Ancient Civilizations

Our Class Objectives:

1. Know the world and its major features by memory.  Including: The Continents and Oceans. Seas, rivers, and lakes.  Mountains and deserts, forests and jungles, plains and savannas.  Climates.  Islands, deltas, peninsulas and archipelagos.  Ocean currents.  Resources.

2. Tell the stories of humanity's development into our founding civilizations: the Where, When, Who, What, and Why of our ancient past.

3. Connect our Present to the Past.  Understand how our civilization today was created by the lives and experiences of the civilizations that came before us.

4. Use History to make sense of the present and plan for the future.

5. Practice Historical Thinking in study and writing.  The 5 'C's of Historical Thinking: Chronology, Context, Causality, Contingency, and Complexity.