Agenda: Week of Oct 31 - Nov 4, 2016

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3 -  Age of Accelerating Connections, 500 - 1500
Chapter 10 - European Christendom & Chapter 11 Islamic World
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Reading Check Quiz: CH 10; Review Quiz
TUE: Was this a 'Dark Age'?; Andrew Marr's Into the Light; Questions over Marr: "Light" Documentary
WED/THU: Video: The Crescent & The Cross; What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?; POV Statements - Review the work from the last test - Examples of good & bad work; POV Practice from CH 10 & 11; Intro to The Worlds of Islam - Chapter 11: What distinguished the first centuries of Islamic history from the early history of Christianity & Buddhism? 
FRI: AHS Presidential Election in Class; Role of Women in Islam

 ASSESSEMENTS AT A GLANCE:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over CH 10 & 11 next Wednesday/Thursday
There will be an LEQ prompt after the next test
Very confusing chapter for students. West & Eastern Europe go by many pseudonyms. 
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Monday, Oct. 31, 2016
Quote:  “The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others wish to join us.” - Hubert Humphrey

Learning Targets:
★ Explain the changes that occur in European society after the breakup of the Roman Empire
★ Compare the diverse legacies of Rome in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire
★ Describe medieval European expansion and analyze the factors that led to its development
★ Analyze the evolution of Europe from backward medieval Europe relative to other civilizations, and the steps by which it caught up

Essential Questions:
1. In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns?
2. How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity differ from Roman Catholicism?
3. In what ways was the Byzantine Empire linked to a wider world?
4. How did links to Byzantium transform the new civilization of Kievan Rus?
5. How did the historical development of the European West differ from that of Byzantium in the post-classical era?
6. What replaced the Roman order in Western Europe?
7. In what ways was European civilization changing after 1000?
8. What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?
9. In what ways did borrowing from abroad shape European civilization after 1000?
10. Why was Europe unable to achieve the kind of political unity that China experienced? What impact did this have on the subsequent history of Europe?
11. In what different ways did classical Greek philosophy and science have an impact in the West, in Byzantium, and in the Islamic world?

Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz - CH 10

2. Review Quiz & Question

ASSESSEMENTS:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over CH 10 & 11 next Wednesday/Thursday
There will be an LEQ prompt after the next test
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Tuesday, Nov 1, 2016
Quote:  “An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.” - Pope John Paul I

 Learning Targets:
★ Explain the changes that occur in European society after the breakup of the Roman Empire
★ Compare the diverse legacies of Rome in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire
★ Describe medieval European expansion and analyze the factors that led to its development
★ Analyze the evolution of Europe from backward medieval Europe relative to other civilizations, and the steps by which it caught up

Essential Questions:
1. In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns?
2. How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity differ from Roman Catholicism?
3. In what ways was the Byzantine Empire linked to a wider world?
4. How did links to Byzantium transform the new civilization of Kievan Rus?
5. How did the historical development of the European West differ from that of Byzantium in the post-classical era?
6. What replaced the Roman order in Western Europe?
7. In what ways was European civilization changing after 1000?
8. What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?
9. In what ways did borrowing from abroad shape European civilization after 1000?
10. Why was Europe unable to achieve the kind of political unity that China experienced? What impact did this have on the subsequent history of Europe?
11. In what different ways did classical Greek philosophy and science have an impact in the West, in Byzantium, and in the Islamic world?

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What replaced the Roman order in Western Europe? In what ways was European civilization changing after 1000?

 2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Was this a 'Dark Age'?

 3. Andrew Marr's Into the Light -  Questions over Marr: "Light" Documentary

 ASSESSEMENTS:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over CH 10 & 11 next Wednesday/Thursday
There will be an LEQ prompt after the next test
The Crusades: What a mess!
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Wednesday, Nov 2, 2016 & Thursday Nov 3, 2016
Quote: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Waldo Emerson

 Learning Targets:
★ Explain the changes that occur in European society after the breakup of the Roman Empire
★ Compare the diverse legacies of Rome in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire
★ Describe medieval European expansion and analyze the factors that led to its development
★ Analyze the evolution of Europe from backward medieval Europe relative to other civilizations, and the steps by which it caught up

Essential Questions:
1. In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns?
2. How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity differ from Roman Catholicism?
3. In what ways was the Byzantine Empire linked to a wider world?
4. How did links to Byzantium transform the new civilization of Kievan Rus?
5. How did the historical development of the European West differ from that of Byzantium in the post-classical era?
6. What replaced the Roman order in Western Europe?
7. In what ways was European civilization changing after 1000?
8. What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?
9. In what ways did borrowing from abroad shape European civilization after 1000?
10. Why was Europe unable to achieve the kind of political unity that China experienced? What impact did this have on the subsequent history of Europe?
11. In what different ways did classical Greek philosophy and science have an impact in the West, in Byzantium, and in the Islamic world?

Agenda:
1. Do Now: What impact did the Crusades have on world history?

 2. Notes, Video, Discussion: The Crusades

 Video: The Crescent & The Cross - What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?

 3. POINT OF VIEW: Review the work from the last test - Examples of good & bad work

 POV Practice from CH 10 & 11

 4. Notes, Video, Discussion: Introduction to Chapter 11, The Worlds of Islam: 
What distinguished the first centuries of Islamic history from the early history of Christianity and Buddhism? What similarities and differences characterized their religious outlooks?

 ASSESSEMENTS:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over CH 10 & 11 next Wednesday/Thursday
There will be an LEQ prompt after the next test
It is like the "Mecca" of Islam. (Probably because it is Mecca)
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Friday, Nov 4, 2016
Quote: “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.” - Earl Shoaf

 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?
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: Prepare to vote for President - AHS Vote
AHS Presidential Election in Class

 2. Discuss this question in class: Islam Single World or Distinct Communities?
“Islam was simultaneously both a single world of shared meaning and interaction and a series of separate and distinct communities, often in conflict with one another.” What evidence could you provide to support both sides of this argument?

 How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women?

 3. Video: Andrew Marr's History of the World: Word and Sword - Islam.  Compare the story of Perpetua to that of the Islamic convert in the video?

 ASSESSEMENTS:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over CH 10 & 11 next Wednesday/Thursday
There will be an LEQ prompt after the next test
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Agenda: Week of Oct. 24-28, 2016

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3 - Age of Accelerating Connections, 500 - 1500 
Chapter 8 & 9 - Commerce, China, East Asian Connections
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 9; Review Quiz; China: Sui Dynasty & Grand Canal; Tang & Song Dynasties Compared
TUE: China & Friends: Impact on their neighbors: Vietnam, Korea, & Japan; Visual Sources Ch 9
WED/THU: TEST CH 8 & 9: Commerce & Culture; China & East Asia; PLUS - FRQ focus on POV
FRI: CH: 10-  The Confusing World of European Christendom
Friday, October 28, We will be on Pep Rally Schedule for the Senior Panoramic Picture.

 ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
MONDAY: Quiz CH 9 China & East Asia
WED/THU: TEST CH 8-9 ~ Commerce & Culture; China & East Asia
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Monday, Oct. 24, 2016
Quote: "He Who Knows Others Is Wise. He Who Knows Himself Is Enlightened." - Tao Te Ching

Learning Targets:
• Explain the development of China as “superpower” among the third-wave civilizations.
• Analyze the impact of China’s deep influence on East Asia.
• Describe the ways in which interaction with other peoples had an impact on China.
• Examine modern assumptions about China and determine the root of that perception.

 Essential Questions:
1. How did China influence the world beyond East Asia? 
2. How was China itself transformed by its encounters with a wider world?
3. In what different ways did Korea, Vietnam, and Japan experience and respond to Chinese influence?
4. In what different ways did Japanese and Korean women experience the pressures of Confucian orthodoxy?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW after quiz - In what ways did women's lives change during the Song & Tang Dynasties?

 2. Reading Check Quiz Chapter 9. (Students may use their notes from Chapter 9)

 3. Review Quiz

ASSIGNMENTS:
WED/THU: TEST CH 8-9 ~ Commerce & Culture; China & East Asia
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Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016
Quote: "I haven’t failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison

 Learning Targets:
• Explain the development of China as “superpower” among the third-wave civilizations.
• Analyze the impact of China’s deep influence on East Asia.
• Describe the ways in which interaction with other peoples had an impact on China.
• Examine modern assumptions about China and determine the root of that perception.

 Essential Questions:
1. What assumptions underlay the tribute system?
2. How did the tribute system in practice differ from the ideal Chinese understanding of its operation?
4. How did the Chinese and their nomadic neighbors to the north view each other?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: How did the tribute system in practice differ from the ideal Chinese understanding of its operation?

2. Notes, Discussion, Video: China & East Asian Neighbors, Part II
Coping with China: Comparing Korea, Vietnam, & Japan

3. Visual Sources: Chapter 9 China & East Asian Connections
We will show these in class. 
In groups, students will discuss the questions that go with each visual source and answer them. 

 The visual sources are at the end of Chapter 9 in Strayer. And they are also highlighted in the notes. So be sure to look them over before the test.

 ASSIGNMENTS:
WED/THU: TEST CH 8-9 ~ Commerce & Culture; China & East Asia
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Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016 - and - Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016

 Quote: ”It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle

 Learning Targets:
• Explain the development of China as “superpower” among the third-wave civilizations.
• Analyze the impact of China’s deep influence on East Asia.
• Describe the ways in which interaction with other peoples had an impact on China.
• Examine modern assumptions about China and determine the root of that perception.

 Essential Questions:
1. How did China influence the world beyond East Asia? 
2. How was China itself transformed by its encounters with a wider world?
3. In what different ways did Korea, Vietnam, and Japan experience and respond to Chinese influence?
4. In what different ways did Japanese and Korean women experience the pressures of Confucian orthodoxy?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prep for Test - Ch. 8 & 9

2. Test - Ch. 8 & TEST CH 8-9 ~ Commerce & Culture; China & East Asia
Plus, FRQ - Point of View. Writing Point of View statements

 ASSIGNMENTS:
MONDAY: Quiz CH 10 - European Christendom
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Friday, Oct. 28, 2016
Quote: “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.” - Milton Berle

  Learning Targets:
• Explain the changes that occur in European society after the breakup of the Roman Empire
• Compare the diverse legacies of Rome in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire
• Describe medieval European expansion and analyze the factors that led to its development
• Analyze the evolution of Europe from backward medieval Europe relative to other civilizations, and the steps by which it caught up 

 Essential Questions:
1. How did the histories of the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe differ during the era of third-wave civilizations?
2. What accounts for the different historical trajectories of these two expressions of Christendom?
3. In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns?
4. How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity differ from Roman Catholicism?
5. In what ways was the Byzantine Empire linked to a wider world?

  Agenda:
Friday, October 28, We will be on Pep Rally Schedule for the Senior Panoramic Picture.

 1. DO NOW: How did the histories of the Western Europe & Byzantine Empire  differ during the era of third-wave civilizations?

2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: WHAP-UNIT-3-CH-10-WEST-EAST-EUROPE

3. Discuss the quote from after the fall of Western Rome:

 ASSIGNMENTS:
MONDAY: Quiz CH 10 - European Christendom
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Agenda: Week of Oct. 17-21, 2016

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3  AN AGE OF ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS 500–1500
Chapter 8 Commerce and Culture 500–1500
Chapter 9 China & The World 500 - 1500
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - Reading Check Quiz Chapter 8
TUE - POINT OF VIEW Handout, POINT OF VIEW: Introduction
WED/THU - SAQ - Spread of Buddhism handout; Crash Course WH: Silk Road Trade & Ancient Trade
FRI - Notes, Discussion, Video: Chapter 9 East Asian Connections

 ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
MONDAY - Reading Check Quiz CH 8
Read the notes over Chapter 8 and 9
Quiz over CH 9 is next Monday
Test is next week -> Next Wed/Thu 
Trading routes like this one traversed very long distances in this Third Wave of Civilization.
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Monday, Oct. 17, 2016
Quote: "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein

 Learning Targets for Chapter 8:
- Analyze the significance and impact of trade in human history
- Explain the interconnections created by long-distance trade in the period of third-wave civilizations and analyze why they existed
- Explain the full range of what was carried along trade routes (goods, culture, disease) and the impact on the people, culture, history, and development of their societies
- Compare the differences between the commerce of the Eastern Hemisphere and that of the Western Hemisphere and the analyze the reasons behind those differences

 Essential Questions:
1. What motivated and sustained the long-distance commerce of the Silk Roads, Sea Roads, and Sand Roads?
2. In what ways did commercial exchange foster other changes?
3. What lay behind the emergence of Silk Road commerce, and what kept it going for so many centuries?
4. What made silk such a highly desired commodity across Eurasia?
5. What was the role of Swahili civilization in the world of Indian Ocean commerce?

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prep for the Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 8 - Commerce & Culture
Students can use hand written notes on the quiz.

 2. Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 8: Commerce
Question after the quiz: 
Assignments:
Read the notes over Chapter 8 and 9
Quiz over CH 9 is next Monday
Test is next week -> Wed/Thu 
Merchants, Commerce, Trade, and $.
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Tuesday, Oct. 18, 20165
Quote: "Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language." - Steven Pinker

Learning Targets for Chapter 8:
- Analyze the significance and impact of trade in human history
- Explain the interconnections created by long-distance trade in the period of third-wave civilizations and analyze why they existed
- Explain the full range of what was carried along trade routes (goods, culture, disease) and the impact on the people, culture, history, and development of their societies
- Compare the differences between the commerce of the Eastern Hemisphere and that of the Western Hemisphere and the analyze the reasons behind those differences

 Essential Questions:
1. What motivated and sustained the long-distance commerce of the Silk Roads, Sea Roads, and Sand Roads?
2. In what ways did commercial exchange foster other changes?
3. What were the major economic, social, and cultural consequences of Silk Road commerce?
4. What accounted for the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Roads?
5. What was the impact of disease along the Silk Roads?
6. How did the operation of the Indian Ocean trading network differ from that of the Silk Roads?

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: POINT OF VIEW Handout

2. AP World History - POINT OF VIEW: Introduction

 (if time) PRESENTATION: Historical Thinking Skills & Unit 3 "Age of Accelerating Connections"

Assignments:
Read the notes over Chapter 8 and 9
Quiz over CH 9 is next Monday
Test is next week -> Wed/Thu 
Pre-Columbian Trade in the Americas was more like a "Web" rather than the strong roads of Afro-Eurasian trade. They did trade over long distances - however, it was not a vigorous amount of trade, in comparison to AfroEurasia.
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Wednesday, Oct. 19 & Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016
Quote: “Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.” - Daniel Kahneman

 Learning Targets for Chapter 8:
- Analyze the significance and impact of trade in human history
- Explain the interconnections created by long-distance trade in the period of third-wave civilizations and analyze why they existed
- Explain the full range of what was carried along trade routes (goods, culture, disease) and the impact on the people, culture, history, and development of their societies
- Compare the differences between the commerce of the Eastern Hemisphere and that of the Western Hemisphere and the analyze the reasons behind those differences

 Essential Questions:
1. What motivated and sustained the long-distance commerce of the Silk Roads, Sea Roads, and Sand Roads?
2. What changes did trans-Saharan trade bring to West Africa?
3. In what ways did commercial exchange foster other changes?
4. In what ways was Afro-Eurasia a single interacting zone, and in what respects was it a vast region of separate cultures and civilizations?

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: SAQ - Spread of Buddhism handout

2. Notes, Discussion, Video: Crash Course WH: Silk Road Trade & Ancient Trade
Discuss video and how it connects with the chapter

 3. Notes, Discussion, Video: Silk Roads, Sand Roads, & Sea Roads (& American Web of Trade)

 Assignments:
Read the notes over Chapter 8 and 9
Quiz over CH 9 is next Monday
Test is next week -> Wed/Thu 
The Trung Sisters of Vietnam!
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Friday, Oct. 21, 2016
Quote: "I am learning all the time.  The tombstone will be my diploma."  - Eartha Kitt

 Learning Targets for Chapter 8:
- Analyze the significance and impact of trade in human history
- Explain the interconnections created by long-distance trade in the period of third-wave civilizations and analyze why they existed
- Explain the full range of what was carried along trade routes (goods, culture, disease) and the impact on the people, culture, history, and development of their societies
- Compare the differences between the commerce of the Eastern Hemisphere and that of the Western Hemisphere and the analyze the reasons behind those differences

 Essential Questions:
1. Why did the Eastern Hemisphere develop long-distance trade more extensively than did the societies of the Western Hemisphere?
2. In what ways did commercial exchange foster other changes?
3. In what ways did networks of interaction in the Western Hemisphere differ from those in the Eastern Hemisphere?

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: How did trade and commerce differ in The Americas compared to Eurasia during the Age of Accelerated Connections?

 2. Notes, Discussion, Video: Chapter 9 East Asian Connections

 Assignments:
Read the notes over Chapter 8 and 9
Quiz over CH 9 is next Monday
Test is next week -> Wed/Thu 
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Agenda: Week of Oct. 10-14, 2016

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 2 - Classical Era 500 bce to 500 ce
Chapter 7: Classical Era Variations in African & The Americas, 500 bce to 1200 ce
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Unit 3 - Age of Accelerating Connections
Chapter 8:  Commerce & Culture, 500-1500
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - No School - "Indigenous Americans Day" link
TUE - Quiz; Review Chapter 7
WED/THU - Working with Documents; Analysis & Discussion: Marco Polo & Ibn Battuta; Students will read and answer the questions; discuss. Video: Polo in China/Battuta's Travels.
FRI -  CH 8. Silk, Sand, Sea Roads (& the American Web of Trade)
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Monday, Oct 10, 2016 - NO SCHOOL
Yeah, kinda like that.
Africa & The Americas during the Classical Era, "something doesn't look very classical to me"


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Tuesday, Oct 11, 2016
Quote: "The purpose of life is a life of purpose." - Attributed to both Ludwig Wittgenstein and Robert Byrne

Learning Targets:
★ Analyze classical civilizations that evolved outside of the more well-known civilizations of Eurasia
★ Compare the development of civilizations in Africa and the Americas
★ Examine the factors that make civilizations develop and analyze why they develop differently in some regions
★ Distinguish the characteristics of complex civilizations and judge whether they could develop without any recognizable centralized control

 Essential Questions:
1. “The histories of Africa and the Americas during the classical era largely resemble those of Eurasia.” Do you agree with this statement? Explain why or why not.
2. “The particular cultures and societies of Africa and of the Americas discussed in this chapter developed largely in isolation from one another.” What evidence would support this statement, and what might challenge it?
3. What generated change in the histories of Africa and the Americas during the classical era?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prep Notes for Chapter 7 - Reading Check Quiz

 2. Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 7: Classical Era Variations. Students may use their hand-written notes.
Question to answer after quiz: 
What generated change in the histories of Africa & the Americas during the classical era, 500 BCE - 500 CE?

 2. Review Chapter 7 - Classical Era Variations. Pay particular attention to how CH 7 compares to CH 4, 5, 6. 

 Assignments:
Check the notes, Target Sheet, & videos over Chapter 8.
Read Chapter 8, prepare for reading check quiz on Monday.
Chapter 9 quiz the following week & test over Ch 8 & 9.

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Wednesday, Oct 12, 2016 and Thursday, Oct 13, 2016
Quote: "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." - Emily Dickinson

Learning Targets:
★Analyze the significance and impact of trade in human history 
★Explain the interconnections created by long-distance trade in the period of third-wave civilizations and analyze why they existed
★Explain the full range of what was carried along trade routes (goods, culture, disease) and the impact on the people, culture, history, and development of their societies
★Compare the differences between the commerce of the Eastern Hemisphere and that of the Western Hemisphere and the analyze the reasons behind those differences

1. What motivated and sustained the long-distance commerce of the Silk Roads, Sea Roads, and Sand Roads? 
2. Why did the Eastern Hemisphere develop long-distance trade more extensively than did the societies of the Western Hemisphere? 
3. In what ways did commercial exchange foster other changes? 
4. In what ways was Afro-Eurasia a single interacting zone, and in what respects was it a vast region of separate cultures and civilizations?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up the Documents: Polo & Battuta's Travels. Begin Reading the first with pen/paper to answer the questions. 

 2. Discussion Groups: Students will discuss the documents in groups of 4. Focus on the questions and their answers to those questions. They will assist each other to understand context, significance, and help each other understand these two men and their stories.

 3. Video & Discussion: Polo & Battuta's Travels - Full Class (not in groups)
I. Andrew Marr's Episode 4: Polo to China (15 min)
II. Ibn Battuta's Travels - Documentary (15 min)

 4. Notes & Answers to the Discussion Questions: 

Marco Polo to China
Ibn Battuta's Travels

 Assignments:
Check the notes, Target Sheet, & videos over Chapter 8.
Read Chapter 8, prepare for reading check quiz on Monday.
Chapter 9 quiz the following week & test over Ch 8 & 9.

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Friday, Oct 14, 2016
Quote: "If you are struck between two options, just flip a coin in the air! It works. Not because it solves the problem . . . but because while the coin is in the air, You will get to know what your heart is really hoping for." - Anonymous

Learning Targets:
★Analyze the significance and impact of trade in human history 
★Explain the interconnections created by long-distance trade in the period of third-wave civilizations and analyze why they existed
★Explain the full range of what was carried along trade routes (goods, culture, disease) and the impact on the people, culture, history, and development of their societies
★Compare the differences between the commerce of the Eastern Hemisphere and that of the Western Hemisphere and the analyze the reasons behind those differences

1. What motivated and sustained the long-distance commerce of the Silk Roads, Sea Roads, and Sand Roads? 
2. Why did the Eastern Hemisphere develop long-distance trade more extensively than did the societies of the Western Hemisphere? 
3. In what ways did commercial exchange foster other changes? 
4. In what ways was Afro-Eurasia a single interacting zone, and in what respects was it a vast region of separate cultures and civilizations?

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: In what ways was Afro-Eurasia a single interacting zone, and in what respects was it a vast region of separate cultures and civilizations?

 2. Notes, Discussion, Video: CH 8. Silk, Sand, Sea Roads (& the American Web of Trade)

**Shortened Period due to Pep Rally**

Assignments:
Check the notes, Target Sheet, & videos over Chapter 8.
Read Chapter 8, prepare for reading check quiz on Monday.
Chapter 9 quiz the following week & test over Ch 8 & 9.
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