Grade 6 State Goal 14

State Goal 14: Understand political systems, with an emphasis on the United States.

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Critical to Understand and Master at Choose two countries that have Language Arts: In small groups, Grade 6: political systems that are different from discuss the pros and cons of different 6.14.01 the political systems of the United political systems. Support your Compare information you already States. Make a Venn diagram viewpoint with reasons and examples. know about political systems of the comparing and contrasting the different United States to political systems of political systems. other countries. (14A)

6.14.02 Working in pairs, debate whether Technology: Use the Internet or library Explain the importance of governments national, state, or local governments resources to research images of other having written constitutions. (14A) could exist without written constitutions government constitutions and charters. or charters. Establish pro and con Create a display that shows how other arguments, and present your debate to countries’ governments operate and your classmates. govern. Share your display with classmates.

6.14.03 Use the Internet or library resources to Math: Use the Internet or library Describe how social classes were research America during the resources to research population data generally formed and how they Jacksonian era. Write a paragraph to from different years in United States influenced public policy in their nations. describe how voting laws changed history. Use this data to make pie (14D) during that time and how those graphs, showing how the population changes affected the social classes was divided into different social and government of United States. classes during different times in history.

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Theater: In small groups, write scenes 6.14.04 Choose one responsibility that people about citizens participating in Evaluate the benefits of citizen have as citizens of a community Then, government, such as voting or participation in a social system. (14D) write a paragraph that evaluates what speaking at a ward meeting. Act out would happen if citizens did participate your scenes for the class. in their community to meet that responsibility.

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6.14.05 Use the Internet to find websites, such Math: Use the Internet or library Identify a political tradition or custom in as www.HistoryForKids.org, that have resources to research the population of the United States, which had its origin information about the government of Athens at the time of Pericles. Use a in another country (e.g., representative ancient Greece and Rome. Make a list pie graph to identify the percentages of government). (14E) of political traditions or customs from eligible voters. Who made up the that time. Then, write a summary of remaining non-voting citizens of your research and identify an American Athens? Add their population political tradition or custom that percentages to your graph, too. originated in ancient Greece or Rome. Discuss how the graph shows contradictions between the ideas and statements of Pericles and the actual population who were actually eligible to vote.

Language Arts: Make a Venn diagram to compare and contrast views on democracy held by Plato and Pericles. Work with a partner to summarize how Greek philosophy influenced the development of many political ideas and practices in the United States.

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6.14.06 Use the Internet or library resources to Religion: Use the Internet or library Identify how civilizations contributed to research documents by leaders such resources to research how early the development of human rights as Cyrus the Great or Kublai Khan, that civilizations used religion as a basis for recognition. (14F) were important to the progression of recognizing human rights. human rights issues. Then, make a time line of documents important to the development of human rights.

6.14.07 Use the Internet or library resources to Music: Write a song that describes Describe conflicts over the rights and research current civil rights conflicts how people around the world can work freedom of individuals and groups around the world. Summarize your together to peacefully solve their throughout the world. (14F) findings in a cause-and-effect chart differences. that describes these conflicts.

Significant to Develop at Grade 6: View copies of the Declaration of Religion: As a class. Identify and 6.14.09 Independence, the Northwest analyze religious references in the Summarize the main points in Ordinance, and the Preamble of the Declaration of Independence, the constitutional documents. (14A) United States Constitution. Then, write Northwest Ordinance, and the a paragraph that summarizes each Preamble of the United States document. Constitution.

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6.14.10 Write an essay that explains why it is Religion: What roles do different Explain the roles of citizens in important in a republic, such as the people play in the operation of your choosing leaders in the United States United States, that all eligible citizens parish? How are they all part of the and in other nations around the world. exercise their right to vote. Include same mission? Explain how service to (14C) what might happen if one group of the Church is both similar to and citizens did not exercise its rights to different from civil service work. vote.

6.14.11 Use the Internet or library resources to Math: Use research to make statistical Make a map showing one United research the voting history and charts about voting districts in your States voting district, and explain the population of a voting district. community. Using statistics, show the features that contributed to creating Summarize your findings in a report results of the last election in a chart. the boundaries of each voting district. and present to the class. Then transfer those results to a map. (14C)

6.14.12 Use the Internet or library resources to Technology: Make a video Analyze actions taken by the United research the Civil Rights movement in documentary about the Americans with States and other nations’ governments the United States. Make a list of the Disabilities Act and how it has to improve the lives of oppressed actions taken by the government improved people’s lives. people. (14D) during the Civil Rights movement. Then explain how the Civil Rights movement influenced government policies.

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6.14.13 Make a list of historical events in Language Arts: Choose a civil rights Identify events in which people have which people have fought for leader you have learned about in had to fight for equality. (14F) equality. Then, make a sequence class. Imagine that you have the chart that shows the order of events opportunity to interview this leader. that led to changes in ideas and Write a list of questions you might ask political practices. For example, Rosa this person. Using your knowledge of Parks inspired the Montgomery, this person, imagine what his or her Alabama bus boycott. Her arrest led answers might be. to protests in other states.

Useful to Work on at Grade 6: Use the Internet or library resources Art: Make a world map of the world 6.14.14 to research how international that identifies the countries that are Describe the leadership role of the organizations, such as the United members of the United Nations United States in international Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Security Council, the North Atlantic organizations, such as the United Organization Treaty Organization Treaty Organization, and the Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty (NATO), or the International International Monetary Fund. Organization (NATO), and the Monetary Fund (IMF) help make the International Monetary Fund (IMF). world a safer place. Then, write a (14E) paragraph that summarizes your research.

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6.14.15 Use the Internet or library resources Language Arts: Use the Internet or Explain the costs and benefits of a to research international library resources to research recent treaty the United States has signed organizations, such as NATO. Make treaties that the United States has with another nation or international a list of the costs and benefits to the signed with other nations. Write a organization. (14E) United States as a result of being a paragraph that summarizes the member of these organizations. treaty. Then, write a paragraph that summarizes the costs and benefits of the treaty to the United States.

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Grade 6 State Goal 15

State Goal 15: Understand economic systems, with an emphasis on the United States.

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Critical to Understand and Master Write an essay that analyzes the Art: Prepare an exhibit that illustrates at Grade 6: costs and benefits of the United how free enterprise in the United 6.15.01 States’ free enterprise system to States answers the questions of what Analyze the free enterprise economy producers and to consumers. will be produced, how it will of the United States. (15A) produced, and who the consumers are. Write captions that explain how the exhibit represents the features of a free enterprise system.

6.15.02 Make a list of the six economic goals Language Arts: As a class, review the Describe the six economic goals of of the United States. Then write a six economic goals of the United the United States (freedom, paragraph that describes each goal. States. Use the Internet or library efficiency, equity, security, stability resources to research articles that and, growth). (15A) illustrate or represent one of the six economic goals. Write a summary pf the article describing how it relates to one of the six economic goals of the United States. Share your summary with the class.

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6.15.03 Make a three-column chart. Label the Business: As a class, review the Distinguish between traditional, columns traditional, command, and general characteristics of traditional, command, and market economies. market. In your chart, identify the command, and market economic (15A) group or groups that decide what to systems. Divide into three groups and produce, how to produce, and for decide how your school will be run whom to produce, for each type of based on a traditional, command, or economic system. Include examples market economic system. Create a of each type of economic system in table illustrating how the school will your chart. answer the three basic economic questions of what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce. Consider the societal values that influence traditional, command, or market economies. Summarize your findings in a report and share it with the class.

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6.15.04 Make a list of the coats and benefits Language Arts: As a class, discuss Describe the costs and of of interdependence. the costs and benefits of economic interdependence. (15A) interdependence. Then, working in groups, use the Internet or library resources to find examples of economic interdependence in local, state, or national newspapers. For each example, make a list of the costs and benefits for the individuals, groups, or countries involved. Share your list with the class.

6.15.05 Write definitions of the terms market Language Arts: To explain that a Define the word market, in economic and economy. Then use your market exists whenever buyers and terms, and explain the economy that definitions to explain how a market sellers exchange goods and services, a market creates. (15B) exists whenever buyers and sellers make a two-column chart. Label the exchange goods and services. columns Needs/Wants and Suppliers. Fill in the first column of the chart with your own needs and wants. In the second column, list the suppliers for each need or want.

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6.15.06 Write a paragraph that describes the Business: As a class, review the Describe the terms market clearing terms market clearing price, surplus, definitions of the terms market price, surplus, and shortage. (15B) and shortage. clearing price, surplus, and shortage. Discuss recent examples of surpluses and shortages and the reasons why these imbalances occurred. Then predict what you think the market and producers will do to try to correct these imbalances.

6.15.07 Write sentences that define the terms Language Arts: Make a graphic Define competition and perfect competition and perfect competition. organizer to show the relationships competition. (15B) Use a dictionary or your textbook to among the four characteristics of confirm your definitions. Then explain perfect competition. why competition occurs when there are many buyers and sellers of similar products.

6.15.08 Create a concept web that identifies Math: Make a flowchart to illustrate Define the law of supply and explain the six main determinants of supply. what happens when a DVD maker the relationship between the law of Then, write a paragraph that explains sells a unit for $300.00 and what supply and profit motive. (15C) the relationship between the law of happens when he or she sells a unit supply and profit motive. for $150.00. As a class, discuss how profit motive explains the law of supply.

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6.15.09 Write an essay that describes the Language Arts: As a class, discuss Describe the exchange of plants, exchange of plants, animals, and the positive and negative effects of animals, technology, culture, and ideas that took place among Europe, the Columbian Exchange. Then write ideas among Europe, Africa, Asia, Africa, Asia, and the Americas during a paragraph summarizing your and the Americas in the fifteenth and the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. discussion. sixteenth centuries. (15D) Include examples of items brought from the Americas to Europe and from Europe to the Americas.

6.15.10 Make a cause-and-effect diagram to Business: Pretend that you run a Explain how changing quantities of explain how changing quantities of business that sells something that is imports and exports affects a nation’s imports and exports affects a nation’s exported to other countries. Explain economy. (15D) economy. how your business would be affected if more businesses started to export your product. Also explain how it would affect the country’s economy.

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6.15.11 Write a paragraph that explains what Language Arts: To make wise buying Examine the elements and the a market economy is and how supply decisions in a market economy, you importance of a market economy in and demand work in a market must know how to analyze seventeenth-century Europe. (15D) economy. Then list three factors that advertisements, determine if you can led to the development of a market afford a particular item, and judge economy in seventeenth-century whether your money might be spent Europe. in other ways. Think of an item you would like to buy. Then make a list of the steps you would take in deciding whether or not to make the purchase.

6.15.12 Write a paragraph that describes the Art: Imagine that you are living in Explain how feudalism contributed to types of exchange that took place Europe during the time of feudalism the European economy. (15D) under the feudal system. and you need to explain the feudal system to someone who has just arrived in Europe. Create an illustrated page that explains feudalism.

6.15.13 Write an essay that describes how Theater: Pretend that your class is a Identity patterns of trade and geography affected patterns of trade Greek market. Act out the patterns of commerce among Greek city-states and commerce among Greek city- trade and commerce that would have and within the Mediterranean region. states and within the Mediterranean taken place among the people of (15D) region. Greek city-states.

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6.15.14 Write a paragraph that explains the Science: Use the Internet or library Explain the importance of the trans- importance of the Silk Road to the resources to research how people Eurasian “silk roads” to the Han Han dynasty and the Roman Empire. manufacture silk, both in the dynasty and the Roman Empire. Include examples of goods traded traditional way and in the modern (15D) along the Silk Road. way. Investigate how new technologies have affected the manufacturing of this ancient good. Then make a diagram that shows each process.

6.15.15 Write an essay that describes how Language Arts: Make a list of Identify how the Roman Empire the use of currency and trade routes currency used in the Roman Empire. fostered economic growth through contributed to the economic growth of Then draw a map that shows trade the use of currency and trade routes. the Roman Empire. routes of the Roman Empire and (15D) explain how they contributed to its economic growth.

6.15.16 Use a graphic organizer to identify Language Arts: Write a short story Identify goods and services provided the types of goods and services that about what would happen if the by different levels of government. are provided by the local, state, and different levels of government did not (15E) national governments. provide certain goods and services to the country.

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6.15.17 Use a graphic organizer to match the Language Arts: Use the Internet or Identify the level of government to local, state, and national levels of library resources to research income, which certain taxes are paid. (15E) government, with the types of taxes sales, and property taxes in your they are paid. community and state. Summarize your findings in a written report and present it to the class.

6.15.18 Create a table that shows the Math: One of the characteristics of Describe the differences between differences between income tax, the sales tax is that everybody pays, income tax, sales tax, and property sales tax, and property tax. For each regardless of age. Use the Internet or tax. (15E) type of tax, make a list what is taxed, library resources to research the the type of tax (proportional, sales tax in your community. progressive, regressive), and who Determine how much money you receives the revenue. spend each month. Then, calculate how much sales tax you pay each year.

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Significant to Develop at Grade 6: Write a paragraph that describes Business: Working in groups, imagine 6.15.19 factors of production, such as natural that you are entrepreneurs who have Describe factors of production, such resources, human resources, capital decided to produce an entertainment as natural resources, human resources, and entrepreneurship. guide for your school. The guide will resources, capital resources, and Include examples of each factor of provide highlights of upcoming events entrepreneurship. (15A) production. as well as listings for local restaurants, movie theaters, shops, and other places of interest. Brainstorm and answer the following question: What natural resources, human resources, and capital resources will we need to produce and sell our entertainment guide? Share your answers with the class.

6.15.20 Write a paragraph explaining why it is Art: Make a collage showing the Define productivity. (15A) important for someone who wants to present-day examples of productivity, start a business to understand the such as assembly lines, using picture concept of productivity. cutouts or drawn pictures. Represent a variety of industries in your collage.

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6.15.21 Make a list of examples of technology Technology: Identify examples of Describe how productivity increases developed by ancient civilizations. technology at school or at home that through the use of technology. (15A) Then, write a paragraph that could improve your own productivity. describes how each example of Then, write a paragraph explaining technology affected productivity in the how changes to your productivity civilization. might affect your family or your community.

6.15.22 Make a cause-and-effect diagram Business: Use the Internet or library Explain the relationship between that shows the effects of education resources to research advertisements education and training. (15A) and training on worker productivity for jobs. Make a two-column chart and salaries. and list advertisements for jobs that require education and advertisements for jobs that do not require education or training. What conclusion can you make about the level of education and training required for the jobs and the salaries that the jobs pay?

6.15.23 Make a list of examples of Art: Create a presentation of Identify examples of competition competition among consumers. examples of competition among among buyers. (15B) Include products that are popular buyers. Consider using goods, among consumers of your age on services, and events, such as a your list. popular band coming to Chicago, that create competition among consumers.

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6.15.24 Write definitions of the terms demand Business: Imagine that you have $30 Describe how demand differs from and quantity demanded. Then write a and would like to purchase some the quantity demanded. (15B) paragraph that describes the compact discs (CDs), however, you difference between demand and do not want to spend all of your quantity demanded. money. How many CDs would you purchase if the price were $5 per CD? $10 per CD? $15 per CD? $20 per CD? $25 per CD? $30 per CD? As a class, tally the total number of CDs you would purchase at each price. Record the answers in a demand schedule. Then identify the total classroom demand for CDs and the quantity of CDs demanded at different prices. Discuss the distinction between demand and quantity demanded.

6.15.25 Make a graphic organizer to illustrate Math: Use the Internet or library Identify the relationship between how the law of demand works. Show resource to research how the cost of price and quantity demanded. (15B) the decisions that consumers must oil changed during the past year. To make and the requirements a illustrate the law of demand, make a consumer must meet in order to bar graph of heating oil prices for the affect the quantity demanded. last year by month.

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6.15.26 Create a flowchart that explains how Math: Use a diagram to illustrate the Explain how price can be an incentive price can be an incentive for buyers cycle a new electronic product for buyers and sellers. (15C) and sellers. In your flowchart, show entering the market goes through. the relationship among low prices, Choose an item you would like to high prices, supply, demand, buyers, have and consider how price is an and sellers. incentive to buyers and sellers.

6.15.27 Make a list of consumer products that Art: As a class, discuss the ways in Analyze how price changes affect have had price changes in the last which people depend on oil. Make a buyers and sellers. (15C) year. Then, make a table that shows pictorial representation showing how how changes in price affect decision- high oil and gas prices affect your making by both consumers and family, school, or community. producers.

6.15.28 Make a list of ten examples of Language Arts: Many credit cards Identify examples of positive positive incentives that affect have rewards programs. Research incentives that affect economic economic behavior in your how these work as a positive behavior. (15C) community. incentive. Then design an advertisement that encourages people to apply for a credit card that has a rewards program.

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6.15.29 Use the Internet or library resources Math: Use the Internet or library Provide examples of negative to research negative incentives that resources to find out the interest rate incentives that affect economic affect economic behavior, such as on three different credit cards. behavior. (15C) built-in penalties in certain credit Imagine that you have charged cards. Make a list of these negative $1,000 on each credit card. Calculate incentives. Then, explain how they how much interest the credit card affect economic behavior. company charges you for the use of that money.

6.15.30 Make a list of items or products that Technology: Use the Internet or Provide examples of economic represent economic specialization. library resources to research the Ford specialization. (15D) Motor Company. Make a list of examples of specialization within its factories.

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6.15.31 Write a report that summarizes how Science: Imagine that you are a Identify technologies that helped technology, such as the astrolabe newspaper reporter who is writing establish international trade during and the compass, helped establish about one of the main discoveries or the Age of Exploration. (15D) trade during the Age of Exploration. inventions of the Scientific Revolution. Use the Internet or library resources to research one major discovery or invention and write a headline for it. Then write a one- paragraph article. The article should answer the basic who, what, when, where, and why questions about the topic. Share your headline and paragraph with the class.

6.15.32 Create a list of government services Language Arts: Write a journal entry Identify what people would give up if that people would no longer benefit describing what your life would be governments had no power to tax. from if there were no taxes collected like if certain government services (15E) by the government. had to be taken away. Describe how you would try to get those services without the government’s help.

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Useful to Work on at Grade 6: List some of restaurants that you go Math: Survey your classmates, 6.15.33 to or that you know about. Tell what asking them what items or products Explain why, in a market economy, goods and services are exchanged. they would like to have in your producers make the goods and Discuss ways companies advertise to classroom. Tally the results of your services consumers want. (15A) encourage consumers to choose their survey, and discuss which products restaurant over another. were requested most. What products should companies produce for the consumers in your classroom? Explain how you came to your conclusions.

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Grade 6 State Goal 16

State Goal 16: Understand events, trends, individuals and movements shaping the history of Illinois, the United States and other nations.

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Critical to Understand and Master at Using your social studies textbook, Language Arts: Use the Internet or Grade 6: make a list of primary and secondary library resources to research primary 6.16.01 sources that help you understand what and secondary sources that a future Identify examples of primary and life was like in ancient Greece. historian might use to learn about life secondary sources. (16A) in your town or city in the twenty-first century.

6.16.02 Select one historical event that Home Economics: Prepare or buy a Compare the value of primary and occurred during the growth of an new food product that you have seen secondary sources. (16A) ancient civilization. Use the Internet or advertised. Taste the food and form library resources to research primary your own opinions about it. How does and secondary sources that will help the description in advertisements you learn more about the event. Then, compare to your taste test? As a class, write a paragraph comparing the discuss the value of the similarities and differences of the two advertisements as primary and types of sources. secondary sources.

6.16.03 Use information from textbooks and Religion: Make a time line to show the Examine how historians organize reliable Internet sources to make a early Hebrew history from 2000 BC- information for study. (16A) parallel time line showing when 800 BC. different cultures made important technological developments, such advances in written communication. Write a question for a classmate to answer by using your time line.

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6.16.04 Choose a lesson from your textbook. Religion: Research and read about the Recognize the difference between fact Write two factual statements from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Identify information and opinion and the importance of lesson and two statements that are from the research that is fact and the facts in the study of history. (16A) your own opinion. Trade papers with a information that is opinion. Describe classmate, and challenge each other to the steps you took to determine what identify the statements that are facts. was factual and what was opinion. 6.16.05 Use historical maps to make Compare two historical maps that inferences about historical events or show expansion of political boundaries eras. (16A) over time (e.g., expansion of the Roman Empire). Use details from the textbook to infer some of the challenges people faced during the period, such as setting up new governments or settling boundary disputes. Write a paragraph to summarize the information.

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6.16.06 Use the Internet to locate three Language Arts: Greek and Roman Use the Internet to locate information different websites about Napoleon mythology are also sources of about a significant historic person or Bonaparte and the Code of Laws he information about the beliefs of people event. (16A) passed following the French who lived during the Greek and Roman Revolution. Make a list of the facts and empires. Use the Internet or library opinions that each website provides resources to find a Greek and a regarding the effects of the laws on Roman myth that explain the world. French citizens. You may wish to use Then write a paragraph that describes http://www.crf- how the two stories are different. usa.org/bria15_2.html#code as one of Share your paragraph your class. your sources.

6.16.07 Write a paragraph that describes an Art: Make a collage of the events of the Compare and contrast features of the acropolis and an agora. Then, make a present-day Olympic Games. Include a Greek city-states. (16B) map of ancient Greece, marking the caption that describes how the Olympic locations of city-states. Finally, make a Games today unite people around the list of reasons why city-states world, just as they united ancient developed where they did. Greeks.

6.16.08 Write an essay that summarizes how Theater: Create a skit to portray the Summarize how democracy worked in the democracy of ancient Athens roles of ancient Athenians in society. ancient Athens. (16B) worked. Include the roles of men, women, immigrants, and enslaved people. Demonstrate each citizen’s level of participation in the democratic government.

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6.16.09 Write definitions of the following: Art: Use the Internet or library Analyze the development of republic, consuls, veto, dictator, resources to research how the government in the Roman Republic. Senate, patricians, plebeians, and government in ancient Rome and (16B) tribunes. Then, use these words as ancient Athens supported its authors labels in a hierarchy diagram that show and artists. Summarize your findings in the roles of patricians and plebeians in a written report. the Roman Republic. Finally, write a paragraph that summarizes the development of government in the Roman Republic.

6.16.10 Write an essay that describes why you Religion: Make a chart to compare and Describe the significance of the Gupta think the time of the Gupta Empire was contrast Hinduism and Buddhism. How Empire in the history of India. (16B) called India’s Golden Empire. do you think India would be different today if the Gupta rulers had not taken over? Share your findings with a small group of classmates.

6.16.11 Write definitions of the terms Religion: Define filial piety. As a class, Identify the political characteristics of Confucianism and Legalism. Make a discuss how filial piety was important the Han dynasty in ancient China. comparison chart to list the in both political and family life during (16B) characteristics of each. Describe how the Han dynasty in ancient China. the leaders of the Han dynasty combined the two philosophies into their government.

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6.16.12 Create a time line that shows the Health: Use the Internet or library Analyze the reasons why the Roman political, economic, and health resources to research the attributes of Empire failed. (16B) problems that led to the decline of the the Roman Empire that contributed to Roman Empire. the spread of disease. Then, as a class discuss the role of epidemiology in society today.

6.16.13 Make a flowchart to show how Islam Religion: As a class, discuss the Five Explore the development and spread spread between A.D. 630 and A.D. 750. Pillars of Islam. Then, make a poster to of Islam. (16B) show how the Five Pillars of Islam help shape the lives and the communities of Muslims today.

6.16.14 Make a map that shows historic desert Language Arts: Make a graphic Evaluate how trade affected Muslim trade routes on the Arabian peninsula. organizer to illustrate how the split of ideas. (16B) Label Mecca on the map. Then, write a powerful families, including some of paragraph that explains how trade Muhammad’s descendants, spread affected Muslim ideas. Muslim ideas.

6.16.15 Write a paragraph that describes the Art: Make small signs of some Discuss the significance of and the significance of the Shang dynasty. common English words for items in reasons for the decline of the Shang Then, make a list of reasons for the your classroom. Use the Internet or dynasty in ancient China. (16B) decline of the Shang dynasty. library resources to research the Chinese character for each word. Add the Chinese characters to the signs or the English words. Display your signs around your classroom.

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6.16.16 Make a chart to show how ancient Language Arts: Define griot and Examine the political rise of ancient Ghana used location, military strength, discuss how these people’s tradition of Ghana in western Africa. (16B) and natural resources to rise to power oral history might affect the way that in western Africa. the history of ancient Ghana is interpreted.

6.16.17 Write definitions for the following Business: Work with a group to form a Examine the influence of the Catholic terms: cathedral, crusader, crusade, guild. First, decide what kind of work Church and the Crusades on medieval knight, Reconquista, burgher, guild, your guild will do. Then, decide on a Europe. (16B) and Magna Carta. Make a chart and fair price that all guild members will use the definitions to place each word charge for their products or services. under the headings: People, Places, Finally, write a set of standards that all Events, Documents, and Associations. guild members must follow to make Then write an essay that examines the sure all work is of high quality. influence of the Catholic Church and the Crusades on medieval Europe.

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6.16.18 Make a list of factors that led to the Religion: Create an idea web to show Identify factors that led to the decline of decline of feudalism in Europe. why the period of feudalism was called feudalism in Europe. (16B) the Age of Faith.

Theater: In a small group, re-enact the signing of the Magna Carta. Discuss the importance of individual rights then and now. What are some of the rights of American citizens that limit the power of our government over our freedom?

6.16.19 Write an essay that examines how Art: Using a world map, trace and label Examine why European nations Italian and Arab monopolies of the the routes of exploration by England, wanted to find new sea routes to Asia. Mediterranean Sea route contributed to Spain, and Portugal. (16B) the search for new sea routes.

6.16.20 Write definitions for the following Health: Use the Internet or library Identify the causes of the exploration terms: colonization, conquistador, resources to research how Spanish and colonization of the Americas. immunity, Columbian exchange, and explorers unknowingly brought (16B) encomienda. Then make a list of the diseases to the Incas and the Aztecs. causes of the exploration and Draw diagrams to show how smallpox, colonization of the Americas. influenza, and measles are caused, spread, and can be prevented.

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6.16.21 List the three major political causes of Art: Make timelines with pictures to Examine the causes and effects of European exploration and expansion show how China and Africa changed imperialism in Africa and China. (16B) into Africa and China. Use a cause- as a result of effects from European and-effect chart to match them to expansion. multiple and overlapping effects.

6.16.22 Write definitions of the following terms: Art: On a world map, use different Define capitalism, socialism, and capitalism, socialism, and communism. colors to mark capitalist, socialist, and communism as economic systems. Then write a paragraph for each term communist countries. (16C) that describes how economic systems operate under it.

6.16.23 Write an essay that analyzes how Language Arts: Trade with the Muslim Analyze the trading network of the trade affected the Muslim Empire from empire helped spread Muslim Muslim Empire (1000 CE-1500 CE). 1000 to 1500. language and ideas. Construct a chart, (16C) defining scientific terms in English that come from Arabic, such as algebra, alchemy, and nadir.

6.16.24 Write a paragraph that describes how Science: China traded silk abroad but Investigate the growth of Chinese sea Admiral Zeng He. Describe how Zeng kept the secret of its production for trade from 1000 CE to1500 CE. (16C) He helped the growth of Chinese sea 1,500 years. Compare this once secret trade. traditional way with modern ways of producing silk. Draw the life cycle of the silkworm and present all your information on a visual display.

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6.16.25 Britain had a traditional agrarian Art: During the fall of the Western Recognize the role feudalism played in economy in the Middle Ages. Make a Roman Empire, a strong central the medieval European economy. Venn diagram to compare and contrast government was removed and the (16C) this economy with a capitalistic market manorial system evolved. Work with a economy, necessary to sustain an small group to make a diorama of a Industrial Revolution. manor and depict its economic function.

6.16.26 Write a paragraph describing new Theater: Write a scene that takes Study new forms of banking and forms of banking and money lending place at a Medieval fair. Include money lending occurring in Europe at that helped trade grow during the time appropriate events, activities, foods, the time of the Crusades. (16C) of the Crusades. and goods that were common at fairs.

6.16.27 Make a chart listing the occupations Language Arts. Imagine that you are Discuss the role of burghers and guilds and accomplishments of members of starting a guild. Write a set of on early urbanization and merchant and craft guilds. Use a standards that guild members must specialization of labor. (16C) graphic organizer to describe how you follow to ensure fair prices and high- think the role of burghers and guilds quality work. was related to the growth of trade and cities.

6.16.28 Create a chart to identify the Technology. Find out more about the Analyze the economic significance of significance of new technologies that astrolabe, quadrant, or compass. Write new technologies in the Age of allowed European sailors to develop a report about the history of the Exploration. (16C) new trade routes. instrument and how it works.

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6.16.29 The voyage of Columbus had a Art. Create a poster comparing the Study the role of advanced weaponry devastating effect on the Native weaponry of Spanish conquistadors in European colonization. (16C) Americans. It began the process of and Aztec warriors. European colonization. Make a graphic organizer to show five factors leading to the enslavement of Native Americans.

6.16.30 Write a paragraph comparing and Science. Write a report describing the Compare and contrast the economic contrasting the economic and trade environments of central Mexico and systems and trade patterns of the patterns of the Aztecs and Incas before the Andes Mountain range. Describe Aztecs and Incas before contact with contact with Europeans. how each environment affects the Europeans. (16C) plants, animals, and other economic resources that are found in those areas.

6.16.31 Make a chart to compare and contrast Art. Research Native American trade Describe trading patterns and the economic and trade patterns of the items such as pottery or wampum. economies of Native North Americans following Native North American Draw a design for a piece of pottery or before the arrival of Europeans. (16C) peoples before the arrival of a wampum belt that might have been Europeans: the Eastern Woodlands, made by an early Native American the Plains, the Southwest and West, group. and the Northwest and Arctic peoples.

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6.16.32 Write a paragraph explaining why the Religion: Research and write a report Discuss the social significance of the Exodus was a turning point in the on the celebration of Passover, the Exodus of the ancient Israelites. (16D) history of the Israelites. Jewish holiday that honors the Exodus. Describe the Passover ceremony called the Seder.

6.16.33 Write a short essay analyzing social Art: Use art history textbooks and other Analyze the social impact of events in change in the early civilization of India. art history resources to find Buddhist the early civilization of India. (16D) Essays might discuss: How Hinduism images. Then prepare an oral report affected India’s society, how Buddhism comparing and contrasting Buddhist developed and spread, or how the rise images or designs from India with of the Maurya and Gupta empires those from another Asian country. changed India.

6.16.34 Create a chart to list key examples of Language Arts: Use the Internet or Cite key examples of Ancient Greece’s Ancient Greece’s legacy to the rest of library resources to research and write legacy to the rest of the world. (16D) the world. Your chart might include a report on how Ancient Greek plays Greek democracy, art, architecture, were performed. Share findings with mythology, religion, poetry, warfare, the class. sports, science, city-states, history, education, or philosophy.

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6.16.35 Make a flowchart to show the spread of Religion: Read one of Jesus’ parables. Describe the origins and spread of Christianity. Start your flowchart with Write a summary of the parable and Christianity. (16D) Jesus spreading his teachings through cite an example of how the parable Judea and Galilee. Your flowchart can be applied to a current social or should end with Christianity becoming political challenge. the official religion of the Roman Empire in A.D. 132.

6.16.36 List key examples of Ancient Rome’s Language Arts: Read a section of Evaluate the legacy ancient Rome left legacy to the rest of the world. Your list Virgil’s epic poem the Aeneid. Choose for future civilizations. (16D) might include Roman constitutional or a main character and write a brief tripartite government, citizenship, critique, analyzing the character’s engineering, art, architecture, effect on the plot. education, or language.

6.16.37 Write a brief essay that describes the Art: Draw maps as part of a visual Examine the social changes brought cultural, economic, and political presentation showing the migration of by Germanic migrations (AD 200-AD changes associated with the manor different Germanic peoples in the 1000). (16D) system developed by Germanic western Roman Empire. peoples.

6.16.38 Make a chart describing the influence Language Arts: Write a short Trace the spread of Christianity in on the following leaders on the spread biographical sketch of Charlemagne. Europe during the early Middle Ages. of early Christianity: Clovis, Saint Focus on changes that Charlemagne (16D) Patrick, Pope Gregory I, and made in government and education. Charlemagne.

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6.16.39 Write a paragraph describing how Religion: Create a chart describing the Explore the development and spread Islam developed on the Arabian five acts of Islamic worship known as of Islam. (16D) peninsula. Consider the role that the Five Pillars. Muhammad’s life and teachings played in unifying Arab people in the belief in one god.

6.16.40 Make a chart describing the social Technology: Choose one Chinese Analyze the social impact of the impact of the following Chinese invention. Write a brief report on the discovery of gunpowder, the compass, inventions: gunpowder, the compass, history of the invention. Present your tea, and the manufacture of paper in paper, and tea. findings to the class. China. (16D)

6.16.41 Write a paragraph examining the Art. Use the Internet or library Understand the influence of the influence of the Catholic church and resources to research the art and Catholic Church and the Crusades on the Crusades on Europe during the architecture of gothic cathedrals from Europe during the high and late Middle high and late Middle Ages. Consider the high Middle Ages. Draw a design Ages. (16D) the influence of the Crusades on for a stained glass window for a gothic economic development and trade, the cathedral. Share your design with the spread of scientific ideas, and the class. spread of Christianity.

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6.16.42 Identify important factors that led to the Science: The Bubonic Plague killed 1.5 Identify factors that led to the decline of decline of feudalism, such as the million people in England alone. feudalism in Europe during the late formation of nation-states, wars, the Describe the cycle of infection and Middle Ages. (16D) spread of the bubonic plague, and the map the spread of the infection. Write Magna Carta. Write a sentence the societal results attributed to the describing each factor. plague.

6.16.43 Make a chart to identify new ideas, Art: Paint a scene from daily life at Analyze the social impact of the important individuals, and groups of school. Try to use perspective and Renaissance. (16D) people from the Renaissance. Write a paint a realistic view of what you see, paragraph summarizing the social just as renaissance painters did. impact of the items in the chart.

6.16.44 The Reformation was a turning point in Technology: Johannes Gutenberg Analyze the social impact of the world social history. Create several invented the first printing press in Reformation. (16D) concept webs that illustrate changes in Europe to use moveable type (about religious thought, science, exploration, 1450). Write a paragraph explaining access to information, and the how Gutenberg’s invention helped movement of people. spread Martin Luther’s ideas during the Reformation.

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6.16.45 Describe the location and features of Language Arts: Use the Internet or Describe farming in the Huang He the Huang He valley. Write a library resources to research the valley 4000-1000 BCE. (16E) paragraph describing farming methods legend of Yu the Great and the Great and tools used in the Huang He valley Flood. Write a narrative that tells this during the Xia and Shang Dynasties. legend in you own words. Discuss how the geographic and environmental features of china have supported rice growing. Describe how rice farmers used terrace farming to grow plentiful crops in the Huang He Valley.

6.16.46 Describe the agricultural techniques Art: Make a cardboard model of an Identify the farming innovations of the developed by Mesopotamian ancient Mesopotamian ziggurat. Add Sumerian city-states of Mesopotamia civilizations in the Tigris-Euphrates labels to explain how ziggurats were in the Tigris-Euphrates valley. (16E) valley. Include information about made, what they may have improvements of irrigation and symbolized, and who worked near reservoir methods, the use of wheeled them. Present your model to the class. carts and iron tools, and the increased division of labor and specialization of skills.

6.16.47 Describe the location and features of Language Arts: Ancient Egyptians Examine how ancient Egyptians made the Nile River valley. Write a paragraph adapted and made use of regular use of the Nile River during the describing how the ancient Egyptians flooding of the Nile River. Discuss how agricultural revolution. (16E) organized life around the annual the Aswan Dam helped contemporary flooding of the Nile River. Egyptians gain control of the flooding.

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6.16.48 Describe the location and features of Science: Create a poster explaining Explain how the geography of the the Indus River valley. Explain that how rivers in the Indus River valley Indus river valley allowed a civilization Indian rivers often flooded during erode, transport sediment, change to form there. (16E) summer monsoons, depositing fresh course, and flood their banks. Share silt on farmlands. Write a paragraph your poster with the class. describing how early farmers built villages above the flood level of the river, and grew crops in rich soil left after the river flooded.

6.16.49 Make a Venn diagram comparing and Technology: Important information Compare and contrast the alterations contrasting the environmental effects about ancient technology and history made to the river valley environments of early technological improvements on comes from early writings on oracle of Huang He, Tigris-Euphrates, Nile, the Huang He, Tigris-Euphrates, Nile, bones, blocks of clay, and papyrus. and Indus Rivers. (16E) and Indus River valleys. Diagrams Write a brief report comparing the should include effects of improvements advantages and disadvantages of such as dykes, reservoirs, irrigation, using each writing material with today’s canals, shadufs, draining marshes, and use of paper writing material. using wheeled vehicles and iron tools.

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6.16.50 Review the farming methods Art: Sumerian metalworkers Trace how agricultural techniques of developed by the early civilizations of discovered how to make bronze tools the early civilizations of Egypt, Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, and India. from tin and copper. Use the Internet Mesopotamia, China, and India Write a summary of how these or library resources to find examples of permitted the production of economic methods allowed early civilizations to bronze Sumerian artifacts. Write a brief surplus. (16E) produce food surpluses and to sustain report describing how the use of metal permanent settlements. tools was related to the production of agricultural surplus.

6.16.51 Make a flowchart that shows how Language Arts: Write a journal entry Explain how the production of agricultural improvements led to the from the point of view of a scientist at economic surplus by the farming emergence of powerful cities and city- an archaeological site from a powerful techniques of the early civilizations of states in the early civilizations of Egypt, city or city-state of an early civilization Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, and India Mesopotamia, China, and India. covered in your textbook. Use led to the emergence of powerful cities Explain that civilizations share certain information from your textbook and and city-states. (16E) stages and features as they develop, additional research to make the journal including: river valleys offering fertile entry descriptive and exciting. soil, agricultural innovations allowing food surpluses, farming villages growing into larger settlements, leaders organizing and governing powerful city-states.

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Significant to Develop at Grade 6: Collect five historical maps of Europe Language Arts: Collect several maps 6.16.52 and organize them chronologically, that show Illinois in different years or Organize a set of historical maps of a from earliest to latest. time periods. You may choose region or place into a historical atlas. population maps, agricultural maps, or (16A) political maps. Once your collection of maps is complete, create a cover, a Table of Contents, an Introduction, and an index. Bind the pages together to make a historical atlas.

6.16.53 Write definitions of the terms analyze, Music: As a class, listen to music your Identify the importance of perspectives perspective, and historical empathy. parents enjoyed when they were your and historical empathy in analyzing the Then, write an essay that compares age. Then, discuss whether or not like past. (16A) and contrasts the historical the music. Support your answer with perspectives of a scientist at an reasons and examples. archeological dig and a visitor to a museum.

6.16.54 Write a definition of the term frame of Art: Compare religious art from two Determine how frames of reference reference. Then select a historic world different time periods or cultures. Write affect the interpretation of history. event that you have already learned a paragraph describing the different (16A) about. Think of the different kinds of frames of reference reflected in each people who took part in the event. work of art. Write a paragraph that describes the frame of reference of each group.

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6.16.55 Write a paragraph that describes the Technology: Use the Internet or library Understand the difference between difference between direct democracy resources to research how your direct and representative democracy. and representative democracy. community is governed. Make a poster (16B) showing the different branches of local government and compare them to the government structure of ancient Athens.

6.16.56 Create a flowchart to illustrate how the Language Arts: Work with a small Analyze the value of constitutional Roman Republic provided a model for group to brainstorm the ways in which government. (16B) later constitutional governments. constitutional principles affect your life at home, at school, and in your community.

6.16.57 Research information about the Religion: Examine the similarities and Compare and contrast the ancient Greek and ancient Roman differences between the Roman and development of the political systems of governments, using the website Greek gods. Include the attributes ancient Greece and ancient Rome. www.Historyforkids.org. Then make a given to the gods by humans, as well (16B) Venn diagram to compare and contrast as the impact this multiple-god religion these two political systems. had on the daily lives of the citizens of Rome and Greece.

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6.16.58 Make a list of new factory machines Health. Research health benefits and Explore the economic significance of and farming tools introduced during the drawbacks experienced by workers new technologies to the Industrial Industrial revolution. Then create a during the Industrial Revolution. Share Revolution in England. (16C) chart to list the economic effects of your findings with the class. those new machines and tools.

6.16.59 In 1500, a nation’s power was directly Language Arts: Make a mixed media Explore the effect of capitalism in related to its wealth or mercantilism. presentation to your class. In your European industrial countries. (16C) This thought dominated economic presentation, compare the effect of the development for 200 years. Make an Industrial Revolution on both Great idea web to illustrate what was Britain and the United States and on needed, how it was gotten, and who the physical environments of both controlled it during this time. countries.

6.16.60 Capitalism and the Industrial Math: In the mid-1800s, an upper Evaluate the effect of economics on Revolution spurred rapid changes in middle class of doctors and lawyers class conflict and labor in Europe. every social class. Use idea webs to earned 300-800 British pounds (16C) describe aristocracy and tenants. Chart annually. Others, such as teachers, how their boundaries were redefined or journalists, and shopkeepers, each metamorphosed into new classes. earned 150-300 pounds per year. Calculate in pounds and dollars, what the British pound is worth today, and how much they actually earn today. Record your results in a table.

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6.16.61 Technological advances increase Science: Research the 3-D printer that Learn about the Age of Technology efficiency and output, and often lower scientists at MIT have developed. beginning in the 1980s and its effect on costs. Use a prediction chart to explain Make a poster to organize information economic systems worldwide. (16C) how cell phones and computers might that explains this technological continue to affect the economic system advancement. As your share your of the United States. poster with classmates, make predictions about the printer’s effect on the United States economic system.

6.16.62 Make a map that illustrates the Health: Use the Internet or library Evaluate the social impact of European “Colombian Exchange”—the resources to research one of the exploration and colonization on Native movement of people, plants, ideas, diseases that the European settlers North, Middle, and South Americans. and diseases between Europe and the brought to the Americas, such as (16D) Americas. List the benefits and influenza, smallpox, or measles. drawbacks of the exchange. Prepare a report that describes the cause and effects of each disease, as well as the methods of preventing those diseases from spreading. Share your findings with the class.

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6.16.63 Use a cause-and-effect chart to explain Religion: In 1775, the Quakers in Explain the social effects of democratic the social effects of the democratic Philadelphia started the first revolutions in Europe and the revolutions in Europe and the abolitionist, or anti-slavery, group in Americas. (16D) Americas. Consider how new the United States. Write a brief democratic ideas affected views on paragraph describing how the slavery. abolitionist movement reflects the Catholic teaching that human dignity can only be achieved if human rights are protected.

6.16.64 Make a cause-and-effect chart Language Arts: Use the Internet or Explain how increased trade during the summarizing what caused the Mongols library resources to research details Mongol Empire led to greater contact to have closer contact with other about the travels of Marco Polo, an between Asia and Europe. (16E) cultures. Consider the effects of Italian trader who wrote an important Mongol invasions, the adoption of book describing his journey through Chinese ways by Mongol Khanates of the Mongol Empire. Imagine that you Eastern Asia, the formation of Yuan are traveling with Marco Polo. Write dynasty by Kublai Khan, and the your own travelogue, describing improvements made in China during people and places you visit. Use Kublai Khan’s rule. drawings, maps, and photographs to illustrate your travelogue.

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6.16.65 Draw a map of the Silk Road. Maps Art: Use the Internet or library Trace the Silk Road and explain its should include a title, scale, and a resources to research desert travel uses during the Mongol Empire. (16E) compass rose. Include major trading along parts of the silk road. Make a centers along the route. Present your diorama of a caravan scene that map to the class and explain how the includes camels, traders, and Silk Road affected trade along the caravansaries. Include appropriate route in the 1200s. Describe the goods vegetation and geographic details. and ideas exchanged by Asian and European traders along the Silk Road.

6.16.66 Complete a graphic organizer Religion: Mongol leaders allowed Study the ways that improvements describing the environmental effects of people within the Empire certain rights, made during the rule of Kublai Khan improvements made in China during such as freedom of religion. Write a affected the environment. (16E) Kublai Khan’s rule—including short paragraph explaining how rebuilding of the Grand Canal, freedom of religion made it easier for expanding the road system, and Mongol rulers to unite the Chinese building graineries. under one government, and make improvements that helped expand the Empire.

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Useful to Work on at Grade 6: As a class, discuss the difference Religion: Compare interpretations of 6.16.67 between fact and interpretation. Use Saint Thomas Aquinas from the Identify examples of two different the Internet or library resources to viewpoint of church leaders and the interpretations of a significant event in research two interpretations of the viewpoint of a scholar. As a class, history or the public perceptions of a French Revolution. Then, write two discuss how and why the two historical figure. (16A) journal entries from the point of view of viewpoints are different. two French citizens, such as people from two different social classes, or from the male and female perspective.

6.16.68 Make a cause-and-effect chart that Art: Use the Internet or library Analyze the Spartan way of life. (16B) shoes how the Spartans developed resources to research examples of their military ways of life. military-oriented artifacts from Sparta, the city-state of Uruk and Nubia. Share your examples with the class and use the examples to make inferences about the ways of life of the groups..

6.16.69 Make a two-column chart. Label the Theater: Write definitions of the Analyze how Pericles improved columns Cleisthenes and Pericles. In following terms: tragedies and democracy in ancient Athens. (16B) your chart, list the ways Cleisthenes comedies. Then write a paragraph that and Pericles changed the government analyzes why theater became of ancient Athens. Then write a important in democracies, such as paragraph that describes how these ancient Athens. changes are reflected in the government of the United States.

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6.16.70 Make a list of the ways in which the Language Arts: Use the Internet or Examine how the government of government of ancient Rome changed library resources to research the ancient Rome changed as the Roman as the Roman Empire expanded. languages of the Roman Empire. As a Empire expanded. (16B) class, debate the merits of the use of Latin as an official language.

6.16.71 Write a paragraph describing how the Technology: Use the Internet or library Study the computer microchip and computer microchip has affected resources to research the history of describe its relevance to economics. businesses and the lives of workers computer chips. Write a summary of (16C) around the world. Your paragraph how the development of the microchip might focus on e-commerce, electronic has affected the size and speed of communication, data storage, or computers since the 1980s. computer-controlled tools and machines.

6.16.72 Write one or two sentences explaining Science: Research the scientific Evaluate the role of nuclear weapons how the impact of nuclear weapons concepts behind nuclear energy and on the global economy. (16C) has changed since the end of the Cold nuclear weapons. Present your War. findings to the class in an oral report.

6.16.73 Make a list describing at least three Language Arts: Choose an invention or Describe the economic effects of economic benefits related to the space material used in everyday life that was space exploration and the program. originally developed for the space technological innovations that make it program. Write a short report possible. (16C) describing the history of its development and its original use by the space program.

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State Goal 17: Understand world geography and the effects of geography on society, with an emphasis on the United States.

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Critical to Understand and Master Use a world map or globe to plot the Technology: Draw a diagram to show at Grade 6: location of 20 cities around the world. how the Global Positioning System 6.17.01 Then create a four-column table. In (GPS) works. Then write a brief Explain how lines of latitude and lines the first column, list the names of the report that describes the history of of longitude are used to find places cities you plotted. In the second GPS, and how people use it today. on Earth. (17A) column, list the absolute location of each city, using latitude and longitude. In the third column, list the continent on which the city is located. In the last column, list the hemispheres in which the city is located. Remember that each city will be located in two hemispheres, either the Eastern or Western Hemisphere and either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere.

6.17.02 Give a presentation to explain how Language Arts: Identify a business Explain how climate can affect the climate affects different regions on that is dependent on climate. What humans, plants, and animals in a Earth. Describe how climate affects kind of product or service does this region. (17B) the kinds of plants and animals in a business offer? In what way is this region. Also, describe how humans product or service dependent on the adapt to climate. climate of its region? How might a change in the regions climate affect this business? Present your findings in a brief report.

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6.17.03 Make a diagram that shows one of Science: Use the Internet or library Explain plate tectonics and the role the physical processes of plate resources to research information this physical process plays in shaping tectonics. In your diagram, use labels about volcanoes. In a brief Earth’s landforms. (17B) to explain how these processes paragraph, describe how volcanoes create and shape Earth’s landforms. form. Then make a list of the short- term and long-term affects of volcanic eruptions on the environment.

6.17.04 Write a definition of erosion in your Language Arts: Write a fable or tall Describe erosion and the role this own words. In a Venn diagram, tale about the Rocky Mountains and physical process plays in shaping compare and contrast the Rocky Appalachian Mountains. In your story, Earth’s landforms. (17B) Mountains and Appalachian describe how the mountains formed Mountains. Use this diagram to and also how they came to look as explain to a classmate how erosion they do today. Remember that fables affects landforms on Earth. and tall tales often use larger-than-life characters or fantastic events to explain processes in nature.

6.17.05 Draw a diagram showing the water Science: Make a glossary of terms Describe the water cycle and its cycle. Then give an example to related to the water cycle. You may importance to plants, animals, and explain how mountains can create a wish to include: hydrologic, humans. (17B) rain shadow. Be sure to include a evaporation, transpiration, description of how a rain shadow can condensation, precipitation, affect climate and vegetation. infiltration, and sublimation.

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6.17.06 Write a profile of your city or town. Physical Education: Discuss sports in Describe how climate, landforms, and Describe its climate, the nearby which students in the class have bodies of water affect human activity. landforms, and bodies of water. You participated. Do climates, landforms, (17C) might also list the population of your or bodies of water affect these city or town, and any industries sports? If not, challenge classmates located there. Use your profile to to name sports that are dependent on write a brief paragraph describing climate landforms, or bodies of water. how climate, landforms, and bodies of water affect ways of life in your city or town.

6.17.07 Study a natural resources map of Theater: Identify a job that directly Understand that people around the Illinois. List the natural resources works with natural resources. In a world rely on natural resources. (17C) near where you live. Then write a game of charades, mime this job for short paragraph to describe how the class. people use these resources to earn a living or meet their needs.

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6.17.08 Create a table to organize information Math: Conduct a survey to find out Explain how geographic and human about settlement patterns. In one the number of classmates who were factors affect settlement patterns. column, list the geographic factors born in your city or, the number who (17C) that determine why people settle in were born in another city in the state, one place rather than in another. In the number who were born in another the other column list human factors, state, and the number who were born such as traditions, that affect in another country. Represent your settlement patterns. data as a pie graph. Then interview students from other cities, states, or other countries to determine reasons they chose to settle in your city or town.

6.17.09 Find a photograph of Tokyo, Japan Business: Are most of the businesses Explain how geographic and human and describe what you see in the in the world located in rural or urban factors affect population growth. photograph. Research the history and areas? Write a brief paragraph that (17C) growth of this city to learn more about explains your answer and why you why it looks as it does. Write a think this is so. Also, explain how paragraph to summarize your businesses contribute to the findings. population growth of cities.

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6.17.10 Learn more about the colonization of Language Arts: People migrate for Describe how social forces affect Australia by Britain. What social many reasons. However, most settlement patterns and migration. forces were behind the settlement of reasons fall into one of two (17C) the region in the late 1700s and early categories—people are either pushed 1800s? Imagine that you are a sailor or pulled to a new area. List some of on a ship headed to Australia. Write a the reasons people migrate, and diary entry that anticipates what you categorize them in a chart under the might find there when you arrive. headings Push and Pull.

6.17.11 Compare and contrast a world map to Business: Learn more about mining Understand how and why settlement a cartogram of world population. boomtowns in other parts of the patterns change over time. (17D) How does the physical size of each world. Choose one example. How did country compare to the size of its this boomtown affect the local population? Predict which world economy? How did it impact the regions you think might have settlement patterns of the area? problems with overpopulation in the Report your findings in a brief essay. future. Give examples to support your prediction.

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6.17.12 Make a time line that shows major Technology: Identify a technology Explain how technological advancements in transportation. Then that has either allowed people to developments have influenced the form a hypothesis about the affects of travel to new places or allowed them migration of people over time. (17D) advancements in transportation on to live in new places around the migration. Find information that world. Draw a picture of this supports or disproves your technology, and describe how it has hypothesis. Draw a conclusion based made it possible for people to migrate on your hypothesis and what you to new places. have learned.

6.17.13 Research the failure of the potato Religion: Research a group working Analyze selected historical events to crop in Ireland in the 1800s. Identify to end world hunger and famine. determine how they influenced the and explain how this historical event What is the goal of this group? What migration of people throughout the influenced the migration of people are the causes of the problems this world. (17D) throughout the world. Make an outline group is working to end? Report your that shows the significant details of findings in a brief essay. your research.

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6.17.14 Identify the ten largest cities in the Technology: Find a satellite image of Explain how physical features, such world. Locate these cities on a Australia, South America, or North as landforms, climate, and bodies of physical map of the world. What do America at night. Where are most of water, have shaped settlement you notice about the locations of the lights located? As a class, discuss patterns throughout the world. (17D) these cities? What nearby physical why you think this is so. Remember features do the cities have in what you have learned about how common? Use what you have physical features shape settlement inferred about each cities location to patterns. write generalizations about how physical features affect settlement patterns.

Significant to Develop at Grade 6: Draw a map of Illinois. On your map, Technology: Global Information 6.17.15 include major cities, points of interest, Systems (GIS) is a computer system Explain how maps, graphs, and roads, and physical features, such as that can store, use, and show many charts use geographic rivers, lakes, hills, and mountains. Be different types of geographical data in representations to provide spatial sure to include a map key to describe many different ways. Investigate the information. (17A) the symbols you used on the map. To ways GIS is being used today. Share accompany your map, make a chart your findings with the class. and graph to show the population of a few major cities in your state. On the chart, list the name and population of each city. Use the data from your chart to create a graph that shows population data for each major city in the state.

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6.17.16 Make flowchart to show the stages of Health: Learn more about the organic Describe the physical processes of soil formation. Draw pictures to foods movement in the United States. soil formation, and the impact soil can illustrate your flowchart. Use captions Write a persuasive essay in support have on the availability and quality of to describe what is happening at of organic foods. In your essay, natural resources in a region. (17B) each stage of the soil formation describe new farming methods and process. how they affect the environment. Describe the process for getting food products certified as organic. Be sure to include any drawbacks of organically produced food.

6.17.17 Draw a map of the Atlantic Ocean. Art: Ancient Polynesian sailors Identify ocean currents around the Using symbols, indicate the location recorded their observations of ocean world, and describe how they affect of the Gulf Stream and the direction waves and currents using stick plants, animals, and humans. (17B) in which it flows. Be sure to include a charts. Use the Internet or library map key on your map. In a brief resources to learn about stick charts. paragraph describe the affects of the Then make your own stick chart, Gulf Stream on the climate of using sticks, shells, and plant fibers. northern Europe.

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6.17.18 Learn more about one of Earth’s Religion: Discuss the responsibilities Determine how ecosystems function. major ecosystems, such as the Great of humans as stewards of God’s (17B) Barrier Reef, the Amazon Rainforest, creation. Have you ever participated or the Everglades. Describe how the in an organization or an activity plants and animals of an ecosystem whose goal was improving the depend on one another for survival. environment? Describe the Speculate about what might happen experience. to an ecosystem if the climate or parts of the plant life or animal life were to change dramatically. Write a paragraph sharing your conclusion and supporting it with details from your research.

Useful to Work on at Grade 6: Use the Internet or library resources Science: Search the Internet for 6.17.19 to research information about the satellite images of weather patterns. Describe how models, aerial history of mapmaking. Research the As a class, discuss how photographs, and satellite images are accuracy of early maps. Write a meteorologists use these images to used to show and interpret spatial report to describe how mapmakers help predict the weather. How might information. (17A) use aerial photographs and satellite this technology help promote public imagery to create more accurate safety? maps.

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Grade 6 State Goal 18

State Goal 18: Understand social systems, with an emphasis on the United States.

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Critical to Understand and Master Write a paragraph explaining why the Language Arts: Write your own code at Grade 6: Code of Hammurabi was written, who of laws that you think would have 6.18.01 wrote it, and why it is important. been useful in an ancient city-state. Explain the significance of the Code State each law, and include the of Hammurabi. (18A) punishment for disobeying it.

6.18.02 Make a list of Egyptian achievements Art: Use the Internet or library Describe Egyptian achievements in in arts and architecture. Make sure to resources to learn more about how the arts and architecture, including include the arts and architecture that the Egyptians built the pyramids. the main features that remain in use remain in use today, and label them Then draw a mural that shows how today. (18A) accordingly. this task was done.

6.18.03 Make sequence cards about how Language Arts: Write a report on the Explain how the agricultural climate change led to early farming. effects of domestication of animals revolution contributed to the Write a card for each important event. and plants in southwestern Asia. development of early civilizations and Exchange cards with a classmate, Describe how the populations of plant the emergence of cities as centers of and put each other’s cards in the and animal species changed. Also culture and power. (18A) correct order. Then discuss how early describe how people changed their farming led to city centers of culture environment by domesticating plants and power. and animals.

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6.18.04 Make a details chart about Judaism Religion: Read the Ten Explain the significance of Judaism that shows how it was the first Commandments. Then explain how as the first monotheistic religion monotheistic religion rooted in moral these were early moral laws. rooted in moral laws for humanity. laws for humanity. (18A)

6.18.05 Make a list of some of the important Language Arts: Read the book Tales Explain the importance of Homer’s literary works of Homer. Then write a from the Odyssey by Mary Pope literary works to the ancient Greeks. paragraph explaining their importance Osborne, Hyperion Books for (18A) to the ancient Greeks, including how Children, 2002. This is a retelling of a they were orally passed down from story comprised by Homer. After generation to generation. reading, discuss, as a class, how this story shows Greek culture.

6.18.06 Make a word web with the phrase Language Arts: Write your own epic Analyze aspects of Greek culture Greek culture in the center. Then fill poem about daily life in your (e.g., epic poems, religion, myths, in the surrounding bubbles with community. Share your poem with the oracles, athletic contests). (18A) aspects of Greek culture, such as class. epic poems, religion, myths, oracles, and athletic contests.

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6.18.07 Write a report on the primary sources Language Arts: Write a narrative Explain the significance of the Qur’an of Islamic beliefs, practices, and laws, about the religion of Islam and its and the Sunnah as the primary including the significance of the beliefs and practices. sources of Islamic beliefs, practice, Qur’an and the Sunnah. and law. (18A)

6.18.08 Make a time line of the advances Art: Research the work of a Detail the advances made during the made during the Renaissance in Renaissance artist, and make copies diffusion of the Renaissance in literature, art, science, mathematics, of the works that you like. Then literature, art, science, mathematics, cartography, engineering, astronomy, create a scrapbook showing the cartography, engineering, astronomy, and human anatomy. copies of the artist’s work. Include and human anatomy. (18A) captions to identify each piece of art.

Significant to Develop at Grade 6: Create a word web that categorizes Theater: Research an ancient Greek 6.18.09 examples of Greek artistic play or playwright. Write a report in Examine how Greek art of the Golden achievements during the Golden Age, which you explore the role the play or Age reflected the Greek’s view of including balanced proportions, playwright had in the ancient Greek themselves and the world. (18A) scenes from everyday life, and theatrical tradition. admiration for the human form.

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6.18.10 Make a chart to show the ancient Language Arts: Make a Venn Identify the ancient civilizations that civilizations that developed in the diagram that compares and contrasts developed in the Indus River valley Indus River valley (the Mauryas and the Nile River valley civilizations with and the two major religions that the Guptas) and the two major the Indus River valley civilizations. evolved in the area. (18A) religions that evolved in that area (Hinduism and Buddhism).

6.18.11 Make a time line to show the events Art: In small groups, compare and Place important events of the and spread of Buddhism in India. contrast Buddhist images or design development and spread of Then write a paragraph that explains from India and from another Asian Buddhism in India in chronological how Buddha’s teachings differ from country. Use art history textbooks and order, and explain how the Buddha’s Hinduism. other art history resources to find teachings differed from Hinduism. images. Present an oral report of your (18A) findings.

6.18.12 Make a cause-and-effect chart that Religion: Jesus told parables to teach Describe the circumstances that led shows how Christianity spread to people about life. Find and read a to the spread of Christianity in Europe Europe and other Roman territories. parable, summarize it, and analyze its and other Roman territories. (18A) theme, or message. Then draw conclusions about how Jesus’ parables drew people to Christianity.

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6.18.13 Write a paragraph that compares and Art: Use the Internet or library Describe the artistic and oral contrasts the artistic and oral resources to research the Mayan, traditions and architecture in the traditions and architecture in the Aztec, or Incan societies. Then make Mayan, Aztec, and Incan societies. Mayan, Aztec, and Incan societies. a shoebox diorama illustrating daily (18A) life in these cultures.

6.18.14 Make a chart that explains what Language Arts: Imagine you are a Explain Protestants’ new practices of happened during the Reformation citizen of Wittenberg. Write a journal church self-government that occurred and the influences it had on the entry explaining what happened on during the Reformation and the development of democratic practices the day Martin Luther nailed his call influences those practices had on the and ideas of federalism. for reforms to the church door. development of democratic practices and the ideas of federalism. (18A)

6.18.15 Make a word web with the phrase Language Arts: Read translations of Describe and explain the significance Cultural achievements of the Gupta Sinbad the Sailor, Jack the Giant- of the main cultural achievements of civilization in the center. Fill in the Killer, or other Indian folktales. the Gupta civilization, including surrounding bubbles with the main Analyze the effects of the hero’s Panchatantra, stupas, Nalanda, cultural achievements of the Gupta qualities, such as courage, on the Arabic numerals, and algebra. (18A) civilization. plots and on the resolution of the conflict. Discuss your analyses in small groups.

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6.18.16 Write a report about one major Language Arts: Study the Phoenician Name a major contribution to the contribution to the world made by the alphabet, and compare it against the world made by the Phoenicians and Phoenicians and how it influenced Egyptian, Greek, and Latin alphabet. describe its influence on cultures cultures around the Mediterranean. Explain how these alphabets are around the Mediterranean. (18A) similar and different.

6.18.17 Make a chart to compare and Language Arts: Write a paragraph Compare and contrast the Xia and contrast the Xia and Shang dynasties that answers the following question: Shang dynasties of ancient China. of ancient China. Include information How did the Shang dynasty begin in (18A) about how literature, art, architecture, the Huang He Valley? and traditions contributed to the development and transmission of ancient Chinese culture.

6.18.18 Write a report about how the Han Religion: Write a paragraph that Explain the way the Han dynasty dynasty showed that they valued explains how your church values showed that they valued family, art, family, art, and learning. family, art, and learning. and learning. (18A)

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6.18.19 Research fu and shi styles of poetry, Language Arts: Write a poem that Identify the two new forms of verse common in ancient China. Identify the talks about the culture of the Han that poets of Han China developed, lasting effects of the literature, art, dynasty. and explain how they are different. and traditions of the Han dynasty. (18A) Present your findings in an oral presentation. Include examples of each characteristic of Chinese culture of the time.

6.18.20 Explain the significance of the Five Language: Pick five books that you Identify and explain the significance Classics: the Book of Poems, the would consider classics. Write a of the Five Classics. (18A) Book of History, the Book of paragraph to explain what you chose. Changes, Spring and Autumn Annals, Present your paragraph to the class. and the Book of Rites.

Useful to Work on at Grade 6: Make a graphic organizer to show the Language Arts: Write a journal entry 6.18.21 different ways that archaeologists as if you are an archaeologist Describe how archaeologists learn learn about ancient civilizations’ learning about an ancient civilization. about ancient civilizations’ languages, languages, literature, arts, Include how you learn about the literature, arts, architecture, and architecture, and traditions. civilization’s languages, literature, traditions. (18A) arts, architecture, and traditions.

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6.18.22 Make a four-column chart with the Theater: Work with a partner to plan Identify the kinds of written labels Kush, Egypt, India, and China. and act out a dramatic scene about communication that developed in Then fill in the chart with the kinds of finding oracle bones with writing on ancient civilization. (18A) written communication that developed them. In the scene, speculate what in these ancient civilizations. the bones mean and what they say about the ancient Chinese civilization.

6.18.23 Make a two-column chart with the Religion: Write a report about how Identify the two major religions labels Christianity and Islam. Then fill Judaism influenced Christianity, and influenced by Judaism. (18A) in the chart to show how Judaism identify the similarities between the influenced these two major religions. two religions.

6.18.24 Make a four-column chart identifying Language Arts: Read an excerpt from Identify and explain the four Vedic the four Vedic texts and their the Bhagavad-Gita. After reading, texts and their importance to importance to Brahmanism. discuss how it is important to Brahmanism. (18A) Brahmanism.

6.18.25 Write a biography about Confucius, Language Arts: Read a few of Explain why Confucius and other emphasizing his concern with the Confucius’ sayings from the Analects. thinkers sought ways to restore family fighting, the problems of government, Then analyze them, and discuss how order and social harmony to China and the loss of traditional values of they demonstrate in what Confucius during post-Zhou dynasty era. (18A) his times. believed.

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6.18.26 Make a three-column chart with the Art: Make a poster that shows what Classify beliefs and traditional labels Confucianism, Daoism, and Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism thought that were commonly taught in Legalism. Then fill in the chart with teach. Discuss the differences in Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism. beliefs and traditional thoughts from these philosophies. (18A) these philosophies.

6.18.27 Write a paragraph describing the Language Arts: Write a story on the Evaluate the importance of the Aryan importance of the language called importance of having a unifying civilization’s language called Sanskrit. Sanskrit. language that allows people to (18A) communicate with each other.

6.18.28 Create a time line that illustrates the Language Arts: Write a journal entry Illustrate the rise and fall of the Kush times when rulers of Kush were in describing what life might have been empire, emphasizing the affects and power and when rulers of Egypt were like during the fall of the Kush assimilation of Egyptian culture on in power. Along the time line, indicate Empire. Kushites. (18A) the transmission of distinct Egyptian and Kush culture, shared during each period in history.

6.18.29 Make a list of how the Egyptians Religion: Make your own list about Examine how the Egyptians expressed their religious beliefs. how you express your religious expressed their religious beliefs. beliefs. (18A)

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6.18.30 Make a word web with the phrase Science: Use the Internet or library Explain the characteristics of Babylonian society in the middle. resources to research the Hanging Babylonian society. (18A) Then fill in the surrounding bubbles Gardens of Babylon. Write a with characteristics of Babylonian paragraph explaining why this is society. remembered as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

6.18.31 Write a paragraph explaining why Language Arts: Use the Internet or Give reasons why we know so little historians have not been able to read library resources to research about the ancient Indian civilization the Harappan language and what that information about the Harappan, and the Harappan. (18A) has done for our knowledge about the write a report about your findings. ancient Indian civilization.

6.18.32 Make a chart that shows the religious Language Arts: Write a short Identify the religious beliefs that beliefs that shaped ancient Egyptian narrative piece of fiction showing how shaped ancient Egyptian and Kushite and Kushite cultures. the worship of an Egyptian god or cultures. (18B) goddess fits into the life of an ancient Egyptian character.

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6.18.33 Write a paragraph that describes the Religion: Write a report on how Understand the relationship between relationship between religion and the religion today affects social and religion and the social and political social and political order in political order in the United States. order in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Mesopotamia and Egypt. (18B)

6.18.34 Make a chart to compare and Language Arts: Write a journal entry Contrast early African societies of contrast the early African societies of from the point of view of a person Kush, Aksum, and West Africa. (18B) Kush, Aksum, and West Africa. from the Kush civilization, the Aksum civilization, or the West African civilization. Include information about daily life in your community.

6.18.35 Make a chart to compare and Math: During the Qin dynasty, the Examine cultural influences that contrast the cultural influences that Great Wall of China was built. In affected the way citizens were treated affected the way citizens were treated pairs, write word problems based on during the Qin and Han dynasties. during the Qin and Han dynasties. facts about the Great Wall, including (18B) its length, height, and width. Write problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

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6.18.36 Draw a map to show the spread of Language Arts: Write a report about Describe the diffusion of Buddhism Buddhism northward to China during how the teachings of Buddha still northward to China during the Han the Han dynasty. influence people today and people dynasty. (18B) from the recent past, like Mohandas Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

6.18.37 Make a two-column chart with the Language Arts: Imagine you are a Differentiate the positive and negative labels Positive and Negative. Then fill ruler of an ancient Chinese dynasty. effects of the leadership of Shi in the chart with the positive and Write a paragraph describing how Huangdi, during the Qin dynasty. negative effects of the leadership of you would try to unify your people. (18B) Shi Huangdi during the Qin dynasty.

6.18.38 Use a chart to explain how the caste Language Arts: Research the legal Explain the relationships between system in India was broken up and protections that people in your and among the different Varnas and how it spread throughout India. community have against how this system of social discrimination in employment, classification resulted in the housing, and other areas. Compare development and spread of the caste and contrast the rights that you have system throughout India. (18B) with those of the untouchables in ancient India.

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6.18.39 Write a paragraph describing the Language Arts: Write a paragraph Discuss the significance of the Aryan significance of the Aryan invasions. that explains how Aryan and Indian invasions. (18B) culture intermixed.

6.18.40 Make a map of the migration of the Language Arts: Read Masada: The Trace the migration of Jewish people Jewish people around the Last Fortress by Gloria D. Miklowitz, around the Mediterranean region and Mediterranean region. Write a Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, the effects of their conflict with the paragraph about how the migration 1998. Discuss the conflicts that the Romans. (18B) affected the Jewish people’s Jewish people had with the Romans. relationship with the Romans.

6.18.41 Make a list of the ways women’s Language Arts: Write a journal entry Explain the ways women’s rights rights were limited in ancient Indian from the point of view of a woman were limited in ancient Indian society. society. living in ancient India. Describe what (18B) it is like and how you feel.

6.18.42 Write a paragraph describing Science: Use the Internet or library Describe how the Guptas allowed religious freedom during the Gupta resources to research a scientific religious freedom in their empire. Empire. achievement from the Gupta Empire, (18B) and write a report about it.

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6.18.43 Make a two-column chart with the Religion: Write a paragraph Compare and contrast the Indian labels Hinduism and Jainism. List comparing Christianity to Hinduism religions, Hinduism and Jainism. similarities and differences between and Jainism. (18B) these two Indian religions.

6.18.44 Make a two-column chart with the Language Arts: Write a report on Explain the fundamental teachings of labels Confucianism and Taoism. Fill Confucianism or Taoism. In your Confucianism and Taoism. (18B) in the chart with the fundamental report, explain your feelings toward teachings of each philosophy. the philosophy.

6.18.45 Make a chart to compare and Theater: To understand the roles of Compare and contrast the roles of contrast the roles of men and women men and women in traditional family men and women in traditional family in traditional family life in ancient life in ancient China, take turns role- life in ancient China. (18B) China. playing what a man would do and what a woman would do during a normal day in ancient China.

6.18.46 Use a word web with the phrase Art: Create a bulletin board display Identify major religious beliefs and Ancient Greeks in the middle. Then that shows the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Greeks. (18B) fill in the surrounding bubbles with the practices of the ancient Greeks. religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Greeks.

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6.18.47 Draw two large triangles side by side Language Arts: Make a list of the Compare and contrast Athenian and on a sheet of paper. Draw lines to social structure and institutions in Spartan social structures and divide each triangle into three Athens and Sparta. Then write a institutions. (18B) sections. Label one triangle Athens paragraph to compare them with the and the other Sparta. Consider the social structure and institutions in the point of the triangle the highest- United States today. ranking citizens. Then place the citizen groups in their appropriate sections, according to the social class structure in each ancient Greek city- state.

6.18.48 Define the word polis. Then write a Language Arts: Write a paragraph Explain the significance of the polis in brief summary on why the polis was analyzing the following quotation by ancient Greece. (18B) significant in ancient Greece. Aristotle: “Man is by nature…intended to live in a polis.”

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6.18.49 Make a chart that compares the Language Arts: Use the Internet or Compare the relationship between relationship between Athens and library resources to research the Athens and Sparta during the Persian Sparta during the Persian Wars and Persian Wars or the Peloponnesian Wars and the Peloponnesian War. the Peloponnesian War. War. Then write a report about the (18B) war, including why it happened, where it happened, when it happen, and whom it involved.

6.18.50 Write a paragraph explaining how Language Arts: Write a short story Explain how Alexander the Great was Alexander the Great was able to explaining how the spread of Greek able to spread Greek culture spread Greek culture throughout culture would have changed if throughout Persia, Asia Minor, Syria, Persia, Asia Minor, Syria, Egypt, and Alexander the Great were never born. Egypt, and Mesopotamia. (18B) Mesopotamia.

6.18.51 Make a chart to describe how society Math: Research the life of the Identify and describe how society changed during the Hellenistic Age. astronomer Aristarchus, and write a changed during the Hellenistic Age. report about how he changed (18B) astronomy.

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6.18.52 Write a biography on Socrates, Plato, Language Arts: Analyze the following Explain the ideas of Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle. Include how his ideas quotation from Socrates: “The only and Aristotle and describe how each influenced the development and good is knowledge, and the only evil man and his ideas influenced the transmission of Greek culture. is ignorance.” Explain how this development and transmission of quotation encompasses Socrates’ Greek culture. (18B) life.

6.18.52 Make a time line to describe the rise Theater: Role-play the functions of Describe the rise of the Roman of the Roman Republic. Rome’s tripartite government. The Republic. (18B) class should be divided into a senate, two consuls, and an assembly. The consuls should propose a new law. Then the Senate should advise the consuls on the law. After the consuls have heard the Senate’s advice, they should consider changing the law. The assembly should then vote on the new law.

6.18.53 Make a time line to explain the Art: Use the Internet or library Explain the changes that helped changes that helped establish resources to research works of art establish Christianity and stabilize the Christianity and stabilize the church during the late Roman Empire. Write church during the late Roman during the late Roman Empire. a paragraph analyzing the depictions Empire. (18B) of Jesus in each work of art.

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6.18.54 Write a journal entry from the point of Language Arts: Write a journal entry Evaluate Philip’s conquest of Greece view of a Greek person evaluating from the point of view of a Greek from the point of view of the Greek Philip’s conquest of Greece. person at the time of King Philip’s people. (18B) death.

6.18.55 Write a paragraph describing the Theater: In groups, role-play scenes Describe the development of the development of the Byzantine of people who believe in Eastern Byzantine Empire, with emphasis on Empire. Then compare and contrast Orthodox ways and people who the resulting distinct European the views on church-state relations believe in Roman Catholic ways. Try civilizations: Eastern Orthodox and between the Eastern Orthodox and to resolve differences through peace. Roman Catholic and explain their the Roman Catholic. differing views on church-state relations. (18B)

6.18.56 Write biographies of Julius Caesar Math: Make a time line of events that Discuss the influence of Julius and Augustus, emphasizing their include Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar and Augustus in Rome’s influence in Rome’s transition from in making Rome an empire. transition from republic to empire. republic to empire. (18B)

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6.18.57 Make a time line to explain the roles Art: Draw a map that shows the Explain the roles of the Goths, of the Goths, Vandals, and Huns in Roman Empire at its height. Use a Vandals, and Huns in the decline of the decline of the Roman Empire in colored pencil to draw the boundary the Roman Empire in the West. (18B) the West. of Roman lands after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in A.D. 476. Be sure to label major cities, places, and bodies of water.

6.18.58 Make a flowchart that traces the Language Arts: Write a paragraph Trace the origins of Islam and the origins of Islam and the teachings of that compares and contrasts Islam, teachings of Mohammad. (18B) Mohammad, including Islamic Judaism, and Christianity. teachings on the connections with Judaism and Christianity.

6.18.59 Write a paragraph that describes the Language Arts: Write a short story Discuss the cultural blending of cultural blending of Muslim that shows how you influence the Muslim civilizations with the people civilizations with the people that they people who are around you. Connect that they conquered. (e.g., conquered. your influence with that of the acceptance of Islam and the Arabic Muslims in ancient civilizations. language). (18B)

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6.18.60 Make a list of the contributions made Science: Choose a Muslim scientist Identify the contributions made by by Muslim scholars of Eurasia and to research. Write a report on the Muslim scholars of Eurasia and Africa Africa. scientist, and tell how he or she and their later contribution to science, influences science and the world geography, mathematics, philosophy, today. medicine, art, and literature. (18B)

6.18.61 Make a chart to show how and why Art: Make a bulletin board to show the Trace the growth of Arabic language the Arabic language grew in growth of the Arabic language in in government, trade, and Islamic government, trade, and Islamic government, trade, and Islamic scholarship in West Africa. (18B) scholarship in West Africa. scholarship in West Africa.

6.18.62 Look at a map, and trace the Language Arts: Use the Internet or Trace the development of distinctive development of distinctive forms of library resources to write a paragraph forms of Japanese Buddhism. (18B) Japanese Buddhism. Write a about how Buddhism became the paragraph explaining how these official religion of Japan in the 700s. forms are different than others.

6.18.63 Write a paragraph that explains the Language Arts: Research a Japanese Classify the lasting effects of the ninth lasting effects of the ninth and tenth artist from the ninth or tenth century, and tenth centuries’ golden age of centuries’ golden age of literature, art, and write a report about his or her literature, art, and drama on and drama on Japanese culture influence on Japanese culture today. Japanese culture today. (18B) today.

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6.18.64 Make a poster about the rise of Language Arts: Use the Internet or Analyze the rise of military society in military society in late twelfth century library resources to make a Venn the late twelfth century and the role of Japan and the role of the samurai in diagram comparing the training of the samurai in that society. (18B) that society. soldiers in the United States to training samurai in Japan.

6.18.65 Make a chart analyzing the social Math: Make a chart categorizing the Analyze the social structures of structures of Medieval Europe. Then influence of early leaders on the Medieval Europe and explain the write a paragraph explaining the spread of Christianity. Include Clovis, spread of Christianity and the roles spread of Christianity and the roles Saint Patrick, Pope Gregory I, and monasteries played in the diffusion of monasteries played in the diffusion of Charles the Great. Make sure to also the religion. (18B) the religion of that time. include how they spread Christianity.

6.18.66 Make a word web with the word Religion: The Catholic Church is still Understand the importance of the Catholic Church in the middle. Fill in a source of education for many Catholic Church as a political, the surrounding bubbles with the people. Make a list of ways that your intellectual, and aesthetic institution. details that support why it is important church promotes education. (18B) as a political, intellectual, and aesthetic institution.

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6.18.67 Create a table by placing each early Art: Pick an early American culture to Distinguish between the early American culture in a row. Label two study. Then make a poster illustrating American cultures in the Pacific columns Achievements and Group life in that culture. Northwest, the Southwest, the Great Organization. Use the table to Plains, and the Eastern Woodlands. compare and contrast the lives of (18B) each group of people. Write your discoveries in a short expository article about ancient American cultures.

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