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Making Timelines

Entrance Procedure• Read the Essential Question: How can making

or reading a timeline help me organize and study history?

• Do Now: Name three Roman Legacies and tell me why they are important

Essential Question and Big Goal

• Essential Question: How can making or reading a timeline help me organize and study history?

• Big Goal Connection: Reading and creating timelines is an important skills that you will need in the rest of middle school and into high school and BEYOND!!

Activator!

• We are going to watch a short digital animation clip from Pixar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omk6TAxJYOg

• While we watch, you need to be taking notes about the plot of the video

• Think Pair Share: Summarize the plot of the film into 5 events

Class Share Out!

• Students will come up to the board and will put their events in order on the Class Timeline for the story

Rules of Timelines• #1 You always draw timelines with an arrow in the front and

an arrow in the back• #2 AD or CE, BC or BCE

– AD (Anno Domini or Year of our Lord referring to the year of Christ’s birth).

– The meaning of BC is Before Christ. – CE is a recent term. It refers to Common Era and is used in place

of A.D. – BCE means Before Common Era.

• #3 Long-ago left, Recent right• #4 Century Rule: 4th century = 300’s 21st century= 2000’s • #5 BC/BCE—the smaller the number the more recent it isAD/CE—the bigger the number the more recent it is

Class Timeline!

• In your group work to put the dates in order using your notes sheet.

• Then, I will call up people to the board to put the dates in order.

• We will record the dates on the first line of our timeline.

Practice!!• 1. Write the following dates in order on your timeline.• 123 BC • 789 AD • 678 BC • 1790 AD • 23 BC • 243 AD • 2003 BC• 2. Use the Century Rule above to help you and write

the correct century for each date.

Practice Making a Timeline Online

• Make a time line of your own life!• Make sure you included– Birthdate– Each year that you had a birthday– Years you started school– Significant events that have happened

Table Summarizer

• Teacher will assign each group one of the 5 rules of timelines.

• Students must summarize the rule in their own words and be able to explain it to the class in under one minute!

Review

• Reviewing Greece and Rome! You will work with your table partner!

• Those that do not have table partners will be paired up with the person of my choosing

1. Work on your Review of Greece and Rome2. Grab a Green Textbook and begin working on

your map (back page)