BELLRINGERS THIRD QUARTER 2013 2014 3 rd Quarter

BELLRINGERS THIRD QUARTER 2013 -2014

3 rd Quarter Bellringers Due TBD To earn full credit on this assessment you must… • Write down each and every bellringer with the proper heading (Bellringer # then the date). • Write down the question as it is written on the board. • Write down your answer. • If your answer is wrong then it should be corrected because we went over it in class. • On the following slides you will find the latest bellringers. There will be more… Not all the pictures, sounds, and video will carry over to this post because it would take up too much space. In some cases the answer is on the slide in others I put the answers on the white board in the classroom. It is the student’s responsibility to make sure that they are writing the answers down and correcting their work. If you are missing answers I suggest talking to a seat partner or a study buddy.

Bellringer #1 1/8/14 Are we like them? Explain. HAVE YOUR PACKETS OPEN TO PAGE 6!

Bellringer #2 January 9 th 2014! WRITE THIS DOWN! Keystone-the wedge-shaped stone at the highest point of an arch that locks the others in place

Bellringer #3 1/13/14 1. Get out your homework. The word Punic means Phoenician. Why are the wars between and Carthage was Rome originally Carthage called the Punic set up as a Phoenician Wars? colony.

Bellringer #4 1/14/14 Roman ships were called quinqueremes These ships had five levels of rowers and were the fastest vessels of their time. Corvus

Bellringer #5 1/15/14 Punic Wars Paragraph One The Greek king Pyrrhus _______ came to Italy to Greek colonists. He was help the _______ driven out of Italy by Roman troops and then sailed to the island of Sicily ____. The Greeks were also being attacked by the Carthaginians _________on the island of Sicily. Carthage _______ and _____teamed up to Rome defeat the Greeks and take over the island of Sicily. GET OUT HOMEWORK! Carthaginians / Carthage / Greek / Pyrrhus / Sicily / Rome

Paragraph Two Carthage The alliance between Rome ______and ____ faded because Rome felt threatened. Sicily Both wanted control of _______ in order to control trade on the _______ Mediterranean Sea. Rome set up a base of operations at ______ while Carthage set up their Syracuse base of operations in ________. Agrigentum war A _____was about to begin between Rome and Carthage. War / Sicily/ Syracuse / Mediterranean/ Agrigentum / Carthage/ Rome

Paragraph THREE Over the first several months of the Punic war______and _______ battles, ______ sieges, disease, famine inflicted heavy losses on both Rome and Carthage. Rome defeated Carthage in a Agrigentum land battle at _________ Carthage were master ______and shipbuilders Sailors _____and they wanted to fight sea Rome on the______. Sea/ sailors/ shipbuilders/ land / famine/ disease/ battles/ sieges/ Agrigentum

Paragraph Four corvus • Rome invented the _____it was a drawbridge that allowed soldiers to fight a land _______like battle on a boat. The Romans used quinqueremes ________ which was a boat with five levels of rowers. ROME ____wins the first Punic war. Corvus/ quinqueremes/ Rome/ land /

Bellringer #6 1/23/14 President Barack Obama was elected on the promise of change. What is another name for change? Vocab- Reform = Change

All you need to do is write this down quietly, pick up your new packet and a textbook, and hand in your homework Bellringer#7 1/27/14

Bellringer #8 1/28/14 Read Caesar: Three Views (page 5). Then you will be assigned a role: 1. Soldier 2. Worker 3. Senator You will write one paragraph about how you are either for or against Julius Caesar. Make sure to explain your position!

BELLRINGER #9 1/29/14 Complete the following statement If you’re stuck see page 4! Julius Caesar is for the plebs because…

BELLRINGER #10 1/30/14 Complete the following statement If you’re stuck see page 4! Julius Caesar is against the patricians because…

Bellringer #11 1/31/14 Document-based questions What did Julius Caesar mean when he said, “It is not these well -fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungrylooking”? The “pale and hungry-looking” are more likely to riot which would lead to instability in Rome.

Bellringer #12 2/12/14 Caesar Augustus (Octavian) , the first Roman emperor, ruled for 45 years. Rome went on to greatness under the Empire, but the Roman Republic was no more. For 45 years, Rome was at peace. This period is the beginning of the Pax Romana, Romana or Roman Peace. YES, YOU NEED TO WRITE THIS DOWN. PICK UP PAPERS!

Bellringer #13 2/21/14 READ PAGE ONE OF THE POMPEII PACKET QUIETLY. THEN COMPLETE THIS BELLRINGER. Why do people live near Mount Vesuvius knowing that it could erupt again?

Bell Ringer #14 2/26/14 • Jesus claimed he was the son of god which angered the Roman Emperor (divine spirit). • Jesus claimed to be the King of the were the Christians Jews. Why which angered the Roman Emperor persecuted by the Romans? • Christians were blamed for the decline of Rome’s economy.

Bellringer#15 March 17 th What is Chivalry? The qualities of an ideal knight- the combination of qualities expected of the ideal medieval knight, especially courage, honor, loyalty, and consideration for others, especially women.