History Month #1 Apprentice. The Middle East

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 Study/Learn

- Print the note cards and study month 1.  You can find them here.

-Read Chapters 3, 5, 7, 8, 15, 16 and 17 of Story of the World. As you finish each chapter make a blurb, doodle some notes or write up some bullet points -- any creative way you want to keep the highlights from the chapter in your commonplace book. 

-Put the following dates/people and events on your timeline: 

Cuneiform Writing - c3200 BC

Assyrian Empire - 2025-612 BC

Hammurabi, King of Old Babylon c1810- c1750 BC

Code of Hammurabi, c 1754 BC

Phoenician Civilization- c1200-c700 BC

(Return of Assyrians) Ashurbanipal, King of Neo-Assyrian Empire, creator of first library- 685-631 BC

Neo-Babylonian Empire - 626-539 BC

Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylon c634-562 BC

Hanging Gardens of Babylon c 610 BC

Know/Understand

Choose ONE of these three options to present on for 2-3 minutes in class. Note there aren't enough report topics for everyone so if you'd really rather give a report than do a creative project then sign up right away ;) 

Option #1 Make Something : 

*Make a clay tablet, writing a quote or something memorable in the cuneiform alphabet

*Make homemade paper, write a quote or something memorable in the cuneiform alphabet or heiroglyphics

(this link could be helpful: http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/introduction-to-writing-in-cuneiform.html)

*Make your own ink and write a quote or something memorable (English or heiroglyphics or cuneiform). Use nice paper and make it lovely to look at. (you can use this tutorial or find one of your own: https://balkantradingcompany.com/how-to-make-deliciously-messy-ancient-egyptian-ink/) 

Option #2 Give a Report on any of these topics (sign up here so there are no repeats). PLEASE make sure you are adding interesting information that was NOT covered in our reading. Don't just repeat what comes out of the book, find visuals and dive deeper on the topic. 

The Babylonians and their study of the stars and planets

Temples of the Babylonians

Code of Hammurabi

Glass making of the Phoenicians

How to make purple die like the Phoenicians

The library of Ashurbanipal

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Phoenicia and Sailing

King Nebudchadnezzar 

King Ashurbanipal

King Sargon

King Hammurabi

King Shamshi-Adad

Crops commonly grown and eaten in the ancient Middle East

Medicine in any of the civilizations we studied (Assyria, Babylon, Sumer , Phoenicia)

Education/School in any of the civilizations we studied (Assyria, Babylon, Sumer, Phoenicia)

Religion of any of the civilizations we studied (Assyria, Babylon, Sumer, Phoenicia)

Option #3 Creatively Teach us about one of the chapters.

  Write a song, poem, or a piece of art that can teach us what you learned about any of the chapters we learned about. 

Become/Serve

For the next few months we are going to be getting to know ancient people up close and personal. You get to choose one person from my list (sign up here on google drive) to study, become friends with and, eventually, to present about. 

After you have signed up for a person I would like you to: 

-Read all the scripture accounts that you can about that person. Learn their story well enough that you can teach it to a sibling/parent from memory. 

-Write a summarized version of their story in your commonplace journal. 

-Make a list of at least 3 questions that you have about your person and their life (don't stop at 3 if you can think of a lot of questions!). Questions like: What made them choose ___? What is their background? etc. Things that you do not know right now but would like to know in your quest to gain understanding and knowledge about this person. 

-Write in your commonplace journal how this person lived the character trait of honor, our trait of the month.

 

Please note these lists aren't absolute, if there is someone you would love to learn about that is NOT on the list then please reach out to me :) Girls, please sign up for a female, boys sign up for a male. 

Women in the Scriptures

Sarah

Rebekah

Ruth

Naomi

Hannah

Abigail

Widow of Zarephath

Esther

Anna

Elizabeth

The Woman at the Well

Mary (sister of Martha)

Martha

The Woman with the Issue of Blood

Mary Magdalene

Tabitha

Sariah

Abish

King Lamoni's Wife

Mother of a Stripling Warrior

Men in the Scriptures

Abraham

Joseph of Egypt

David

Daniel

Stripling Warrior/Young Ammonite

Mormon

Brother of Jared

Moses

Moroni

Job

Elisha

Elijah

Samuel

History Month #1 2020 Journeyman (Geography) Middle East

Journeyman

Study/Learn

Do all of the following:

1 - Study a map of the Middle East and work on memorizing the countries.  You can find a good map here.

2 - Print a blank map for your commonplace book and mark the following things:
      (This map is your ticket into class, so make sure you have it and it's filled out.)

• major bodies of water and rivers
  
• 10 major cities
• 5 crops and where they are grown
• major mountain ranges and other physical features (deserts, plains, peninsulas, etc)
• LDS temple(s)
• Geography from the Ancient World.  (You'll probably have to look these up online.) Make sure to include:

• Fertile Crescent
• Sumer
• Kish
• Mesopotamia
• Akkadia
• Babylon
• Ur/Haran
• Canaan
• Babylon
• Carthage
• Tyre
• Phoenicia
• Nineveh
• Assyria
• Jerusalem 

3 - Watch this video about the Top 10 places to visit in the Middle East (6 min)

Know/Understand

Please choose one of the following:

AS YOU'RE CHOOSING COUNTRIES TO STUDY ABOUT THIS MONTH, DON'T CHOOSE EGYPT or ISRAEL.  THEY EACH GET THEIR OWN MONTH.

• Choose one of the following to do a 2-3 minute report on: (don't get long winded.  5 min max on presentations...I will cut you off!  We want to make sure and have time for the activity.)
• The Ottoman Empire
• The Byzantine Empire
• The Abbasid Caliphate
• The Fatimid Caliphate
• The Umayyad Caliphate
• Learn a Middle Eastern Dance that you can teach the class.  Some ideas can be found here. (Tell Sis. Cloward what you're teaching ahead of time and what music you're using so I can have it ready.)
• Choose a language spoken in the  Middle East and come to class and teach us how to say your name, count to ten, say hello, good bye and a few other phrases in that language.
• Bring a children's picture book representing one of the Middle Eastern countries to class and read it to us.
• Bring food from one of the Middle Eastern countries for the whole class.  (Tell Sis. Cloward what you're bringing ahead of time. This will be used as part of lunch.)