Transcript Name of Your Country

DO NOW
1. Put your backpack behind
your chair
2. Take out your SSR book
and place it in front of you
3. Sit in Scholar-Ready
Position, so we can begin
our benchmark exam!
BENCHMARK PROCEDURES
• Take a deep breath
• Read all questions carefully and
eliminate any wrong answer choices
• Go back and double check your
answers
• If you get confused, pause, and think
about everything we have learned and
what makes the most sense!
• You will do great!! 
EARLY FINISHER:
• SSR when you finish
• Poster for Early Humans OR
Poster for Mesopotamia
DIRECTIONS (grab a book to help with pictures):
1.
Make a poster if you were advertising to someone else to come
and live with the Early Humans or in Mesopotamia.
2. You should include pictures, inventions, achievements that would
make someone want to live with that group.
3. Make it colorful—these are posters that will be displayed for
everyone to see 
EXAMPLE
In the Neolithic Age, we use fire to keep warm, mammoth bones for our
shelter, and plenty of warm clothes to keep you warm! Come join us and
buy your very own mammoth shelter. We will even let you hunt with us!!
EXAMPLE
Come live with us in Sumer. Life here is fantastic! Close to the Tigris,
your plants will grow. Close to the bazaar, you can sell your crafts! We
even invented the wheel so you can use a plow or cart. We have it all.
Come and buy one of our fabulous mud huts…built just for you!!
HOMEWORK
• Bring a hanger (if you have one
that you can spare) for a project
we will do this week 
• IF you can’t, please let me know!
DO NOW
Tuesday was Election Day across
the United States. If you were 18
years old, would you vote today?
Why is it important for the
citizens of our country to cast
their votes?
AGENDA
• Mobile for Early Humans and
Mesopotamia (partner project)
• History Café
Mesopotamia/Early Humans Mobile
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Hanger (1 for each partner pair)
1 sheet of construction paper (1 each)
6 pieces of string (each)
1 marker (per table)
Crayons/color pencils (1 set per table)
Scissors (2 per table)
Tape/glue (2 per table)
Butcher paper squares
Ancient Civilization textbook
Mesopotamia/Early Humans Mobile
• Instructions:
Make a mobile that shows3 contributions/achievements/inventions of
Mesopotamia
3 contributions/achievements/inventions of
Early Humans
• In your notebook and using your
textbook, research and write 3 important
inventions/contributions/achievements of
Mesopotamia and 3 important
contributions of Early Humans
Mesopotamia/Early Humans Mobile Directions
1. Fold the construction paper in half (hotdog style) and tape
it onto the hanger (see how I’ve done it)
2. Use a marker to label one side of the folded paper:
Mesopotamia and the other side: Early Humans
3. Tie a piece of string to each hole (six total)
4. Using the cut pieces of butcher paper, draw and cut out the
inventions/contributions/achievements you have chosen
5. On the back of your cut-out pictures, label the picture by
doing the following:
• Describe it in one sentence and why it is
important
6. I will come around and hole punch your cut-out pictures so
you can tie them to the string
HISTORY CAFE
• When you and your partner finish
your mobiles, you will come and
see me for your next assignment:
• HISTORY CAFÉ!!!
History Café!
1. I will give you both an index card with the name of a
person
2. Then, in pairs, you will create a skit (3-5 minutes)
showing how you would interact with that person if you
were sitting in in a café
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For example: Homo Erectus is paired with Sargon the Great =
you have to come up with a skit that has both of you talking
about your achievements. You can’t say who you are!!
3. Be creative and use information from your notes and the
book to talk about everything you think you know about
that individual
4. The trick: the audience will try to guess who you are
DO NOW
November 6th is known as
“Basketball Day.” The inventor
of basketball, James Naismith,
was born on this day in 1861.
Is basketball a sport you play
or would like to play? Explain
what you know about the
sport of basketball.
AGENDA
• HISTORY CAFÉ presentations! 
Presentations
• I will take volunteers who would
like to come up and present their
skits.
• The audience will be respectful
and attentive.
• Afterwards, we will try and guess
the role of each actor at the café.