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 & 9Commerce & 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 NOWHow did the tribute system in practice differ from the ideal Chinese understanding of its operation?

2. Notes, Discussion, VideoChina & 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