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Warm Up

Warm Up. Grab your spiral as well as a blank sheet of paper Answer the following question on your warm up pages 1-3 Name three things you can do to make sure this spiral helps you the rest of the school year. Aztec vs Mayan Writing Assignment. Prompt – Write this down.

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Warm Up

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  1. Warm Up • Grab your spiral as well as a blank sheet of paper • Answer the following question on your warm up pages 1-3 • Name three things you can do to make sure this spiral helps you the rest of the school year

  2. Aztec vs Mayan Writing Assignment

  3. Prompt – Write this down • Using the atlas, identify the differences in the environments that the Aztecs and the Mayans lived in. Explain how these differences may have contributed to a different way of life between the two tribes.

  4. CUCC C – Circle U – Underline C – Count C – Check

  5. CUCC C – Circle the action words • What is the prompt asking you to do? U – Underline the specifics • What, exactly, am I explaining? C – Count how many steps you have to do • Is there more than one part? C – Check them off afterward • Did I do everything I was supposed to do?

  6. Prompt – CUCC • Using the atlas, identify the differences in the environments that the Aztecs and the Mayas lived in. Explain how these differences may have contributed to a different way of life between the two tribes.

  7. Things that will help you • Use your atlas • Pages 62-63 will show you physical characteristics • Page 32 will show you environment and climate info • Remember, the Aztecs lived in the very center of Mexico • Remember, the Mayas lived in the Yucatan Peninsula

  8. Warm Up • Take out your rough draft from yesterday

  9. Writing Prompt • Using the atlas, identify the differences in the environments that the Aztecs and the Mayas lived in. Explain how these differences may have contributed to a different way of life between the two tribes. • Remember our CUCC • Identify the differences in environments • Explain how they may have contributed to a different way of life • 2 tasks in this prompt

  10. Writing your paragraph • Use your prewriting of the differences in environments • Closeness to the water • Elevation and land features • Climate • Use your atlas if you need more information • Page 32 (two maps) and 62

  11. Remember, there are TWO tasks • IDENTIFY the differences in environments • Suggestion – discuss at least two differences in environments • The Aztecs lived in ____________, while the Maya lived in ___________. • For each difference, add a detail from the atlas • EXPLAIN how those differences may have contributed to different lifestyles. • Make sure that you are using the environmental differences you’ve already identified. • Because they lived in such a flat area, close to the water, the Maya were probably able to ________.

  12. CUCC C – Circle the action words U – Underline the specifics C – Count how many tasks you are supposed to do C – Check them off now that you’re finished

  13. Editing • Underline the differences in environment • Use the atlas to determine if those differences can be found in there • Circle the differences in lifestyle • Underline the references to the environment again

  14. Prompt • Using the atlas, identify the differences in the environments that the Aztecs and the Mayas lived in. Explain how these differences may have contributed to a different way of life between the two tribes.

  15. Final copy due at the beginning if class tomorrow!

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