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Agenda: Feb 29 - March 4, 2015

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 5 - European Moment, 1750-1914
Chapter 19 - China, Ottomans, Japan: Internal Trouble, External Threats
Chapter 20 - Colonial Encounters (Africa, India, Asia)
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - Quiz CH 20; Review CH 20 Quiz - Discuss Colonial Encounters
TUE - Impact of Imperialism: Education, Religion, Race/Tribe
WED/THU - TEST CH 19, 20; DBQ - African Scramble or Silver Trade (flip)
FRI - Ferguson's The War of the World, Episode I
A Quiet Little Game. Caption: "CHORUS: I wonder what card Uncle Sam has in his hand?"
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LEARNING TARGETS:
Chapter 20 Targets:
•  To examine the ways in which Europeans created their nineteenth-century empires
•  To consider the nineteenth-century development of racism as an outcrop of European feelings of superiority and to investigate the ways in which subject peoples were themselves affected by European racial categorization
•  To consider the extent to which the colonial experience transformed the lives of Asians and Africans
•  To define some of the distinctive qualities of modern European empires in relationship to earlier examples of empire 

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
Chapter 20 Essential Questions:
1. Why were Asian and African societies incorporated into European colonial empires later than those of the Americas? How would you compare their colonial experiences?
2. In what ways did colonial rule rest upon violence and coercion, and in what ways did it elicit voluntary cooperation or generate benefits for some people?
3. Was colonial rule a transforming, even a revolutionary, experience, or did it serve to freeze or preserve existing social and economic patterns? What evidence can you find to support both sides of this argument?
4. Why might subject people choose to cooperate with the colonial regime? What might prompt them to rebel or resist?
5. How did the power of colonial states transform the economic lives of colonial subjects?
6. How did cash-crop agriculture transform the lives of colonized peoples?
7. How were the lives of African women altered by colonial economies?
8. What impact did Western education have on colonial societies?
9. What were the attractions of Christianity within some colonial societies?
10. How and why did Hinduism emerge as a distinct religious tradition during the colonial era in India?
"English Methods of Colonizing Africa," a German view of the British Empire, 19th c. 
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Monday, Feb. 29, 2016
Quote: "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come." - Robert H. Schuller

LEARNING TARGETS:
Chapter 20 Targets:
•  To examine the ways in which Europeans created their nineteenth-century empires
•  To consider the nineteenth-century development of racism as an outcrop of European feelings of superiority and to investigate the ways in which subject peoples were themselves affected by European racial categorization
•  To consider the extent to which the colonial experience transformed the lives of Asians and Africans
•  To define some of the distinctive qualities of modern European empires in relationship to earlier examples of empire 

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
Chapter 20 Essential Questions:
1. Why were Asian and African societies incorporated into European colonial empires later than those of the Americas? How would you compare their colonial experiences?
2. In what ways did colonial rule rest upon violence and coercion, and in what ways did it elicit voluntary cooperation or generate benefits for some people?
3. Was colonial rule a transforming, even a revolutionary, experience, or did it serve to freeze or preserve existing social and economic patterns? What evidence can you find to support both sides of this argument?
4. Why might subject people choose to cooperate with the colonial regime? What might prompt them to rebel or resist?
5. How did the power of colonial states transform the economic lives of colonial subjects?
6. How did cash-crop agriculture transform the lives of colonized peoples?
7. How were the lives of African women altered by colonial economies?
8. What impact did Western education have on colonial societies?
9. What were the attractions of Christianity within some colonial societies?
10. How and why did Hinduism emerge as a distinct religious tradition during the colonial era in India?


Agenda:
1. QUIZ Chapter 20. 
...after the quiz... 
DO NOW: In what different ways did the colonial takeover of Asia and Africa occur?
2. Review CH 20 quiz
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Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Quote: “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.”Swami Vivekananda

LEARNING TARGETS:
Chapter 20 Targets:
•  To examine the ways in which Europeans created their nineteenth-century empires
•  To consider the nineteenth-century development of racism as an outcrop of European feelings of superiority and to investigate the ways in which subject peoples were themselves affected by European racial categorization
•  To consider the extent to which the colonial experience transformed the lives of Asians and Africans
•  To define some of the distinctive qualities of modern European empires in relationship to earlier examples of empire 

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
Chapter 20 Essential Questions:
1. Why were Asian and African societies incorporated into European colonial empires later than those of the Americas? How would you compare their colonial experiences?
2. In what ways did colonial rule rest upon violence and coercion, and in what ways did it elicit voluntary cooperation or generate benefits for some people?
3. Was colonial rule a transforming, even a revolutionary, experience, or did it serve to freeze or preserve existing social and economic patterns? What evidence can you find to support both sides of this argument?
4. Why might subject people choose to cooperate with the colonial regime? What might prompt them to rebel or resist?
5. How did the power of colonial states transform the economic lives of colonial subjects?
6. How did cash-crop agriculture transform the lives of colonized peoples?
7. How were the lives of African women altered by colonial economies?
8. What impact did Western education have on colonial societies?
9. What were the attractions of Christianity within some colonial societies?
10. How and why did Hinduism emerge as a distinct religious tradition during the colonial era in India?


Agenda:
1. DO NOW: How did the power of colonial states transform the economic lives of colonial subjects?
What is Ferguson's thesis? 
Do you agree?
3. Notes, Video, Discussion: Education, Religion, Race/Tribe
What impact did Western education have on colonial societies?
What were the attractions of Christianity within some colonial societies?
How and why did Hinduism emerge as a distinct religious tradition during the colonial era in India?
In what way were “race” and “tribe” new identities in colonial Africa?
4. (if time permits) Review CH 19 & 20

Watch the YouTube Video lectures over Chapter 19 & 20. Study the notes
Read Strayer. Go to the Companion Site and do quiz and tests. 
This CH 19 & 20 test is super important as far as the AP Test goes. 
It is a favorite topic of the College Board.
From the Cape to Cairo', Puck, 1902. 
Britannia leads civilizing soldiers and colonists against Africans as Civilization conquers Barbarism. (I guess... )
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Wednesday, March 2nd & Thursday, March 3rd, 2016
Quote:  ”A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” David Brinkley

Agenda
1. TEST: CH. 19 & 20 Test; including DBQ: African Scramble
Niall Ferguson in front of an image of the Trenches of World War One.
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Friday, March 4th, 2016
Quote: "Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'"  -Robin Williams

Learning Targets & Discussion Questions:
  • Are these wars (really beginning with the Russo-Japanese War) just a long and continuous Wars of the 20th Century? 
  • What motives for war does Ferguson posit?
  • Do you agree with Ferguson that racial animosity was exploited by nations for gain and profit? 
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up the video questions for Part 1 of War of the World, by Ferguson
Video Questions & Viewing Guide
2. Video Study: Niall Ferguson's The War of the World
The series begins with how the first World War ignited fires of racial animosity in people, exploited by new and more terrible nation-states that were far more preoccupied with national and racial purity. It was the beginning of an age of genocide.
Video Questions & Viewing Guide. Will collect answers at the end of the period.
Discussion and introduction of World War I.