As we learn about the foundation of humans and human civilization, Africa. We need to understand an important term that describes history. That term is prehistory.
pre·his·to·ry
[pree-his-tuh-ree,-his-tree]–noun, plural -ries.1. human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.; history of prehistoric humans.
Go to Oldest Art: The Top 50, a list of earliest prehistoric artworks: oldest petroglyphs, first carvings & sculpture, earliest stone age cave paintings: From 290,000 BCE. From there choose any of the art pieces. Art from any time period can tell us important information about society but these pieces are especially important because they are from prehistory. (There was no writing to tell us about what life was like.)
Report in you blog using the Five Ws (who, what, when, where, why) on your historical art piece. Use complete sentences to create this mini-report. Try for around 200-250 words. Make sure to include an introduction and conclusion. (Use the inspector in pages to word count. I'll help if you cannot find it). If you finish early call me over so I can check your work.
We here at FAIR Downtown are lucky enough to have a 1:1 program in place to ensure that every student has equal access to digital resources and acquires the necessary skills and knowledge to succeed in the twenty-first century. Today is our student first day of this school year with laptops!
Listen to the following song by American rapper Nas and Jamaican reggae artist Damian Marley. Some parts are hard to understand with out the lyrics so I included some below.
After you listen through the song once skip past the lyrics and find the questions I want you to answer. Listen again and do you best to answer all the questions.
The Lyrics to Ancient People.
These ancient thoughts
This ancient look
These ancient hearts
This ancient soul
These ancient songs
These ancient people
These ancient thoughts
This ancient look
These ancient hearts
This ancient soul
These ancient hopes
These ancient people
Like a bird, in the sky
And the sea, and the birds
And the trees, and the sun
Melody
Like a mountain, like a valley
Like the river, like the lake
Like the earth, when it quake
Space and sea
This is rock and roll meets aristotle
I fly those g5's through the skies to cabbo
Martial arts more ancient than tabbo
Schwartzman, more ancient than zorro
Ancient like the pharohs or priests of yoruba
Maher rabah-nasr is the best
Them paths like climbing mount kiliminjaro
Ancient men traded cattle
Before columbus was lost in travel, ancient canoes got paddeled
Before the horse saddle there was camel
Spears before arrow, arrow before ammo
Tribal paint before camel
Large
Chief before sarge, I'm lieutenant
Village elders before descendant
Used to sail the seas before the compass was invented
Ancient people spoke free, they didn't need a 1st amendment
In the beginning, the drum was the tech ...
...
These ancient thoughts
This ancient look
These ancient hearts
This ancient soul
These ancient songs
These ancient people
These ancient thoughts
This ancient look
These ancient hearts
This ancient soul
These ancient hopes
These ancient people
...
These ancient thoughts
This ancient look
These ancient hearts
This ancient soul
These ancient songs
These ancient people
These ancient thoughts
This ancient look
These ancient hearts
This ancient soul
These ancient hopes
These ancient people
...
QUESTION TO ANSWER:
Use your five senses to experience the song then explain what you noticed.
What did you picture as you heard the lyrics?
What words stuck out in the song?
What words were repeated?
How did the rhythm and beat sound?
What sounds did you hear (either in the song or imagine based on the music)
What types of music (or other songs) did the song remind you of?
Were there any books or movies that seems similar?
Did it remind you of anything else (like a child memory or experience)?
*for use later in class
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/lan/en/atlas.html
Disclaimer: this blog will continue to evolve and change as the year and our World History course goes on. In fact, my hope is to pass on much of its authorship on to my students.
Below is the Prezi for first day of class highlighting the general structure and objectives of the course. By no means will it tell you everything you need to know about how World History at FAIR School Downtown will work but it will get you started.
Following both computer program tradition and my own the title of the first post on The World Within World History is Hello World!. Most program language suggest the first output you should attempt to create is just to broadcast "Hello World!". Personally I picked up the habit from a web 2.0 technology training from MCAD in the summer of 2010. If you want to read more about it follow this link from everyones friends at Wikipedia.
Now down to business. Why create a blog? The intent of this blog is to have dynamic place for students to get information for our World History course at FAIR School Downtown.
Students will also be creating their own blog for World History. Students are expected to use this personal blog to reflect on what they are learning, struggling with, and ways that they are growing throughout this course, as well as, turn in projects and daily writing assignments.
