Today is Tuesday, October 27, 2015. Yesterday we looked at "Leveled Questions". More specifically, we focused on literal questions. Today, we are going to try and tackle some inferential questions. These are a bit harder and will require a little more effort. Here is the link to yesterday's blog post. You will find the videos from yesterday in this post.
1. Housing-
What were houses made of?How does the location determine where you are in the social hierarchy?
What would be one advantage of having farmland outside the city walls?
2. Ziggurat-
What is a Ziggurat?What are some distinguishing features of a ziggurat?
What is the significance of placing the ziggurat in the center of the city?
3. City Wall-
What is the purpose of the wall?Why was protecting the city so important?
What are some disadvantages of having the wall around the city?
4. Sumerian Wheel-
What is this artifact?
What was the original purpose of the wheel?
Why is the wheel so important to modern society?
5. Cuneiform -
What is Cuneiform?
If you knew cuneiform, what kind of job opportunities would present themselves to you?
Why do you think writing is one of history’s most important cultural advances?
Let's see how we do today. Good luck and have fun learning.
Sincerely,
Mr. C
From the cluttered mind of C, Teacher
Kenosha Unified School District
4 comments:
Cuneiform is writing the Sumerians created. If I lived in Sumer and knew how to write cuneiform I would be a scribe and bring honor to my family and work for the king. Writing is important because now we can do so much more. We could now write down our history so the people in our future know what happened.
Houses were made of dried mud, mud plaster and wood. Closer to the ziggurat meant higher up in the hierarchy. It is so there is no limit how far they can have fields.
The Samarians: Wheels, Walls, Words, and More…
1. Housing-
What were houses made of?
What would be one advantage of having farmland outside of the city?
The earliest Sumerian houses were built of bundles of reeds but after cities began to develop, sun baked mud brick was used. These mud brick houses were more permanent and larger than the reed dwellings.
Some advantages of having farmland outside of the city would be that they would have a lot more space to plant their crops. They would not have to have a certain amount of area or anchors for their crops unless they were cutting into someone else's property.
AGRICULTURE
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