12/22 Ancient India Fairy Tales and Lessons

                            Reminders

• Whenever you need help, please ask for it.
• Please write your homework in your assignment book.
• Please review the goal and agenda for the day (posted in the classroom).

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Today in class you will

• demonstrate your understanding of Ancient India
• read and discuss in small groups

Why?

• to deepen your understanding of other people
• to practice identifying important information
• to analyze information for "lessons" or "messages" you can learn from it

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DIRECTIONS    If you are waiting at any point, work with the Waiting Activities listed in the right-hand column of this page.

1.  Discuss with someone near you what you will be doing in class today and why (see above).       1 minute

2.      Look at your responses to the form from last class (Look in GMail.).          7 minutes

• Under RESOURCES in Google Classroom, open the spider rubrics.
• On the first slide only, change Activity 1 to What do you know
• For each of the three sections from the form, drag a yellow dot to the correct spot on rubric.
• Connect the three yellow dots with a yellow line. 

3.    Whole class discussion: theme, "lesson," "message".          5 minutes

4.    Read aloud and discussion with your assigned group          15 minutes

5.     Whole class discussion         15 minutes

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Parents: Instead of Asking Your Child,

"What Did You Do in School Today?"

You can ask them.......

• Tell me about the stories read in class today.

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Today in class you will

• demonstrate your understanding of Ancient India
• make connections to the present
• determine lessons you can learn from Ancient History

Why?

• to deepen your understanding of other people
• to practice critical thinking
• to analyze information for "lessons" or "messages" you can learn from it

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DIRECTIONS    If you are waiting at any point, work with the Waiting Activities listed in the right-hand column of this page.

1.  Discuss with someone near you what you will be doing in class today and why (see above).       1 minute

2.    On paper, using only your memory, list the three most important things about each topic listed below. DON'T USE MORE THAN 10 MINUTES.          10 minutes

• Hinduism
• Siddhartha
• Buddhism 
• Ashoka
• The Gupta Empire

3.    By yourself, go to Google Classroom under Ancient India and complete Lessons and Connections          25 minutes

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Parents: Instead of Asking Your Child,

"What Did You Do in School Today?"

You can ask them.......

• What lessons can we learn from Ancient Indian History.