Introduction & Unit 1
Humanities
(World History & Language Arts)
Ancient Civilizations (10,000 BCE - 500 AD)
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9.1
Pre-History, River Valley & Classical Civilizations
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Study/Review Questions for Introduction
& Unit 1
Links to other Units 
1 / 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 6
teacher activities for unit 1
8
Classroom rules 
Dates
Time 
start Autobiography
9
Systems
System outline
Culture/Society
Carbon dating
Pre-History 
Slide show
 (logic)
Blooms 
Chapter 1.1 & 1.2
10
Artifact collection
Archeology/Anthropology
Autobiographies due
Chapter 1.3 & 1.4

Grammar mechanics

11
Civilizations
Neolithic Revolution
River Valley Civilizations 
5 Elements of Civilization Chart
India 3.1 & 62-64
Indus River Valley
Chapter 4.1
China
Grammar Mechanics
14
Ciivilizations
early African Civilizations
Kush (meroitic) writing
Pre-Columbian
writing
Ch. 7 p. 202 & 215
Ch. 9.1
development of writing

Writing terms

15
Presentations to evaluate
Civilizations 

Ch. 9.1

Epic Hero

16
Hammurabi 
Egypt & Fertile Crescent 
Class rules Due Today
1. Signature Sheet
2. Student Information Sheet
Chapter  2.1

Gilgamesh
Vocabulary

17
Egypt 
Gifts of the Nile
Dynasties
Pharaohs of Egypt
Mask of Tut Rameses II 
Chronology of 
Egypt Dynasties
Chapter  2.2
18 
  • Egyptian Social Classes
  • Pyramids (an activity) 
  • Women 
  • EgyptainOverview
  • Egyptian Religion
  • How the Pyramids were built

  • Chapter 2. 3
    Geography of FertileCrescent 
    Mesopotamia
    Chapter 2 Section 4
    Fertile Crescent Chart
  • Sumerian Gods
  • 21
    Epic Hero
    Odyssey
    Introduction & Vocabulary

    Reading Schedule

    22
    due today
    Odyssey 
    Books 3-5
    Literary Terms
    23
    Test Chapters 1 & 2, 3.1, 4.1 , 7 & 9.1
    look at Objectives
    M & M Ch. 5. 1 
    Greece
    24
    Greece
    Unity
    Sparta
    Essay prompt
    Chapter 5.2 
    Odyssey Book 6
    25  Epic Hero
    Odyssey
    Trojan War
    vocabulary Quiz
    Book 9
    Chapter  5.3
    28
    Athens & Sparta
    Reformers
    Athens & Sparta
    Types of Greek government
    Government 
    Ephors of Sparta
    Chapter 5.4
    Odyssey
    Books 10 -12
    29
    Library Sparta & Athens
    Odyssey
    Books 16, 17, & 19
    30
    Persian Wars
    P & P
    Sparta & Athens Empires
    Chapter 5.5
    Odyssey
    Books 16, 17, & 19
    Epic Hero Outline
    31
    Greece
    Greek Art
    Pottery
    Olympics
    Greek alphabet

    Odyssey
    Books 23- 24

    1
    Odyssey
     

    Write Epic Hero Essay

    4
    Labor Day Holiday
    5
    Alexander the Great
    Philosophers
    Hellenism
    Hellenism
    6
    Rewrite Essay
    Final copy
    Odyssey Vocabulary Test
    7
    Chapter 6.1 
    Rome
    Etruscans
    Aeneid
    Rome time line
    All Roads lead to Rome
    Clothing of Rome
    8 Odyssey test
    Timeline
    6.2
     

     

    11
    Roman Republic 
    Chapter 6.2 
    Republic
    Punic Wars 
    Introduce Oedipus
    (Objectives)
    (Vocabulary)
    read pages 307-315
    Character Analysis
    12
    Fall of Republic
    Pax Romana
    Chapter 7. 5 & 6
    Emperors
    Legacy of Rome
    Oedipus 
    Pages 316-326
    13
    Fall of Rome
    Timeline due
    Post Possibilities for Day of the Notables
    Oedipus
    Pages 326-340
    14
    Oedipus 345-367
    Outline Oedipus & 
    Work on essay outline
    Essay
    Work on essay outline
    15
    Unit 1 History Test
    Work on essay outline
    End of 1st Unit
    18
    write essay in class
    Reading Notes
    Notebooks due
    Notebook grading criteria
    see here for grading criteria
    19
    Vocabulary Test
    Unit 2
    Dante’s  Inferno
    Levels of Hell
    20
    Dante’s  Inferno
    21 22
    Unit Questions (May use as a study guide)
    Activities with objectives and specific instructions for teachers
    Pyramids Activity
    Hammurabi Activity
    Pottery Activity (values clarification plus elements of Greek Art)
    Sparta (after this activity students understand the focus of Sparta)
    Time line activity is a group listing of events that occurred during the three periods in Roman history-Archaic, Republic, and Empire periods.
    All Roads lead to Rome  Activity
    Link to Specific Objectives

    General Unit Objectives
    Analyze early river valley ciilizations
    Evaluate the development of civilization
    Determine how the physical features of an area affect its historical development
    Determine how technology impacts the development of a civilization
    Describe the historical development of Greek and Roman civilizations and their contributions to modern society
    Recognize the conventions of ancient Greek tragedy
    Identify and analyze figures of speech
    Analyze the influences of Byzantine and Kiev on Western Civilization

    Chapter 1 - key points
    Chapter 2 - key points
    Chapter 3 - key points
    Chapter 4 - key points
    Chapter 7 - key points
    Chapter 9- key points

    Top of unit
    Weblinks for social studies research
    TEKS form for lesson planning

    last updated 08/23/00