I Am A Taxi Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Famous Romans

Famous Romans to choose from for your research:

Attila “Little Daddy”(c. 406 CE – 453 CE) , Augustus (Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, 63 BCE – 14 CE), Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106 BCE – 43 BCE), Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) 10 BCE – 54 CE, Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus) 76 CE-138 CE, Justinian (Flavius, Petrus, Sabbatiu Justantinius) 482 CE-565 CE, Livy (Titus Livius)(59 BCE-17 CE), Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar)(37 CE-68 CE), Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)(43 BCE-17 CE), Pliny the Elder (23 CE-79 CE), Pliny the Younger (61 CE-113 CE), Saprtacus (died 71 BCE), Trajan (Marius Ulpius Trajanus)(53 CE-117 CE), Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro)(70 BCE-19 BCE)

Use your planning sheet to assist  in the organization of your research.

Ancient Rome Vocabulary

Here’s the link to our vocab page

Digital Citizenship Project

Use this link to Educational Origami’s wiki page on Digital Citizenship.  Read through the 6 tenets of digital citizenship on how to respect/protect yourself, others, and intellectual property.  Your task is to compile the info and present your learning in a  Comic Life document.  Be sure to follow the attached criteria:

**Don’t forget to keep a record of all the images you use in your project and their source – a table in Word works well- you can paste a thumbnail copy of your image and then paste the source beside it!**

The Outsiders – Book vs Movie

We just watched Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 version of The Outsiders.  What did you think of the movie?  How does it compare to the book?  Which do you prefer?  Why?  We had some good discussion in class, but I’m curious to see what everyone’s opinions are.  You might want to write about who you would cast in your movie version if it were made in 2009 (this could get interesting!!).

You need to include links in your post to the movie and any other links you think might add to your post.  I’ve included links to a couple of reviews, one from the New York Times and another from Rolling Stone Magazine.

Egypt

Characteristics of Egypt Info spreadsheet

Egypt Vocabulary

Here’s the link to the Google Spreadsheet for our chapter vocabulary.  Fill in the chart for your word(s).

Characteristics of Mesopotamia

To review what we’ve learned, small groups will be responsible for using their text to locate information on the different aspects of a culture by filling in their information on a google spreadsheet.  Follow the link to the spreadsheet and add your info.  Once it is all compiled, it will be printed for everyone to have a copy.

Important Mesopotamians

Try to find an image (or draw one yourself!) of an important person or god in Sumer or in one of the later groups who settled in the area. Use the internet or your textbook to find out why that person/god is famous.

Create a one page Comic Life document/poster that contains the image and the reasons why they were important to Mesopotamians.  Post the poster on your blog.  (“I am famous because…”)

Some suggestions of famous Mesopotamians to check out:

Gilgamesh     Sargon the Great     Hammurabi     Cyrus the Great     Zoroaster     Nebuchadnezzar II     Inanna     Nanna    Marduken Enil     Enki     Uru     Ninurta     Ki

CRITERIA:

• readable
• Title -must stand out
• min of 3 interesting facts
• sources cited
• COPS
• images – person and/or relevant extra images

Holidays 2009 (in Ten Words!)