History Month #4: Ancient Greece and Rome

 

Study and Learn:

- Print the note cards and study month 4. You can find them here. 

-Read the following chapters from our history texts: 

STOW, Book 1: Chapters 18-21

7 Tipping Points, Chapter 2

STOW, Book 1: Chapters 22-25, 27-29, 34-36, 40-42

STOW, Book 2: Chapter 1

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. I might ask to see your notes on Thursday, hint hint. 

- For $5 Vanbucks list each date you come across in your reading on your timeline. I'll count how many dates I come across and check your timelines so don't miss any :D 

Know and Understand:

Choose ONE of the following and be prepared to present for 3-5 minutes about it:

In chapter 20 of our reading we learn that ancient greeks loved dancing. Learn a dance from ancient Greece and either dance for the class or teach it to the class.

We will be having an Italian feast for lunch in honor of our study of Rome (spaghetti, meatballs, bread and salad), create a traditional Italian OR Greek food to contribute to our feast. Teach us about the food you brought. Text me what you're bringing so we don't have doubles :)

Create a piece of art, music or poetry that sums up something you learned about Rome or Greece. Be prepared to share the art and an explanation of why your art is significant/how it represents what you learned.

Or sign up HERE to do a creative report on a subject from our reading. 

Become/Serve

We are finishing up our work on our person in the ancient scriptures project! Review your studies/notes about your person from the last 3 months to prepare for your assignment.

- Summarize ONE specific lesson you learned from your person. What stands out to you the most? What lesson did they teach you that gives you strength or builds your testimony? How is that knowledge going to help you in your life? If you have questions about this assignment please feel free to contact me, we're going to share these in class this week :) 

History Month #4 2020-2021 Journeyman (Geography) Mediterranean Sea

Journeyman

Study/Learn

Do all of the following:

1 - Study a map of Mediterranean Sea and work on memorizing the countries that surround it and be able to find it on a world map.  

2 - Print and study a blank map of the Mediterranean Sea 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.)

• Geography from the Ancient World.  (You'll probably have to look these up online.) Make sure to include:

• Aegean Sea
• Crete
• Athens
• Thera
• Mycenae
• Thebes
• Greece
• Mediterranean  Sea
• Mt. Olympus
• Troy
• Sparta
• Marathon
• Salamis
• Alexandria
• Monaco
• Algiers
• Gibraltar
• Malta
• Rome
• Sicily
• Italy
• Alps
• Tiber River
• Spain 
• Britain
• Rubicon River
• Roman Empire
• Eastern Roman Empire
• Constantinople
• Western Roman Empire

3 - Watch this video about the Mediterranean Sea (4 min)

Know/Understand

• Research a person or civilization in ancient history that involves the Mediterranean Sea.  Prepare a story about that person/civilization and tell us the story on a video uploaded to our Vanguard YouTube channel.  We'll watch them in class.  You can act, dress up, provide pictures, etc.  Keep your videos short (3-4 minutes) and do not bore us.  

FUN FACT:

If the Mediterranean Sea were laid on top of the United States, it would stretch from ocean to ocean and almost from top to bottom.  The Mediterranean Sea is HUGE!

History Apprentice #3: India and China

Study/Learn:

- Print the note cards and study month 3. You can find them here. 

- Read Chapters  To learn about India read chapters 9, 30, 31 of Story of the World Volume 1, and then read chapters 5 and 30 in Volume 2.

To learn about China read chapters 10, 32 and 33 in Volume 1 of STOW and then read chapter 8 in Volume 2. 

You will also be reading in 7 Tipping Points that Saved the World, read chapter 5 of that book after you have finished your reading on China. This chapter continues the history of China so if you read it in order you'll get more of a chronological feel for the history. 

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. 

- For $5 Vanbucks list each date you come across in your reading on your timeline. I'll count how many dates I come across and check your timelines so don't miss any :D 

Know/Understand:

Choose ONE of the following and be prepared to present for 3-5 minutes about it:

Make a food from India to go with our lunch feast and tell the class about it (text Marcie or Jen if you choose this option so we know what you are making, we will be serving curry, rice and naan for lunch)

Write your own Jakarta tale and read it aloud to the class

Make a pictogram for the class to decode, use ancient Chinese symbols (and make up your own to fill in the gaps if need be).

Watch a video on Chinese calligraphy and using similar tools try your hand at writing something.

Carve your own Chinese character and stamp it.

Create a piece of art that sums up something you learned about India or China. Be prepared to share the art and an explanation of why your art is significant/how it represents what you learned

OR, sign up HERE to do a creative, interesting report on a topic from the reading. 

Become/Serve

We are continuing to work on our person in the ancient scriptures project. Review your studies/notes about your person from last month to prepare for your assignment.

- This month I want you to find outside sources about your person. Go to lds.org and search and read talks or articles or lessons that reference your person. Ask an adult if there is a book or a podcast or another source that they would recommend you check out about your person. If you have a hard time finding information reach out to me and I would love to help with that but I would be surprised if you don't find lots of new great information just on LDS.org alone :) 

- Write down your new insights and knowledge, you'll be sharing this with a partner in class. What is the coolest thing you learned about your person over the course of the last three classes? What insights did you gain that you did not have before (especially those of you with big scripture heroes who you thought you already knew a lot about!)

When we come back in January we will be finishing this project and preparing for a really cool presentation so this is the last of the research on your person! 

History Month #3 2020 Journeyman (Geography) India

 Journeyman

Study/Learn

Do all of the following:

1 - Study a map of India and work on memorizing the countries that surround it and be able to find it on a world map.  

2 - Print and study a blank map of India 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
• 5 major cities
• 3 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:

• Arabian Sea
• Bay of Bengal
• Indus River & the Indus River Valley
• Mohenjo-Daro
• Ganges River
• Indian Ocean
• Himalaya Mountains
• Mt. Everest

3 - Watch this video about the 10 Best Places to Visit in India (13 min)

4 - Read this overview of Hinduism OR watch this video about it and make a list of 5 things your religion has in common with the Hindu.  

5 - Look online and see if you can find anything out about the LDS church in India.  Are there members there?  How many?  How many missionaries serve there?  How many missions are there?  How many stakes and wards?  

OPTIONAL - Read this except from the Hindu religious book, the Bhagavad Gita.  

We'll be having a guest speaker for class today, so there will be no presentations.

History Apprentice: Month Two, Ancient Egypt

Study/Learn

 - Print the note cards and study month 2. You can find them here. 

-Read Chapters  2, 4, 12 and 13 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: 

***Coming Soon!***

Know/Understand

Choose ONE of the following and be prepared to present for 3-5 minutes about it:

Mummify an apple (instructions found here) and be prepared to share with us something that stood out to you/was interesting about mummification. (this wont work if you don't start it on Friday :D) 

Create a Canopic Jar -- be able to tell us what god is on the jar, add some writing and tell us about what is stored in that jar and why that jar would have held those organs. (there are plenty of ideas online, be creative and give it your best effort).

Create a piece of art that sums up something you learned about Egypt. Be prepared to share the art and an explanation of why your art is significant/how it represents what you learned.

Do a creative report on one of the pharoahs NOT talked about in our reading. Sign up here (no, I'm not giving suggestions, once you've found someone write their name on the paper to dib it :) 

Do a creative report on one of the pyramids not listed in the book (do not choose the Great Pyramid). Sign up here. 

Make a shaduf that works and teach us about it.

Give a creative report on Nubia/Kush. Their culture became a part of Egyptian culture, what came from Nubia? (only one person can choose this option, sign up here)

Give a creative report on the Hyksos. Learn more about their culture and share it with the class. (only one person can choose this option, sign up here)

Become/Serve

We are continuing to work on our person in the ancient scriptures project. Review your studies/notes about your person from last month to prepare for your assignment.

-As you watch General Conference this weekend listen for any reference direct or indirect that relates to your person. Some of you might have your person mentioned specifically and their story shared and others of you will hear a talk that makes you think of your person and their experiences. Come prepared to share what you learned or what insights you gained about your person and their experiences by listening to general conference. 

-Remember the 3 questions you wrote down last month? I would like you to find the answers. If you can't find that assignment then come up with three things you would like to know more about your person. The answers can be found by reading more about their story at LDS.org or by using resources like the Bible Dictionary and footnotes or even asking a parent for their insight! 

*Remember, we are working towards a final project and presentation about these people so the more you put into the project the more you will get out of it and the more rewarding the final presentations will be for all of us. 

History Month #2 2020 Journeyman (Geography) Egypt

Journeyman

Study/Learn

Do all of the following:

1 - Study a map of Egypt and work on memorizing the countries that surround it and be able to find it on a world map.  

2 - Print and study a blank map of Egypt 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
• 5 major cities
• 3 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:
• Nile River
• Nile Delta
• Upper Egypt
• Lower Egypt
• Cheops Great Pyramid
  
• Nubia
• Canaan
• Valley of the Kings
• Mediterranean Sea
• Red Sea

3 - Watch this video about the 10 Best Places to Visit in Egypt (15 min)

Know/Understand

Please choose one of the following:

• Learn an Egyptian dance that you can teach the class. (Tell Sis. Cloward what you're teaching ahead of time and what music you're using so I can have it ready.)
• Come to class and teach us how to say your name, count to ten, say hello, good bye and a few other phrases in Egyptian.
• Bring a children's picture book representing Egypt to class and read it to us.
• Bring food from Egypt for the whole class.  (Tell Sis. Cloward what you're bringing ahead of time. This will be included as part of lunch.)
• Look up and come ready to present on the animals of Egypt.  What are they used for and why?
• Look up and come ready to present on the climate of Egypt.  We usually think of Egypt being a desert, is it all a desert?  Bring pictures to back up you information.
• Think of something creative you can teach us about Egypt.  

History Month #1 Apprentice. The Middle East

Don't forget to check the writing blog for your writing inspirements for the week!

 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