Agenda: Week of November 30th, 2015

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: Aztec/Inca Comparison
TUE: Ming China/Renaissance Europe Comparison; Explorers
WED/THU: European Renaissance; FRQ Review; Discuss CCOT Rubric; Islamic Empires of the 15th Cent.; Paleolithic Persistence
FRI: Reading Check Quiz 13, Review Quiz
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TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday.
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
Quiz next Monday on Rubric over the CCOT. Example of layout of a CCOT
This is a seriously tough chapter. Lots to cover. Buckle up baby, grandma's takin' the fast lane.
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?
Zheng He? Vasco da Gama? or Columbus? 3 Great Explorers only 1 can emerge victorious!
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Monday, November 30, 2015
Quote: “To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn

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.
What energy and inspiration gave rise to the Renaissance? Consider why Europe came to dominate the world in the modern era, & how well this could have been predicted in 1500.
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

Assignments:
Quiz on Chapter 13 on Friday
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
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 1, 2015
Quote: “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” —Aristotle

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What distinguished the Aztec & Inca empires from each other?
2. 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)?

Assignments:
Quiz on Chapter 13 on Friday
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
One of Mr. Duez's former students studied in Florence during her days at Baylor. Ayla loved it!
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Wednesday, December 2, 2015 & Thursday, December 3, 2015
Quote: “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” - J.K. Rowling

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up the Handout for POV. (We've done this previously with a substitute, but this one we are doing in class and collecting for a grade.)
After:
What 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
4. Student Self-Feedback on Timed Writing Comparative. (Students will self reflect on their timed writing and turn in a feedback sheet) & Discuss CCOT Rubric.
5. If time remains: Crash Course World History: Renaissance

Assignments:
Quiz on Chapter 13 on Friday
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
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Friday, December 6, 2015
Quote: “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Chinese proverb

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prep for Reading Check Quiz on Chapter 13
2. Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 13 "Worlds of the 15th Century"
3. Review Quiz

Assignments:
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
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Thanks for Turkey :)

Why Is Our Thanksgiving Bird Called a Turkey?(Answer: Because, of course, it came from Turkey... and originally from the Aztecs!)

 Great story on History News Network that details the rather interesting migration of the Aztec's huexoloti and later the Ottoman Empire's amazing domestication of the bird. 
"Thus, this Thanksgiving when we gather to partake in this most hallowed and quintessential of America’s holidays, we should remember as we look toward the big bird in the middle of our table that it is after all a turkey that came to us from Turkey; that it was brought into our culture by European forbears deeply influenced by their connections to Islamic commerce and culture in the Middle East; and that we have been a part of a shared planet for a very long time. And, then, let us say our thanksgiving prayers to Yahweh, Allah, or by whatever name might be known the God of these shared faiths."  
- Larry E. Tise, from the article "Why Is Our Thanksgiving Bird Called a Turkey?"
Perfect Timing for Chapter 13 - "World's of the 15th Century"

Why do we eat Turkey at Thanksgiving - Video by Animalist
The History of Thanksgiving by WatchMojo
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Tips on DBQ Posters

"P.O.V. is tough, but I think you can do it," says Mr. Duez.
Help for your DBQ Posters. 
They are due tomorrow: Friday, Nov. 20, 2015. 
We'll post them in the room at the end of the period, at least. 

 These are examples, and like the AP College Board Student Sample essays, they should not be taken to be 100% correct.
DBQ : Attitudes towards the Mongols.
Lego my fears... How to WHAP the DBQ
How to Understand & Master Point of View
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Agenda: Week of Nov. 16, 2015

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
TUE: Mongol impact on China, Islamic World, Europe, Russia; Working with POV; Examples of POV (Mongols, Explorers)
WED/TH: Examples of POV (Mongols, Explorers); Work in groups to prepare DBQ Posters 
FRI: Finish & Present DBQ Posters

 Next Week: Thanksgiving Break --- NO ASSIGNMENTS! DO NOT WORK ON WORLD HISTORY. Get ready for the sprint to the finish line this semester.

 After Thanksgiving:
Monday, Nov. 30th - No Quiz
Friday, Dec. 4th - Quiz Chapter 13
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Tues, Dec. (following week): Test over CH. 12 & 13

Obviously "Exceptional."
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Monday, November 16, 2015
Quote: "Memory is not like a container that gradually fills up; it is more like a tree growing hooks onto which memories are hung." - Peter Russell, "The Brain Book", 1979

 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!
(if needed)

 Assignments:
Read the Mongol DBQ, Work on Understanding each of the documents, Thesis, Grouping the Docs in at least 3 ways, POV, & Identify the need for additional documents.
After Thanksgiving:
Monday, Nov. 30th - No Quiz
Friday, Dec. 4th - Quiz Chapter 13
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Tues, Dec. (following week): Test over CH. 12 & 13
The Moment John Green has been waiting for... The Exceptional Mongols!
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Quote: "It isn't so astonishing, the number of things I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so." - Mark Twan (1835-1910)

 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. POV Examples on Overhead. Write out the Point of View.
(Examples from Mongol Perception; Explorers of 15th Century)
3. Distribute the documents for our DBQ over The Mongols.

Assignments:
Read the Mongol DBQ, Work on Understanding each of the documents, Thesis, Grouping the Docs in at least 3 ways, POV, & Identify the need for additional documents.
After Thanksgiving:
Monday, Nov. 30th - No Quiz
Friday, Dec. 4th - Quiz Chapter 13
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Tues, Dec. (following week): Test over CH. 12 & 13
yeah.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015 & Thursday, November 19, 2015
Quote: 

 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 Example on Projector. 
2. DBQ Posters: Parts, Process, Approach, & Rubric
DBQ Posters in groups
3. Read the Mongol DBQ, Work on Understanding each of the documents, Thesis, Grouping the Docs in at least 3 ways, POV, & Identify the need for additional documents.

 Assignments:
After Thanksgiving:
Monday, Nov. 30th - No Quiz
Friday, Dec. 4th - Quiz Chapter 13
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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!

Tues, Dec. (following week): Test over CH. 12 & 13
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Friday, November, 20, 2015
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.
DBQ Posters: Parts, Process, Approach, & Rubric
DBQ Posters in groups
3. Read the Mongol DBQ, Work on Understanding each of the documents, Thesis, Grouping the Docs in at least 3 ways, POV, & Identify the need for additional documents.
4. Present: Hang up on walls & present to the class.

Assignments:
After Thanksgiving:
Monday, Nov. 30th - No Quiz
Friday, Dec. 4th - Quiz Chapter 13
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Have a great Thanksgiving Break!
Be safe!
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Agenda: Week of Nov. 9, 2015

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3  AN AGE OF ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS 500–1500
CH 10 Christendom in W. Europe & CH 11 The Worlds of Islam ~ Afro-Eurasian Connections
Then after the test on Wed/Thu:
CH 12 Mongols! The Nomadic World
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 11 - Islam; Review Quiz; Comparing Islam & Christianity
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; Comparative FRQ Essay - Flip between 2 prompts
FRI - The Mongols! - The Exception! Khan you believe that we are already on Chapter 12? 1/2 way point!

 Test over Chapter 10 and 11 is on Wed/Thu.
Review Notes over Chapter 10 Worlds of Christendom & Chapter 11 Worlds of Islam
There will be a Comparative Essay:
Two questions. We'll flip a coin to see which essay prompt that your class will write
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Monday, November 9, 2015
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?

Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 11 - Islam (You may use your hand written notes).
2. Review the quiz. & Question: Comparing Islam & Christianity

 Assignments:
Test over Chapter 10 and 11 is on Wed/Thu.
Review Notes over Chapter 10 Worlds of Christendom & Chapter 11 Worlds of Islam
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015
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:
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 comparative prompts: 
After the Test on Ch 10 & 11 on Wed/Thu We'll flip a coin to see which essay prompt that your class will write

 Assignments:
Test over Chapter 10 and 11 is on Wed/Thu.
Review Notes over Chapter 10 Worlds of Christendom & Chapter 11 Worlds of Islam
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015 & Thursday, November 12, 2015
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
Then flip a coin for the FRQ Essay we will write. Which Comparative prompt will it be?
Two questions. We'll flip a coin to see which essay prompt that your class will write
Question #1: 
2010
Analyze similarities and differences in TWO of the following empires.
• Han China (206 B.C.E.–220 C.E.)
• Mauryan/Gupta India (320 B.C.E.–550 C.E.)
• Imperial Rome (31 B.C.E.–476 C.E.)

Question #2:
2015
Analyze similarities and differences in TWO of the following trade networks in the period 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E. Your response may include comparisons of biological, commercial, or cultural exchanges.
• Indian Ocean
• Silk Roads
• Trans-Sahara

 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 13, 2015
Quote: "History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up."  - Voltaire

 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:
Who were the Mongols? Why were they such an exception?

 Agenda: 
1. DO NOW: Why were the Mongols "The Exception?"
2. Crash Course WH: Wait for it... The Mongols
3. Notes over Crash Course: The Mongols & DBQ Prep

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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