Notebook Studies: People of the Fertile Crescent.

The individual chapters for this unit are fairly small, with little to add in in terms of additional reading or new projects. I'll add in readings from Science in Ancient Mesopotamia and the Veritas press map project in order to fill out the week.

• Day 1 Chapter 5 The First Sumerian Dictator Sargon, Reading through both stories in Story of the world. Narrate. Include map work in summary. Allow discussion based on what we have been considering.
  
  
• Day 2 Chapter 6 The Jewish People Read through stories, provide a summary of the lives of the patriarchs in one to two paragraphs. How do they compare to the other nations of that time? Catch up on time line for these bible characters and the rest of the patriarchs.
  
  
• Day 3 Chapter 7 Hammurabi and the Babylonians. Read and discuss. Read through excerpts from the Code of Hammurabi as included in the Veritas Press cards. Compare some of these to the Laws of Moses. Narration from the reading and the discussion of the Code.

• Day 4 Chapter 8 The Assyrians Shamshi-Adad, King of the Whole World - The Story of Gilgamesh. (From Story of the World.) Read through the picture book version of Ishtar. Narration.
  

Writing and Art Projects.

• Retell portions of the story of Gilgamesh (either in prose or poetry.)
• Creative Writing: Describe what it would be like to live in one of these cultures.
• Select one of the rulers from this period (Excluding the Jewish Patriarchs) and write an Encomium as we did last week. This can also be done in the negative.

• Using Clay recreate one of the panels from the palaces of the fertile crescent.
  
• Draw a depiction of Gilgamesh and Ekindu.
  
• Draw one of the palaces or temples from this area - Consider Jansons History of Art for inspiration.