Do Now – looseleaf paper – Objective/goal: what you have to learn or answer each class – Write answers to Do Now and Goal each day Current Unit – Stuff we’re currently studying – Table of Contents (TOC) – Readings/activities from class or HW Keep – Important papers or notes you keep all year – Class intro sheet – Extension/support log – Learner Profile Vocab – Words to work on (WTWO) – Unit vocab lists or personal vocab What are the sections of your binder for?

9/10: Determine whether a source is primary or secondary Do Now: 1.Get “Tools of a Historian Vocabulary” – Vocab section 2.Get “History Skills Control Sheet” – Current Unit 3.Read the Essential Question and directions 4.Answer – “How do we know what happened in the past?”

9/10: Determine whether a source is primary or secondary

1 min. Thought Experiment: What color was Mr. Vance’s shirt yesterday? What is the answer to yesterday’s objective? What color are the…

9/11: Analyze primary sources to extract information Do Now: WITHOUT LOOKING, try to remember one of the sources you had to identify in yesterday’s worksheet Choose one of the above primary sources: least 5 pieces of info we could gather from it

Directions for Textbooks: 1.Open up to the front cover 2.Write your name, year, and condition of book New, very good, good, fair, poor, very poor 3.This is now yours for the year Cover it Keep it at home 9/11: Analyze primary sources to extract information

Directions: On textbook pg. 716, read “Practicing the Skill” and answer questions 1-4 Once finished, answer “Skills Practice” questions on pg. 731

9/11: Analyze primary sources to extract information Directions: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness…” -Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

Do Now: 1.Sit in new desks with Primary sources HW out 2.Answer: – What is the key difference between primary/secondary sources? – What do the abbreviations “BC” and “AD” mean? – The current year is 2015: what would you call the year that happened 3015 years ago? (not a trick question…) 9/14 - Record dates using BCE/CE and define the terms circa, decade, and century

BCE – Before the Common Era – Same as “B.C. – ‘Before Christ’” CE – Common Era – Same as “A.D. – ‘Anno Domini’” So this year is 2015 ____ & ____ 2016 years ago was 1 ____ & ____

9/14 - Record dates using BCE/CE and define the terms circa, decade, and century _____________________|_____________________| BC/BCE: Before year 1; farther into past AD/CE: After year 1; more recent

1.Where are we in the current year? 2.Where is the line that divides BC/AD? 3.Extension – about what year did medieval turn into early modern? 9/14 - Record dates using BCE/CE and define the terms circa, decade, and century

Directions Read “Reading Social Studies” CORRECTION!! – change 476 CE to 476 BCE Leveled activities 1.Define terms and list 3 BCE and 3 CE dates 2.Define terms and list all dates 3.Define terms, list all dates, do extension timeline Extension reading: Textbook, Tools 1 – Tools 3 9/14 - Record dates using BCE/CE and define the terms circa, decade, and century

1.The “Ancient” period started circa _____________ 2.About how many centuries did the medieval period last? 3.What units should the modern period be measured in? 9/14 - Record dates using BCE/CE and define the terms circa, decade, and century

9/15: Use latitude and longitude to find absolute location Do Now: Latitude Longitude

9/15: Use latitude and longitude to find absolute location Do Now: 1.How many decades are in a century? 2.CE means the same as which other suffix? 3.Compare timeline activities with partners 4.What are latitude/longitude? Talk to partner Latitude Longitude

Earth is divided by imaginary lines called latitude and longitude which measure distance in degrees Latitude (parallels) run east-west Longitude (meridians) run north-south 9/15: Use latitude and longitude to find absolute location

In which CONTINENTS are these locations? 1.(20 °S, 140°E ) 2.(40 °N, 120°W ) 3.(80 °S, 80°E ) 1.Oceania (Australia) 2.North America 3.Antarctica Now find coordinates for the following: -Asia -Africa -Pacific Ocean

9/15: Use latitude and longitude to find absolute location Greenwich is Located near (50 °N, 0°E ) because it is North of the Equator and ON the Prime Meridian What are the coordinates of Peoria? Peoria is located at (40 °N, 90°W ). It is not as far North of the Equator as Greenwich is, and it is 90 ° West of the Prime Meridian

Do Now: 1.Write coordinates for 3 different places in DN section 2.Switch with a teammate: they answer yours, you answer theirs 9/16: Measure distances on a map using the map scale

Do Now: 1.Write coordinates for 3 different places in DN section 2.Switch with a teammate: they answer yours, you answer theirs 9/16: Measure distances on a map using the map scale

Do Now: 1.Locate the scale on this map 2.What units of distance does it show? 3.How many miles from Aswan to Luxor? 4.How many from Aswan to Al Kharijah 9/16: Measure distances on a map using the map scale

This is the map SCALE: Be creative when using it to measure!

Scale

9/16: Measure distances on a map using the map scale

Which is bigger – Egypt or New Jersey?