Hammurabi Worksheet & Textbook Notes

Today in class, we finished the paper on Hammurabi's code. On the worksheet, we did the personal response and today we wrote Hammurabi's punishments to the specific scenarios. Most of the scenarios' punishments were being put to death which surprised me how harsh the punishments were. Some of the punishments are even to cut the hands or an ear of the person who did wrong. Then, we turned in that paper. After we turned in the homework we had last night on more Hammurabi's Code. I feel pretty good on that homework because it was a bunch of short answer questions. Then, after we turned everything in, we got back the homework paper and I got an 8/8 which is awesome! Then, we started to take notes on the textbook. I didn't get to write a lot of notes because we were all talking about the notes. Here are the notes that I was able to take:

• chapter 2 section 2: Pyramids on the Nile
• main idea: using math knowledge and engineering skills, Egyptians built magnificent monuments to honor dead rulers
• why it matters now: many of the monuments built by the Egyptians stand as a testament to their ancient civilizations