Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 1 - First Humans, Farmers, & Civilizations
& Unit 2 - Eurasian Empires, 500 BCE - 500 CE
WEEK AT A GLANCE:& Unit 2 - Eurasian Empires, 500 BCE - 500 CE
MON: Reading Check Quiz Chapter 3; Work with documents from Unit 1
TUE: How to write the FRQ; Comparing... Paleolithic & Neolithic; Mesopotamia & Egypt; San & Chumash; Early China & Early India; Quick Review terms for Test
WED/THU: TEST UNIT 1; Introduce Unit 2; Present Rock Art Projects
FRI: FRQ is due in class already written (black ink, hand written)
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| Yeah, it's kinda like that. |
Monday, Sep 16, 2013
Quote: "I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival." - Kurt Vonnegut
Learning Targets:
★To establish the relationship between the First Civilizations and the Agricultural Revolution
★To contrast civilizations with other forms of human communities
★To explore when, where, and how the First Civilizations arose in human history
★To explore how the emergence of civilizations transformed how humans lived and how their societies were structured
★To show the various ways in which civilizations differed from one another
★To explore the outcomes of the emergence of civilizations, both positive and negative, for humankind
Essential Questions:
1. What distinguished civilizations from other forms of human community?
2. How does the use of the term “civilization” by historians differ from that of popular usage? How do you use the term?
3. “Civilizations were held together largely by force.” Do you agree with this assessment, or were there other mechanisms of integration as well?
4. In the development of the First Civilizations, what was gained for humankind, and what was lost?
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up document packet from front. This will be due right after the quiz. Prep for Reading Check Quiz Chapter 3. Remember to have your hand written notes (especially the terms and definitions from the Target Sheet).
2. READING CHECK QUIZ - Chapter 3 - First Civilizations
3. Analyze documents from Unit 1. Due at the end of the period.
Assignment:
Unit 1 FRQ is due on Friday.
Begin to study the notes, YouTube lectures, Target Sheets, and information at this link for Unit 1. Test over Unit 1 is Wed/Thu.
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| And they will probably last a little longer... |
Tuesday, Sep 17, 2013
Quote: "No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious." - Deepak Chopra
Learning Targets:
★To establish the relationship between the First Civilizations and the Agricultural Revolution
★To contrast civilizations with other forms of human communities
★To explore when, where, and how the First Civilizations arose in human history
★To explore how the emergence of civilizations transformed how humans lived and how their societies were structured
★To show the various ways in which civilizations differed from one another
★To explore the outcomes of the emergence of civilizations, both positive and negative, for humankind
Essential Questions:
1. What distinguished civilizations from other forms of human community?
2. How does the use of the term “civilization” by historians differ from that of popular usage? How do you use the term?
3. “Civilizations were held together largely by force.” Do you agree with this assessment, or were there other mechanisms of integration as well?
4. In the development of the First Civilizations, what was gained for humankind, and what was lost?
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: In what ways did Egypt and Mesopotamia differ from one another? (Also: How were the Indian and Chinese river valley civilizations similar/different?)
2. Notes & Discussion: How to write the Comparative FRQ.
Assignment:
Unit 1 FRQ is due on Friday.
Begin to study the notes, YouTube lectures, Target Sheets, and information at this link for Unit 1. Test over Unit 1 is Wed/Thu.
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| Eurasian Empires is the topic of Chapter 4. "Use the force, young ones." |
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2013 & Thursday, Sep 19, 2013
Quote: "Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
★To establish the relationship between the First Civilizations and the Agricultural Revolution
★To contrast civilizations with other forms of human communities
★To explore when, where, and how the First Civilizations arose in human history
★To explore how the emergence of civilizations transformed how humans lived and how their societies were structured
★To show the various ways in which civilizations differed from one another
★To explore the outcomes of the emergence of civilizations, both positive and negative, for humankind
Essential Questions:
1. What distinguished civilizations from other forms of human community?
2. How does the use of the term “civilization” by historians differ from that of popular usage? How do you use the term?
3. “Civilizations were held together largely by force.” Do you agree with this assessment, or were there other mechanisms of integration as well?
4. In the development of the First Civilizations, what was gained for humankind, and what was lost?
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prep for Unit 1 TEST. You will have 1/2 the period for the test. No extra time.
2. Document Study Chapter 4: After the test, pick up the Chapter 4 Documents, read & annotate.
3. Introduction to Unit 2 & Chapter 4 - Eurasian Empire. What is Empire?
4. Unit 1 FRQ: Discuss any questions that students may have regarding the FRQ due on Friday over Unit 1.
Assignment:
Unit 1 FRQ is due on Friday.
Begin to study the notes, YouTube lectures, Target Sheets, and information at this link for Unit 1. Quiz over Chapter 4 is Monday.
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| "Occupy Dock Bay" - The Stormtroopers unionize. There goes the empire! |
Friday, Sep 20, 2013
Quote: "Science is nothing but perception." - Plato
Learning Targets:
★ Define the characteristics of imperial systems in the classical era and analyze why empires developed in some regions but not in others.
★ Compare the important similarities and differences between imperial systems and the reasons behind them
★ Explain the significance that classical empires have for us today, such as, representative government, military power, etc.
★ Evaluate the “greatness” of the Roman Empire and China’s Han Dynasty and determine if their destructive and oppressive features outweighed their impressive advances.
Essential Questions:
1. What common features can you identify in the empires described in this chapter?
2. In what ways did these empires differ from one another? What accounts for those differences?
3. Are you more impressed with the “greatness” of empires or with their destructive and oppressive features? Why?
4. Do you think that the classical empires hold “lessons” for the present, or are contemporary circumstances sufficiently unique as to render the distant past irrelevant?
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prepare your FRQ to be handed to Mr. Duez. Unit 1 FRQ
2. Chapter 4 Documents: Cooperative teams - discuss the Chapter 4 documents.
3. Crash Course World History #4 - Persians & Greeks
Assignment:
Begin to study the notes, YouTube lectures, Target Sheets, and information at this link for Unit 1. Quiz over Chapter 4 is Monday.