Mr. Chalmers - Social Studies
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Monday, September 9, 2019
​Hand back work
Hand out grades
Presentation on sources, bias, point of view, and credibility Link
​​Vocabulary Notes Link
1st hour class schedule Link 
Sources Analysis - School Activities
​CNN10 Link
Study time for Test Tuesday

​TEST TUESDAY
     Be sure you have gone over the following terms
Point of View
​Bias
​Primary source
Secondary Source
Hunter-gatherer
Culture
City-State
Domestication
Pastoral nomads
​Cultural Diffusion
Civilization
Be sure you can tell the difference between a primary source and a secondary source.

Be sure you know how to complete a source analysis.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Test Today - Early peoples vocab and source analysis
CNN10 Link
Picture

Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Fast Testing hours 1, 6 & 7
Video on 9/11/2001 Link
Reading on Mesopotamia

Thursday, September 12, 2019
​CNN10
Check your grades
​Review Source Analysis
Credibility
  • What makes a source credible?  Believable?
  • Is a source credible because we agree with its point of view?
  • Does a source need some form of qualification to be credible?
  • Does the inclusion of facts from studies or reports add to a sources credibility?  Does it depend on what the authors source was?
  • Does your believing/not believing a source make the source credible?​
  • If the source is credible/believable. what evidence do you have to support that?
Bias
What is the meaning of the word bias?
How do you know if something is bias?
What evidence would be present if a source was bias?
Does the source hold strongly to one point of view over another?
​What evidence is there that the source holds this point of view?
Review Lunchroom Fight - Who should we believe and why?
Take notes on Mesopotamia reading.

Friday, September 13, 2019
1st Hour - Go over Evacuation Procedure
CNN10 Week in review
Continue taking notes on Mesopotamia reading.
Mesopotamia Reading Notes
Fertile Crescent
Tigris and Euphrates
Mesopotamia
Sumer/Sumeria
Polytheism
Ziggurats
Theocracy
Cuneiform

​Scribes
Epic of Gilgamesh
City-State (List 5 city-states from the map on page 32)
Akkadia
Babylon
Hammurabi
Empire
Hammurabi Code
Patriarchal

Assyria
King Sargon II

Nineveh
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Describe the importance of the 
Chaldean's
  • Starving 
  • Apes
  • Attacked
  • Bananas
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