1. History of the Ancient and Medieval World The Study of History: Setting the Stage Walsingham Academy Mrs. McArthur Room 107

2. Black Ships Before Troy Must have by: Sept. 15

3. Project*: Personalized Notebook Create a personalized cover using DTP*: (front, back, spine) for your history notebook. The components include: Personal information: your name, course title, school, year Visual Representation of each of the key themes presented in lecture (notes) and summarized on your handout. Each visual must have a clearly identifiable number. Key: identifying the visual representations by theme. Your choices should reflect our subject and if possible your interests. (Suggestion: look through the text for some ideas.) *(Rubric and Extra Credit details on handout.) Project Due Date: Friday, Aug. 29 *DTP = Desktop Publishing (Use Word or PowerPoint)

4. Rubric: 10 Key Themes of Study of History Personalized Information = 2 points 10 Themes = 10 points Key = 5 points Attractiveness, attention to detail, incorporation of criticism = 3 points Total = 20 points

5. Rubric: 10 Key Themes of Study of History Attempted: The components listed are not all present or they are poorly conceived or the project is late Adequate: All components present and are easily identifiable. Very Good: All components present and easily identifiable Project reflects care in execution. Exemplary: Components carefully and creatively conceived and arranged to reflect effectively the reoccurring themes of this course.

6. What is History? A study of man’s past. (working definition)

7. History: Study of Man’s Past To study history, one must understand 2 key concepts: Chronology of events Examples from our history: Duration of time Examples: Proportional and Relative representations of time

8. Place in Chronological Order English arrive in Jamestown The Great Depression War Between the States World War II American Revolution My Birth

9. Assignment 1 (1) Read text, pp 4-5 (2) Read handout, watch internet video and answer questions on separate piece of paper in complete sentences (3) Storage device

10. Quick Fact File* The earth is about 4,000,000,000 years old. Homo-Sapiens appeared about 100,000 years ago. Homo-Sapiens-Sapiens appeared about 40,000 years ago. The last ice age ended about 10,000 years ago. Civilization arouse about 5,000 years ago. *This is based on scientific theory and is necessarily approximate.

11. Assignment 2 (1) Work on Project

12. Making Connections-Sample 1 From the 2 activities: M&M theory of time management and History of the World in 7 Minutes, what conclusions do you draw about the period of time we will be studying in this course? Hint: Think in terms of amount of and pace of time.

13. Making Connections-Sample 2 Of the 7-minute History of the World, how many seconds/minutes represent time that will be covered in this course? Hint: Be sure to refer to the course description in the syllabus.

14. Making Connections-Sample 3 Why does the viewer of the 7-minute History of the World have to wait a couple of minutes before beginning a historical count down? Hint: Be sure to refer to the course description in the syllabus. The video offers its own explanation.

15. Student Sample Solution

16. Summary: 2 Versions of Historical Time Relative Time -The video encouraged us to understand that change is sometimes slow and sometimes very rapid. However, this view of time is not … Proportional Time - The M&Ms allowed us to see that man’s role in earth’s existence is a matter of “chocolate dust.” With this view it is hard to see man’s accomplishments.

17. What is Culture*? An integrated pattern of knowledge, behaviors, beliefs that is transmitted from one generation to the next - key part of defining what it means to be a human being. The specific aspects of culture are shared by members of a human group-race, ethnicity, religious or political group. Behaviors include: language, religion, beliefs and customs (traditions), lifestyle, art, technologies, etc. *Classroom Activity: 6 objects to identify and definitions of Social Scientists

18. Assignment 3 (1)Definitions of Social Scientists – See following slide of PP show. (2)Read pp. 6-7 of text answering 3 questions posed on pp 7.

19. Social Sciences: Interdependent What is it? Who does it? What do they do? Why do they do it? Archaeology, history, geography (See text’s definitions.) (1)Anthropology (2)Economics (3)Statistics (4)Sociology (5)Political Science(6)Psychology

21. Assignment 4 (1) Complete project

22. Assignment 5 No Additional Work