Warm-ups are given to the students each day at the beginning of class. The students are expected to read the warm-up question on the board and then answer it in at least one paragraph. After approximately 10 minutes-15 minutes of writing, the question is discussed with the whole class. This discussion gives the students the opportunity to add to their answers if they so choose. At the end of the week, the warm-ups are turned in to the teacher for credit. The grade is determined by the number of questions answered and the quality of the answers. Students may make up or redo the questions for a better grade.

Week of 9/2 (Practice)

1. What are some good rules to have in class. Why are they necessary?

2. Remembering your materials shows responsibility. What is responsibility and why is it important?

3. What are five of the most important events in your life?



Week of 9/8

4. What is Social Studies? Why is Social Studies important to study?

5. What is geography? Why is geography important to study?

6. Describe the area around your home or school.

7. What have we learned from the events which occured on September 11, 2001?



Week of 9/15

8. In geography, what is Location? Explain.

9. In geography, what is Movement? Explain.

10. In geography, what is Human/Evironment Interaction? Explain.

11. In geography, what is Place and Region? Explain.



Week of 9/22

12. Why is neatness and organization important?

13. Why is teamwork important?

14. Describe what a neat paper should look like.

15. What materials do you need to bring to class everyday?



Week of 9/29

16. What is the proper procedure for entering and beginning class?

17. Why is it important to learn about the past?

18. What kind of resource information is found in the back sections of your social studies book?

19. What are primary sources? What are secondary sources? Explain.



Week of 10/6

20. Describe how Early Man (Primitive Man, Caveman, etc.) is viewed by society. Give examples.

21. Why was walking upright and controlling fire important in the history of mankind?

22. What does prehistoric art tell us about Early Man?

23. Why was the development of language important?



Week of 10/13

24. What is a society? Describe the society of Early Man.

25. Describe the development of tools, How were they created?

26. What were some of the problems Hunter-Gatherers may have had?

27. What are some good class rules when there is a substitute teacher?



Week of 10/20

28. In the Mesolithic Era, why were shelters important? What were they made of?

29. Explain why Early man was able to migrate around the globe.

30. What are the three parts of the Stone Age? How are they different?

31. Describe religion in the Neolithic Era.



Week of 10/27

32. How did animals play a part in the Neolithic Era?

33. What were some positives and negatives of the Agricultural (Neolithic) Revolution?

34. Describe Catal Huyuk.

35. What scares you?

Additional Question
Period 1 only----What is Diversity? Why is it a good thing?


Week of 11/3

36. How can your clothes tell about who you are?

37. What are the characteristics of a good president?

38. From the information we have, describe the personality of the Iceman.

39. What is Diversity? Why is it a good thing?

Additional Question
Period 1 only----Explain why we vote.


Week of 11/10

40. Why do we honor Veterans?

41. What procedures do we follow in school for an emergency such as fire, earthquake and lockdown?

42. Why did people settle in Mesopotamia? What problems did they have?.

Additional Question
Period 6 and 7 only----What do we do to prepare for an earthquake at home?


Week of 11/17

43. What was religion like in Sumer?

44. What is Cuneiform and how was it used?

45. Who was Sargon? What did he do?

46. Describe the types of buildings found in Sumer.


Week of 12/1

47.Who was Hammurabi? What did he do?

48. How were battles fought in ancient Mesopotamia? What weapons did they use?

49. Who were the Assyrians? What did they do?

50. Who were the Phoenicians? What did they do?


Week of 12/8

51. What do you know about Egypt?

52. Explain why the Egyptian civilization developed near the Nile River.

53. Describe the geography of the Nile.

54. Have you or someone you know ever been bullied? What happened?


Week of 12/15

55. In Ancient Egypt, how are the government and religion related?

56. Who was Menes? What did he do?

57. What was society like in Ancient Egypt. What is a social pyramid?

58. What is a bully? What are the traits of a bully?



Week of 1/5 and 1/12

59. How did the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom think about the Pharaoh? How did they treat them?

60.If you could be anyone in the Old Kingdom of Egyptian society, besides the pharaoh, who would you like to be? Who wouldn’t you like to be? Explain your answer.

61. How did the Ancient Egyptians worship the gods?

62. Who was Queen Hatshepsut? What did she do?
Alternate question --Why is it important for CPMA to have a good Reputation?



Week of 1/19

63. What changes would you like to see happen in the United States during your lifetime?

64. Besides the pharaoh, what job would you have like to have done in ancient Egypt? Why? What were the duties of this job?

65. Describe family life in Ancient Egypt.



Week of 1/26

66. Describe Egyptian writing What is it called? What materials did they use?

67. Who were the following people: Mines, Khufu, Tutankhamen, Hatshepsut, Ramses II? What is each famous for?

68. How did regular people help the Civil rights movement of the 60's?.

69. What changes are you going to make in yourself in order to do better second semester?


End of First Semester Warm-ups.

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