Agenda: Week of January 4-8, 2015

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 4: THE EARLY MODERN WORLD 1450–1750
Chapter 14 -- Empires and Encounters, 1450–1750
Chapter 15 -- World Commerce, 1450-1750
Chapter 16 -- Science & Religion, 1450-1750
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - NO SCHOOL
TUE - 40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 min; 
Intro Unit 4 & CH 14, 15, & 16; 
WED/THU - America Before Columbus; Discuss video & concept of Columbian Exchange
FRI - Columbian Exchange
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COMP Timed Writing: Wed/Thu Jan 27/28th
Chapter 14 Quiz is on Monday, Jan. 11th
Chapter 15 Quiz is on Tuesday, Jan. 19th
Chapter 16 Quiz is on Monday, Jan. 25th
TEST Unit 4 (14, 15, 16): Wed/Thu Jan 27/28th

Learning Targets:
• Explain the differences in the variety of empires of the early modern period
• Explain how empire building was not just a Western European phenomenon
• Compare and Contrast the range of colonial societies that evolved and the reasons for differences between them
• Analyze the massive social reordering that attended European colonization in the Western Hemisphere

1. What enabled Europeans to carve out huge empires an ocean away from their homelands?
2. What large-scale transformations did European empires generate?
3. What was the economic foundation of colonial rule in Mexico and Peru? How did it shape the kinds of societies that arose there?
4. How did the plantation societies of Brazil and the Caribbean differ from those of southern colonies in British North America?
5. What distinguished the British settler colonies of North America from their counterparts in Latin America? 
6. In what different ways was European colonial rule expressed and experienced in the Americas? 
7. Why did the European empires in the Americas have such an enormously greater impact on the conquered people than did the Chinese, Mughal, and Ottoman empires? 
8. In what ways did the empires of the early modern era continue patterns of earlier empires? In what ways did they depart from those patterns?
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Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Quote of the Day: "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." - Oprah Winfrey
Agenda:
1. Do Now - New Seats on Chart. 
Goals for this semester & AP Test.
2. Inspiration: 40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes.
"We've Come too Far!!!"
3. Notes, Discussion, & Video - Introduction to European Expansion, Colonies in the Americas, & Columbian Exchange.
4. Begin video with guiding questions: America Before Columbus, part II. 

Assignment: Read through the notes for Chapter 14 (NOTES link above). 
COMP Timed Writing: Wed/Thu Jan 27/28th
Chapter 14 Quiz is on Monday, Jan. 11th
Chapter 15 Quiz is on Tuesday, Jan. 19th
Chapter 16 Quiz is on Monday, Jan. 25th
TEST Unit 4 (14, 15, 16): Wed/Thu Jan 27/28th
True.
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Wednesday & Thursday, January 6th & 7th, 2016
Quote of the Day: "New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time."  - James Agate

Learning Targets:
• Explain the differences in the variety of empires of the early modern period
• Explain how empire building was not just a Western European phenomenon
• Compare and Contrast the range of colonial societies that evolved and the reasons for differences between them
• Analyze the massive social reordering that attended European colonization in the Western Hemisphere

1. What enabled Europeans to carve out huge empires an ocean away from their homelands?
2. What large-scale transformations did European empires generate?
3. What was the economic foundation of colonial rule in Mexico and Peru? How did it shape the kinds of societies that arose there?
4. How did the plantation societies of Brazil and the Caribbean differ from those of southern colonies in British North America?
5. What distinguished the British settler colonies of North America from their counterparts in Latin America? 
6. In what different ways was European colonial rule expressed and experienced in the Americas? 
7. Why did the European empires in the Americas have such an enormously greater impact on the conquered people than did the Chinese, Mughal, and Ottoman empires? 
8. In what ways did the empires of the early modern era continue patterns of earlier empires? In what ways did they depart from those patterns?

Agenda:
2. Finish the video America Before Columbus, Part II. Afterwards, discuss the viewing questions and where Strayer's text is similar to the video and where it departs.
Use these questions to guide your viewing and our discussion of the video.
America Before Columbus Video Discussion Questions
3. Analyze the first two student samples from the 2012 AP World History Comparison. Score each essay based on the rubric. Write comments on your paper to justify your scoring.
Assignment:
COMP Timed Writing: Wed/Thu Jan 27/28th
Chapter 14 Quiz is on Monday, Jan. 11th
Chapter 15 Quiz is on Tuesday, Jan. 19th
Chapter 16 Quiz is on Monday, Jan. 25th
TEST Unit 4 (14, 15, 16): Wed/Thu Jan 27/28th
Philosoraptor has a valid point!
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Friday, January 8, 2016
Quote of the Day: "Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What large-scale transformations did European empires generate?
2. Notes, Discussion, Video: Columbian Exchange.
Crash Course - Columbian Exchange

Assignment:
COMP Timed Writing: Wed/Thu Jan 27/28th
Chapter 14 Quiz is on Monday, Jan. 11th
Chapter 15 Quiz is on Tuesday, Jan. 19th
Chapter 16 Quiz is on Monday, Jan. 25th
TEST Unit 4 (14, 15, 16): Wed/Thu Jan 27/28th
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