As I mentioned in class today, you have two assignments to complete over the next few days. You will have laptops Thu and Fri to work on these assignments. The assignments can be completed easily if you use your class time well and spend some homework time each night.
Assignment 1: Age of Empires Thought Web - due Fri 2/5 at the beginning of class
The rubric for this assignment is in the packet I distributed today. The information you place on your thought web should be drawn from the Big Era Four panorama PowerPoint and the handouts; there is no need to do further research. Each student will submit their own thought web. Hint: The three key developments are in both the PowerPoint and the handout I distributed last week.
Assignment 2: Big Era Four Tic-Tac-Toe - due Mon 2/7 at the beginning of class
Working with your partner (if you were not assigned one in class today, you will do that first thing tomorrow morning), you will complete three of the nine assignments in a tic-tac-toe pattern. You have two days with computers, so use your time wisely. Make sure you complete all parts of the assignments you choose. I've added some clarification to some of the assignments below:
- Underwater archaeology: Again, you are not writing an email about an already excavated shipwreck, but on a new, imaginary find. Look at a few actual shipwrecks from the era (keep in mind the dates), and create an imaginary shipwreck that is consistent in its location, place of origin, destination and cargo with actual shipwrecks from the region and time frame you have chosen. The Mediterranean and adjacent Black and Aegean Seas have produced a number of wrecks from this era (see the INA website we looked at today and search through some of the Mediterranean wrecks or try an internet search). You may send me, as the sponsor, an actual email or write up an email to the sponsor and submit a printed copy on Monday.
- Silk Road Coins: Going back to the PowerPoint to look at the maps of the Silk Road and the Empires map would be a good start. A Google image search on Silk Road coins should provide some useful links. One site to take a look at is this one on Kushan coins. As with the underwater archaeology assignment, don't just copy an existing coin but create your own using elements from the actual coins you examine.
- Historical Maps: I've had a very difficult time finding maps for this. You may choose another square if you can't find the right maps.
- Big Era Four Religions: your textbook entry should be 2-3 paragraphs long and cover the time and place of the religion's development, key beliefs, and important persons and texts (if any) associated with the religion.
- Empire slide show: 2-3 slides addressing when and where the empire developed and a few key political, social and economic features.
- 1,000,000 population cities: find the three closest 1,000,000+ pop. cities to Racine. Research their geography and history. What made these cities grow so large and do the answers to these questions tell us anything about Rome's growth in Big Era Four?
- Pictographic Writing: look up the word pictograph if you don't understand it.
- Empire Graphic Organizer: You are asked to compare and contrast. What type of graphic organizer might work best for this?
- Population Growth and the Environment: Include a hard copy or the URL for the article you read in your summary.
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