By J.U.
In the beginning of class we had a Do Now. The question for the do now was “What do you know about the Egyptian Pyramids?” Instead of doing a standard discussion where Mrs. Dordoni asks and people raise their hands we actually had Grace stand up and restate the question and then chose people to answer it. I think this is cool and important because we pretty much lead our own discussion and needed no extra help from teachers. After this we took notes on a powerpoint about the pyramids.
In the beginning of class we had a Do Now. The question for the do now was “What do you know about the Egyptian Pyramids?” Instead of doing a standard discussion where Mrs. Dordoni asks and people raise their hands we actually had Grace stand up and restate the question and then chose people to answer it. I think this is cool and important because we pretty much lead our own discussion and needed no extra help from teachers. After this we took notes on a powerpoint about the pyramids.
Also another fun thing we had 5 people (including me) go up and read it instead of having Ms. Dordoni or Mr. Parke read it we lead it on our own. At the end of the powerpoint there was a question that said “Did the slaves build the great pyramid of Giza?” I like this question because most people that do not know a lot of information on Egyptian Pyramids just think that the slaves built the pyramids but actually this cannot be proven. After answering this question we discussed blogging and edmodo discussions. After this we finished off the class by reading Document A which was about Herodotus, a greek historian who lived in fifth century BC.
This lesson is important to our learning because the normal thought by the average person is that the slaves built them but until it is proven there are many other possibilities on how these pyramids were built. I personally really enjoyed this lesson because nothing has been proven yet so we thought of some crazy and funny possibilities on how these structures came to be.
This has to do with social studies because it is history and it sparks up different thoughts in our minds on how these structures were made.
Homework:
This lesson is important to our learning because the normal thought by the average person is that the slaves built them but until it is proven there are many other possibilities on how these pyramids were built. I personally really enjoyed this lesson because nothing has been proven yet so we thought of some crazy and funny possibilities on how these structures came to be.
This has to do with social studies because it is history and it sparks up different thoughts in our minds on how these structures were made.
Homework:
- Document A & B
- Corroboration Questions 1-3
- First row of graphic organizer on the back of the sheet