Unit 3

Sam Butler

The Seven Characteristics

Grade Level/ Subject Area

• 7th Grade Ancient World History

Content

• The content I will be teaching in this lesson is about what characteristics defined the first civilization of Ancient Sumer. There are 7 characteristics of a civilization they are: the arts, a stable food supply, technology, social class, writing, religion, and  a government. For this Lesson I would need at least seven laptops so the groups could do research and make the wiki page. 

Technology Incorporation/ Standards

• I will have the students split up into 7 different groups. Each group create a wiki page about a certain section. They must explain how in Ancient Sumer that characteristic was shown, and then answer how we can see that characteristic in the United States. Then I will combine the wiki pages into one and have each group explain their section.
• Wiki Website
• 7 – W2.1.1 Describe the importance of the development of human language, oral and written, and its relationship to the development of culture verbal vocalizations standardization of physical (rock, bird) and abstract (love, fear) words pictographs to abstract writing (governmental administration, laws, codes, history and artistic expressions)
• 7 – W2.1.3 Examine early civilizations to describe their common features (ways of governing, stable food supply, economic and social structures, use of resources and technology, division of labor and forms of communication).