Transcript Intro to Hammurabi*s Code DBQ

Intro to
Hammurabi’s Code
DBQ
Windy Mulder
Horizon Middle School
Yay! It’s Wednesday!
 Please write down today’s agenda in your
planner
 The planner stamper will be the person who comes
closest to guessing my birthday
 Warm Up
 In complete sentences, answer this question:
 How do we learn what is fair?
Monkey Video
 How do monkeys know what is fair?
Defining Terms
Think-Pair-Share
 Think about the terms justice and fairness
 Discuss with your table groups what those terms
mean
 Share with the class/write on the white board
what you think those terms mean
What Is Justice?
 With your table partners, read Case A and Case
B on the What Is Justice? page.
 In each case, consider justice in three ways:
 Is the outcome fair to the accused?
 Is the outcome fair to the victim?
 Is the outcome in the best interest of the general
society?
Unit Intro
Explanation of summative
How do we get there?
Who is this Hammurabi
dude and why do I need
to learn about him?
Vocabulary You Will Need
To Know
 City-state: an independent city, sometimes
walled, and often including the territory around it
Vocabulary You Will Need
To Know
 Babylonia: the kingdom ruled by Hammurabi. It
included a number of city-states and was
located in Mesopotamia, along the Tigris and
Euphrates Rivers
Vocabulary You Will Need
To Know
 Mesopotamia: a region in the Middle East that
included modern-day Iraq and sections of
modern-day Turkey, Iran, and Syria.
Mesopotamia means “land between two rivers”
Vocabulary You Will Need
To Know
 Cuneiform: a kind of writing used in Sumer and
Babylonia. Letters were carved into stone or soft
clay with a stylus, which looked like a chopstick
Vocabulary You Will Need
To Know
 Stele: an upright stone slab or pillar, often bearing
an inscription
Background Essay
 Read essay and answer questions