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Agenda: Week of Jan. 7-10, 2014

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 4: THE EARLY MODERN WORLD 1450–1750
Chapter 14 -- Empires and Encounters, 1450–1750
Chapter 15 -- World Commerce, 1450-1750

WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - NO SCHOOL
TUE - 40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 min; Intro Unit 4 & CH 14-15; Begin America Before Columbus, Part II
WED/THU - Finish America Before Columbus, Part II; Discuss video
FRI - Quiz Ch 14; Discussion of Russian Empire & Fur Trade
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Quote of the Day: "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." - Oprah Winfrey

Learning Targets:
• Explain the differences in the variety of empires of the early modern period
• Explain how empire building was not just a Western European phenomenon
• Compare and Contrast the range of colonial societies that evolved and the reasons for differences between them
• Analyze the massive social reordering that attended European colonization in the Western Hemisphere

1. What enabled Europeans to carve out huge empires an ocean away from their homelands?
2. What large-scale transformations did European empires generate?
3. What was the economic foundation of colonial rule in Mexico and Peru? How did it shape the kinds of societies that arose there?
4. How did the plantation societies of Brazil and the Caribbean differ from those of southern colonies in British North America?
5. What distinguished the British settler colonies of North America from their counterparts in Latin America? 
6. In what different ways was European colonial rule expressed and experienced in the Americas? 
7. Why did the European empires in the Americas have such an enormously greater impact on the conquered people than did the Chinese, Mughal, and Ottoman empires? 
8. In what ways did the empires of the early modern era continue patterns of earlier empires? In what ways did they depart from those patterns?

Agenda:
1. Do Now - New Seats on Chart. Plus, In what ways did Columbian Exchange change/impact the world?
3. Notes, Discussion, & Video - Introduction to European Expansion, Colonies in the Americas, & Columbian Exchange.
4. Begin video with guiding questions: America Before Columbus, part II. 

 Assignment: Read through the notes for Chapter 14 and 15 (notes link above). Quiz on Chapter 15 on Monday. Test on 14 and 15 next Friday.
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Wednesday and Thursday, January 8 & 9, 2014
Quote of the Day: "New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time."  - James Agate

Learning Targets:
• Explain the differences in the variety of empires of the early modern period
• Explain how empire building was not just a Western European phenomenon
• Compare and Contrast the range of colonial societies that evolved and the reasons for differences between them
• Analyze the massive social reordering that attended European colonization in the Western Hemisphere

1. What enabled Europeans to carve out huge empires an ocean away from their homelands?
2. What large-scale transformations did European empires generate?
3. What was the economic foundation of colonial rule in Mexico and Peru? How did it shape the kinds of societies that arose there?
4. How did the plantation societies of Brazil and the Caribbean differ from those of southern colonies in British North America?
5. What distinguished the British settler colonies of North America from their counterparts in Latin America? 
6. In what different ways was European colonial rule expressed and experienced in the Americas? 
7. Why did the European empires in the Americas have such an enormously greater impact on the conquered people than did the Chinese, Mughal, and Ottoman empires? 
8. In what ways did the empires of the early modern era continue patterns of earlier empires? In what ways did they depart from those patterns?

Agenda:
2. Finish the video America Before Columbus, Part II. Afterwards, discuss the viewing questions and where Strayer's text is similar to the video and where it departs.

 Assignment: Read through the notes for Chapter 14 and 15 (notes link above). Quiz on Chapter 15 on Monday. Test on 14 and 15 next Friday.
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Friday, January 10, 2014
Quote of the Day: "Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde 

Learning Targets:
• Explain the differences in the variety of empires of the early modern period
• Explain how empire building was not just a Western European phenomenon
• Compare and Contrast the range of colonial societies that evolved and the reasons for differences between them
• Analyze the massive social reordering that attended European colonization in the Western Hemisphere

1. What enabled Europeans to carve out huge empires an ocean away from their homelands?
2. What large-scale transformations did European empires generate?
3. What was the economic foundation of colonial rule in Mexico and Peru? How did it shape the kinds of societies that arose there?
4. How did the plantation societies of Brazil and the Caribbean differ from those of southern colonies in British North America?
5. What distinguished the British settler colonies of North America from their counterparts in Latin America? 
6. In what different ways was European colonial rule expressed and experienced in the Americas? 
7. Why did the European empires in the Americas have such an enormously greater impact on the conquered people than did the Chinese, Mughal, and Ottoman empires? 
8. In what ways did the empires of the early modern era continue patterns of earlier empires? In what ways did they depart from those patterns?

Agenda:
1. Quiz Chapter 14
2. Notes, Discussion, Video: Comparing Early Modern World Empires - The Europeans, Russians, Ottomans, Chinese, and Mughal India.
Engineering an Empire: Russia - first 10 min.

Assignment: Read through the notes for Chapter 14 and 15 (notes link above). Quiz on Chapter 15 on Monday. Test on 14 and 15 next Friday.
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