1. Assignment Meso-America.. Learning target: You will be able to use Meso-American Primary sources to create powerful questions about each of the three different cultures.

2. DIRECTIONS…….. Step one Using your Blooms word bank you and your partner will create 3 questions for each of the slides presented. These questions need to represent a powerful question about the culture. (No use of Recall based questions. Only level 2-6 may be use. Step two Using your powerful questions as a guide. You then will decide on which culture you would like to investigate further. Critiquing the primary source for and then formulating an opinion on why this primary source is a strong representation the culture it is from.

3. MAYAN TEMPLE OF KUKULCAN “EL CASTILLO” EL CASTILLO'S DESIGN IS THOUGHT TO RELATE TO THE MAYAN CALENDAR. EACH OF THE FOUR FACES INCORPORATES A BROAD, STEEP STAIRCASE CONSISTING OF 91 STEPS THAT ASCENDS TO THE TOP PLATFORM. COUNTING THE TOP PLATFORM AS AN ADDITIONAL STEP GIVES A TOTAL OF 365 STEPS Mayan Religious /Social (PS)

4. BURIAL MASK OF PASCAL THE GREAT FOUND IN THE MAYAN CITY OF PALENQUE POLITICAL /RELIGIOUS (PS)

5. Aztec Sun stone…{social/religious (PS)} Aztec Sun stone…{social/religious (PS)} The calendar consisted of a 365 day calendar cycle and a 260 day ritual cycle. These two cycles together formed a 52 year "century", sometimes called the "Calendar Round". The calendared year began with the first appearance of the Pleiades asterism in the east immediately before the dawn light.

6. Codex Mendoza Social / political / religious (PS) The Codex Mendoza is a pictorial document, with Spanish annotations and commentary, composed circa 1541. It is divided into three sections: a history of each Aztec ruler and their conquests; a list of the tribute paid by each tributary province; and a general description of daily Aztec life. 1.Aztec Eagle and Jaguar warriors (Military orders) 2.Founding of the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan (by Mexcia peoples)

7. Montezuma II headdress {political(PS)} Made of gold, quetzal feathers, jade, and beads.

8. INCAN ICE MUMMIES{RELIGIOUS(PS)}

9. Machu Picchu Incan city in the sky. {religious and political(PS)} Elevation 8,000 feet

10. Codex? (Economic(Ps)

11. Florentine Codex of Small pox ( ?) Drawing accompanying text in Book XII of the 16th-century Florentine Codex (compiled 1540– 1585), showing Nahuas of conquest-era central Mexico suffering from smallpox.