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Tell a historic story with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details while speaking audibly in coherent sentences. Use information gained from timelines, primary sources and informational text. (C, G, H, P) Suggestions are as follows: Mesopotamia including the creation of the written alphabet; important technologies of China such as bronze casting, silk manufacture, gunpowder and the invention of paper; The Great Wall of China; Marco Polo and trade along the Silk Route; 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, and current events.