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Give Them Mnemonic Strategies

Help them learn how to help themselves in remembering material. Teach them the strategies of rehearsal
(using repetition of material to remember it), elaboration (relating material to their own experiences),
outlining (organizing material in a hierarchical way to remember the most important themes and the
evidence that supports them).

Review

• Good writing starts with the physical act of writing—use a variety of strategies to help younger
students develop their dexterity and confidence in putting pen (or crayon) to the page.

• Good writing and good reading are inexorably linked. Helping them read means helping them write
and vice versa.

• Know how to employ dialogue journals, conference writing, guided writing, and other strategies to
help more advanced students.

• Be familiar with and be able to promote good research habits in your students.

Recommended Resources

The Everyday Writer: A Brief Reference. (Andrea Lunsford and Robert Connors): Bedford/St. Martin's
Press, 2001.

The Elements of Style. (William Strunk, Jr. and E.B. White): Macmillan Publishing Co., 1999.

The Deluxe Transitive Vampire : A Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager and the
Doomed.(Karen Elizabeth Gordon): Pantheon, 1993.

The New Well-Tempered Sentence : A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the
Doomed (Karen Elizabeth Gordon): Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

World History

Ancient Cultures

Lesson Objective

The next several lessons will compress a lot of time into relatively few pages, but it will help you brush
up on the who, what, where, when, and why of world history.

In this section, we want to give you a chance to review your knowledge of the Sumerians, Alexander
the Great, the ancient Greeks, and all the other bits of knowledge that you may not have studied
since college. To begin, let’s start with some of the great civilizations of the ancient East and Middle
East.