Day 4 Timeline lesson easley
- 1. Welcome World Travelers Making Timelines
- 2. Entrance Procedure • Read the Essential Question: How can making or reading a timeline help me organize and study history? • Do Now: Name three Roman Legacies and tell me why they are important
- 3. Essential Question and Big Goal • Essential Question: How can making or reading a timeline help me organize and study history? • Big Goal Connection: Reading and creating timelines is an important skills that you will need in the rest of middle school and into high school and BEYOND!!
- 4. Activator! • We are going to watch a short digital animation clip from Pixar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omk6TAxJ YOg • While we watch, you need to be taking notes about the plot of the video • Think Pair Share: Summarize the plot of the film into 5 events
- 5. Class Share Out! • Students will come up to the board and will put their events in order on the Class Timeline for the story
- 6. Rules of Timelines • #1 You always draw timelines with an arrow in the front and an arrow in the back • #2 AD or CE, BC or BCE – AD (Anno Domini or Year of our Lord referring to the year of Christ’s birth). – The meaning of BC is Before Christ. – CE is a recent term. It refers to Common Era and is used in place of A.D. – BCE means Before Common Era. • #3 Long-ago left, Recent right • #4 Century Rule: 4th century = 300’s 21st century= 2000’s • #5 BC/BCE—the smaller the number the more recent it is AD/CE—the bigger the number the more recent it is
- 7. Class Timeline! • In your group work to put the dates in order using your notes sheet. • Then, I will call up people to the board to put the dates in order. • We will record the dates on the first line of our timeline.
- 8. Practice!! • 1. Write the following dates in order on your timeline. • 123 BC • 789 AD • 678 BC • 1790 AD • 23 BC • 243 AD • 2003 BC • 2. Use the Century Rule above to help you and write the correct century for each date.
- 9. Practice Making a Timeline Online • Make a time line of your own life! • Make sure you included – Birthdate – Each year that you had a birthday – Years you started school – Significant events that have happened
- 10. Table Summarizer • Teacher will assign each group one of the 5 rules of timelines. • Students must summarize the rule in their own words and be able to explain it to the class in under one minute!
- 11. Review • Reviewing Greece and Rome! You will work with your table partner! • Those that do not have table partners will be paired up with the person of my choosing 1. Work on your Review of Greece and Rome 2. Grab a Green Textbook and begin working on your map (back page)