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
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| This is a seriously tough chapter. Lots to cover. Buckle up baby, grandma's takin' the fast lane. |
• 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?
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| Zheng He? Vasco da Gama? or Columbus? 3 Great Explorers only 1 can emerge victorious! |
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
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| China's "Kind of a Big Deal" - The Islamic World feels a bit confused - Europe's little engines that could... & does. |
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
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| One of Mr. Duez's former students studied in Florence during her days at Baylor. Ayla loved it! |
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