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Agenda: Week of Dec. 1 - Dec. 5, 2014

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3 - AN AGE OF ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS 500–1500
CH 12: The Mongols & CH 13: Worlds of the 15th Century
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Reading Check Quiz 13, Aztec/Inca Comparison
TUE: Ming China/Renaissance Europe Comparison; Explorers
WED/THU: European Renaissance; FRQ Review; Discuss CCOT Rubric
FRI: Islamic Empires of the 15th Cent.; Paleolithic Persistence
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TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday.
Quiz next Monday on Rubric over the CCOT. Example of layout of a CCOT
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
This is a seriously tough chapter. Lots to cover. Buckle up baby, grandma's takin the fast lane.
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Monday, December 1, 2014
Quote: “To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn

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. Reading Check Quiz - Ch 13: Worlds of the 15th Century
2. DO NOW (After the Quiz): What distinguished the Aztec and Inca empires from each other?
3. Review Quiz
4. Notes/Discussion/Video - Aztecs & Inca Compared
How did Aztec religious thinking support the empire?
How did the Aztec Empire feed their vast population (possibly 15 million)?

TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday.
Quiz next Monday on Rubric over the CCOTExample of layout of a CCOT
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
China's "Kind of a Big Deal" - The Islamic World feels a bit confused - Europe's little engines that could... & does.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Quote: “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” —Aristotle

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. Assume for the moment that the Chinese had not ended their maritime voyages in 1433. How might the subsequent development of world history have been different? What value is there in asking this kind of “what if ” or counter-factual question?
2. How would you define the major achievements of Ming dynasty China?
3. What political and cultural differences stand out in the histories of fifteenth-century China and Western Europe? What similarities are apparent?
4. In what ways did European maritime voyaging in the fifteenth century differ from that of China? What accounts for these differences?
5. What differences can you identify among the four major empires in the Islamic world of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What political and cultural differences stand out in the histories of fifteenth-century China and Western Europe? What similarities are apparent?
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Ming China & Renaissance Europe compared.
Video, Engineering an Empire: China. We'll see how Zheng He & the Ming Dynasty created an amazing naval power only to have the emperor destroy it all. While students watch the video, they will answer this question:
In what ways did European maritime voyaging in the 15th century differ from that of China? What accounts for these differences?
3. Video Crash Course World History: Fifteenth Century Mariners

TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday.
Quiz next Monday on Rubric over the CCOTExample of layout of a CCOT
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
One of Mr. Duez's former students studied in Florence during her days at Baylor. Ayla loved it!
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014 & Thursday, December 4, 2014
Quote: “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” - J.K. Rowling

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. Assume for the moment that the Chinese had not ended their maritime voyages in 1433. How might the subsequent development of world history have been different? What value is there in asking this kind of “what if ” or counter-factual question?
2. How would you define the major achievements of Ming dynasty China?
3. What political and cultural differences stand out in the histories of fifteenth-century China and Western Europe? What similarities are apparent?
4. In what ways did European maritime voyaging in the fifteenth century differ from that of China? What accounts for these differences?
5. What differences can you identify among the four major empires in the Islamic world of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

Agenda:
1. DO NOWWhat energy and inspiration gave rise to the Renaissance? Consider why Europe came to dominate the world in the modern era, and how well this could have been predicted in 1500.
2. Notes, Discussion, & Video: Engineering an Empire: Di Vinci's World, The Renaissance (Focus on "The Architect" Filippo Brunelleschi
How do the nation-states and city-states of Europe drive competition, exploration, & propel Europe into world power?
More great information on National Geographic's site about the accomplishments of Brunelleschi
3. Student Self-Feedback on Timed Writing Comparative. (Students will self reflect on their timed writing and turn in a feedback sheet) & Discuss CCOT Rubric.
4. If time remains: Crash Course World History: Renaissance

TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday.
Quiz next Monday on Rubric over the CCOTExample of layout of a CCOT
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
The Ottomans - actually a lot more impressive than you might think
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Friday, December 5, 2014
Quote: “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Chinese proverb

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. Assume for the moment that the Chinese had not ended their maritime voyages in 1433. How might the subsequent development of world history have been different? What value is there in asking this kind of “what if ” or counter-factual question?
2. How would you define the major achievements of Ming dynasty China?
3. What political and cultural differences stand out in the histories of fifteenth-century China and Western Europe? What similarities are apparent?
4. In what ways did European maritime voyaging in the fifteenth century differ from that of China? What accounts for these differences?
5. What differences can you identify among the four major empires in the Islamic world of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

Agenda:
1. DO NOWWhat differences can you identify among the four major empires in the Islamic world of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: The Islamic World in the 15th Century
3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Paleolithic Persistence in the 15th Century

TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday.
Quiz next Monday on Rubric over the CCOTExample of layout of a CCOT
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday

Agenda: Week of Nov. 17-21, 2014

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3 - Age of Accelerating Connections, 500 - 1500
Ch 12 - Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: Mongol Moment, 1200 - 1500
Ch 13 - The Worlds of the 15th Century
Week at a Glance~
MON: Reading Check Quiz CH 12; Review Quiz; Finish Crash Course WH Mongols
TUE: Mongol impact on China, Islamic World, Europe, Russia; 
WED/TH: Examples of POV (Mongols, Explorers); Work in groups to prepare DBQ Posters 
FRI: Finish and Present DBQ Posters
Obviously "Exceptional."
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Monday, November 17, 2014
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. Review the quiz
3. Finish Crash Course WH w/John Green: Wait for it... The Mongols!

Assignments:
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 18, 2014
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: How did the Mongols impact these groups: (China, Islamic World, Europe, Russia)
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Compare the Aztec & Inca Empires (before contact with Europeans)
3. (if time) Crash Course WH: Renaissance... was it a thing?

Assignments:
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.
yeah.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014 & Thursday, November 20, 2014
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 NOW: POV Examples on Overhead. Write out the Point of View. (Examples from Mongol Perception; Explorers of 15th Century)
2. DBQ Posters: Parts, Process, Approach, & Rubric
Black Death DBQ
We're doing what Duez?
Examples of previous DBQ Posters:
Last year's 7th Period WHAP students - kickin' it live.
Back in the day... 2011! First year of WHAP! Boy, did they ever get WHAPPED!
Assignments:
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, 21, 2014
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:
• 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: POV Examples on Overhead. Write out the Point of View. (Examples from Mongol Perception; Explorers of 15th Century)
2. Finish DBQ Posters in groups.
3. Present: Hang up on walls & present to the class.

Assignments:
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.

Agenda: Week of Nov. 10 - 14, 2014

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3  AN AGE OF ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS 500–1500
CH 10 Christendom in Western Europe
CH 11 The Worlds of Islam  Afro-Eurasian Connections
CH 12 Mongols! The Nomadic World
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 11 - Islam; Review Quiz; World's of Islam - Impact
TUE -  Islam: Simultaneously both a single world of shared meaning & interaction -AND- a series of separate & distinct communities, often in conflict with one another
WED/THU - TEST Chapters 10 & 11; CCOT Introduction
FRI - With Counselor - NO WORLD HISTORY :(
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Monday, November 10, 2014
Quote: "History is philosophy teaching by examples."  - Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

Learning Targets:
• Analyze the causes behind the spread of Islam
• Explain how the dynamism of the Islamic world was the most influential of the third-wave civilizations
• Examine the religious divisions within Islam and how they affected political development
• Compare Islam as a source of cultural encounters with Christian, African, and Hindu cultures
• Compare the accomplishments of the Islamic world in the period 600–1500 C.E. with those of their contemporaries.


Essential Questions:
1. In what ways did the early history of Islam reflect its Arabian origins?
2. How does the core message of Islam compare with that of Judaism and Christianity?
3. In what ways was the rise of Islam revolutionary, both in theory and in practice?
4. Why were Arabs able to construct such a huge empire so quickly?
5. What accounts for the widespread conversion to Islam?
6. What is the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam?
7. In what ways were Sufi Muslims critical of mainstream Islam?
8. How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women?
9. What similarities and differences can you identify in the spread of Islam to India, Anatolia, West Africa, and Spain?
10. Why was Anatolia so much more thoroughly Islamized than India?
11. What makes it possible to speak of the Islamic world as a distinct and coherent civilization?
12. In what ways was the world of Islam a “cosmopolitan civilization”?


Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 11 - Islam (You may use your hand written notes).
2. Review the quiz.
3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Discuss the Impact of Islam - trade, culture, and patriarchy.

Assignments:
Test over Chapter 10 and 11 is on Wed/Thu.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Quote: "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."  - James Baldwin

Learning Targets:
• Analyze the causes behind the spread of Islam
• Explain how the dynamism of the Islamic world was the most influential of the third-wave civilizations
• Examine the religious divisions within Islam and how they affected political development
• Compare Islam as a source of cultural encounters with Christian, African, and Hindu cultures
• Compare the accomplishments of the Islamic world in the period 600–1500 C.E. with those of their contemporaries.


Essential Questions:
1. In what ways did the early history of Islam reflect its Arabian origins?
2. How does the core message of Islam compare with that of Judaism and Christianity?
3. In what ways was the rise of Islam revolutionary, both in theory and in practice?
4. Why were Arabs able to construct such a huge empire so quickly?
5. What accounts for the widespread conversion to Islam?
6. What is the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam?
7. In what ways were Sufi Muslims critical of mainstream Islam?
8. How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women?
9. What similarities and differences can you identify in the spread of Islam to India, Anatolia, West Africa, and Spain?
10. Why was Anatolia so much more thoroughly Islamized than India?
11. What makes it possible to speak of the Islamic world as a distinct and coherent civilization?
12. In what ways was the world of Islam a “cosmopolitan civilization”?


Agenda:
1. DO NOW“Islam was simultaneously both a single world of shared meaning & interaction -AND- a series of separate & distinct communities, often in conflict with one another.”
What evidence could you provide to support both sides of this argument?
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Islam - Vast Economic Empire & Diversity
3. Discuss the CCOT Questions (for the timed writing on Friday, Nov. 21st): 

I. Analyze continuities & changes that resulted from the spread of Islam into ONE of the following regions in the period between circa 800 C.E. and circa 1750: 
  • West Africa • South Asia • Europe

II. Analyze continuities and changes in trade networks between Africa and Eurasia from circa 300 C.E. to 1450 C.E

Assignments:
Test over Chapter 10 and 11 is on Wed/Thu.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014 & Thursday, November 13, 2014
Quote: "History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days."  - Winston Churchill

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. Prior to the rise of the Mongols, in what ways had pastoral peoples been significant in world history?
2. What accounts for the often negative attitudes of settled societies toward the pastoral peoples living on their borders? Why have historians often neglected pastoral peoples’ role in world history?
3. In what ways did the Mongol Empire resemble other empires, and in what ways did it differ from them? 
4. Why did it last a relatively short time?
5. In what different ways did Mongol rule affect the Islamic world, Russia, China, and Europe?

Agenda:
1. TEST - Chapter 10 & 11. European Christendom & The World of Islam
2. Introduction to the CCOT pick up packet
3. Crash Course World History - The Mongols
4. Mongol Montage: Every "Wait for it... The Mongols" in the Crash Course Series

Assignments:
Begin reading Chapter 12 - The Mongol World. We will have a quiz over it on Monday. The test is after the Thanksgiving Break along with Chapter 13 - Worlds of the 15th Century.
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Friday, November 14, 2014
Quote: "History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up."  - Voltaire

NO WORLD HISTORY TODAY 
MEETING WITH COUNSELORS FOR THE ENTIRE PERIOD
QUIZ ON MONDAY - Chapter 12

Assignments:
Begin reading Chapter 12 - The Mongol World. We will have a quiz over it on Monday. The test is after the Thanksgiving Break along with Chapter 13 - Worlds of the 15th Century.
Quiz over Chapter 12 The Mongols on Monday

We will begin prepping for the CCOT Monday after the quiz, Tuesday, & Block day next week. The question will focus on:
1. Analyze continuities & changes that resulted from the spread of Islam into ONE of the following regions in the period between circa 800 C.E. and circa 1750:   • West Africa • South Asia • Europe
2. Analyze continuities and changes in trade networks between Africa and Eurasia from circa 300 C.E. to 1450 C.E