Wednesday - 02/27/2019

What We Did Today
We finished exploring geographic luck.

Homework
None.

Discussion Starters
Climate/latitude; large-seeded grasses; large mammals/domestication.

Tuesday - 02/26/2019

What We Did Today
We continued exploring geographic luck as a way of explaining global inequality and how civilizations developed.

Homework
None.

Discussion Starters
Geographic luck; latitude and climate; large-seeded grasses; large domesticated mammals.

Monday - 02/25/2019

What We Did Today
We continued exploring the concept of geographic luck.

Homework
None.

Discussion Starters
Geographic Luck; Guns, Germs, and Steel.

Friday - 02/22/2019

What We Did Today
We watched some of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel, which highlighted the concept of geographic luck.

Homework
None.

Discussion Starters
Geographic Luck; Guns, Germs, and Steel.

Thursday - 02/21/2019

What We Did Today
We discussed "geographic luck" as a way to explain why civilizations developed where they developed.

Homework
None.

Discussion Starters
Geographic luck; what makes an area geographically lucky?

Wednesday - 02/20/2019

What We Did Today
We continued exploring the development of civilizations in the river valley civilizations.

Homework
None.

Discussion Starters
River Valley Civilizations.

Thursday - 02/14/2019

What We Did Today
We continued exploring civilizations.

Homework
None.

Discussion Starters
Defining characteristics of civilizations; define 'civilization'.

Wednesday - 02/13/2019

What We Did Today
We had a conversation about 'civilizations.'

Homework
None.

Discussion Starters
Civilizations; civilized.

Monday - 02/11/2019

What We Did Today
We took a test.

Homework
None.

Discussion Starters
How'd your test go?

Thursday - 02/07/2019

What We Did Today
Students studied for Monday's test.

Homework
Continue studying.

Discussion Starters
Let's study for the test with these notes.

Tuesday - 02/04/2019

What We Did Today
We started studying for a unit test.

Homework
None.

Discussion Starters
Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages.

Friday - 02/01/2019

What We Did Today
We changed seats (with the new month), then did a bit of writing about life in Catalhoyuk.

Homework
None.

Discussion Starters
New seats; why did foragers NOT develop villages like Catalhoyuk?