1. Sumerian Achievements
Chapter 3-3
Page 65-69

2. Homework Check Note Card
Write a paragraph (4-5 sentences) explaining how Sumerian achievements have affected today’s world.
Use specific inventions/achievements to support your answer.
Please put your note-card in the pocket when finished and begin bell work.

3. Bell Work 9/16
Read the excerpt from The Epic of Gilgamesh on page
Answer the 2 questions at the bottom of page 71, in complete sentences. #
Date
Assignment
Grade 1
8/16
Culture Activity /8 2
Timeline Activity
/11 3
8/19
Exit Ticket: Sources /7 4
8/20
Geography Foldable
/10 5
8/21 or 8/22
Chapter 1 Map Activity 6
8/23
Chapter 1 Group Quiz
/30 7
8/26
Chapter 1 Quiz Corrections /2 8
Exit Ticket: Landforms
/12 9
8/27
Social Scientists Advertisements /3 10
9/6
Chapter 2: Story Board
/20 11
Unit 1 Test
/100 12
9/9
Unit 1 Test Corrections 13
9/13
Academic Vocabulary Quiz

4. What are some Sumerian advances and inventions?
World’s 1st Writing System
Cuneiform (Wedge Shaped Pictograph)
Scribes (writer used styluses and clay tablets)
Keep business records
Created Epics
Long poems that tell stories of heroes
Epic of Gilgamesh
School
Learned to read and write
Wheel
1st wheeled vehicles
Carts and Wagons
Potter’s wheel (clay into bowls)
Plow
Farm Production

5. Sumerian Clay Tablet with Cuneiform

6. Sumerian Alphabet

7. Mesopotamian Wheel

8. Plow and the Oxen

9. What are some Sumerian advances and inventions?
Clock
Falling Water
Measured time
Sewers
Underground Irrigation
Catalogued their Scientific and Medical Knowledge
Kept records
Used animals, plants, and minerals to produce healing drugs
Records of symptoms and treatments
Math
Concept of 60
360 Degree Circle
1 Year=12 months
Areas of triangles and rectangles

10. What are some Sumerian advances and inventions?
Lyre (liar)
Stringed Musical Instrument
Bronze and Gold
Make Stronger tools, art, and jewelry
Art
Cylinder Seals
Stone and clay
Most famous artwork
Battle Scenes and Sign Documents
Make Up and Glass Jewelry
Jewelry was popular
Architecture
Science of buildings
Two-story homes with lots of rooms
Palaces
Ziggurats
Pyramid shaped temple tower
Rose above each city
Statues for the gods

11. Mesopotamian Achievements
Bronze Tools Ziggurat at Ur

13. Mesopotamian Project
Objective: Create a Mesopotamian Alphabet Picture Book.
Rubric for 100 Points:
26pts-Each letter must represent a Mesopotamian idea. The idea must be explained.
26pts-Each letter must include a picture pertaining to the explanation.
26pts-Each page must be in color. The project must be in booklet form (use something to hold the pages together). Must have a front and back cover for your booklet.
22pts-This project should be neatly done, with no spelling/grammatical/historical errors.
Extra Information:
Some pictures/writing can be computer generated but not the entire book
The project is due Tuesday, September 24, 2013

14. Optional Mesopotamian Project Assignment 20 Points Due: 9/27/13
You may have a partner for this assignment.
Choose 1 of the following and create a model:
Functioning chariot or wagon (wheel)
Functioning Lyre
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Ziggurat
Phoenician Ship
Functioning Irrigation System
Cylinder Seal
NO LEGGGGOOOOOOS

15. Bell Work 9/17 Handout Please do not write the write on the handout.
Write answers in your comp books.
Section 3-2 (1-10)
Section 3-3 (1-10)

16. Become a Sumerian Scribe
Clay Tablet
Stylus
Sumerian Script