years ago

33. Why? Why did ancient humans leave Africa?
Out of Africa
Why? Why did ancient humans leave Africa?

34. Objective #5
Hunter-gatherer Life
People Profiles

35. Source of Food
Hunting
Main source, whatever they could catch, kill, and cook!
Gathering
Wild fruits, vegetables, nuts, grains, etc.
Get it? Hunter-gatherers!

36. Size of Groups Small groups
Clans: people, one or a few extended families
Why?

37. Permanent Settlements
No! They were nomads
Why move?
Follow herds
No food left
Seasons change
Too cold or hot
No water left

38. Location Factors
Mainly, Paleolithic (and prehistoric) people followed their food
Animals migrate, so did the people
Overpopulation (of people)
Overconsumption (of resources in one spot)

39. Getting Along Cooperation was necessary for survival
Knew everyone in their clan – all relatives
No private property – no where to put it
No fighting other groups – no one around
Finding food…just not that hard

40. Summarizing Text

41. Some Terms
Summarize
Paraphrase
Plagiarize

42. Some Tips Use structure and organization Include major details
Leave out unimportant information
Show connections between ideas
DON’T COPY THE TEXT!!!

43. Some Practice
Read the excerpt from page 12 of your textbook and write a VERY short summary

44. Bad Sample
For a long time people used to wander like nomads. Cro-Magnons hunted and gathered. Then they made technology and hunted better.

45. Good Sample
Over time, humans became more effective at finding food. At first, nomads moved often to find more food to hunt or gather. Later, Cro-Magnons invented tools and then technology (like knives and needles) to improve their lives.

46. Some More Practice
Read the article about cannibalism and write a short summary

47. Ending Class
All the summarizing practice goes under Tools in your binder
Homework: Guided Reading notes for Chapter 1.2!