Please use your student’s name as the
subject.
Key words are found throughout the text for
searches on the Holt website.
Give them a try. http://go.hrw.com
Quizzes on
Wednesday!
Monday November 17th, 2008
Chapter 6 – Section Five
– Han Contacts with Other Cultures
Main Ideas:
1. Farming and
manufacturing grew during the Han dynasty.
2. Trade routes
linked
3. Buddhism came to
Key Terms: silk,
Questions to answer
today:
1. What were two
inventions that helped farmers become more productive during the Han dynasty?
2. How did the
wheelbarrow aid farmers?
3. How did advances
in technology affect farming and silk production?
4. For what items
did Chinese trade?
5. What were some
of the difficulties traders on the
6. Why did Chinese
trade expand under Han rule?
7. How is
Buddhism’s spread into
8. How was silk
made in ancient
9. Why did Chinese
keep silk-making methods a secret?
10. Where did the
11. How did Chinese
people learn of Buddhism?
12. What Buddhist
beliefs appealed to millions of Chinese peasants?
Homework: Study landmarks and key terms/people for
Wednesday’s quizzes.
Tuesday November 18th, 2008
We will be having 4-H in my room today.
Wednesday November 19th, 2008
We will have two quizzes today. The landmark quiz they can’t really study
for. This is just visual memory from our
daily looks at world landmarks. The
other quiz is over the key terms/people for Chapter 6. They have had this information over a week
now and have been told to learn it.
Chapter 7 – The Hebrews and Judaism
Main Ideas:
1. Originally desert nomads, the Hebrews
established a great kingdom called
2. The central ideas and laws of Judaism are
contained in sacred texts such as the Torah.
3. Although they were forced out of
Homework:
Write and define the following terms/people.
Judaism, Abraham, Moses, Exodus, Ten Commandments,
David, Solomon, Diaspora, monotheism, torah, synagogue, prophets, Talmud, Dead
Sea Scrolls, rabbis, Passover, and High Holy Days.
Thursday November 20th, 2008
We will go over the terms/people they had for homework and discuss them.
We will begin a good look at timelines as a means of connecting history from different parts of the world to an overall order of occurrence.
Homework: Students will have a list of events that we have covered so far and will need to put them in chronological order.
The list is the following: Menes becomes first pharaoh of Egypt; ice ages end; Solomon becomes king of Israel; Hammurabi issues a written code of laws; the Harappan civilization rises in the Indus Valley; the Shang dynasty is established in China; Phoenicians trade all around the Mediterranean; farming begins in Mesopotamia; farming begins in Egypt; framing begins in the Indus Valley; farming begins in China; cuneiform writing developed; Kush conquers Egypt; Buddhism begins to develop in India; Aryans begin migrating into India; Hinduism begins to develop in India; Queen Hatshepsut rules Egypt; Confucius is born in China; Shi Huangdi unites China under the Qin dynasty; the overland Silk Road connects china and southwest Asia; Abraham leaves Mesopotamia; Moses leads the Hebrews out of Egypt; and The Buddha is born.
We will go through the list I gave them yesterday to put in order and see how well they did.
I will let them consider how difficult it is to write a history book so that the reader/student doesn’t become confused about when things happened compared to the history of another part of the planet.
Homework: Develop a timeline of their life with at
least 10 entries besides birthday. We
will put this information on a clean white paper on Monday.