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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, DiscussionDuez 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, DiscussionDuez 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, DiscussionDuez 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