We're using tapestry of grace, and rather than do lapbooking and piling up papers, we decided to use technology and go digital. This is the bare bones of the presentation my 11-y-o daughter will be working on for her first project during week 5 of year one, unit 1.

1. Week 5
By: Isabella Mitchell
September 2013

2. Helpful Information
• Use pictures, bulleted lists and links to videos. Ask for help with embedding
videos if you want to do it that way
• Use this link to do your citations
http://citationmachine.net/index2.php?reqstyleid=1&newstyle=1&stylebox=1
• Only get your information and facts from your reading. You can look at
websites for more, but if it doesn’t match what is said in your reading, don’t
use it as a fact.
• Use the web to gather pictures and videos. Only use videos that you've
watched so that you know they are accurate.

3. The Mesopotamian Culture
 Put a picture here

4. Centers of
Population
What to include:
Did they have cities or small
villages, What was the first known
empire and it’s capitol, etc.
Always cite your resources.
Where to look for facts:
Myths of the World: The Ancient
Mesopotamians, Cradle of
Civilization pgs 17-19
• Answer
Villages or
cities?
• Answer
1st known
Empire
• (Capitol of
first known
empire)
Capitol of
_________

5. Written works
What to include:
What was the first writing like?
How did it develop? Did they have
long stories or just short things?
What are some examples?
Always cite your resources.
Where to look for facts:
The Sumerians: Writing, pgs 12-13
Eyewitness Books: Mesopotamia,-
The Story of Writing, pg 12-13
The first
writing
looked
like this
It
developed
from ____
to ______
Ancient
writers
wrote
______
• Some
examples of
their
writing are

6. Arts and Sciences
What to include:
What was their jewelry and pottery
like? What kind of metal working
did they do? Did they have math or
Astronomy? What kind of
medicine did they have?
Always cite your resources.
Where to look for facts:
Ancients in their own words:
Mesopotamians-
Mesopotamian Medicine pg
16-19
The Sumerians: Writing, pgs 12-13
Eyewitness Books: Mesopotamia,-
Crafts and Technology pg 28-
29
Facts at your fingertips: Ancient
Mesopotamia- Builders and
Traders pg 14-15
Jewelry and pottery
Metal working
Math and Astronomy
•
•
Medicine

7. Occupations
What to include:
Did they farm? Did they have
specialization? Did they trade? Did
they have architects, builders, etc.?
Always cite your resources.
Where to look for facts:
The Sumerians: Architects and
Builders pgs 38-39, & 46-51
Eyewitness Books: Mesopotamia,-
Crafts and Technology pg 28-
29
Facts at your fingertips: Ancient
Mesopotamia- The first
farmers pg 12-13
Farming
•
•
Specialization
•
•
Trade
•
•
Architects and Builders
•
•

8. Inventions and
Achievements
What to include:
What do you think their greatest
achievements were?
Always cite your resources.
Where to look for facts:
Previous slides
GreatestInvention#1
GreatestInvention#2
GreatestAchievement

9. Government and
Religious beliefs
What to include:
Who ruled? What kind of religion
did they have
(polytheism, atheism…)? What
was their relationship with their
god(s)? What were the temples
like?
Always cite your resources.
Where to look for facts:
Myths of the World: The Ancient
Mesopotamians, Government
and society pgs 21-23
The Sumerians: Government, pgs
16-17
(Kings, Gods, Dictators, Pharaohs)
Ruled
The Sumerians were
(poly, pan, a, mono) theistic
They were (afraid of, happy with, in
love with, jealous of, etc) their gods
Their temples were
(shape, size, made out of, etc)

10. Egyptian Pyramids
• How related to gods
• Shape and size
• Uses
•
Sumerian Towers
•
•
•
•
In common
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Comparing Egyptian Pyramids and Sumerian Towers

11. The Cradle of
Civilization
Why do scholars use this term for
the fertile crescent?
What is a cradle?
What is a civilization?
Explain why you think they would
use this term to describe the area.
Think about how a baby grows
from the cradle to maturity, and
how that relates to the
civilizations.
Cradle:
Civilization:
Scholars used this term
because

12. The most surprising thing I learned
about the Mesopotamians
Fact #1 Fact #2
 Supporting information  Supporting information

13. The Mesopotamians were most like the
Egyptians in these ways:
Fact #1 Fact #2
 Supporting information  Supporting information

14. The Mesopotamians were very different from the
Egyptians in these ways:
Fact #1 Fact #2
 Supporting information  Supporting information

15. Gilgamesh
 Put a picture here

16. Epic?
Look up the term Epic and include
the definition. Does Gilgamesh
fulfill that definition? Why or why
not?
Epic Gilgamesh

17. 3 Main Characters
List them and describe each in a
sentence or two. Character #1
•
•
Character #2
•
•
Character #3
•
•

18. Gilgamesh v. Jesus
Gilgamesh Jesus
 ___% man
 ___% god
 Personality

19. The gods v. God
The gods God
 Personality
 Lead through love or fear?

20. Main points of
conflict
What are the 3 main points of
conflict in the story?
#1
#3#2

21. Thinking deeper
No right or wrong- just
what you think.
What do you think are the
messages of the epic?
What are the similarities
and differences
between this story
and Biblical stories?
What does the story say
about the values of
the Sumerian
culture? How are
Men, Women, Leader
s, and Friends
viewed?
The messages of
Gilgamesh
Similarities and
differences
between
Gilgamesh and
the Bible stories
What the story
of Gilgamesh
says about how
the Sumerians
viewed:
Men
Women
Leaders
Friends

22. Bible Survey
 Put a picture here

23. Geography
Include some maps (you may want
to add some slides)
http://www.bible-
history.com/maps/4-Abraham-
journey-2.jpg
http://www.bible-
history.com/maps/maps/mesopota
mia_trade.jpg
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bi
ble/map-01.html
http://classic.scriptures.lds.org/en
/biblemaps/map9.jpg
http://www.biblestudy.org/maps/j
ourney-of-abraham-to-promised-
land-and-egypt.gif
Read Mesopotamia and the Bible
Lands introduction on pg 5.

24. The Tower of Babel
What to include:
Where is the story told in the
Bible?
Why did they build it?
What did God say? What did God
do?
What happened next?
(Bible
reference)
(What the
people
did)
(Why did
they do
it?)
(What God
said about
it)
(What
happened)

25. Promises Promises
What is a promise?
Why do people make promises?
What are some ways that people
seal their promises?
Where does the idea for promise
making come from?
Ruth 4:7: Now in those days it was the custom in Israel for
anyone transferring a right of purchase to remove his
sandal and hand it to the other party. This publicly
validated the transaction.
1 Kings 21:8: So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, sealed
them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and other
leaders of the town where Naboth lived.
Jeremiah 34:18-19 : Those who have violated my covenant
and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they
made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two
and then walked between its pieces.
Definition of a promise:
People make promises to
In the Bible, people would ____ to seal their promise
The idea for promise making comes form

26. The Promises of God to Abraham
Promise #1:
Genesis 12:1-3
Did Abraham
have to do
anything?
Answer
If Yes, What
would happen if
he didn’t?
Answer
Was this a
promise or a
formal covenant?
answer
Promise #2:
Genesis 15:12-
21
Did Abraham
have to do
anything?
Answer
If Yes, What
would happen if
he didn’t?
Answer
Was this a
promise or a
formal covenant?
answer
Promise #3:
Genesis 17:1-21
Did Abraham
have to do
anything?
Answer
If Yes, What
would happen if
he didn’t?
Answer
What is different
between this and
#2?
answer

27. From Noah to Abraham to Moses
What to include:
What did God promise each man?
What did God have to do, and what did the people have to do? What would happen if the people did not do
their part? Does God ever break a promise?
Where to look:
#1 Genesis 6:18-21, 9:9-17, #2 Genesis 15:18, 17:1-21, #3 Exodus 6:4-5, 19:1-9
Noah
God promised
him
Abraham
God promised him
Moses
God promised him

28. Lessons from
Abraham
What to include:
What are some lessons that the
Israelites could have learned form
Abraham?
What can we learn from him?
Did he ever make mistakes?
 Add a picture of
Abraham
LessonstotheIsraelites
Lessonsforus
Mistakeshemade

29. Lessons from Sarah
What to include:
What are some lessons that the
Israelites could have learned form
Sarah?
What can we learn from her?
Did she ever make mistakes?
 Add a picture of
Sarah
LessonstotheIsraelites
Lessonsforus
Mistakesshemade

30. Abraham and the Israelites
Abraham’s Journey The Israelites Journey
 Culture around him
 Set apart?
 Promised land?
 Mistakes?
 Did he ever see His
descendents possess the
promised land?

31. Works Cited
List