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5 Due:
"Hominid Hardware" and
"The 2 million year old meat and marrow diet resurfaces"
Class: Discuss homework; Watch Homo Habilis episode on
"In
Search of human origins" Human timeline |
6 Due: Pick one development in
human history and write a 1 page paper explaining its great impact on
human life. Class: Compare and contrast Neanderthal
and Homo Erectus: Read Gore, Rick.
"The Dawn of Humans: Expanding Worlds." National Geographic (May
1997), 84-109.
"Rethinking Neanderthals" by Joe Alper .
"Love with a Certain Neanderthal? It could Have Happened"
Video
"Neanderthals on
Trial" (opt.) |
7 Due: National Geographic
"The Greatest Journey" Class: Video:
Journey of Man |
8 Due:
"New
Women of the Ice Age"
Paleolithic Protectress" "Cave Paintings" worksheet
Class: Research
Paleolithic art and music |
9 Due: Catal Huyuk worksheet
Class: Guns Germs and Steel
and
worksheet |
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12 No Class |
13 Due:
Human origin
Project |
14 Class:
Guns Germs and Steel
and
Notes |
15 Due: Article on Prostitution and
fieldwork Class: Go over test; Finish
Guns Germs and Steel;
Notes on Culture and definition |
16 Due: What is Language handout.
Read and do worksheet for Loss of Language Class:
Research Ebonics |
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26 Class: Ebonics Debate |
27 Due: Read entire Language
handout, including "Cultural Loss Seen as Languages Fade" and worksheet,
"A World Loses its Tongues" "Say What" and "More Isolated Indians
Survive in Amazon Rain Forest but face Peril Class:
Quiz on Language readings;
The Story of
Writing PowerPoint |
28 Due: Draw floorplan of bedroom
Class: Homes around the
World PowerPoint |
29 Due: Work on Feng Shui project
Class: Computer lab and work on Feng Shui project |
30 Due: Feng Shui project
Class: "Nova:Masters of the Ants" video |