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Unit 1: Geography

Unit 1: Geography. Essential Question: Is your geography your destiny? Lesson #6. Warm-up. “History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.” – Cicero “There is no history; only biography.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Unit 1: Geography

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  1. Unit 1: Geography Essential Question: Is your geography your destiny? Lesson #6

  2. Warm-up • “History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.” – Cicero • “There is no history; only biography.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson • “Only a good for nothing is not interested in his past.” – Sigmund Freud • “The supreme purpose of history is a better world.” – Herbert Hoover • “History is not what you thought. It is what you remember. All other history defeats itself.” – R.J. Yeatman • Journal: Full sentences for full credit • Use the quotes to help you to Define history in your own words. • How do we learn about the past?

  3. What is history? • History is a study of past events; story of human affairs in past events

  4. How do we learn about the first humans?

  5. How do we learn about the past? • Anthropologist: a social scientist who studies humankind • Archeologists: an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture. • Geologists: a specialist in the earth’s physical structure and substance, its history and the processes that act on it. • Historians: a social scientist of history • Artifacts: an object made by a human being • Ruins: remains; building in a state of decay, collapse or disintegration

  6. Who was Lucy?

  7. Hominid Species Chart • Form small groups (2-4) • Each group will be assigned a species of hominid • Look in the textbook and read about your species • Fill out the chart – complete with a drawing and description of physical appearance and description about the lifestyle of that species • You will be expected to present your findings to the class

  8. Reflection* • Journal: Full sentences for full credit • What is one distinguishing factor (thing that is different) about your hominid species? • How is the hominid species you’re researching similar and different from you?

  9. Homework* • None

  10. Warm-up • Journal: Full sentences for full credit • Take out your Hominid species chart • Take out a textbook and open to the page about your hominid species • Make sure you aren’t missing any part of the Hominid Species Chart for YOUR species!

  11. Hominid Species Chart

  12. Timelines • BC = Before Christ • AD = “Anno Domini” = In the year of our lord (Latin) • BCE = Before Common Era • CE = Common Era

  13. Reflection • Journal: Full sentences for full credit • How did the first humans interact with their environment? • How did the first humans interact with one another? • How did humans develop communities/civilizations?

  14. Homework • Personal Timeline Project • Create a timeline of 10 important events in your life using the proper formatting and marking for a timeline

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