Anthro November
Home ] Up ]

 

 

 

 

1

Due: :Lucy's Baby

Class: Quiz; discuss ethnography project; Human Origin PowerPoint

2

Class: Begin working on Human origin project; Autralopithecus clip on video "In Search of human origins"

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

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

19

Due: Write your response for the Ebonics debate

Class: Sick Day

20

Class: Guest speaker: discussion of fieldwork project

21

No Class

22

No Class

23

No Class

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

Ron Eisenman

Rutland High School

reisenman@rutlandhs.k12.vt.us