Friday May 20th

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Wednesday may 18

Malinché: Aztec Traitor?

Monday May 16th

Fight Card:

Example of a Fight Card

You'll need:

• A Catchy Title
• Aggressive Pictures of Both Warriors
• Accomplishments
• Time of the Fight (Historically of Course)
• Advantages/Disadvantages of the Aztecs and Spaniards

Thursday May 12

Tuesday May 10th

Friday May 6

Wed May 4

2 Map 2 Square

2 Map 2 Square

Create a 2 square with your paper (fold your paper in half). Draw a line down the crease. You will draw 2 maps.

The first map drawn will be the Migration to the Americas found on page 386 of your text book.  

Show:

• The possible land routes
• The possible sea routes

Label:

The Continents The Oceans The Compass

The Bering Land Bridge Mayan Empire p. 391 The Aztec Empire  p. 411 Incan Empire p. 423

The Second Map drawn will show the Maya Empire.

Draw:

·        Major Cities

·        Roads

·        Distances

·        The continent/area where they lived

·        Natural resources like Cacao, Jade , Cotton, and Obsidian

·        A key for the resources, roads, distance, cities

Shade:

• The area where the people lived

The Paper

THE PAPER

You are a news writer for a publication that records the events, culture, and achievements of the ancient civilizations of the Americas.  You are to write an article, a classified advertisement and possibly a cartoon or commercial advertisement, if you are up to the challenge.

You will be assigned a topic to cover regarding each major ancient civilization of the Americas; Mayas, Aztecs, Incas. 

The paper will be named according to anonymous suggestions added to a box.  The best or most frequent ideas will be voted on to be the title of the paper.

After gathering information from careful research and summarizing, you will undertake the task of writing your article.  After you are finished writing, you will submit your article to the section editor to be evaluated for content and grammar.  Then each section editor will submit their gathered articles to the editor in chief for the final cut.  Finally, you will word-process your article

Monday May 2