Introduction

• Geschiedenis
• Middelbare school
• mavo
• Leerjaar 2

Today's lesson:

• What do you need to bring?
• How does the planner work? 
• What is important in History?
• Explanation of Ch.1.1.
• Time to work.

What do you need to bring?

• You'll need both your books: A workbook and the textbook.
• You'll need a notebook.
• You come prepared in the lesson. So your homework is finished. 
• You talk English to me, and to each other. And also if you send me a message.

How does the planner work?

Time periods:

• Within the first two years we are going to study period 1 till 9.
• And in this 3rd period we're going to study....
• Yes, one and two.

Important words

• Someone who has studied history.
• Something that happend.
• A graphical representation of a period of time.
• the arrangement of events in the right order.
• One hundred years.
• Before Christ and Anno Domini. How the Western world measures time.

historian

event

timeline

chronology

century

BC and AD

Measuring time

• In history we like to work with ages, but how does it work?
• And of course we love timelines!

Let's start.

• Go to page 6 and 7 in your textbook.
• Go to page 5 in your workbook. We do exercise 1 together.
• Do exercise 2 and 3 in pairs in 3 minutes.
• We are going to check the answers.

Learning objectives

• I know where humans came from.

1. Where was Lucy discovered.
2. Why was the discovery so important.
3. How much of her skeleton was found?
4. How old was Lucy when she died?
5. How many years ago did Lucy live?

Hominid = a species between ape and human.

Human origins

Take notes:

• For thousands of years people believed God made humans.
• Darwin (1809 - 1882) came to a different scientific explanation.
• Evolution the slow change and devolpment of species.

Go to work

• Read page 8 and 9.
• Do exercise 1 , 2 , 3 and 5 of Ch 1.1 in pairs or in a group of three. You can quietly discus with the person next to you