Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON:
QUIZ 24; Review Quiz; Crash Course #41
TUE: Discuss the main themes of Ch 24: Comparing the perspectives of accelerating connections in the Global North and Global South according to these factors:
Economic Globalization, Environmentalism, Feminism, Fundamentalism
WED/THU:
TEST - 23, 24: Independence Movements; Global Interactions
50 M/CH questions in 45 min.
30 min for the Comparative Essay. Mr. Duez will flip a coin between these two choices:
1. Post WWII, compare the independence movements of India and Africa.
2. During a time period of accelerating connections (1945-Present day), compare the ideological approaches of the Global North and Global South. (Keep in mind their perspectives according to these factors:
Economic Globalization, Environmentalism, Feminism, Fundamentalism)
FRI: DBQ Prep
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| Only 2 Crash Course World History episodes remain. Globalization I & II. |
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Monday, April 13, 2015
Quote:
"In 5-billion years the Sun will expand & engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day." -
@NeilTyson
PART SIX THE MOST RECENT CENTURY 1914–2010
CHAPTER 24 Accelerating Global Interaction, Since 1945
• To consider the steps since 1945 that have increasingly made human populations into a single “world” rather than citizens
• To explore the factors that make it possible to speak now of a true “world economy”
• To explore the debate about economic globalization
• To raise student awareness of global liberation movements, especially feminism, and their implications for human life
• To investigate the “fundamentalist” religious response to aspects of modernity
• To consider environmentalism as a matter that cannot help but be global because the stakes are so high for all humankind
• To step back and ponder the value of studying history
1. To what extent did the processes discussed in this chapter (economic globalization, feminism, fundamentalism, environmentalism) represent something new in the twentieth century? In what respects did they have roots in the more distant past?
2. In what ways did the global North/South divide find expression in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries?
3. What have been the benefits and drawbacks of globalization since 1945?
4. Do the years since 1914 confirm or undermine Enlightenment predictions about the future of humankind?
5. “The twentieth century marks the end of the era of Western dominance in world history.” What evidence might support this statement? What evidence might contradict it?
6. To what extent do you think the various liberation movements of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries—communism, nationalism, democracy, feminism, internationalism—have achieved their goals?
7. Based on material in Chapters 21, 22, and 24, how might you define the evolving roles of the United States in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries?
MARGIN REVIEW QUESTIONS:
1. What factors contributed to economic globalization during the twentieth century?
2. In what ways has economic globalization linked the world’s peoples more closely together?
3. What new or sharper divisions has economic globalization generated?
4. What distinguished feminism in the industrialized countries from that of the Global South?
5. In what respect did the various religious fundamentalists of the twentieth century express hostility to global
6. From what sources did Islamic renewal movements derive?
7. In what different ways did Islamic renewal express itself?
8. How can we explain the dramatic increase in the human impact on the environment in the twentieth century?
9. What differences emerged between environmentalism in the Global North and that in the Global South?
Agenda:
1.
DO NOW: Prep for Reading Check Quiz CH 24 - the LAST ONE!
After quiz begin to formulate your answer for this question: Comparing the perspectives of accelerating connections in the Global North and Global South according to these factors:
Economic Globalization, Environmentalism, Feminism, Fundamentalism
2.
QUIZ: Reading Check CH 24 -
The End of Strayer.
3. Review Quiz #24
If time allows:
Crash Course World History #41 Globalization
Discuss in relation to the chapter and
"The Future History of the Planet"
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| Thomas Hoepker's controversial photograph of the afternoon of Sept. 9, 2011. |
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Quote:
"Apollo in 1969. Shuttle in 1981. Nothing in 2011. Our space program would look awesome to anyone living backwards thru time." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
@NeilTyson
PART SIX THE MOST RECENT CENTURY 1914–2010
CHAPTER 24 Accelerating Global Interaction, Since 1945
• To consider the steps since 1945 that have increasingly made human populations into a single “world” rather than citizens
• To explore the factors that make it possible to speak now of a true “world economy”
• To explore the debate about economic globalization
• To raise student awareness of global liberation movements, especially feminism, and their implications for human life
• To investigate the “fundamentalist” religious response to aspects of modernity
• To consider environmentalism as a matter that cannot help but be global because the stakes are so high for all humankind
• To step back and ponder the value of studying history
1. To what extent did the processes discussed in this chapter (economic globalization, feminism, fundamentalism, environmentalism) represent something new in the twentieth century? In what respects did they have roots in the more distant past?
2. In what ways did the global North/South divide find expression in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries?
3. What have been the benefits and drawbacks of globalization since 1945?
4. Do the years since 1914 confirm or undermine Enlightenment predictions about the future of humankind?
5. “The twentieth century marks the end of the era of Western dominance in world history.” What evidence might support this statement? What evidence might contradict it?
6. To what extent do you think the various liberation movements of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries—communism, nationalism, democracy, feminism, internationalism—have achieved their goals?
7. Based on material in Chapters 21, 22, and 24, how might you define the evolving roles of the United States in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries?
MARGIN REVIEW QUESTIONS:
1. What factors contributed to economic globalization during the twentieth century?
2. In what ways has economic globalization linked the world’s peoples more closely together?
3. What new or sharper divisions has economic globalization generated?
4. What distinguished feminism in the industrialized countries from that of the Global South?
5. In what respect did the various religious fundamentalists of the twentieth century express hostility to global
6. From what sources did Islamic renewal movements derive?
7. In what different ways did Islamic renewal express itself?
8. How can we explain the dramatic increase in the human impact on the environment in the twentieth century?
9. What differences emerged between environmentalism in the Global North and that in the Global South?
Agenda:
1.
DO NOW:
To what extent did the processes discussed in this chapter:
economic globalization, feminism, fundamentalism, environmentalism
represent something new in the twentieth century?
In what respects did they have roots in the more distant past?
2.
Notes, Video, Discussion: Chapter 24 Presentation with video examples.2.
Review Questions: In class group discussion to answer review questions over
Chapter 24: Review Questions - Globalism, Feminism, Fundamentalism, & Environmentalism.
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015 & Thursday, April 16, 2015
I can't believe I read the whole thing!
Quote:
"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble." - Mahatma Gandhi
PART SIX THE MOST RECENT CENTURY 1914–2014
CHAPTER 23 Independence in the Global South, 1914-2014
CHAPTER 24 Accelerating Global Interaction, Since 1945
Agenda:
1.
DO NOW:
Prep for Final Strayer Test of the Year! Chapters 22, 23, & 24
2.
TEST - 23, 24: Independence Movements; Global Interactions
50 M/CH questions in 45 min.
30 min for the Comparative Essay. Mr. Duez will flip a coin between these two choices:
1. Post WWII, compare the independence movements of India and Africa.
2. During a time period of accelerating connections (1945-Present day), compare the ideological approaches of the Global North and Global South. (Keep in mind their perspectives according to these factors:
Economic Globalization, Environmentalism, Feminism, Fundamentalism)
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Wednesday, April 17, 2015
Quote: "History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology." - Hippolyte Taine
French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism.
1.
DO NOW: Pick up DBQ Information from the front.
2.
2005 DBQ: We will work in groups this period to analyze the 2005 DBQ Question, grade student samples, and discuss how this essay can be created.
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