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Agenda for the week of Feb 27 - March 3, 2017

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
Focus on India: Sepoy Rebellion
WED/THU - TEST CH 19, 20; SAQ - 2 Questions
FRI - Intro to CH 21: WWI, Great Depression, WWII, Cold War (Or "Third World" War) 
Ferguson's The War of the World, Episode I - Episode One: The Clash of Empires

 ASSIGNMENTS:
Quiz this Monday on CH: 20 Colonial Encounters
TEST: Wed/Thu CH 19 & CH 20
Quiz on Monday of next week - CH: 21 Collapse & Recovery of Europe:
WWI; Great Depression; Rise of Dictators & Failure of Capitalism/Democracy; WWII; Cold War ("Third World" War); Nuclear Age 
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. 27, 2017
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

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

 ASSIGNMENTS:
TEST: Wed/Thu CH 19 & CH 20
Quiz on Monday of next week - CH: 21 Collapse & Recovery of Europe:
WWI; Great Depression; Rise of Dictators & Failure of Capitalism/Democracy; WWII; Cold War ("Third World" War); Nuclear Age 
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Quote: Quote: "The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces." - Will Rogers

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: How did the power of colonial states transform the economic lives of colonial subjects?

2. 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

 3. Notes, Video, Discussion: British Imperialism in India

ASSIGNMENTS:
TEST: Wed/Thu CH 19 & CH 20
Quiz on Monday of next week - CH: 21 Collapse & Recovery of Europe:
WWI; Great Depression; Rise of Dictators & Failure of Capitalism/Democracy; WWII; Cold War ("Third World" War); Nuclear Age 
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Wednesday, March 1st & Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
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 2 SAQ Questions
1st: Multiple Choice 45 questions (45 minutes)2nd: SAQ (30 minutes)
ASSIGNMENTS:
Quiz on Monday of next week - CH: 21 Collapse & Recovery of Europe:
WWI; Great Depression; Rise of Dictators & Failure of Capitalism/Democracy; WWII; Cold War ("Third World" War); Nuclear Age  
Niall Ferguson in front of an image of the Trenches of World War One.
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nod to HG Well's "War of the Worlds"
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
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. 
CH 21: A HUGE Chapter that is filled with incredible stories.
ASSIGNMENTS:
TEST: Wed/Thu CH 19 & CH 20
Quiz on Monday of next week - CH: 21 Collapse & Recovery of Europe:

WWI; Great Depression; Rise of Dictators & Failure of Capitalism/Democracy; WWII; Cold War ("Third World" War); Nuclear Age 
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DBQ Help

Here is the handout that I gave out during class on Friday:
WHAP-DBQ-WORKSHEET

DBQ: Historical Thinking Skill - Contextualization


Plus, here are the videos from Tom Richey that I showed in class Friday to help you understand the rubric and how to write the DBQ:
TOM-RICHEY-DBQ-GUIDE
DBQ BREAKDOWN BY FREEMAN-PEDIA
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Agenda: Week of Feb 20 - 24, 2017

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 - NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS
TUE - DBQ Prep 2009 & 2010 DBQ;
WED/THU - DBQ Timed Writing - African Scramble or Industrial Revolution (flip); How Britain Made the Modern World; The British Empire.
FRI - CH 20 - Christianity in Africa; CH 20 - The British Empire in India

Assignments:
DBQ Timed Writing - This Wed/Thu
Quiz Chapter 20 Colonial Encounters (Africa, India, Asia) - Next Monday
TEST CH 19 & 20 - Next Wed/Thu March 1/2
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DBQ during 1st half of class on Wed/Thu Feb 22nd & Feb 23rd
DBQ FLIP:


2009 DBQ Student samples
African Scramble
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LEARNING TARGETS:
Chapter 19 Targets
• To make students aware of the refocusing of racism in the nineteenth-century West
• To examine the effects of Western dominance on the empires of Asia
• To explore the reasons behind the collapse of the Chinese and Ottoman empires
• To investigate the reasons for Japan’s rise to its position as an industrial superpower and to compare Japan’s experience with that of China 

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
Chapter 19 Essential Questions
1. What differences can you identify in how China, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan experienced Western imperialism and confronted it? How might you account for those differences?
2. In what ways did the Industrial Revolution shape the character of nineteenth-century European imperialism?
3. “The response of each society to European imperialism grew out of its larger historical development and its internal problems.” What evidence might support this statement?
4. What accounts for the massive peasant rebellions of nineteenth-century China?
5. How did Western pressures stimulate change in China during the nineteenth century?
6. What lay behind the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century?
7. How did Japan’s historical development differ from that of China and the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century?

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?
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Monday, Feb. 20th, 2017
NO SCHOOL for Students
Darwin's breakthrough led to a perversion of his science called, "Social Darwinism"
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Tuesday, Feb. 21st, 2017
Quote: "The big secret is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you are willing to work." - Oprah

Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: Japan's Meiji Restoration - Picture of European Clothing in Japan

 2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Japan's Meiji Restoration

3. DBQ POV & Synthesis Statements: POV & Synthesis from the Industrial Revolution

 Assignments:
DBQ Timed Writing - This Wed/Thu
Quiz Chapter 20 Colonial Encounters (Africa, India, Asia) - Next Monday
TEST CH 19 & 20 - Next Wed/Thu March 1/2
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Wednesday, Feb. 22nd, 2017 -and- Thursday, Feb. 23rd, 2017
Quote: "It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela

Agenda:
1. DBQ Timed Writing - Flip of Coin between 2009 & 2010 DBQ
#1 HEADS: 2010 Industrial Revolution in Japan & India DBQ
#2 TAILS: 2009 African Scramble-Berlin Conference

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Duez Notes CH 20: Colonial Encounters: Africa

 Niall Ferguson's Empire - How Britain Made the Modern World

 Assignments:
DBQ Timed Writing - This Wed/Thu
Quiz Chapter 20 Colonial Encounters (Africa, India, Asia) - Next Monday
TEST CH 19 & 20 - Next Wed/Thu March 1/2
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Friday, Feb. 24th, 2017
Quote: "The harder you work, the luckier you get." - Gary Player

Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: Copy Questions for the video clip we will watch at the beginning of the period: 
1. Livingstone's 3 c's?
2. What role does religion play in the Imperial Movement?
3. How did British feelings about slavery change?

 2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Duez Notes CH 20: Colonial Encounters: Africa
Economic Change in the colonial world. 
How did movement to urban areas impact traditional African families?
Who now had land ownership?
After colonization, how did Women's lives change?

3. (if time) Notes, Video, Discussion: Duez Notes CH 20: Colonial Encounters: India & SE Asia
What role did the Mughal Empire play in India during British control?
Sepoy Rebellion
Impact of Western Education on natives

Assignments:
DBQ Timed Writing - This Wed/Thu
Quiz Chapter 20 Colonial Encounters (Africa, India, Asia) - Next Monday
TEST CH 19 & 20 - Next Wed/Thu March 1/2
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Agenda: Week of Feb. 13-17, 2017

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 5: THE EUROPEAN MOMENT IN WORLD HISTORY 1750-1914
CH 19 Internal Troubles, External Threats: China, the Ottoman Empire, & Japan 
& CH 20 Colonial Encounters
Week at a Glance:
MON - Duez is out - You will watch Why take AP Psych video & Andrew Marr's History of the World: Industry (which also goes into colonialism & imperialism a great deal)
TUE - Quiz CH 19; Quiz Review
WED/TH - Imperialism: The British Empire & the world's reaction; Crash Course WH: Imperialism; DBQ Skills Practice: The African Scramble
FRI - Notes, Video, Discussion: Colonial Conquests & Imperialism; The British Empire; Ottoman Empire: Sick Man of Europe; Chinese Self-Strengthening (not); Japanese Meiji Restoration.
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Assignments:
No School on Monday for Students
No quiz next week
DBQ during 1st half of class on Wed/Thu Feb 22nd & Feb 23rd
DBQ FLIP:



LEARNING TARGETS:
Chapter 19 Targets
• To make students aware of the refocusing of racism in the nineteenth-century West
• To examine the effects of Western dominance on the empires of Asia
• To explore the reasons behind the collapse of the Chinese and Ottoman empires
• To investigate the reasons for Japan’s rise to its position as an industrial superpower and to compare Japan’s experience with that of China 

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
Chapter 19 Essential Questions
1. What differences can you identify in how China, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan experienced Western imperialism and confronted it? How might you account for those differences?
2. In what ways did the Industrial Revolution shape the character of nineteenth-century European imperialism?
3. “The response of each society to European imperialism grew out of its larger historical development and its internal problems.” What evidence might support this statement?
4. What accounts for the massive peasant rebellions of nineteenth-century China?
5. How did Western pressures stimulate change in China during the nineteenth century?
6. What lay behind the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century?
7. How did Japan’s historical development differ from that of China and the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century?

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?
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Monday, February 13, 2017
Quote: "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

Agenda:
Mr. Duez is out today. Substitute will do... 
1. Video Preview: Why take AP Psych video 
Students should write any questions they have down for Mr. Duez regarding scheduling classes for next year, or AP Psych. They can also email him directly.

 2. Andrew Marr's History of the World: Industry (which also goes into colonialism & imperialism a great deal) 
Students will take notes over the video. Keep the notes for use with your quiz tomorrow over CH 19. 

Assignments:
No School on Monday for Students
No quiz next week
DBQ during 1st half of class on Wed/Thu Feb 22nd & Feb 23rd
'The Sick Man of Europe' - The Ottoman Empire's final days.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Quote: "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." - Erica Jong

 LEARNING TARGETS:
Chapter 19 Targets:
• To make students aware of the refocusing of racism in the nineteenth-century West
• To examine the effects of Western dominance on the empires of Asia
• To explore the reasons behind the collapse of the Chinese and Ottoman empires
• To investigate the reasons for Japan’s rise to its position as an industrial superpower and to compare Japan’s experience with that of China 

 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
Chapter 19 Essential Questions:
1. What differences can you identify in how China, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan experienced Western imperialism and confronted it? How might you account for those differences?
2. In what ways did the Industrial Revolution shape the character of nineteenth-century European imperialism?
3. “The response of each society to European imperialism grew out of its larger historical development and its internal problems.” What evidence might support this statement?
4. What accounts for the massive peasant rebellions of nineteenth-century China?
5. How did Western pressures stimulate change in China during the nineteenth century?
6. What lay behind the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century?
7. How did Japan’s historical development differ from that of China and the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century?

Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz - CH 19: Internal Trouble & External Threats 

2. Review Quiz Ch 19 - Internal Struggles; External Threats

 Assignments:
No School on Monday for Students
No quiz next week
DBQ during 1st half of class on Wed/Thu Feb 22nd & Feb 23rd
Carving Up the Pie of China: French cartoon from the late 1890s
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Wednesday, February 15 & Thursday, February 16, 2017
Quote: "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Why did China have a favorable balance of trade with Britain until the Taiping Rebellion?

Answer these questions:
A. Why did China have a favorable balance of trade with Britain until the Taiping Rebellion?
B. What 2 factors drove imperialism? 
C. What prevented the Europeans from colonizing Africa before the 19th century?
D. What technologies facilitated Europe’s domination of Africa?
E. Why did most European powers use indirect rule to control their colonies?
F. How did business imperialism compare to political imperialism? 
Discuss.

3. Compare Chinese, Ottoman, & Japanese responses to Colonization & later Imperialism:
4. Document Based Question Study. Students will work in groups to break down the question for  Friday's DBQ Posters:
African reactions to Scramble for Africa. Using the documents, analyze African actions and reactions in response to the European Scramble for Africa. Identify an additional type of document and explain how it would help in assessing African actions and reactions.

Assignments:
No School on Monday for Students
No quiz next week
DBQ during 1st half of class on Wed/Thu Feb 22nd & Feb 23rd
The Berlin Conference: The Carving Up of Africa, 1884
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Friday, February 17, 2017
Quote: "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: How would you group the Scramble for Africa documents? Why? 

 2. DBQ Posters - Scramble for Africa: In groups, create DBQ Posters for the Scramble for Africa. 

 3. If time, present posters to class.

 Assignments:
No School on Monday for Students
No quiz next week
DBQ during 1st half of class on Wed/Thu Feb 22nd & Feb 23rd
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SAQ - CH 17 & 18


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