1. Intro to Hammurabi’s Code DBQ
Windy Mulder
Horizon Middle School

2. Yay! It’s Wednesday! Please write down today’s agenda in your planner
The planner stamper will be the person who comes closest to guessing my birthday
Warm Up
In complete sentences, answer this question:
How do we learn what is fair?

3. Monkey Video
How do monkeys know what is fair?

4. Defining Terms Think-Pair-Share
Think about the terms justice and fairness
Discuss with your table groups what those terms mean
Share with the class/write on the white board what you think those terms mean

5. What Is Justice?
With your table partners, read Case A and Case B on the What Is Justice? page.
In each case, consider justice in three ways:
Is the outcome fair to the accused?
Is the outcome fair to the victim?
Is the outcome in the best interest of the general society?

6. Unit Intro
Explanation of summative
How do we get there?
Who is this Hammurabi dude and why do I need to learn about him?

7. Vocabulary You Will Need To Know
City-state: an independent city, sometimes walled, and often including the territory around it

8. Vocabulary You Will Need To Know
Babylonia: the kingdom ruled by Hammurabi. It included a number of city-states and was located in Mesopotamia, along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

9. Vocabulary You Will Need To Know
Mesopotamia: a region in the Middle East that included modern-day Iraq and sections of modern-day Turkey, Iran, and Syria. Mesopotamia means “land between two rivers”

10. Vocabulary You Will Need To Know
Cuneiform: a kind of writing used in Sumer and Babylonia. Letters were carved into stone or soft clay with a stylus, which looked like a chopstick

11. Vocabulary You Will Need To Know
Stele: an upright stone slab or pillar, often bearing an inscription

12. Background Essay
Read essay and answer questions