Second Part of the Roman Empire Test

Last week we did the first part of the Roman Empire Test thanks to field trips that forced me to split the test into two.  Well, because of another surprise field trip, we will have to have our test on Wednesday instead of Thursday as I had originally planned!

The last part of the Roman Empire Test is as follows.  Study three study guide sheets:  pages 81 to 87.

Everything we did on the Roman Empire–starting with Caesar all the way to the fall of Rome and the contributions of Rome.  Know the dates of the Pax Romana and be prepared to write about everything on those study guide sheets.

The test is Wednesday!  GOOD LUCK!

Portfolios for the PTC on Friday, Oct. 16th, 2009!

Students,

As I have told you from the beginning of the year, make sure you have a lot of extra A4 removable sleeves in your portfolio!  I will be giving you a new contents page and you will have to make sure you have all your sheets in the correct order.

If you are missing sheets, find them!  You are responsible for photocopying  sheets that you have lost.

If you do not have enough A4 clear plastic sleeves, buy them!

When your parents come on Friday, Oct. 16th, I may be showing them your portfolio!

Study Guide for the Last Prehistory Test!

1. Recognize all of the megafauna on your Prehistoric Oral Presentation list.
2. Hunting Point-Form Notes—make sure you know how to discuss how Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals hunted various animals in the Stone Age.
3. Recognize the animals we pointed out on your cave art sheet and know how each of them was hunted.
4. Understand what extinction is and know the basic order of events in your Stone Age Timeline such as the extinction of various hominids, when art was produced, the end of the Ice Age, etc.  Do not memorize all of the dates! I will give you some fill-in-the-blank words and phrases that you should be able to fit into the timeline based on what we have learned.
5. Understand what happens when different species of upright apes meet, i.e., there is a conflict due to food/territory that results in the species with better technology and a bigger brain driving out the other species.
6. Prehistoric Art Project #2.  Focus on stone sculpture—know when art began (during the “Great Leap Forward”) and why Venus figurines were so important—to show fertility, etc.  Know how to recognize the Venus of Willendorf.
7. Know all the information on your Chapter 4, Lesson 2, Study Guide.   (Also, be prepared to describe Neanderthal tools as well.  You may use your stone tool handout that we just had a quiz on as a guide.)
8. Stone Age Toolkit—make sure you know the names and uses of each tool.  Also know what an atlatl is and what it was used for.  [Here are some clues if you did not get a chance to finish your activity:  1. Antler harpoon—to hunt large marine animals; 2. Burin—to make fine cut marks while decorating a weapon; 3. Beads—worn for decoration; 4. Blade Core—used to make stone tools; 5. Bone Flute—used to make music; 6. Bone tip—used on the end of a spear to hunt animals; 7. Awl—to poke holes in animal skins or to shred plant fiber; 8. Clovis Point—used on spears in North America; 9. Scraper—to clean fat, etc. off of animal hides; 10. Needle—to sew clothes.]
9. Clash of the Cavemen sheets—make sure you know all of the information that you filled in and that we went over in class.

10.  Be ready to compare-contrast your teacher with a Neanderthal.