important info on the week ahead

After a week which saw an early dismissal AND  two days off, I feel like we are going to finally see a normal week of school (fingers crossed!).  If we do, here's what it should look like.

Sections 1 and 7 

• Monday and Tuesday - more info on Egypt 
• Wednesday - test on Prehistory, Mesopotamia, and ancient Egypt
• Friday - on to ancient Greece!

Section 3

• Tuesday and Wednesday - more info on Egypt 
• Thursday - test on Prehistory, Mesopotamia, and ancient Egypt
• Friday - on to ancient Greece!

And now, a few corrections and clarifications to the PowerPoint presentation from class:

• anatomically modern humans have existed for around 200,000 years, originating in southwestern Africa; the process of evolving into this Homo Sapiens species took approximately 2.5 million years
• Sumerians did invent the earliest known form of writing, consisting of wedge-shaped impressions in clay tablets, forming pictographs - the correct spelling of this is "cuneiform"
• the Nile River is over 4000 miles long (4258 miles, to be exact), making it the longest river in the world

Feel free to make corrections to your notes and blogs.