Bishop - Ancient History-Friday Assignments

1.  We went over the reading and notes from chapter 38.


2.  Read chapters 39 and 40, take 2 to 3 notes from each chapter.


Let me know if you would like to have the map and timeline.

Hello Everyone, this week we will just have a reading assignment to keep it easy for Spring Break! You will have two weeks for this assignment, until Thursday, April 1st or Friday, April 2nd depending on your attendance day.

Many of you will be returning in person so we will go over the reading for this week in class, if you are remaining online assignments will continue in the same way. In person students remember to bring your book and binder to class.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Spring Break and I look forward to seeing you after break!

Mrs. Bishop

This week's assignment:
1. Read chapters 30 & 31, The Aryan and Mauryan Empire of India.
2. Write 2 or 3 notes on each chapter.

Hello everyone, we are heading into a new empire, The Roman Empire! There is a lot to learn from the Ancient Romans and many of their ideas and inventions are still in use in modern times! Here are this week's activities:

1. Watch this week's video.

2. Add to your timeline: 509 BC Rise of the Roman Empire with review card #27.

3. Read chapter 27, The Rise of Rome, and take 2 or 3 notes on important events. (Share notes if you can.)

4. Complete the map activity for chapter 27. (Directions in the video.)

5. Homework: read and take notes on chapters 28 and 29.

Optional Activity: Watch the Brain Pop - Rise of the Roman Empire.

I hope you have a great week and enjoy the Roman Empire.
Mrs. Bishop

Welcome back to Ancient History, this week we will visit the America's: North America, South America and Central America, during 200BC. Here are this week's activities:

1. Watch this week's video.

2. Add to your timeline: 200BC The Nazca Civilization flourishes and review card 26.

3. Read chapter 26 and write 2 - 3 notes on important items. (Share a picture if you can).

4. Complete the map activity chapter 26.

5. Homework: read chapter 27, The of Rome.

Optional Activity: Watch the Brain Pop on Mesoamerica.

This week you'll read about Alexander the Great and the territory he ruled over, here are this week's activities:

1. Watch this week's video, Alexander the Great.

2. Add to your timeline: 336-323 - Alexander the Great Rules.

3. Share your notes with me from chapter 25.

4. Complete the map activity from chapter 25, I give directions in the video.

5. Homework: read and take notes on chapter 26, People of the Americas'.

Have a great week!
Mrs. Bishop

Welcome back everyone, this week we will read about and discuss the wars that the Greeks were involved in, here are this week's activities:

1. Watch Wars of the Greeks video.

2. Add to your timeline: 431-404 - The Peloponnesian War with review card #24.

3. Share your notes with me from chapter 24.

4. Complete the map for chapter 24, I go through the map directions in the video.

5. Homework: Read and take notes on chapter 25, Alexander the Great.

**Optional Activity: Athena and the Parthenon activity.

I hope you have a great week,
Mrs. Bishop

We are back in Greece this week to read about Athens, Sparta and the Greek Gods. There are so many interesting stories and facts that come from this time, I hope you enjoy reading this week. Here are the activities for the week:

1. Watch the video for this week.

2. Add to your timeline: 800 BC The Greek City States Begin to Arise along with review card #22.

3. Share your notes on chapter 22 &23 **This is the only item to send in a picture for, the rest are optional.**

4. Complete the map for chapter 22, I go through the map activity in the video.

5. Homework for next week: read chapter 24, write down 2 or three interesting items from the chapter.

Optional Activities:
** Watch the Brain Pop on Athens
** Watch the Brain Pop on the Greek Gods
** Greek Gods word find.

Have a great week!

Mrs. Bishop

Our topic this week is the Medes and the Persians and how they fit in this time period with the Greeks. Here are this week's activities:

1. Watch this week's video part 1. (Located below).
2. Watch this week's video part 2. (Located below).
3. Add Cyrus the Great 559 - 525 to your timeline. (Located below).
4. Read and take notes on chapter 21, the Medes and the Persians. (Send me a copy or picture of your notes).
5. Complete the map for chapter 21, page60. (Located below, directions in the video).
6. Watch the story, Legend of the Persian Carpet. (Located below).
7. Homework: Read chapters 22 and 23.

Have a great week!
Mrs. Bishop

We are back to learn a little more about Greece this week; The Early Greeks and Greece Gets Civilized Again. Here are this week's activities:

1. Watch this week's video. (Located below).
2. Add to your timeline: 1450 - The Mycenaeans Settle in Crete - along with review card 19.(Located below). 776 - The First Olympic Games - along with review card 20.(Located below).
3. Read and take notes on chapters 19 and 20.
4. Complete the map activity for chapter 19, student page 54. (Located below, described in the video).
5. Watch the Brain Pop on: The Olympics and Homer.
6. Homework: Read chapter 21, The Medes and Persians.

Optional Activity: Make a Greek Vase - I show an example in the video and there is a template for the vase and two example pictures located below.

I hope you are enjoying Ancient Greece!
Mrs. Bishop

Welcome to the new week, our new topic will be Early Greece. Here are the activities for this week:
1. Watch this week's video.
2. Add 2200 - 1450 - Peak of the Minoan Civilization to your timeline with chapter 18 review card.
3. Read and take notes on chapter 18, Life in Early Crete.
4. Complete map chapter 18. (Directions in the video).
5. Watch Ancient Greece video.
Optional projects:
6. Watch Theseus and the Minotaur video.
7. Do the Minotaur Maze.
8. Make your own Minotaur Maze.

Welcome back, I am so glad to have you back in Ancient Times! I hope your break was great and you were able to rest up. Here are the activities for this week:

1. Watch this week's videos. (Located below).

2. Add Ashurbanipal Reunites Assyria to the timeline 1200-627 and Nebuchadnezzar's Rule 605-561 as shown in the video.

3. In this week's videos I read chapters 16 and 17, you can listen, follow along or read on your own.

4. Watch the Brain Pop on the Seven Wonders of the World, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are highlighted. (Located below).

5. Homework : Read and take notes on Chapter 18, Life in Early Crete.

6. Optional activities: Draw your version of what you think the Hanging Gardens of Babylon may have looked like or Make a
Postcard from Ancient Mesopotamia.(Postcard located below).

Have a great week, let me know if you have any questions.

Hello everyone, this is our last week before Christmas/Winter break. I don't have a new assignment as I would like you to have time to complete everything and have a relaxing break. Watch this week's video and add to your timeline and you will be all set.

1. Watch this week's video.
2. Add 1200, The Phoenicians Sail the Mediterranean, to the timeline.
3. Make sure you read last week's assignment, chapter 15.

I look forward to seeing you back in the new year, I hope you get to relax and have some fun!

Hello welcome back, this week you will be reading about the Israelites and how they were driven out of Egypt. Watch this week's video to guide you through the activities for the week.
1. Watch this week's video. (Located below.)
2. Add review card #14 to your timeline. 1446 The Exodus from Egypt begins.
3. Read and take notes on chapter 14. (Share your notes with me.)
4. Complete chapter 14 map as shown in the video. (located below.)
5. If you would like, I included a video for the read aloud of the story, The Moses Basket.

Have a great week!

Hello everyone, YOU WILL HAVE TWO WEEKS TO DO THIS ASSIGNMENT, have a great Thanksgiving week off! This week we are going to continue to explore Egypt, except this time it will be in the New Kingdom!

1. Watch this week's video. (Located below.)

2. Add 1524 - 1325, The New Kingdom of Egypt, to your timeline. (Located below if you need it.)

3. Add review card #13 to your timeline.

4. Read chapter 13 and take 3 - 5 notes on important or interesting facts. (Share your notes with me.)

5. Complete The New Kingdom Map, directions are in the video. (Map located below.)

6. Watch the Egyptian Pharaohs Brain Pop. (Located below.)

Optional Activities:

Watch: The Egyptian Cinderella (Located below.)
Create: An Egyptian Cartouche, directions in the video. (Template below.)
Color: King Tut (Located below.)

Hello everyone, we are heading back to Egypt to learn about the Middle Kingdom! Here are this week's activities:

1. Watch this week's video. (Located below.)

2. Add 1980 -1926 BC to your timeline, The Rule of Amenemhet.

3. Add review card #13 to your timeline. (Timeline cards located below.)

4. Read chapter 12, take 3 -5 notes about the important or interesting information to you.

5. Complete this week's map, chapter 12, The Middle Kingdom of Egypt, directions in the video. (Located below.)

6. Watch the Ancient Egypt Brain Pop. (Located below.)

7. Homework: read chapter 13, The New Kingdom of Egypt.

Optional Project- Egyptian necklace, description of the project in the video and the template is located below.

I hope you have a great week!

Welcome back from Ancient China, this week we are going to explore Ancient Africa! You will read about the Nile river, the Sahara Desert and the tales of Anansi the Spider. Here are this week's activities:

1. Watch this week's video.(Located below)

2. Add 3500 BC to your timeline, The Sahara Dries up and People Move South. (Located below)

3. Add review card #11 to your timeline.

3. Read chapter 11 and take 3 - 5 notes about the information you thought was important or interesting.(Share your notes with me)

4. Complete the chapter 11 map, Ancient Africa. The directions are in the video. (Map is located below.)

5. Watch the video, "Anansi The Spider" A Tale from the Ashanti People.

5. Homework: Read chapter 12, The Middle Kingdom of Egypt.

I hope you have a wonderful week, enjoy Africa.

Hello everyone. glad you came back to learn about Ancient China! Here are this week's activities:

1. Watch this week's video.

2. Add 1766 - 1122, Shang Dynasty Rules China, to your timeline.(Timeline located below.)

3. Add review card #10 to the timeline. (Add your timeline to your binder.)

4. Read chapter 10 if you haven't yet, take notes and share them with me.

5. Complete the map, The Far East, as directed in the video. Add it to your binder. (Map located below.)

6. Watch, Ancient China Brain Pop. (Located below.)

7. Watch, The Race for the Chinese Zodiac, a Chinese tale about how the animals on the Chinese calendar got their spots. (Located below.)

Optional Activity: Write a pictogram story making up your symbols for the words. Example was included in this week's video.

Have a wonderful week!

Hello, welcome back to Ancient Times, we are going to learn about the first cities in India this week.

1. Watch this week's video to guide you through these activities:

2. Add 1500 BC - The Indus River Valley Civilizations Thrive- to your timeline, along with review card 9. (Timeline located below.) Add it to your binder.

3. Read chapter 9 if you haven't yet and share your notes with me.

4. Complete the map for chapter 9. Add it to your binder. (Map located below.)

5. Watch the story, Once A Mouse (An Indian Fable.) Located below.

6. Homework, read and take notes on chapter 10.

Have a great week, I hope you enjoy India!

Optional Activity: Bengal tigers make their home in India, so this week I included a word game you can play to see how many words you can make out of the title: BIG BENGAL TIGER. Let's see how many words we can get! The puzzle is located below and I showed an example in the video. Have fun with this - share it with me if you like, I would like to see who can get the most words!

Watch this week's video to guide you through this week's activities about the Assyrians:

1. Add 1809 BC to your timeline, Shamshi - Adad unites/rules the Assyrian Empire.
2. Add review card #8 The Assyrians to your timeline.
3. Read and take notes on chapter 8. (share with me here, by email or in office hours.)
4. Complete chapter 8 map (located below.)
5. Homework: read chapter 9, The First Cities of India.
6. Watch the story of the Golden Sandal, this is a Middle Eastern version of the Cinderella Story, I think you will enjoy it!

Optional Project: Draw a picture of what you think Enkidu, from the Gilgamesh story, looked like. If you make a drawing, share it with me, I would love to see what you imagine!

Welcome back to week 7, watch this week's video to guide you through this week's activities:

1. Add 1792, Hammurabi rises to power in Babylon, to this week's timeline and review card #7 Hammurabi and the Babylonians. (The timeline and review cards are located below).
2. Read chapters 6 & 7, take 3 - 5 notes about the most interesting or important facts to you. (Post your notes here, email me or show them to me at office hours).
3. Complete chapter 7 map as directed in the video, add it to your binder when it is complete. (A copy of the map is located below).
4. Next week's homework is chapter 8, The Assyrians, read and take notes.

Optional project 1: Complete the review crossword puzzle, if review main points from the chapters we have done so far.

Optional project 2: Design a colorful coat like the one Joseph wore in the chapter 6 story. I included a template below to use if you like.

Welcome to week 6, the Sumerians, watch this week's video to guide you through these activities:
***There is a pause in the video between the timeline and notes, if you wait a minute or forward it will continue!***

1. Timeline 2330 - add your review card #5 and Sargon becomes King of Kish. (A copy of the timeline is located below).
2. Read chapter 5 take 3 - 5 notes about the most interesting or important information to you. (post your notes here, send me a picture or show them to me at office hours.
3. Complete the chapter 5 map as shown in the video. Add it to your binder when you are finished. (A copy of the map is located below).
4. Homework, read chapters 6 and 7 About the Jewish People and Babylon, take 3 - 5 notes for each chapter.
5. Watch the Brain Pop on the Sumerians. (Located below).

Optional Project: Word Find about the inventions of the Sumerians (many we still use today)! It is located below.

This week you will read about The Old Kingdom of Egypt, chapter 4, take down 3 -5 notes about points you feel are interesting or important. Watch the video it will guide you through these activities:
1. Timeline: add the Old Kingdom of Egypt and the review card #4.
2. Review your notes from chapter 4.
3. Complete the map.
4. Watch the Brain Pop on Mummies. (Located Below)

Optional Activity: Design a Pyramid (described in my video). Materials are located below.

For this week you will read chapter 2, The Egyptians Lived Along the Nile and chapter 3 The First Writing. Watch this week's video, it will guide you through these activities:

1. Add King Narmer and the review card to your Timeline.
2. Review your notes from chapter 2 and 3.
3. Watch the Pharaoh Brain Pop.
3. Work through your map.
4. Write your name in Cuneiform and Hieroglyphics project.
5. Optional coloring picture of Set and Osiris.

This week we will go over chapter 1 and practice taking notes. Please print out the timeline, review cards and map if possible. I will guide you through our first timeline and map for chapter 1, add these items to your binder. Post, send a picture or bring the timeline and map to office hours .

Watch this week's video and read chapter 1, The Earliest People. We will practice taking notes next week. If you have any questions you can email me.

Watch this week's video and read chapter 1, The Earliest People. We will practice taking notes next week. If you have any questions you can email me.