Tuesday, November 19, 2013

November 18th-22nd

This week, sixth graders are mostly focusing the development of law in Mesopotamian city-states.  Students will be reading a secondary source, a Jr. Scholastic article about Hammurabi and his code of law, and Hammurabi's Code, a primary source.  Students read about and discussed the difference between a primary and a secondary source in class today.  Students will be starting a project on Hammurabi's Code at the end of the week.

Students will also be building city-states this week!  On Wednesday, students will be working in small groups to build a Mesopotamian city-state.  Students will be using factual information about the typical Mesopotamian city-state to inform their design, and students will be participating in both a self-evaluation and a peer review post-construction.

Homework this week:

For Tuesday- Finish annotating "Laying Down the Law"

For Thursday- Finish annotating "Hammurabi's Code"

For Friday- Finish answering Hammurabi questions

**(Students have had class time to read and annotate both articles before it becoming homework.)

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