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Welcome!. Catherine Boege- Team Pegasus Ancient Civilizations Look on the sides of the board for a special message from your student… and feel free to write back! 6:35 – 6:45 A Yellow Class 6:50 – 7:00 B 7:05 – 7:15 C Blue Class 7:20 – 7:30 D Green Class 7:35 – 7:45 E

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  1. Welcome! Catherine Boege- Team Pegasus Ancient Civilizations Look on the sides of the board for a special message from your student… and feel free to write back! 6:35 – 6:45 A Yellow Class 6:50 – 7:00 B 7:05 – 7:15 C Blue Class 7:20 – 7:30 D Green Class 7:35 – 7:45 E 7:50 – 8:00 F Red Class 8:05 – 8:15 G

  2. A little bit about me… • 8th year teaching middle school social studies • 5th year at Diamond • Undergraduate Degree: Secondary Education and History- University of Vermont • Graduate Degree: Reading- American International College • Licensed Reading Specialist

  3. Pegasus Team Leader • Please contact me for any general inquiries (i.e. planned absences, scheduling conferences, team related questions, general student concerns) cboege@lexingtonma.org • In January, Mrs. Moser will be taking over as the Team Leader and will become the Team Pegasus point person hmoser@lexingtonma.org

  4. Homework • 6th grade- approximately 1 hour per night • 15-20 minutes per assignment

  5. 6th grade Ancient Civilizations • Units and Topics • Geography Study • Archaeology • Early Humans & Early Farming • Ancient Mesopotamia • Ancient Egypt • Ancient Greece

  6. 6th grade Ancient Civilizations • Yearlong Essential Questions • How does where people live affect how they live? • How do social scientists interpret the past? • What is at the heart of a civilization? • What major similarities and differences exist between civilizations of the past? • What legacies have civilizations of the past left behind?

  7. Year Long Skills • Historical Thinking • Research • Argumentative Writing Skills are vertically aligned 6-8

  8. Historical Thinking Skills • Close Reading • Interpreting texts and documents • Inferring cause and effect • Taking different perspectives • Recognizing bias • Corroborating ideas

  9. Research Skills • Generating questions • Finding appropriate web, book and database sources • Creating proper citations • Note taking- recording and synthesizing what’s important

  10. Argumentative Writing • Crafting a claim statement • Supporting claim statement with evidence from text • Analyzing evidence to explain how it supports the claim Students will be able to construct an argument by…

  11. Web Sources https://lps.lexingtonma.org/Page/6346 https://lps.lexingtonma.org//site/Default.aspx?PageID=3655

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