What year did?

This class find out when the following events happened, according to your classmate's timelines, what year did:
Jordan take his last shot
World War One start
Philippines tsunami happen
Declaration of Independence signed in the United States
First person step on the moon
The Red river flood (a few times!)
Somebody take their first bike ride
World War Two start
Dog Conan get a new home

Somebody stop breathing

A second cousin was born

Grandparent's 10th Anniversary 

Somebody start to walk

Somebody start crawling

Grace and William get married

Someone move into a new house

Bucky die:(

In your team, blog the year and the timeline below.

Mesopotamia

The Start of Agrarian Societies

The advent of agriculture changed how people lived. It is widely believed that this change started in Mesopotamia, the site of modern day Iraq, and is often called the Cradle of Civilization and the Fertile Crescent. Look at the map of the Fertile Crescent. Many parts of the world, such as where we live, is good farming land. The huge advantage that Mesopotamia had was access to crops and animals that can be easily farmed and domesticated.

Consider some of the crops and animals that they had access to and what this meant to changing their lifestyle from a hunter and gatherer to a farmer.   

Like where we live, ancient farmers in Mesopotamia had to deal with flooding and drought. They came up with an interesting solution. Click here and try your hand at being a Mesopotatmia farmer. 

Writing with pictures has been done since the prehistoric times. Writing with letters greatly facilitated the passing of information (such as how to grow crops), keeping records (such as taxes paid) and the writing down of rules and first appeared in Mesopotamia. 

Course Outline

The Provincial Curriculum is here. The course is about 200,000 years of history, so during the year we won't be going into great depth on any particular time period. What will be important is understanding the trends and patterns that exist throughout history. The four main outcomes for Social Studies in Manitoba and what we will be focusing on during the school year are:

1. Communication
2. Managing Ideas and Information
3. Critical and Creative Thinking
4. Democratic Citizenship

The first two outcomes are important skills to have as the student moves through school and life. The last two skills are vital to produce the kind of society we want to live in and avoid something like this

As we jump from one period of history to another, the class at times will be asked for their interests and class lectures will be tailored to those interests. During the year we will also be making use of project based learning so that the students can focus on periods of history that they find to be the most interesting. 

This iTunes U course is a supplement to the actual course, which is delivered in class and on this blog. Supplemental links can also be found here. Some points to consider as we start our course:

What is History? Who makes it? Who writes it? How has it affected our country, the province we live in, our city, you? 

What year is it?

Time Lines about YOU!!

Time Line

Using photoshop, or the other programs shown by the teacher, or doing it by hand, create a timeline. Be sure to include graphics and have the timeline easily readable.

-Have the year of your birth as your starting point. Remember, there are no 0 years on a timeline.

-Have at least 3 dates from before you were born

-Have at least 3 dates after you were born

-Have at least 10 dates

-Have at least 4 dates that have no personal connection to you
The dates must all be referenced by when you were born. The math for this would be (Year of event)-(year you were born)+1
Marked out of 15. 10 proper dates, some type of BCE-CE, graphics (links?), and ease of reading.

Renaissance Project

Renaissance Project



For your final project on the Renaissance, you will pick a famous representative or event from the time and try to convince the class that this person or event was the most influential person/event of the era.

You will need to have a 2 1/2minute speech with 10 pictures for your presentation (set the presentation to change the picture every 15 seconds).

You may choose from the following people, topics:
Leonardo DaVinci Machiavelli Shakespeare
Gutenberg Michelangelo Magna Carter
Catherine de Medicci (or another Mecicci) Henry VIII
Elizabeth I Descartes The Borgias
Fibbanacci Isabella d’Este Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton Christopher Marlowe Nicolaus Copernicus
Jacques Cartier Vasco de Gama John Cabot
Johannes Kepler Donatello Marco Polo
Magellan Sir Walter Raleigh Isaac Newton
Raphael Martin Luther The Inquisition
Saint Bartholomew's Massacre The Reformation Art and Perspective
Developments in Navigation Spanish Armada Bloody Mary


Things to focus on:
1. Why they are/it is famous.
2. Impact on today’s society.
3. How they/it advanced science/technology/literature/government?
4. Interesting Facts (at least 5-with explanations)

You will be marked on the following:
1. The information presented.
2. How it is presented.
3. Pictures used (do they match your speech).

A Civilization that had the greatest impact on society today

Blog a well constructed paragraph(s) with at least ten facts about why the civilization that you picked had the greatest impact on today's society. (10 marks)
Now for 5 marks, respond to your classmates' comments with a rebuttal.