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Getting Started

1. Take out your Social Studies notebook and fillin your Table of Contents with the followinginformation:

12/10 Ancient riting !"#$1

12/% Tigris#&u'hrates $2

12/% Cradle of Ci(ili)ation $*

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 Students will explain the importance ofwritten language to history by readingand annotating a secondary text.

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Success Criteria

+ can e,'lain the im'ortance of ancient writing.

+ can make a claim and use e(idence to su''ort

my claim.

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Who Had the Write Idea?

  -ne reason written language was so im'ortantis that once modern scholars translate the writingthese ci(ili)ations histories essentially become

o'en book.

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Who Had the Write Idea?

CuneiformHarappanWriting

ChineseCharacters

Hieroglyphi cs

Tigris-EuphratesRiver Valley- Sumerians

Indus RiverValley  China Egypt  

Clay tablets - bout !""

#edgedshapedsymbols

$lant-li%emar%ings

#ere foundon pottery&

Symbols

'inedra#ing of plants(

animals(andmountains&

Scribes #erethe o)cial#riters and#ere trained to#rite&

'anguage

died out&

Similar to ncient

Chinese#riting&

Clay tablets

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Who Had the Write Idea?

Short es'onse

3se &&4 to answer the following 5uestion:

 hich ci(ili)ation do you think should be

credited 6at least for now7 with de(elo'ing writing8 &,'lain.

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Success Criteria

+ can e,'lain the im'ortance of ancient writing.

+ can made a claim and use e(idence to su''ort

my claim.