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We learned how History is "His" story. What are the major points on the timeline?
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Remember " Anno Domini?" What does it mean?
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What is the Cradle of Civilization? What is a civilization? Remember working in a group to study and create a poster on one of the ancient civilizations?
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Remember the question: "Who are we all descendants of?" Click on the questioi to watch the video we watched in class.
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Remember learning about the Mayas? What were their books called? Remember, you created one? What were some of the contributions of the Mayas?
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What does Chocolate come from? Remember how the Mayans used it?
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Remember when we drank Hot Chocolate? Who were the first to develop this delicious drink?
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Remember what the Mayans looked like? Why did they do all those things to their bodies?
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What do people believe happened to the Mayans?
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Can you guess the Phoenician letters?Remember writing your name in Phoenician? How about the Tetragrammaton? What is it? (Remember: "YHWH"?)
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Who made the covenant with Abraham? What was that covenant? Watch the video:
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Remember when we walked around the school and stopped to do work every once in a while? Did this remind you of how the Hebrews/Israelites wandered in the wilderness for 40 years?
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Remember walking around the school, pretending we were the Israelites wondering through the wilderness?
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Some tried to take a ride instead of walking!
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What were some of the battles the Spartans fought in?
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Remember the Spartans and the Pelopponesian War?
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Remember the Spartans? What made them different then the Atheneans? Remember when Mark brought in the helmet?
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What "now famous" word was yelled out when the Greek soldier ran to Marathon? (NIKE)
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A Spartan enjoying reading the History book.
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At what age did Spartan boys have to leave their home to train for battle? What were the differences between the Spartan women and the women from Athens?
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Remember opening our Christmas Crackers?
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We crossed our arms and on the count of 3 we pulled our Christmas crackers! Which country celebrates Christmas with Christmas Crackers?
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Remember our first Nearpod activity? What did you think of it? Most of you seemed to enjoy it. Later on we tried the Socrative app.
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Everyone enjoyed using their iPhones, iPods, iPads to complete our Nearpod activity.
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When we popped our Christmas Crackers, we found a paper crown, little toys, a joke, and some candy.
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What does that saying mean? How is it used today?
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How did Rome get its name? Remember the twin brothers raised by a wolf? What happened in this legend? Remember the legend of Romulus and Remus?
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Remember watching this beautiful video that reminds us to watch the LAMB? Watch the Lamb
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We learned what not to say and what to say to the Jewish people while witnessing to them.
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Mrs. Coupe came to speak to us about how to witness to the Jewish people. We spent three weeks in the Media Center researching and preparing our tool for witnessing. What topic did you choose?
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How about that Istanbul? How many names did it have? Do you remember the song? Istanbul = Constantinople
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What was the name of the beautiful cathedral Justinian built? Do you want to see inside it? Visit the Hagia Sophia Remember our mosaics?
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Who was that young Muslim guy who became a Christian and is now a pastor?
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What should we do to witness to the Muslims?
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What surprised you about Islam? What do you remember about this group of people and their religion?
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What were the different roles in the feudal society? Which one would you like to be? We learned about knights?
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Remember the M & M activity? Were you a King, Noble, Clergy, Knight or a lowly Peasant?
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Did you think Feudalism was fair? Why? Who got the most M & M's in our simulation? What did you think of it?
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Remember our Lesson on the towns in the Middle Ages? What did you do? Were you a reporter talking about the Black Plague? Were you an artist drawing about fairs, or the guilds? Were you an actor acting out the changes in life?
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