Dec 9/10

Tablet Due Tomorrow
Finish Paragraph for Tomorrow
Bring Food for Tomorrow
HHT due Monday

3 interesting Facts

• Slaves could be craft people.
  
• Slaves can be bought or sold.
  
• Women wore makeup,lipstick,eyeshadow,perfume and body oils.

10 days left of school and 16 days till Christmas

December 7/ 2010

• Tablet- Dec 10

• Poster- Dec 17
• Meso Madness-Dec 10 bring dish, wear costume.
• HHT- Dec 13
• Corrections must be done by Fri.
  
• Paragraphs due Friday

Three interesting facts about Mesopotamia

• Scribes went to a special school called a Abduba.
• They were the first people to write down their laws.
• Scribes were some of the very few people in the city/town that knew how to write.
  

December 6 / 2010

• Tablets due Dec. 10
  
• Meso Madness- Dec. 10/Have ideas for Mesopotamian feast.
  
• Poster due December 17
  

Friday December1

Home Work

• Tablet Dec. 10
• Poster Dec. 17
• Meso madness Dec. 10
• bring food for the 10th

Three Interesting facts

• School's were in Ziggurats
• Assyrians and the Persians invaded Mesopotamia
• The name of their schools was called Abduba

22 days till Christmas yeah!

Grade 8 Update

Homework
-Ziggurat is due tomorrow
-tablet is due December 10th
-poster is due December 17th
-we have corrections due for tomorrow

We went back on Twitter after a 6 month break!

We are planning for Mesopotamia Fest. We will eat Mesopotamian food, dress up like Mesopotamian people, and make speeches about who we are dressed up as--kind of like "a day in the life of a Mesopotamian person".

Today we researched what we would wear and what we would eat.

23 sleeps till Christmas!

December 1/10

Homework

• Ziggurat Due Friday
• Tablet Due Dec.10/10
• Poster Due Dec.17/10
• Meso Madness dec.10/10
• Read page. 58-67
• Decide who you will be for Meso Madness, what you will wear, if you need something from the costume closet, what you will bring for food.
• Corrections for Definitions due Friday

Three Interesting Facts:
1. In Mesopotamia they had 12 months and each month had 30 days.
2. They Believed in 7 gods, Moon, Sun, Sky, Earth, Wind, Salt water, and Fresh water.
3. Cuneiform was their type of writing.