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With
great excitement, we are pleased to announce
We're
Published!

Our Curriculum
Books (units with daily lessons and classroom activities)
and
Our
Presentations in PowerPoint format
From a Teacher who bought our books (our first
feedback!)
"Your units are exactly what I had hoped for--readable, interesting
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that fit my curriculum objectives with lots of structured activities to bring
it alive.
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Ancient History
Lesson Plans & Information Sections
authored by us
FAQs
Mr.
Donn's Ancient History Lesson Plans
& Units
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Ancient
Mesopotamia Unit
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Early & Classical
Greece Units
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Ancient
Greek Olympics Mini-Unit: A Simulation for the Classroom (3-5 days) with
city-state backgrounds, and events
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Egypt
Bingo Test review game
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Can you
save the Roman Republic? Lesson Plan, Ancient
Rome.
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First Unit
Test: Ancient Rome
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Buddhist, Taoist,
Confucianist, Legalist; how would each behave when faced with the same
problems? Lesson Plan, Ancient China
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Debates on
Censorship: (2-3 days) Qin (Ch'in)
Dynasty, debate set in modern times. Lesson Plan, Ancient China
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Lesson
Ideas (some ours, some emailed to us) Easy to implement and
very creative.
Mrs. Donn's Special Sections
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The Life &
Times of Early Man
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Daily Life
in Ancient Civilizations (Index)
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Daily Life in
Ancient Mesopotamia/Sumer/Babylon/Assyria
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Daily
Life in Ancient Egypt
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Daily Life in Ancient Ireland, Scotland,
Wales (Iron Age Celts)
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Daily Life
in Ancient Greece
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Daily Life
in Ancient Rome
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Daily Life
in Ancient China
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Daily Life
in Ancient India
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Daily Life in Ancient
Mongolia
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Daily Life
in the Middle Ages
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Daily Life in
Medieval Africa - Ghana, Mali, Songhay, Benin
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The Inca Empire (the
Incas)
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The
Maya Empire (The Mayas)
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Native
Americans in Olden Times
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Deep in the Tombs
of Egypt Two of our people have disappeared -
Deep in the Tombs of Egypt!
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The Chinese Calendar
(zodiac)
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The
Three Teachings (Confucianism, Taoism/Daoism, Buddhism)
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Ancient Roots, Modern
Holidays Mini-histories, lesson ideas, activities for
the classroom for holidays
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Ancient Money
- How Money Started
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The
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World in Word and in PowerPoint
format
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Free
Presentations in PowerPoint format retold by us;
illustrated by Phillip Martin
Early Humans (Lucy,
Neanderthals, Cro-Magnon and more!)
Rameses II (Egypt)
Hermes & Apollo (Greece)
Nero at the Circus Maximus (Rome)
Nero Goes Insane (Rome)
Ancient Chinese Dragons (China)
Warrior Well (China/Mongolia)
The Story of Mulan (China)
The Hero Twins (Mayas)
The
Invisible Warrior (Woodland Indians Cinderella)
The
Seven Wonders (Index)
Great
Pyramid at Giza
Hanging
Gardens of Babylon
Statue of
Zeus at Olympia
Temple
of Artemis at Ephesus
Mausoleum
at Halicarnassus
Colossus
of Rhodes
Lighthouse
at Alexandria
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Ancient Myths & Folktales retold by
us (Word format)
The
Legend of Gilgamesh (Sumerian)
How Marduk Became the King of ALL the Gods (Babylonian)
Theseus
and the Minotaur (Minoan/Greek)
Little Io
(Greek Version) & Little
Io (Roman Version)
The
Legend of Romulus and Remus (Ancient Rome)
Horatius
at the Bridge (Ancient Rome)
The Punic Wars &
Hannibal of Carthage (Ancient Rome)
Anansi the
Spider (Africa, Ghana)
The Lion's Whisker
(Africa, Kush/Nubia)
Loawnu the
Wise Woman (Xia Times, Ancient China)
Wang the Peddler (Han Times, Ancient
China)
The Warrior
Well (Ancient Mongolia)
The Hero Twins
(Maya)
Place of the
Prickly Pear Cactus (Aztec)
Journey of a Princess (Aztec)
Clever
Coyote (Comanche Buffalo Myth)
Child of
Water and Little Blue Rock (Apache Myth)
Wise
Owl (Iroquois Myth)
How
Raven Stole Crow's Potlatch (Northwest Coastal Pacific Myth)
Happy Together
(Russian Folktale)
Counter start date January 2006
Clip Art Credit: Phillip Martin
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