• Do Now – looseleaf paper – Objective/goal: what you have to learn or answer each class– Write answers to Do Now and Goal each day

• Current Unit – Stuff we’re currently studying– Table of Contents (TOC)– Readings/activities from class or HW

• Keep – Important papers or notes you keep all year– Class intro sheet– Extension/support log– Learner Profile

• Vocab – Words to work on (WTWO)– Unit vocab lists or personal vocab

What are the sections of your binder for?

9/10: Determine whether a source is primary or secondary

Do Now:1. Get “Tools of a Historian Vocabulary” – Vocab section2. Get “History Skills Control Sheet” – Current Unit3. Read the Essential Question and directions4. Answer – “How do we know what happened in the

past?”

9/10: Determine whether a source is primary or secondary

9/10: Determine whether a source is primary or secondary

9/10: Determine whether a source is primary or secondary

9/10: Determine whether a source is primary or secondary

9/10: Determine whether a source is primary or secondary

9/10: Determine whether a source is primary or secondary

9/10: Determine whether a source is primary or secondary

1 min. Thought Experiment:• What color was Mr. Vance’s shirt yesterday?• What is the answer to yesterday’s objective?• What color are the…

9/11: Analyze primary sources to extract information

Do Now:• WITHOUT LOOKING, try to remember one of the

sources you had to identify in yesterday’s worksheet• Choose one of the above primary sources:• List @ least 5 pieces of info we could gather from it

Directions for Textbooks:1. Open up to the front cover2. Write your name, year, and condition of book• New, very good, good, fair, poor, very poor

3. This is now yours for the year• Cover it• Keep it at home

9/11: Analyze primary sources to extract information

9/11: Analyze primary sources to extract information

9/11: Analyze primary sources to extract information

Directions:• On textbook pg. 716, read “Practicing the Skill”

and answer questions 1-4• Once finished, answer “Skills Practice” questions

on pg. 731

9/11: Analyze primary sources to extract information

Directions:• “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all

men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness…”

-Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

Do Now:1. Sit in new desks with Primary sources HW out2. Answer:– What is the key difference between primary/secondary

sources?– What do the abbreviations “BC” and “AD” mean?– The current year is 2015: what would you call the year

that happened 3015 years ago? (not a trick question…)

9/14 - Record dates using BCE/CE and define the terms circa, decade, and century

9/14 - Record dates using BCE/CE and define the terms circa, decade, and century

9/14 - Record dates using BCE/CE and define the terms circa, decade, and century

• BCE – Before the Common Era–Same as “B.C. – ‘Before Christ’”

• CE – Common Era–Same as “A.D. – ‘Anno Domini’”

• So this year is 2015 ____ & ____• 2016 years ago was 1 ____ & ____

9/14 - Record dates using BCE/CE and define the terms circa, decade, and century

_____________________|_____________________| 1 2015

BC/BCE: Before year 1; farther into past

AD/CE: After year 1; more recent

1.Where are we in the current year?2.Where is the line that divides BC/AD?3.Extension – about what year did medieval turn into

early modern?

9/14 - Record dates using BCE/CE and define the terms circa, decade, and century

DirectionsRead “Reading Social Studies”CORRECTION!! – change 476 CE to 476 BCE

Leveled activities1.Define terms and list 3 BCE and 3 CE dates2.Define terms and list all dates3.Define terms, list all dates, do extension timeline

Extension reading: Textbook, Tools 1 – Tools 3

9/14 - Record dates using BCE/CE and define the terms circa, decade, and century

1. The “Ancient” period started circa _____________2. About how many centuries did the medieval period last?3. What units should the modern period be measured in?

9/14 - Record dates using BCE/CE and define the terms circa, decade, and century

9/15: Use latitude and longitude to find absolute location

Do Now:

Latitude

Longitude

9/15: Use latitude and longitude to find absolute location

Do Now:1. How many decades are in a century?2. CE means the same as which other suffix?3. Compare timeline activities with partners4. What are latitude/longitude? Talk to partner

Latitude

Longitude

• Earth is divided by imaginary lines called latitude and longitude which measure distance in degrees

• Latitude (parallels) run east-west• Longitude (meridians) run north-south

9/15: Use latitude and longitude to find absolute location

9/15: Use latitude and longitude to find absolute location

9/15: Use latitude and longitude to find absolute locationIn which CONTINENTS are these locations?

1. (20°S, 140°E)2. (40°N, 120°W)3. (80°S, 80°E)

1. Oceania (Australia)2. North America3. Antarctica

Now find coordinates for the following:-Asia-Africa-Pacific Ocean

9/15: Use latitude and longitude to find absolute locationGreenwich is Located near (50°N, 0°E) because it is North of the Equator and ON the Prime Meridian

What are the coordinates of Peoria?

Peoria is located at (40°N, 90°W). It is not as far North of the Equator as Greenwich is, and it is 90° West of the Prime Meridian

Do Now:1. Write coordinates for 3 different places in DN section2. Switch with a teammate: they answer yours, you answer theirs

9/16: Measure distances on a map using the map scale

Do Now:1. Write coordinates for 3 different places in DN section2. Switch with a teammate: they answer yours, you answer theirs

9/16: Measure distances on a map using the map scale

Do Now:1. Locate the scale on

this map2. What units of distance

does it show?3. How many miles from

Aswan to Luxor?4. How many from

Aswan to Al Kharijah

9/16: Measure distances on a map using the map scale

9/16: Measure distances on a map using the map scale

This is the map SCALE: Be creative when using it to measure!

Scale

9/16: Measure distances on a map using the map scale

9/16: Measure distances on a map using the map scale

Which is bigger – Egypt or New Jersey?