Grade 1 - Early world Civilizations

20 Early World Civilizations: Supplemental Guide 1 | A Father and His Son in Mesopotamia

Exercise Materials Details

Discussing the Read-Aloud (15 minutes)

Comprehension Questions world map or globe

Word Work: Trade drawing paper, drawing tools

 Complete Remainder of the Lesson Later in the Day

Extensions (20 minutes)

Multiple Meaning Word

Activity: Banks

Poster 1M (Banks)

Syntactic Awareness Activity:

Singular Personal Pronouns

Vocabulary Instructional

Activity: Exclaimed

Early World Civilizations Chart Image Cards 1, 2;

Instructional Masters 1B-1, 1B-2;

tape; chart paper

A graphic organizer of the Early World

Civilizations Chart for Mesopotamia

(Instructional Master 1B-1) has been

included for students to fill out with the

class chart. Students may choose to

cut images from the Image Sheet for

Mesopotamia (Instructional Master 1B-2)

and paste them onto their chart.

Take-Home Material

Family Letter Instructional Masters 1B-3–1B-5

Advance Preparation

You may wish to fi nd additional images and pictures as well as

short videos of Mesopotamia, fertile lands, canals, Euphrates

River, Tigris River, and Babylon.

For Domain Introduction, create a T-Chart like the one that follows.

Note: Items within the chart are suggestions. You may wish to

come up with your own items to include in the chart or have

students think of additional items. Continue fi lling in this chart

throughout this domain.