We introduced our class today with a discussion on ¨life expectancy¨--for the ancient caveman and for today´s Costa Rican. The point being that people died young then, because life was not easy.
Students did a great job of using the glossary to define new terms and showed discipline in their highlighting strategies.
One of the words that came up frequently was ¨gatherers.¨ This jived with the key question of ¨why were people nomadic?¨ Well, it took many years for Early Man to learn to farm, so he had to hunt for his meat and gather (collect) all other types of food. In any given area, the meat and non-meat food resources were eventually exhausted, forcing Man to move on to new territory.
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