Agenda: Week of Jan 2 - Jan 6, 2017

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 - NO SCHOOL
WED - New Seats; Welcome Back: 40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 min; Intro Unit 4 & CH 14, 15, & 16; America Before Columbus; Discuss video;
THU - European Explorers in the New World - Guns, Germs, & Steel: Conquest; Differences in Colonization - Comparing English & Spanish Colonies
FRI - Columbian Exchange; Crash Course & Notes discussing the Impact of Columbian Exchange; Working with Documents - Columbian Exchange 2012 DBQ Question
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Wed, Thu, & Fri are 7 period days this week
Upcoming Dates in January
Quiz CH 14 is next Monday, Jan. 9th
MLK Day Jan 16th - no school for students
Quiz CH 15 is Tuesday, Jan 17th
Quiz Ch 16 is Monday, Jan 23rd
TEST - CH 14-15-16 is Wed/Thu Jan 25/26
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Quote of the Day: "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." - Oprah Winfrey

 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:
1. Do Now - New Seats on Chart. 
Goals for this semester & AP Test.

3. Notes, Discussion, & Video -Intro Unit 4 & CH 14, 15, & 16

4. Video: America Before Columbus, part II. 
What was America like before Europeans arrived?
How did it change?
In what ways do you think this will impact the lives of people in the era that followed?

 Assignment: Read through the notes for Chapter 14 (NOTES link above). 
Wed, Thu, & Fri are 7 period days this week
Upcoming Dates in January
Quiz CH 14 is next Monday, Jan. 9th
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Thursday, January 5th, 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:
1. Do Now Question: Why didn’t China or India develop colonies & explore ... Yet Western European nations did. What advantages did Europe have over China/Asia?

 2. Notes, Discussion, Video:  European Explorers in the New World - Guns, Germs, & Steel: Conquest; Differences in Colonization - Comparing English & Spanish Colonies

 3. Notes, Discussion, Video: Compare European Colonial Rule in the Americas of the British & Spanish. 

 Assignment:
Wed, Thu, & Fri are 7 period days this week
Upcoming Dates in January
Quiz CH 14 is next Monday, Jan. 9th
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Friday, January 6, 2017
Quote of the Day: "Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

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:
1. DO NOW: What was the impact of the Columbian Exchange on the world?

2. Notes, Discussion, Video: Columbian Exchange; 
Crash Course & Notes discussing the Impact of Columbian Exchange

 3. Working with Documents - Columbian Exchange 2012 DBQ Question

Assignment:
Wed, Thu, & Fri are 7 period days this week
Upcoming Dates in January
Quiz CH 14 is next Monday, Jan. 9th
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