1. Pick up a Bingo card and find your seat. 5 min
Ancient History Day 2
Pick up a Bingo card and find your seat.
5 min

2. Daily Objective
Students will know class expectations and procedures outlined in the syllabus
Students will understand basic vocabulary and purpose of chronology
Students will be able to order key events in human history

3. Syllabus Theme: Community Goal: Creative, Cooperative, Tolerant
Materials:
2in Binder by Friday with dividers
Pen or Pencil
Anything due that day

4. World History Beginnings to 1500

5. Classroom Expectations
1. Come to class prepared to learn
On time
Student Binder, pen/pencil, homework, assignments
Alert and ready to work!
Please no cell phones or other distracting technology unless the lesson requires it
2. Participate in class activities with a positive attitude.
Follow directions the first time
Contribute to group work
Do not distract others
3. Respect Others
Polite language
Raise hand to ask/answer question
Treat others with courtesy

6. Consequences Moving Seats Meeting with Ms. Bell after class
Sitting in the hallway to complete assignment
Ms. Bell’s “GP Detention”
Lunch/afterschool detention & Parent notification
Administrator notification
Saturday School

7. Grading Classwork (includes Interactive Student Binders): 20%
Quarter Exam: 20%
Tests & Quizzes: 30%
Projects/Assignments: 10%
Homework: 10%
Participation: 10%

8. Final Exam In order to be exempt from the Final you must earn either
B, A, A, A
B+, A, A, A
A, A, A, A
Final with either be an exam or a project. It will be worth as much as a quarter grade (20%).

9. Interactive Student Binders
Get a 2in Binder
I like ones with sleeve
If you do not think that you will be able to get one for whatever reason, see me during the break TODAY and I will see if I can find you one
Teacher Version on Bookshelf
4 Sections:
Class Documents
Notes/Handouts
Homework
Graded Work

10. Break Times No water or bathroom breaks during class time
We will have a 5min break each day for you to do these things

11. Participation
Every Day the Student will have the opportunity to earn 4 participation points:
On time (1)
Preparation (1) (with notebook, pencil/pen, all papers when bell rings)
Will lose if you have to ask me for a pen, run to your locker, disrupt class to get papers, etc.)
On Task (1)
Will lose point if teacher repeatedly help student stay on task
Contribution (2)
Ask or Answer questions
Volunteer for a demonstration
Present information

12. Homework Short Assignments (about 30 minutes) 10% of your grade
Prepare you for next class or reinforce what we did that day
½ credit if late but before unit test
¼ credit if late because of an unexcused absence

13. Extra Credit
Occasionally given for winning review games or doing review quizzes
1 assignment per quarter

14. Attendance You are responsible for making up work
Come to me the day you return for GP to get missed work and update your Interactive Student Binder
Use website for PowerPoints

15. Late Work ½ credit if in by the unit test
No work assigned after the quarter it was assigned

16. Make Up Email Website GP
One week to turn in assignments for full credit
Class time is not time to make up work

17. Unexcused Absences Ms Bell contacts your parents
Come to GP to get work
Lunch Detention to do work
Don’t show up? More detention
No credit awarded for in-class work
Quizzes and Tests ½ credit
Homework ¼ credit

18. Tardies Sign In By The Door Come in quietly
Pick up materials at the front table
Do not distract others
3 tardies = parent notification & lunch detention
Every tardy after that = lunch or GP detention
Tardy of 20 minutes or more = unexcused absense

19. Other Stuff Turn in: trays in the back Pick up: table in the front
Extra papers: cart by the door
Tardies box and sign in on cart

20. Procedures Quiz 1st and 7th: Tues, Sept 13 6th: Wed, Sept 14
10 questions, taken from the syllabus

21. Calendar of Human History
Each day on the calendar represents 279 years
Dec 31: CE
There are 5 events in this period
Dec 30:
One event fits in a calendar day spot

22. Chronology Basics
Chronology: a way to arrange time according to the order of events
Chronos: time
-ology: study of

23. Chronology Lingo Periods/Eras/Epoch: blocks of time
Example: “Ancient” “Middle Ages” “Stone Age”
Decade: period of 10 years
Century: period of 100 years
Millennium: period of 1000 years
Circa (c.): about/around

24. Calendars Dating systems that measure time
Different cultures have different calendars

25. Calendar of You Create a quick timeline on your packet.
The Year of your birth should be year 1.
Anything that happened before your birth should be counted back and called BMB: (Before My birth)
Anything that happened after your birth should be counted up and called AMB (After My Birth)
5 BMB
Ms. Bell’s parents get married
Year 1 AMB
Ms. Bell is Born
Year 18 AMB
Ms. Bell graduates from high school

26. Share Is everyone’s year 1 the same in the Western calendar? No!
All cultures calendars are different depending on the important events in their history
Today other countries convert their calendars to Western if they do business with the West

27. Western Calendar
Organized around one event: Birth of Jesus is our Year 1

28. Old System B.C.: Before Christ
A.D. Anno Domini (Year of Our Lord) or to help you remember “After Death”

29. New System B.C.E. Before Common Era C.E. Common Era Same as B.C.
Same as A.D.

30. Centuries Because we don’t have Zero centuries this gets a little off
Century is always one above the hundred place
150 AD is in the ______ Century
100-1
1-100

31. Let’s Practice!
If we want to discuss an event that took place during the lifetime of Jesus are we in BC(E) or AD(CE)? AD(CE)
If we want to describe this century what would we call it? First Century AD(CE)
What years would technically be included? AD(CE)

32. Let’s Practice!
4. If we want to discuss an event that took place 5000 years ago are we in BC(E) or AD(CE)? BCE
5. What year was it 5000 years ago? 2986 B.C.(E.)
6. If we want to discuss an event that took place 1348 years ago are we in BC(E) or AD(CE)? AD(CE)
7. What year was it 1348 years ago? 666 AD(CE)

33. Let’s Practice!
8. What century would events in 545 AD/CE take place in?
6th century AD/CE
9. What century would events in 788 BC(E) take place in?
8th century BC(E)
10. What century would events in AD/CE take place in?
21st century AD/CE

34. Homework 2 in binder with 4 dividers Signed Syllabus
Letter to Ms. Bell