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
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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.
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| The balance of world power begins to tip towards Europe. The city-states of Northern Italy still show the impact. |
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.
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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
Examples of previous DBQ Posters:
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.
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
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| Last year's 7th Period WHAP students - kickin' it live. |
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| Back in the day... 2011! First year of WHAP! Boy, did they ever get WHAPPED! |
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.
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.
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