Wednesday, September 2: Introductions
Thursday, September 3: "Does anybody really know what time it is?"
Friday, September 4: More on Dating the Past
Monday, September 7: LABOR DAY
Tuesday, September 8: "In the beginning" Evolution/ Creationism
Thursday, September 10: Australopitheucs to homo habilis
Friday, September 11: Neanderthals and homo sapiens-sapiens
Monday, September 14: Test - Prehistory (Dating the Past to the Stone Age)
Tuesday, September 15: The Dawn of Civilization
Thursday, September 17 - U.S. CONSTITUTION DAY: Mesopotamia/ Fertile Crescent
Friday, September 18: Cuneiform activity
Monday, September 21: Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Hittites, Phoenicians
Tuesday, September 22: Code of Hammurabi
Thursday, September 24: Hebrews, Lydians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Persians
Friday, September 25: Egypt
Monday, September 28: Egypt - Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom
Tuesday, September 29: Egypt Wrap Up
Thursday, October 1: State Testing - Modern Middle East Map Study
Friday, October 2: Test - Mesopotamia/Fertile Crescent and Egypt
Monday, October 5: Middle East map - more practice
Tuesday, October 6: State Testing - Wednesday Block Schedule - No class
Wednesday, October 7: Middle East Map Quiz - Begin Ancient India
Thursday, October 8: State Testing - Period 6 meets - No Period 8
Friday, October 9: Hinduism and Buddhism
Monday, October 12: COLUMBUS DAY - Early Dismissal -
Tuesday, October 13 - Asoka the Great
Thursday, October 15: Meditation
Friday, October 16: India Quiz
Monday, October 19: Begin Ancient China
Tuesday, October 20: The Mandate of Heaven and Dynastic Cycle
Thursday, October 22: Chinese philosophers Confucius and Lao-tze
Friday, October 23: Teachers from China, guest speakers
Monday, October 26: Chinese philosopher Hanfeizi (Legalism)
Tuesday, October 27: China's first emperor Qin Shi Huangdi
Thursday, October 29: China Wrap-up and Review
Friday, October 30: China Test
Monday, November 2: Begin Ancient Greece: Minoans and Mycenaeans
Tuesday, November 3: Bonds that United Ancient Greece
Thursday, November 5: Persian War and Peloponnesian War
Friday, November 6: Alexander the Great
Monday, November 9: Olympic Review
Tuesday, November 10: Ancient Greece Test #1
Wednesday, November 11: VETERAN'S DAY - NO SCHOOL
Thursday, November 12: Great Greeks
Friday, November 13: WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE
Monday, November 16: More Great Greeks
Tuesday, November 17: Ancient Greece Review
Thursday, November 19: Ancient Greece Test # 2 / Begin Ancient Rome
Friday, November 20:The Roman Republic Overview
Monday, November 23:Roman Expansion to Mare Nostrum
Tuesday, November 24: Roman Republic - Compromise to Civil Wars
Wednesday, November 25: Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, Mark Antony
THANKSGIVING RECESS
Monday, November 30: Review
Tuesday, December 1: Test - The Roman Republic
Thursday, December 3 - The Pax Romana; Good and Bad Emperors
"The world cannot be governed without juggling." John Selden
Thanks Sam B.
Thursday, September 10: Chapter 1, Section 1 - Questions 2-3-5
Tuesday, September 15: Drives, Desires, and DNA - Essay assignment. Refer to the directions given in class.
Thursday, September 17: Civilization Chart - Refer to Chapter 2, Sections 1 and 3.
Friday, September 18: Code of Hammurabi and the Ten Commandments - due Tuesday
Thursday, September 24: Interpretations - Two Ancient Egyptian poems
Monday, September 28: Chapter 2, Section 2 - Student constructed notes
Tuesday, September 29: Mummies, Uncovering a Curse
Wednesday, October 7: Ancient India's Caste System
Friday, October 9: Reflections on Buddha's Eightfold Path
Tuesday, October 13: Holy Cow!!!!!!!! Why is the cow sacred in Hinduism?
Monday, October 26: China Essay due next Monday
Friday, November 6: Ancient Greece Review Questions
Monday, November 9: Great Greeks Matching and Study Guide
Friday, November 20: Chapter 5, Sections 1 and 2 Study Guide Questions
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Fall of Rome - Part 1
Fall of Rome - Part 2
Video Clip from the movie Cleopatra Cleopatra unrolled
Rome Video
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) Cartoon
 Ancient Rome Fling the Teacher
The Romans Penalty Shoot Out
The Roman Empire Walk the Plank
How much do you know about the Romans Walk the Plank
The Romans Challenge Walk the Plank
The Romans Tic Tac Toe
Ancient Rome Match, Concentration, Flashcards, Word Search
Roman Emperors Match, Concentration, Word Search
Roman Republic to Empire
The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Quiz
Famous quotes and funny sayings in Latin
The Roman Empire - PBS
MR. PETRIGNO'S WORLD HISTORY IN THE NEWS Newspaper articles on class topics
Greece Video
Greek music - Zorba the Greek
The Dance - Zorba the Greek
Supertrap -The Logical Song,
Dave Matthew Band - "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry"
Bon Jovi - It's My Life
Avril Lavigne - Complicated "Chill out"
Sum 41 - Still Waiting
Good Charlotte - Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
One Day at a Time TV Theme
Gimme a Break TV Theme
Good Times TV Theme
Ancient Greece Penalty Shootout
Ancient Greece Java Games
The Greeks, Crucible of Civilization
Hercules
The Olympics
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
Ancient Greek History for Kids
BBC-History-Greeks
Socrates - History for Kids
Plato - History for Kids
Aristotle - History for Kids
Hippocratic Oath Classical Version
Hippocratic Oath Modern Version
Hippocrates - History for Kids
What Epicureus really meant. Epicurean Philosophy - History for Kids
Stoicism - History for Kids
More on ....Stoicism
A "tongue-in-cheek" site for cynics The Cynics Sanctuary
MR. PETRIGNO'S WORLD HISTORY IN THE NEWS Newspaper articles on class topics
Asia Map Game Study for upcoming map quiz.
Ancient China Challenge Board
Jason Mraz - Life is wonderful (Live) Think Yin-Yang.
How to eat with chopsticks
Write Chinese.com
Learn how to write Chinese
How to write Chinese characters
Learn Chinese
The Art of Chinese Calligraphy
Learn how to write Chinese numbers 1 -12
Ancient China - British Museum !
Mr Donn's Ancient China This site is for little kids but it's fun.
MR. PETRIGNO'S WORLD HISTORY IN THE NEWS Newspaper articles on class topics
Videos |
Ganga Ma, Mother Ganges
Patna, India Crazy Traffic Ancient Pataliputra
India Video
India's Sacred Cow
John Lennon, Instant Karma "You better get yourself together. Pretty soon you're going to be dead."
Nirvana, Come as You Are Break the cycle of reincarnation and achieve Nirvana.
India Review
AOL News Teen 'Buddha' Returns to Jungle
The Indus Civilization
Khyber Pass Travel Guide
Flute and Sitar Meditational Music from India
Sanskrit, the Classical Language of India
Ancient India - History for Kids
Ancient India - The British Museum
Hinduism, the World's Third Largest Religion
Hindu gods and goddesses
The Religion of Buddhism
How to meditate - A view on Buddhism
How to meditate
MR. PETRIGNO'S WORLD HISTORY IN THE NEWS Newspaper articles on class topics
SNL Steve Martin - King Tut
Steve Martin Live - King Tut
Little kid sings King Tut song- funny!
King Tut's Face Revealed
National Geographic - King Tut's face reconstruction
Ancient Egypt Video
Ancient Egypt Vocabulary
Ancient Egypt Quiz
Egyptian gods and goddesses
Egyptian Hangman
King Tut game
Ancient Egypt Fling the Teacher
See King Tut's Mummy
King Tut and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs Exhibition
King Tut's American tour
Treasures of Tutankhamun
Tour Egypt - The Curse of the Mummy
Discovery Channel Nefertiti's face reconstruction
Discovery Channel - Tracking Nefertiti
Mystery of Egypt's greatest queen solved
Who was Nefertiti?
See Hatshepsut's Mummy
How I found Queen Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut: The Queen Who Would Be King
See the mummy of Rameses the Great
Discovery Channel - Rameses, Wrath of god or man?
Rameses the Great See the world's first peace treaty
Ancient Egypt for Kids This is a fun site.
Ancient Egypt - The British Museum
The Temple of Karnak
Egyptology Online
Great Egypt Site
MR. PETRIGNO'S WORLD HISTORY IN THE NEWS Newspaper articles on class topics
Early Humans Battleship Game
Evolution Homo Sapiens Versus Neaderthals
Neanderthal Man
Song by the band Hot Legs - Neanderthal Man
Born to Be Wild
Neanderthal DNA Secrets Unlocked
Neanderthals on Trial, PBS.org
This is cool. Check out the CroMagnon cave paintings.The Cave of Lascaux
Hominid Species Timeline
Evolution
vs. Creationism
Intelligent Design
MR. PETRIGNO'S WORLD HISTORY IN THE NEWS Newspaper articles on class topics
"Does anybody really know what time it is?"
Calendars Through the Ages
BC/AD vs. BCE/CE studentsfriend.com
Calendars and Their History
Propsosed Calendars
How to Juggle "Ancient, Medieval, and Modern" :-)
MR. PETRIGNO'S WORLD HISTORY IN THE NEWS Newspaper articles on class topics
 Pals from History! Share famous faces with your friends!
International World History ProjectA Collection Of World History Related Essays, Documents, Maps and Music
Today in History
InfoPlease World History Timeline
Find A Grave Link to grave sites of famous and not so famous people.
Merrimack HS students take field trip to Italy Nashua Telegraph
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