Lesson #35 - The Earliest American Civilizations

Here's the link to the Extra Credit - World History 9 films blog entry. If you are interested in doing this, I need your responses posted no later than the end of the day on Saturday, January 14th.

As you probably noticed, this is the last week of the quarter. We'll take our Unit #2 Exam on Friday of this week. No homework for the weekend! (See, that's a joke, because the quarter will be over...)

You'll have time to prepare, work on your essay if needed and do your DBQs on Thursday, and we'll finish up with the objective portion on Friday. (You'll find the essay choices on the previous blog entry.)

Two-Minute Reviews - We will again spend some time on Wednesday reviewing for the multiple choice portion of Friday's Unit #2 Objective Exam.

The Americas: A Separate World - Chapter 9

I'm guessing that much of the material in Section 1 is information with which you are familiar. We won't spend much time there, but we can take any questions. Instead, we'll spend some time looking at the earliest civilizations of the Americas. You will work to gather some information today, and we'll make comparisons with other areas that we have studied tomorrow.

Here are the cultures where we will focus our attention:

• Olmec (Mesoamerica - largely in book)
• Zapotec (Mesoamerica - largely in book)
• Teotihuacan (Mesoamerica - not in book)
• Chavin (Andean - somewhat in book)
• Moche (Andean - briefly in book)
• Nazca (Andean - briefly in book)

You are free to use both your textbook and the Internet to find information to complete this Early American Civilizations matrix. You'll also get a blank map of the region on which you can mark important locations, such as where each group lived. You're welcome to work in groups of up to three people on this task. I'll expect that your matrix and map are ready to share at Tuesday's class.

HOMEWORK for tomorrow: Tuesday, January 11th

Please finish your reading (for the quarter) by completing Chapter 9 tonight. We'll have a quiz in class tomorrow on Chapter 9, Section 2. I will give you a copy of the quiz for Chapter 9, Section 3 that you can complete at home. Please bring that back tomorrow as well.

Both your map and handout on the Empires and City-States of the Americas (800 BCE - 500 CE) should be ready to go for class tomorrow.

Just a reminder that your "Fakebook" assignment is due today. Be sure I get that ASAP.

Your portion of the "Unit #2 Two-Minute Review" needs to be ready to go by Wednesday.

The objective portion of the Unit #2 Exam will be in class on Friday.