History, Week Three...

We finished up week number 3 today (timeline and maps), and we will be taking this week off since we are going out of town. So week 4 will come next next weekend. Anyway...

Pretest

Sumerians
-read lesson
-read some library books about them, or rather looked at the pictures. No one book really stuck out to me.
-Since the Sumerians were the first people to create a written language (Cuneiform), we made and baked clay tablets and carved our initials on them in Cuneiform. At least that was the plan.

Luke got frustrated with the whole Cuneiform alphabet thing, so decided to carve a little man (himself)...



A little happier picture here...

Luke top left, me top right (LW), Will bottom left (W), and Kendall bottom right (W??)...

Tower of Babel

-read lesson

-read book from library called "The Tower of Babel" (imagine that!) by Marilyn Hirsh

-otherwise the kids knew the story from the Bible pretty good...

-The book had a fun idea of playing cd's of different languages all at the same time, to show how confusing it must have been when they all started speaking different languages (the word babel means confusion, by the way). So that is what we did. I only played 3 at once and 2 were music ones, so that was real confusing. :) The kids thought it was funny and I think they got the point.

Gilgamesh

-read lesson

-found no good books for kids at the library

-they were not good listeners so had to do some copywork on this one and then they remembered the important facts

-We played the game 'telephone', when you whisper something around in a circle and then the last person says it out loud and it is usually distorted. That was to show how the stories of Adam and Eve, and Noah's Ark, which was in the Bible and also a similar version in the Epic of Gilgamesh...how the story was probably passed down for generations and that is why the version in Gilg. sounds familiar but the details are wrong...

"What did you learn" post test

Wall of Fame...

(Sumerian statue has HUGE EYES...their trademark)

(Luke's tower of babel)

(K's Epic of Gilgamesh book...tree is part of the story)

And here it is all together so far...

Geoff worked on maps with them and I am glad he has officially taken over that job. :)