INTRODUCTION

• Geschiedenis
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Welcome

Program

• Introduction, classroom rules.
• What is history about?
• Why does history matter?
  
• This year's topics.
• What do you need ?
• Quizzzzz

What is history?

• History is a subject that researches how people lived in the past. 
• Sources give us information about the past.
• The past is divided into time periods and historical periods.

Why is history important?

• History tells you something about who you are.
  
• History helps you to understand why the world around you is as it is.
  
• History teaches you to think about what is true and what isn't.
  
• History teaches you that people have different opinions and ideas.
  
• History teaches you to think about what is right or wrong to do.

This year's topics

• Period 1 - Time of hunters and farmers
• Period 2 - Time of Greeks and Romans 

• Period 3 - Time of monks and knights
• Period 4 - Time of cities and states

How many years is one century?

1. 10
2. 100
3. 1000
4. 50

In which century were you born?

1. 19th
2. 20th
3. 21st
4. 22nd

What is the oldest period in the past?

1. prehistory
2. middle ages
3. industrial revolution
4. world war 2

What century is the year 1111 in?

1. 11th century
2. 2nd century
3. 12th century
4. 111th century

What century is the year 102 BC in?

1. 2nd century BC
2. 2nd century
3. 10th century BC
4. 11th century

What century is the year 1075 in?

1. 11th century
2. 10nd century
3. 9th century
4. 107th century

What does it mean if a date has
no BC and no AD at the end?

1. the date can only be the year 0
2. the date is automatically BC
3. the date can be both AD and BC
4. the date is automatically AD

Which year belongs to the 20th century?

1. 2005 AD
2. 1930 BC
3. 1966
4. 2005

Which year belongs to the fifteenth century?

1. 1492
2. 1576
3. 1430 BC
4. 1688 AD

Last question.....Which year belongs to the
first century BC?

1. 85 BC
2. 103 BC
3. 85
4. 103

Let's get to work

• read 1 Hunters and farmers
• read 1.1 It's about time
• Make exercises 2 up till 7 and 9 

At the end of the lesson you will know ....

• who I am and what the classroom rules are.
• what history is about.
• why history is an important subject.
• which topics you'll be studying this year.
  
• what you need to bring.