Intro to Hammurabi’s Code DBQWindy MulderHorizon Middle School

Yay! It’s Wednesday!Please write down today’s agenda in your

planner The planner stamper will be the person who

comes closest to guessing my birthday

Warm Up In complete sentences, answer this question:

How do we learn what is fair?

Monkey VideoHow do monkeys know what is fair?

Defining TermsThink-Pair-Share

Think about the terms justice and fairnessDiscuss with your table groups what those

terms meanShare with the class/write on the white board

what you think those terms mean

What Is Justice?With your table partners, read Case A and Case

B on the What Is Justice? page. In each case, consider justice in three ways:

Is the outcome fair to the accused? Is the outcome fair to the victim? Is the outcome in the best interest of the

general society?

Unit Intro

Explanation of summative

How do we get there?

Who is this Hammurabi dude and why do I need to learn about him?

Vocabulary You Will Need To KnowCity-state: an independent city, sometimes

walled, and often including the territory around it

Vocabulary You Will Need To KnowBabylonia: the kingdom ruled by Hammurabi.

It included a number of city-states and was located in Mesopotamia, along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers

Vocabulary You Will Need To KnowMesopotamia: a region in the Middle East that

included modern-day Iraq and sections of modern-day Turkey, Iran, and Syria. Mesopotamia means “land between two rivers”

Vocabulary You Will Need To KnowCuneiform: a kind of writing used in Sumer

and Babylonia. Letters were carved into stone or soft clay with a stylus, which looked like a chopstick

Vocabulary You Will Need To KnowStele: an upright stone slab or pillar, often

bearing an inscription

Background EssayRead essay and answer questions