Test Two Study Guide

I'll show you a few slides tomorrow then we'll review...attached is the Study Guide

Next Test...Thursday October 2nd

Chapters 3, 14 and 15

Museum Catalog is due on the day of the test

Review documents will be posted on Monday and discussed in class on Wednesday

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Make Up Test - Intro-Chapters 1 and 2

Wednesday IMMEDIATELY after school. Allow yourself one class period worth of time...50 minutes.

Bring your Museum Catalog...you may use on the test.

Stonehenge Article

Read this article from last night's news:

UK experts say Stonehenge was place of healing

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER Mon Sep 22, 9:49 PM ET

The first excavation of Stonehenge in more than 40 years has uncovered evidence that the stone circle drew ailing pilgrims from around Europe for what they believed to be its healing properties, archaeologists said Monday.

Archaeologists Geoffrey Wainwright and Timothy Darvill said the content of graves scattered around the monument and the ancient chipping of its rocks to produce amulets indicated that Stonehenge was the primeval equivalent of Lourdes, the French shrine venerated for its supposed ability to cure the sick.

An unusual number of skeletons recovered from the area showed signs of serious disease or injury. Analysis of their teeth showed that about half were from outside the Stonehenge area.

"People were in a state of distress, if I can put it as politely as that, when they came to the Stonehenge monument," Darvill told journalists assembled at London's Society of Antiquaries.

He pointed out that experts near Stonehenge have found two skulls that showed evidence of primitive surgery, some of just a few known cases of operations in prehistoric Britain.

"Even today, that's the pretty serious end of medicine," he said. Also found near Stonehenge was the body of a man known as the Amesbury Archer, who had a damaged skull and badly hurt knee and died around the time the stones were being installed. Analysis of the Archer's bones showed he was from the Alps.

Darvill cautioned, however, that the new evidence did not rule out other uses for Stonehenge.

"It could have been a temple, even as it was a healing center," Darvill said. "Just as Lourdes, for example, is still a religious center."

The archaeologists managed to date the construction of the stone monument to about 2,300 B.C., a couple of centuries younger than was previously thought. It was at that time that bluestones — a rare rock known to geologists as spotted dolomite — were shipped by hand or by raft from Pembrokeshire in Wales to Salisbury Plain in southern England, to create the inner circle of Stonehenge.

The outer circle, composed of much larger sandstone slabs, is what most people associate with the monument today, particularly since only about a third of the 80 or so bluestones remain. The scientists argued that they were once at the heart of Stonehenge, and closely associated with its healing properties.

As evidence, Darvill said his dig had uncovered masses of fragments carved out of the bluestones by people to create amulets. Any rock carried around in such a way would have had some sort of protective or healing property, he said. He said that theory was backed by burials in southwest England where the stones were interred with their owners.

Today the bluestones are now largely invisible, dwarfed by the huge sandstone monoliths — or "hanging stones" — that were erected later and still make up Stonehenge's iconic profile.

"They are of course quite impressive when you see them," Darvill said. "But in a sense they are the elaboration of a structure which kicked off with the bluestones."

Both archaeologists quoted the 12th-century monk Geoffrey of Monmouth as saying the stones were thought to have medicinal properties. They also said that evidence uncovered by their dig showed that people were moving and chipping off pieces of the bluestones through the Roman period and even into the Middle Ages.

Darvill said he felt the "folklore interest" in the bluestones into modern times suggested some sort of lingering memory of their supposed healing powers.

"That would be for me the single strongest piece of evidence," he said.

Andrew Fitzpatrick, from British heritage group Wessex Archaeology, said Darvill and Wainwright's discovery was "very important" but that the healing theory, while plausible, was not the only one.

"I don't think we can rule out the other main competing theory — that the temple was a meeting point between the land of the living and the dead," he told the British Broadcasting Corp.

The scientists announced their findings Monday, ahead of a documentary due to air on the BBC and the Smithsonian Channel on Saturday, Sept. 27.

After reading the article, use the article, your book and notes to complete the following:

I learned that people speculate as to why Stonehenge was created. Some of the theories include:

Week of September 22nd

See yesterday's post...check grades online...and your email. If I could not open your attachment SEND TO MY YAHOO email before you go to sleep tonight.

Items due this week:
Tuesday 9/23 Chapter 14 Read/WKBK
Thursday 9/25 Chapter 15 Read/WKBK
BOTH ASSIGNMENTS LISTED ON 9/13/08 POST

We will have a test on Chapter 3 and 14/15 on 9/30/08

We will discuss the three chapters in class and review prior to the test. A video about the Incas will also be shown.

The day after the test we'll make a MAKE UP Friday Fun Day since we missed last week due to my absence!

All papers sent...graded

check your emails...some of you sent documents I could not open. The information needs to be sent as a .doc file or cut and pasted into body of email and resent to my yahoo account (as you did while I was away) by Monday night 9 pm.

Trouble with your homework...

If you sent your homework as an attachment...check to see if I have given u a grade...I emailed back EVERYONE that sent work in the body of an email OR in an attachment I could open. If you did not get a grade and sent work as an attachment...please resend in body of email.

You can also send your Smithsonian homework via email Friday or turn in...either is fine...can grade your btests faster next week if I get the Smithsonianh via email.

Thanks for your kind thoughts about my grandma!

PS - NEW TRIVIA TO COME AGAIN TOMORROW MORNING!

Important Information for Week of 9/15/08

I'll be with you on Monday but not for the rest of the week as my grandmother passed away this morning. We'll review for the test on Monday and in any spare time we have we can continue the Fun Friday project.

Tuesday WILL BE YOUR TEST AND YOUR MUSEUM CATALOG IS DUE...the sub can administer that...just make sure your name is on everything and you make two piles...one for test and one for museum catalog when you turn in everything!

Wednesday-Friday
You have a reading worksheet due Thursday (sent to me via email renemacvay@yahoo.com). You will watch avideo about Egypt and turn in the worksheet when the video is completed. A video about the Mayas and Incas will follow...it may not be completed...we may finish on Monday the following week.

Due Friday 9/19...Smithsonian Magazine article and worksheet attached here.

You will have a second TEST on Egypt, and chapter 14 and 15 the week of 9/29/08 (with Museum Catalog due same day).

Due Tuesday 9/23/08
WKBK Chapter 14 (Read chapter 14 also)
page 137 # 1, 2 (continues on page 138)
page 138 #4,5,6
page 139 #12
page 142-143 North America Section

Due Thursday 9/25/08
Read Chapter 15 and complete WKBK
page 150 all
151 2,5
152 Discussion Question...in paragraph form ... #1

The Ancient Near East/Afghanistan

Look at the Mesopotamian Myth about how/why humans were created: http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/gods/home_set.html

Read about Woolley's excavations of the Royal Tombs at Ur AND explore the Royal Tombs: http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/tombs/home_set.html

Answer the following questions:
What do the items found in the tombs tell one about the Mesopotamian culture?
Does the Mesopotamian creation myth remind you of any other creation myth you have read/heard?

Read about the Treasures of Afghanistan exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC: http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2008/afghanistan/afghanistan.pdf
Watch the video: http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2008/afghanistan/video.shtm
Read the article about Oil Paintings as well as the Afghanistan profile from the following website:http://www.nationalgeographic.com/mission/afghanistan-treasures/


Complete the following statement about the exhibition:
After reading/viewing the videos I learned....

Make connections with what you read about Afghanistan with what is included in our text. Include CONCRETE EXAMPLES.

Due THURSDAY 9-11-08

Please type the questions and responses.

Upcoming assignments

Chapter 2 read/complete the workbook is due Tuesday 9/9/08. Complete details of wkbk assignment in an earlier post.

Friday 9/12/08 we'll have our first Fun Friday (if all goes well) and experiment with OP ART. This will be an ongoing process.

1st test - Intro and ch 1 and ch 2 will be TUESDAY 9/16/08. You will have MUSEUM CATALOG due the day of each test. The rubric/directions for each will always be posted on the blog...once you have the format down for the first you will be familiar with the rest of the year....it will not change too much from chapter to chapter.

Thursday 9/18 you will need to have read chpater 3 Egypt and answered the reading worksheet/workbook questions. Details will be posted.

Change

Activity from the computer pod as well as the elements and principles packet is due FRIDAY 9/5/08