Agenda: Week of Sept 2 - Sept 5, 2014

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Summer Reading Unit - Standage - Six Glasses
and
Strayer Unit 1: First Humans, Chapters 1, 2, & 3
Week at a Glance:
MON - LABOR DAY - No School. YES!
TUE - 6 Glasses epilogue; review for the test
WED/THU - TEST: 6 Glasses; Pick up article - "First Americans"
FRI - 1st Americans article due; Socratic Discussion; Crash Course WH #1 Ag Revolution
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MON next week - Quiz Chapter 1 & 2.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Quote: "I am a great believer in luck. I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson
What does Labor Day celebrate? (it's not barbecue or football!) 
Targets:
Examination of the major themes of WHAP:
The course covers these 6 themes:
Theme 1: Interaction Between Humans and the Environment
Theme 2: Development and Interaction of Cultures
Theme 3: State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict
Theme 4: Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems
Theme 5: Development and Transformation of Social Structures

1. How was beer "essential" to human civilization?
2. How did the use of wine in Roman culture differ from that of ancient Greece?
3. Why do Christians Drink Wine and Muslims Do Not?
4. How did Columbian Exchange change the globe?
5. What is colonization and how to British imperial power change the world?
6. How does 'coca-colonization' explain American dominance in the 20th century?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW - Pick up the 6 Glasses Epilogue from the front desk. Annotate. (10 min)
2. Discuss the epilogue: Do you agree with Standage that the most important drink of the present and future is WATER?
3. SPICE CHART: Students will get a SPICE chart. They should use this for each of the six drinks, but especially to compare 2 of them. This will help them study for the test and also prepare for any kind of essay prompt.
3. Quick informative quiz - what words should be associated with each of the six drinks Standage refers to in his book? (Example, Age of Reasoning = Coffee)
Mark Phillips speaks with Tom Standage, the author of "A History of the World in 6 Glasses," about the influence of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and cola from the stone-age until the present.

Bring your notes, 3 ring binder, and your brain to class. We will use them in class each day. 
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Wednesday, Sept 3, 2014 & Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014
Quote: "Unless you pay the price for success, you will not know it's worth." - Apoorve Dubey

Part 1 - First Things First Beginnings in History, to 500 BCE
To familiarize students with the spread of human societies in the Paleolithic era
To explore the conditions of life in gathering and hunting societies
To examine factors that eventually led to change in the gathering and hunting societies 

How do we know our past, before writing?
Essential Questions:
1. What is the significance of the Paleolithic era in world history?
2. In what ways did various Paleolithic societies differ from one another, and how did they change over time?
3. What statements in this chapter seem to be reliable and solidly based on facts, and which ones are more speculative and uncertain?
4. How might our attitudes toward the modern world influence our assessment of Paleolithic societies?

Agenda:
1. TEST - Summer Reading - A History of the World in Six Glasses
2. Read Article: First Humans "Finding the First Humans: When and how did the first humans arrive in the Americas?" 
3. Video: The Incredible Human Journey: Part I by Dr. Alice Roberts
In the first episode of the Incredible Human Journey, Roberts introduces the idea that genetic analysis suggests that all modern humans are descended from Africans. She visits the site of the Omo remains in Ethiopia, which are the earliest known anatomically modern humans. She visits the San people of Namibia to demonstrate the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. In South Africa, she visits Pinnacle Point, to see the cave in which very early humans lived. She then explains that genetics suggests that all non-Africans may descend from a single, small group of Africans who left the continent tens of thousands of years ago. She explores various theories as to the route they took. She describes the Jebel Qafzeh remains in Israel as a likely dead end from a crossing of Suez, and sees a route across the Red Sea and around the Arabian coast as the more probable route for modern human ancestors, especially given the lower sea levels of the past

Assignment: 
Review the notes from Unit 1, either by presentation or Mr. Duez's video. Read Strayer Chapters 1 and 2. Use the Target Sheet for Unit 1. Know your vocabulary for the quiz - along with hand written notes.
Bring your notes, 3 ring binder, and your brain to class. We will use them in class each day. 
Quiz over Chapter 1 and 2 on Monday.
Dr. Alice Roberts: her incredibly inquisitive nature leads her to Africa to discover the beginning of our Human Journey.
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Friday, Sept. 6, 2013
Quote: “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

Part 1 - First Things First Beginnings in History, to 500 BCE
To familiarize students with the spread of human societies in the Paleolithic era
To explore the conditions of life in gathering and hunting societies
To examine factors that eventually led to change in the gathering and hunting societies 

1. What is the significance of the Paleolithic era in world history?
2. In what ways did various Paleolithic societies differ from one another, and how did they change over time?
3. What statements in this chapter seem to be reliable and solidly based on facts, and which ones are more speculative and uncertain?
4. How might our attitudes toward the modern world influence our assessment of Paleolithic societies?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW - In what ways, and why, did the Chumash culture differ from that of the San? (Strayer p. 29)
2. Socratic Text Based DiscussionFirst Humans "Finding the First Humans: When and how did the first humans arrive in the Americas?" 
3. Crash Course WH Video: If time remains, watch & discuss: Crash Course World History #1 - Agricultural Revolution
Assignment: 
Review the notes from Unit 1, either by presentation or Mr. Duez's video. Read Strayer Chapters 1 and 2. Use the Target Sheet for Unit 1. Know your vocabulary for the quiz - along with hand written notes.
Bring your notes, 3 ring binder, and your brain to class. We will use them in class each day. 
Quiz over Chapter 1 and 2 on Monday.