Name: _______________________

Ancient India Summative Assessment

1.2 Students will understand the role that religion plays in the development of ancient civilizations. Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow. Remember that you need to think about how RELIGION played a role in Ancient India.
Jeffrey was a member of the Sudra caste in Ancient India. As a Hindu & Sudra he was born to serve in anothers household as a slave just as his parents were. Jeffrey did not want to be a slave and though he performed many of the tasks given to him, he would often steal food and other items from his masters house. Additionally, Jeffrey would often mutter bad things about his master, a high caste Brahmin, underneath his breath when told to do things. Jeffrey just wanted to leave the house where he served and become a wealthy merchant. One day, Jeffrey stole money from his master and ran away from home to become a merchant but he was caught by the authorities before he could leave town. He knew he was wrong and begged for forgiveness from his master. However, his master refused his requests of forgiveness and ordered him to die. One week after he was caught, Jeffrey was executed for theft.

1. What was his caste? _______________________________________________ 2. What was his dharma?______________________________________________ 3. What actions would gave him good karma?___________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 4. Would this person move up or down in the caste system? Explain using Hinduism and the caste system as your justification. ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________
1.2 - Students will understand the role that religion plays in the development of ancient civilizations. 4 3.5 3 2.5 2 1.5 1 Students will be able Students will be able to Students will be able to Student needs to apply their use their knowledge of identify concepts of more help knowledge of ancient ancient religion to explain ancient religion and identifying religion to explain how how it shapes society. partially explain how it concepts of Creates power, identity, it shapes society in shapes society. ancient religion social class, explanation of new and different and explaining events, reflect a value situations. how it shapes system, impacts history Making connections, society.
creating their own system, etc.

Name: _______________________ Directions: 1. Using the image of man to the left label the different levels of the caste system based on the body parts that are indicated by the arrows. 2. Once you have correctly labeled, fill out the chart below!

Question

Answer

Did the caste system treat all Indians equally? Explain.

Did the caste system offer hope to its followers? Explain.

Explain how the caste system is justified through Hinduism.

4 Students will understand the role that social systems play in the development of ancient civilizations.

3.5

Students will be able to apply their knowledge of ancient social systems to explain how they shaped societies in new and different situations.

Making connections, creating their own system, etc.

3 2.5 2 Students will be Students will be able to use their able to identify knowledge of concepts of ancient social ancient social systems to explain systems and how they shaped partially explain society. how they shaped Create order, society.
organizes people, assigns roles, reflects value system

1.5 1 Students needs more help identifying concepts of ancient social systems and explaining how they shaped society.

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Article Analysis 2.3 Students will connect the contributions of the Ancient Indian civilization to the modern world.
KEEZHAIVANAGIRI, India -- Muthu Vellaithevan, a farm laborer who is part of India's untouchable caste, lost seven goats and a cow when massive waves lashed at his coastal village on Dec. 26. The water also swept away his thatch-roofed mud hut. But he said his real problems began after the water receded, when he and his people found themselves the targets of aid discrimination by the fishermen of his village. "Forty families from my community took shelter in a school building outside the village," recalled Vellaithevan, 35, a father of three. "But in two days, the fishermen's families at the shelter began troubling us. They did not allow us to sleep and eat with them. They did not want to be under the same roof with us. We were forced to leave. Our homes were destroyed and our children were hungry. Where could we go?" The Indian constitution outlaws the country's 3,000-year-old caste system, in which society is organized into groups ranked in a strict hierarchy. But many Indians retain the system mentally. Untouchables are at the bottom of the rural social order; people of other castes often consider them to be unclean and refuse any contact with them.

5. Explain the main idea of this article. __________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ____ 6. Look at this issue through a historical lens. Even though there are laws against this system now, how does it still have an impact on people? Be sure to reference ancient India in your response._______________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________

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4 3.5 3
I can define key contributions, use examples from two eras to demonstrate how that contribution has changed over time

Social class, religion, etc.

Students will connect the contributions of the Ancient Indian civilization to the modern world.

I can compare and contrast key contributions over time and demonstrate what it implies about both societies.

Make predictions, make connections, apply ancient contributions today

2.5 2 I can identify key contributions and partially use them to connect the Ancient Indians to the modern world.

1.5 1 I need more help identifying key contributions of the Ancient Indians and connecting them to the modern world.

Students will read to identify main ideas and point-of-view from written sources.

4 Students can identify main ideas, analyze point-ofview, and determine historical significance of written sources

Importance of document, precedence, original interpretation

3 Students can identify main ideas and point-of-view from written sources.

Fact v conjecture, evidence v assertion, bias, context

2 Students can partially identify main ideas and point-of-view from written sources.

1 Student needs more help identifying main ideas and point-ofview from written source