1. BELL RINGER!!

2. Announcements This Week Binder Check Friday Quiz Friday Notes are graded Remember your jobs! Homework Primary & Secondary Source Analysis Complete Summary from today’s Cornell Notes

3. College Lecture Topic: Mesopotamian Myths and Religion Essential Question: What does Mesopotamian Myths and Religion illustrate about Mesopotamian culture?

4. Collegiate Reminders! -You’ve practiced identifying MI and pulling out key terms -What about info that’s not a key term? -Focus on finding “sub points” that will reinforce or elaborate on the main idea -Indent this information in your notes under main idea info

5. Polytheistic

6. CFU What is the Main Idea? Mesopotamian religion is polytheistic What Key Terms did you have? Polytheism is the belief in more than one god How many sub points did you have? – Mesopotamian gods controlled the forces of nature – Enil is the god of storms and air – Humans were considered servants of the gods How did you know there were three sub points?

8. CFU How many sub points? What are they? What is a ziggurat?

10. CFU Main Idea – Mesopotamians were pessimistic How many sub points? (3) - did not believe in afterlife - “land of no return” where dead souls went to was gloomy - believed gods would send diseases or natural disasters when angry Think, Pair, Share Why would Mesopotamians have a pessimistic outlook on life? 30 sec. think, 30 second pair, 1 min share

11. Epic of Gilgamesh