2. Entrance Procedure
• Read the Essential Question: How can making
or reading a timeline help me organize and
study history?
• Do Now: Name three Roman Legacies and tell
me why they are important
3. Essential Question and Big Goal
• Essential Question: How can making or
reading a timeline help me organize and study
history?
• Big Goal Connection: Reading and creating
timelines is an important skills that you will
need in the rest of middle school and into high
school and BEYOND!!
4. Activator!
• We are going to watch a short digital
animation clip from Pixar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omk6TAxJ
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• While we watch, you need to be taking notes
about the plot of the video
• Think Pair Share: Summarize the plot of the
film into 5 events
5. Class Share Out!
• Students will come up to the board and will
put their events in order on the Class Timeline
for the story
6. Rules of Timelines
• #1 You always draw timelines with an arrow in the front and
an arrow in the back
• #2 AD or CE, BC or BCE
– AD (Anno Domini or Year of our Lord referring to the year of
Christ’s birth).
– The meaning of BC is Before Christ.
– CE is a recent term. It refers to Common Era and is used in place
of A.D.
– BCE means Before Common Era.
• #3 Long-ago left, Recent right
• #4 Century Rule: 4th century = 300’s 21st century= 2000’s
• #5 BC/BCE—the smaller the number the more recent it is
AD/CE—the bigger the number the more recent it is
7. Class Timeline!
• In your group work to put the dates in order
using your notes sheet.
• Then, I will call up people to the board to put
the dates in order.
• We will record the dates on the first line of our
timeline.
8. Practice!!
• 1. Write the following dates in order on your
timeline.
• 123 BC
• 789 AD
• 678 BC
• 1790 AD
• 23 BC
• 243 AD
• 2003 BC
• 2. Use the Century Rule above to help you and
write the correct century for each date.
9. Practice Making a Timeline Online
• Make a time line of your own life!
• Make sure you included
– Birthdate
– Each year that you had a birthday
– Years you started school
– Significant events that have happened
10. Table Summarizer
• Teacher will assign each group one of the 5
rules of timelines.
• Students must summarize the rule in their
own words and be able to explain it to the
class in under one minute!
11. Review
• Reviewing Greece and Rome! You will work
with your table partner!
• Those that do not have table partners will be
paired up with the person of my choosing
1. Work on your Review of Greece and Rome
2. Grab a Green Textbook and begin working on
your map (back page)
