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Welcome Back to the Maya April 26, 2013

Welcome Back to the Maya April 26, 2013. DO NOW: Materials Manager: Get History Alive, turn to page 262 Group Leaders: Have your team finish the reading and notes from yesterday. DO NOW. Today’s Objectives. Content:

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Welcome Back to the Maya April 26, 2013

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  1. Welcome Back to the MayaApril 26, 2013 DO NOW: Materials Manager: Get History Alive, turn to page 262 Group Leaders: Have your team finish the reading and notes from yesterday. DO NOW

  2. Today’s Objectives Content: • Identify and discuss important roles and functions of different society members • Learn to use a Mayan calendar • Use the Mayan calendar to identify important dates and days Language: • Explain how Mayan social structure is similar to another cultures social structure

  3. Completing Class Structure • Finishing will be team based • Your team needs to: • Read the section about class structure (page 262-263) • Write 3 important ideas or roles each group in Maya society had in your pyramid • Write a summary paragraph explaining how the Maya social structure is similar to other social structures you have learned about.

  4. April 25, 2013 DO NOW: Everyone: Materials Manager: Get History Alive, turn to page 262 Group Leaders: What kind of events would you write on your calendar? DO NOW

  5. April 26, 2013 DO NOW: Everyone: Turn in homework Materials Manager: Get History Alive, turn to page 266 DO NOW

  6. Odds and Ends • Salsa Verde Cooperative Skill of the Week • Homework

  7. Today’s Objectives Content: • I will learn to use a Mayan calendar • I will use the Mayan calendar to identify important dates and days • I will experience important aspects of Mayan culture, including class structure and slavery, family life, religious practices, and agricultural techniques. Language: • I will explain similarities and differences between Maya religious beliefs and other religions

  8. Today we will experience aspects of Maya religious practices

  9. Pair up in your team • Each Group represents Mayan priests • It is your job to use the Sacred Round, the Mayan ritual calendar, to solve several problems

  10. The Sacred Round-Intro • Religious Calendar • 260 Days • Each day in the ritual is represented by a number (dots/bars) and a glyph (symbol)

  11. The Sacred Round-The Circles • The Smaller Round contains the numbers • What numbers are there? How do you know? • The Larger Round contains the names of the days • How many days are there? • What is this used for? • Priests used the Sacred Round to determine which days were good or bad for certain events

  12. Guide to the Glyphs • Glyph image • Calendar Day Name (pronunciation) • Translation or meaning • You will use these images and meanings to decipher when certain events should take place

  13. Guide to the Glyphs • What day do you think would be the best day for you to be born on? Why?

  14. How to use the Sacred Round • To find the next day on the ritual calendar, carefully rotate the two rounds toward each other fitting the next point into the next notch • Practice: Start with 1 on Imix • What is day 2?

  15. Practice using the Sacred Round • Complete the chart called Sacred Rounds Calculations • What are they? • Day 5? • Day 14? • Day 30? • Day 37? • Day 46?

  16. Go to Information Master 23C • You will be presented with a number of problems that the ruler is asking your advice about • Use your Sacred Rounds and the Guide to Glyphs to come up with what the best days are to complete certain events • You need to explain why you chose what day

  17. Final Questions about Sacred Round • How did it feel to use the Sacred Round to solve problems? • Why do you think Mayan priests were the only people who used the Sacred Round? • What aspects of this experience reinforce what you read about Mayan religious practices?

  18. Final Questions about Sacred Round 4. What are similarities and differences between the Mayan religion and other religions you know about?

  19. ISN: 23.5 Religious Beliefs… • Read section 23.5 • Create a spoke diagram with the title of the section in the middle in your ISN • Write 3 important ideas about each of the following: • •Mayan gods • •offerings and sacrifices • • pok-a-tok • •the Sacred Round

  20. April 30, 2012 DO NOW 1. Materials Manager: Get History Alive 2. Group Leaders: How did it feel to use the Sacred Round to solve problems? DO NOW

  21. Odds and Ends • Salsa Verde Cooperative Skill of the Week • Homework

  22. Today’s Objectives Content: • Read about Maya religious practices • Identify key ideas about Maya religious practices Language: • Explain similarities and differences between Maya religious beliefs and other religions

  23. ISN: 23.5 Religious Beliefs… • Read section 23.5 • Create a spoke diagram with the title of the section in the middle in your ISN • Write 3 important ideas about each of the following: • •Mayan gods • •offerings and sacrifices • • pok-a-tok • •the Sacred Round

  24. ISN: 23.4 Family Life • Read section 23.4 • Imagine that this young Mayan man and woman are seeing each other for the first time. • Complete the thought bubbles by writing at least four more qualities that each hopes the other has to make him or her a good husband or wife. Think carefully about the typical tasks that Mayan women and men complete each day.

  25. ISN: 23.4 Religious Beliefs… • Summary: How is the Maya religion similar and different to your religion. Give 2 reasons each.

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