Social Studies-6th Grade Assignments

Please use this space to upload your graphic organizer on the Maurya and Gupta Empires that you created in class. 


Links to Use: 


http://theindianhistory.org/Mauryan/mauryan-empire-and-gupta-empire-comparison.html



https://classroom.synonym.com/what-is-the-difference-between-the-mauryan-empire-the-gupta-empire-12084069.html



https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/ancient-medieval/early-indian-empires/a/the-maurya-and-gupta-empires



https://globalprogect.weebly.com/geography.html

Please use this space to upload your final paragraph and comic on what happened to Julius Caesar. 


Your paragraph must: 


- be handwritten or done in a Google Doc
- be five to seven sentences long
- have three supporting details from the sources 


(the paragraph page attached to this assignment is JUST a brainstorming page and not meant to be used for your final draft) 


Your comic must: 


- take up all six squares
- show the story of what you think happened to Julius Caesar
- be entirely colored 


You will be graded on spelling and grammar for both portions of the assignment.

Imagine you have a time machine that you can use to travel back to life in Ancient Rome. You take a visit there one day and come home to write about it in your journal.

Please use this space to upload your short story on life in Ancient Rome. You can either hand write your story or type it in a Google Doc. Your short story needs to be five to seven sentences and list at least three details that show what life was like. 

Additionally, you need to create a picture that depicts a scene from your story. The picture needs to take up the entire page, be hand drawn, be colored, and show details from your story. Upload your picture here as well.

You have been hired by the Louvre Museum in Paris to design a new brochure on an upcoming exhibit: the Daily Life of Romans! The museum paid a great deal of money to have this exhibit in their halls for the next two weeks, and they need a brochure that showcases everything that will be viewed. Using your expert knowledge of daily life in Rome, create a brochure that showcases the 5 major categories! 


Your brochure can be designed any way you want, but...for each category, you must have:


- a title for the category
- at least two facts
- a detailed picture that represents that category 


The entire brochure must be colored, done in marker or pen, and hand drawn!

Please use this space to upload your class notes on the Rules of the Roman Republic.

Question 1: What government position served as a treasurer?

Question 2: What were the responsibilities of an aedile?

Question 3: What government position had the responsibilities of investigating murders?

Question 4: Why is slavery in Ancient Rome different than anywhere else?

Question 5: What is manumission?

Question 6: How would a father in Ancient Rome likely pay off a debt?

Question 7: How could slaves in Ancient Rome be treated? Give examples.

Please use this space to upload your homework. Choose one of the two options. You do NOT have to do both. You may use your homework pass on this assignment.

Option 1:

Draw a picture that illustrates the Conflict of Orders. Your picture must take up the entire page, be entirely colored, and have thought or conversation bubbles.

Option 2:

Write a letter to the patricians as a plebeian demanding more political power. Your letter must be five to seven sentences long and be in letter format.

Please use this space to upload your class notes on the Plebs and Pats.

Attached are the directions and template for your Social Studies Extra Credit Project. You can either print out the template and complete the project by hand, or complete the assignment online using Kami.

This assignment is optional, NOT mandatory. It could give you up to an extra three percent in class.

Please use this space to upload your class notes on Spreading Hellenistic Culture.

Please use this space to upload your homework assignment on The Pharos.

Start a new page in your Social Studies Notebook, divide the page in half. On the top half:

Research The Pharos, a building in Alexandria, Egypt, and write three to five sentences that summarizes what the purpose of The Pharos was.

On the bottom half:

Draw and color a picture of the Pharos.

** you MAY use your homework pass*

Please use this space to upload your notes on Alexander the Great.

Please use this space to upload our class notes on the Ancient Greek Philosophers.

Please use this space to upload your class notes on Pericles and the Golden Age of Greece.

Please use this space to upload your chart that compares the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars.

Please use this space to upload your Venn Diagram on the differences and similarities between Athenian and American Democracy.

Please use this space to upload your booklet on the Greek God of your choice. You may pick any of the Gods we discussed in class and took notes on.

Your booklet needs to have a page for each of these categories:

- a hand drawn illustration of the god with their name
- a genealogy of the god (who is their family?)
- a description of the god (are they a patron god or goddess? what is their symbol? what are they the god of?)
- a description of their story + at least two fun facts about your God or Goddess

In addition to the illustration of the God, your booklet needs to have at least three other colored illustrations in it that represent your God/Goddess.

Please use this space to upload the definitions and pictures for the eight different governments we discussed in class.

Please use this space to upload your notes on the Gods of Ancient Greece.

Please use this space to upload your booklet on Ancient Greek Philosophers:

- 1 page per philosopher
- drawing of each philosopher
- name of each philosopher
- one detail about each philosopher
- one thing the philosopher is famous for
- a drawing that represents something they invented

Please use this space to upload your Venn Diagram on Sparta and Athens.

Please use this space to upload your drawing on either: the acropolis or the agora.

Drawing must be done on a blank piece of paper, take up the entire page, and be entirely colored.

Please use this space to upload your class notes on:

-The Greek City-States Thought Bubble Mp
-The Three Components of Every Greek City-State

Please use this space to upload the timeline you created using the information and dates you learned in class. In order to receive full credit for this assignment, please use at least three different colors, draw at least three pictures to illustrate the events, and decorate your timeline.

Please use this space to upload your class notes on Ancient Greece Vocabulary. You may not Google the definitions to these words, they must be the definitions we discussed in class.

1. acropolis
2. agora
3. assembly
4. boule
5. hellene
6. hoplite
7. metic
8. phalanx
9. philosopher
10. polis
11. strategoi
12. trireme

Please use this space to upload your class notes on Ramses II, Temples, and the End of Egypt.

HOMEWORK:

Step 4: Connection

-write two similarities
-write two differences
-bullet points, does not have to be done in complete sentences

Step 5: Creation

-Create a poem OR drawing that shows an Ancient Egyptians journey into the afterlife.
-It should focus on the big idea of the afterlife of the ancient Egyptians.
-Poem or drawing needs to be done on a separate sheet of paper
-Poem does not have to rhyme, must be four lines or more
-Drawing must be hand drawn and take up the whole page
-Drawing needs to be fully colored

-upload completed packet

Please use this space to upload your class notes on Amenhotep and Nefertiti, Analyzing why Egypt resisted Amenhotep's changs, and Tutankhamun.

Please use this space to upload your notes on Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.

Please use this space to upload your class notes from today:

-Why were the Hyksos able to conquer Egypt?
-The New Kingdom
-The New Kingdom/Middle Kingdom/Old Kingdom Notes

Please use this space to upload your notes from class on the Middle Kingdom, the Fall of the Middle Kingdom, and the Essential Question.

Please use this space to upload your class notes on Egypt's Class System and the Egyptian life.

Please use this space to upload your class notes on the Pyramids and Religion in Egypt.

Please use this space to upload your notes on the Old Kingdom and What did Egyptians learn from embalming?

Please use this space to upload your notes on:

-Uniting Egypt
-Ancient Egypt Vocabulary #2 (pharaoh, theocracy, bureaucrat, embalming, pyramid)

Please use this space to upload your notes on the Nile River Valley and the Essential Question of the day.

Please use this space to upload your notes on the Ancient Egypt Vocabulary, T-Chart, and Essential Question.

Please use this space to upload your handwritten answers to the ten questions on the early humans.

Please use this space to upload the Venn Diagram you made in class today for the Early Humans and The Farming Communities.

-early humans: five facts minimum
-farming communities: five facts minimum
-similarities: two facts minimum

Please use this space to upload your notes about the Ice Age.

Please use this area to upload your notes on The Agricultural Revolution from class today.

Please use this area to upload a picture of your class notes on Hunter-Gatherers.