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Agenda: Week of Nov. 18-22, 2013

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3 - Age of Accelerating Connections
Chapter 12 - The Mongol Moment
Chapter 13 - The Worlds of the 15th Century
Week at a Glance:
MON - Reading Check Quiz CH 12 -- Pick up CCOT Packet - How to write the CCOT
TUE - Cooperative Poster Creation CCOT
WED/TH - Introduction to Chapter 13 & Explorers;
FRI - Timed writing CCOT
Obviously "Exceptional."
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Monday, November 18, 2013
Quote:"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues." - Cicero

Learning Targets:
* Analyze the significance of pastoral societies in world history
* Explain how the conditions of nomadic life differed from the rest of Eurasia
* Explain the impact of the Mongol Empire on world history
* Examine implications of the Eurasian trade sponsored by the Mongols and determine how Eurasian trading systems changed over time.

Essential Questions:
1. In what different ways did Mongol rule affect the Islamic world, Russia, China, and Europe?
2. How would you define both the immediate and the long-term significance of the Mongols in world history?
3. How would you assess the perspective of this chapter toward the Mongols? Does it strike you as negative and critical of the Mongols, as bending over backward to portray them in a positive light, or as a balanced presentation?
4. Describe and analyze continuities and changes in the impact of nomads on ONE of the following areas from 600 to 1450. - China - Russia - Middle East: Islamic World

Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 12 - Mongol Moment, you can use hand written notes.
2. Pick up the CCOT packet. We will discuss tips on how to write the CCOT.
3. Review the quiz.

Assignments:
CCOT is Friday. Review the questions.
Quiz over Chapter 13 is the Monday when we come back after Thanksgiving Break.
Test over Chapter 12 & 13 is the Wed/Thu after we come back from Thanksgiving Break.
The balance of world power begins to tip towards Europe. The city-states of Northern Italy still show the impact.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Quote "Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies." - Charles E. Jefferson

Learning Targets:
• Consider the variety of human experience in the fifteenth century and compare those experiences across cultures.
• Contrast the political and cultural conditions in China’s Ming Dynasty and Europe’s “Renaissance Period” on the cusp of the modern world and analyze why Europe came to dominate the world in the modern era.
• Determine the factors that bring about change in the Islamic world (Middle East and West Africa) in the fifteenth century and analyze the differences between the four Muslim Empires.
• Contrast Aztec and Inca thinking about political administration and culture.

Essential Questions:
1. How does this chapter distinguish among the various kinds of societies that comprised the world of the fifteenth century? What other ways of categorizing the world’s peoples might work as well or better?
2. What distinguished the Aztec and Inca empires from each other? 
3. How did Aztec religious thinking support the empire? 
4. In what ways did Inca authorities seek to integrate their vast domains?
5. In what different ways did the peoples of the fifteenth century interact with one another?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What is a change or continuity? What should I be looking for when considering either?
2. CCOT Posters - Timeline approach.
3. Present projects - discuss time and how a historian approaches understanding it.

Assignments:
CCOT is Friday. Review the questions.
Quiz over Chapter 13 is the Monday when we come back after Thanksgiving Break.
Test over Chapter 12 & 13 is the Wed/Thu after we come back from Thanksgiving Break.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013 & Thursday, November 21, 2013
Quote:
Not what we give,
But what we share,
For the gift
without the giver
Is bare.
    - James Russell Lowell

Learning Targets:
• Consider the variety of human experience in the fifteenth century and compare those experiences across cultures.
• Contrast the political and cultural conditions in China’s Ming Dynasty and Europe’s “Renaissance Period” on the cusp of the modern world and analyze why Europe came to dominate the world in the modern era.
• Determine the factors that bring about change in the Islamic world (Middle East and West Africa) in the fifteenth century and analyze the differences between the four Muslim Empires.
• Contrast Aztec and Inca thinking about political administration and culture.

Essential Questions:
1. How does this chapter distinguish among the various kinds of societies that comprised the world of the fifteenth century? What other ways of categorizing the world’s peoples might work as well or better?
2. What distinguished the Aztec and Inca empires from each other? 
3. How did Aztec religious thinking support the empire? 
4. In what ways did Inca authorities seek to integrate their vast domains?
5. In what different ways did the peoples of the fifteenth century interact with one another?

Agenda:
1. DO NOWWhich Afro-Eurasian area "controls" the trade at the beginning of the 15th century? How does economic power & control begin to shift by the end of this century?
2. Notes, Video, and Discussion: Worlds of the 15th Century. Exploration, Exploitation, and Trade.
 Ming China/Renaissance Europe Comparison
3. Tips on Writing a Thesis: Discuss what a good thesis statement is. Look at our work from the comparative and document based questions as examples.

Assignments:
CCOT is Friday. Review the questions.
Quiz over Chapter 13 is the Monday when we come back after Thanksgiving Break.
Test over Chapter 12 & 13 is the Wed/Thu after we come back from Thanksgiving Break. 
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Friday, November, 22, 2013
Quote“Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.”  - Edward Sandford Martin

Learning Targets:
Understand how to write a thesis to answer the CCOT free response question.

Essential Questions:
What continuities and changes occurred during the time period of accelerating connections in Eurasia?

Agenda:
1. Flip! Mr. Duez will flip a coin and choice one of these two questions for the CCOT timed writing.
2. CCOT Timed Writing

Assignments:
CCOT is Friday. Review the questions.
Quiz over Chapter 13 is the Monday when we come back after Thanksgiving Break.
Test over Chapter 12 & 13 is the Wed/Thu after we come back from Thanksgiving Break.

Have a great Thanksgiving.
The always interesting Louis C.K.