6th Grade Period 1 and Period 4 History Assignments

Pgs 281-283 Cornell Notes Zhou Dynasty

Notes/drawings 3 Philosophers pgs 288-291

Definition : ideograph and pictograph

Write Chinese characters 5X Worksheets

Map of China Pg 271

Complete ABCs Rome packet and study for Thursday's vocabulary test

Rome ABCs Packet worksheets   

Rome Vocabulary Test  on Thursday, April 26th

Chronology of Christianity Time Line Use Pgs 501-508 

Memorize the Roman numberals 1-100

Pg 438-441 Take detailed notes.  Julius Caesar and Augustus

Pgs 436-437 Trouble in the Republic. Problems for Farmers.

List 7-8 Causes and Effects

Pg 436-437 Cause-Effect Farmer Problems in Rome

Pg 436-437  Compare and Contrast the Gracchus Brothers to Cesar Chavez

Read Pg 431 on Ancient Roman Law.  Do some research and write down some laws

Evaluate and analyze 4 of the ancient laws

The Punic Wars  Pgs 432-434 Write 15 questions

Draw Hannibal on elephant fighting Romans

Pg 427-428

Rome's Government Definitions:  praetors, republic, patricians, plebeians,consuls, veto, dictator, senate

Pg 429-431 Cartoon about Cincinnatus

Cultural Museum Mini Book: Ritual Masks, Drums, Religion, Gods, Music

Why was Rome so strong? 10 reasons pg 432-434

Draw map of Rome.  Include title, key, scale bar, key,. Color it.

Take notes on pg 421 behind map

Europe Map Worksheets

Label all countries on map.  List countries that correspond to map

Write a 10 line drama.  Draw 3 kinds of Greek Columns Label them

Philosophy Mini-Book   

Use text pg 394-395

Draw and write information about the Sophists, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle 

Evaluate Alexander's Accomplishments Use Pgs 400-403  Rate them  from 1-10

Textbook Pgs 400-403 Alexander the Great 25 notes

Draw Alexander on a horse

Write your own Greek fable.  Include animal characters and a moral.

Textbook Pgs 387-390

Read myth "Daedalus and Icarus"  Do Pg 390 #1-4.

Write in complete sentences.

Memorize the names of the Greek gods

Text Pgs 377-378

Read Pgs 364-367  The Peloponnesian War   Sparta vs Athens

Pg 360-361  List and evaluate the top 10 accomplishments of Pericles

Cornell Notes Pgs 354-359  (Persia and the Persian War)

Textbook "Penny Problem"  Pg 169-171  Do #8-13 

AR Reading. Get parent signature

Textbook Pg 169-171 "Penny Problem"  Do #8-13

AR Reading.  Get parent signature

Textbook Pg 164  Complete the paraphrasing boxes and do #4 Quickwrite

Compare and Contrast direct democracy and representative democracy

Pg 349-350

What did they do for Athens? 

Solon 3 facts

Peisistratus 3 facts

Cleisthenes 5 facts

Compare Sparta and Athens. Venn Diagram (similarities, differences) 

Use Pgs 346-349

Definitions: peninsula, polis, city-state, agora, tyrant, oligarchy, helots, satrapies, direct democracy representative democracy

Also Do pg 346  Reading Check.  Write complete sentences

City-State (Polis) drawing with notes pg 341-342

Pg 338-339

Minoan Palace Article (newspaper/internet)  7-10 sentences with at least one drawing/picture

Map of Ancient Greece (Pg 337)   Color it and include title, neat line, key, compass rose, scale bar, seas, and city-states.

Geography Notes (Pg 337)

List 25 countries and capitals of Europe  Use pg 52-53

Jainism and Gandhi Read pg 252-253

Flip Book Notes on Politics (Asoka) Pgs 262-263 and Economics Pgs 301 and 264

India Flip Book Notes -  Politics Chandragupta Pgs 260-261

India Flip Book  GRAPES   Religion - Take notes on Hinduism and Buddhism

India Flip Book GRAPES   Society - Take notes pg 244-245

India Flip Book  GRAPES  Geography Section Map of India Pg 239

Open Book Test on Friday, November 17, 2017:  Ancient Israel  (True/False and Multiple Choice)

Bring items for Trading Day tomorrow.  

Israel Packet (Fill in the blank, short answer, drawings, Hebrew alphabet) due Thursday,Nov. 16th

Study for Friday's Open Book Test (Pgs 201-223)  True/False and Multiple Choice

Friday is "Trading Day".  Complete Trading Day worksheet and look for items to trade.  Bring a towel or blanket to sit on.  Try to wear a costume!

King David paper man with detailed notes about him at the back. Use textbook pgs207-209  to take notes

Illustration of The Exodus and 2 sentences

Copy 12 Tribes of Israel Chart 2X

Read the Exodus Story Pg 202

Read pg 201 on Ancient Israel

Middle East Map Worksheet

**Study for Monday's History Test - Use the Study Guide

Do Pg 79 Hook Exercise   Complete all

Document A, B, C, D, E  :  Write 5 comments for each document about why the river is important to people, how it is used, why it was special, what it meant to the people

 

Packet:  How Did the Nile Shape Ancient Egypt   Pg 53 Annotative Notes and Pg 55 All Questions

****Use Study Guide to study for next week's History Test (Monday, October 30th, 2017)

Notes Pgs 133-191

Write your name in hieroglyphics.  Use discoveringegypt.com and click on hieroglyphic typewriter. Copy and draw each 'glyph" or picture for the sounds in your name.

Read pgs 183-186.  Be ready to tell about Ramses' accomplishments and participate in a class debate  (Hatshepsut vs. Ramses -who was the better pharaoh?)

Text Pgs 181-182 Queen Hatshepsut

Write 10 things she might have said (Dialogue form)

Use the textbook to get information about her first, and then write her statements!

 

"Pyramid" notes on Pgs 166-170  a) Old Kingdom Rulers  b) Egypt's Religion  c) The Pyramids

Cornell Notes Pgs 159-164

Pgs 157-158  Take notes on the geography of Egypt (behind map)

Map of Egypt  pg 157

Include border, title, scale bar, compass rose, cities

Study for Thursday's Mesopotamia History Test. Use the study guide

Pg 14-141  Hammurabi's Laws

Write the Law.  Stay reasons why it was fair or unfair.

Study for History Test on Oct 5th

Pg 140-141  Write Hammurabi's Laws.  Write a sentence that states reasons about fairness/unfairness  of each law.

Write 25 cuneiform characters. Practice reading pgs 135-137

Mesopotamia Vocabulary Windows (Definition, sentence, picture)

Mesopotamia Vocabulary Windows

Landform Test.  Study the definitions.  Know how to spell the words and match the landform to its definition

Pg 134  Draw a city-state. Include 15 items.

Take notes about geography of Mesopotamia (behind map) Pg 134

Draw map of Mesopotamia Pg 133

Study for the Landforms Definitions Test  9-22-17 (this Friday)

Pg 130 Copy chart.      Write 3 facts about Catal Huyuk and 3 facts about Jericho

Complete Landform Packet due 9-14-17.  Color all landforms.

Study for next week's landform test (9-22-17).  Know the word/landform for the

following definitions:  river, delta, desert, valley, peninsula, archipelao, plain, plateau, continent, island, gulf, archipelago, canyon, strait, cliff, volcano, waterfall, sea, strait, isthmus

 

Finish landform packet.  Study for Landform Test next week  9-2-17

Think of 5+ Neolithic jobs

Write 15 Questions about Otzi   Pg 129

Pg 128  Study the map.  Write 10 sentences like this:

In North America the Neolithic people began to grow......

Write the definition of domestication

Write the definition of agricultural revolution

Paleolithic Cave Drawing   and color 5 more landforms neatly

Textbook Pg 124-126  Take notes on the Paleolithic Age.  Color 5 more landforms neatly in color.

 Definitions:  anthropologist, archaeologist, artifacts, fossils,  B.C., A.D., period, era, decade, century, prehistory, ancient history, absolute location, region, historical map

 Read Pgs 92-93  List 25 artifacts

 Study for tomorrow's History test with study guide

Map Skills

 Personal History Timeline