Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 1 - First Humans, Farmers, & Civilizations
WEEK AT A GLANCE:MON: Reading Check Quiz Chapter 1 & 2; Review Quiz
TUE: Pick up LEQ Comparison Prompt & Rubric; Pick up the LEQ Organizer (due on Friday in class); How to organize the LEQ; Writing like "Law & Order" -- create a persuasive argument. Last 10 minutes: Crash Course WH: #1 - Agricultural Revolution
WED: Notes, Discussion, Video: River Valley Civilizations: How did early civilization develop? What do they share in common?
Introduction to the Early River Valley Civilizations: Focus on Egypt & Mesopotamia
Andrew Marr's History of the World, Episode 1: "Survival"
FRI: LEQ Organizer due in class; Notes, Discussion, Video: River Valley Civs: Students will create direct comparisons.
ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
FRI - LEQ Organizer due in class. LEQ Comparison Prompt & Rubric
Next Monday - Chapter 3 Quiz - you can use hand-written notes
WED next week UNIT 1 Test: CH 1-3 First Peoples, Farmers, & Civilizations
WED next week (after Unit 1 Test): LEQ Comparison
AHS OPEN HOUSE IS TUESDAY at 6pm.
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★To establish the relationship between the First Civilizations and the Agricultural Revolution
★To contrast civilizations with other forms of human communities
★To explore when, where, and how the First Civilizations arose in human history
★To explore how the emergence of civilizations transformed how humans lived and how their societies were structured
★To show the various ways in which civilizations differed from one another
★To explore the outcomes of the emergence of civilizations, both positive and negative, for humankind
Essential Questions:
1. What distinguished civilizations from other forms of human community?
2. How does the use of the term “civilization” by historians differ from that of popular usage? How do you use the term?
3. “Civilizations were held together largely by force.” Do you agree with this assessment, or were there other mechanisms of integration as well?
4. In the development of the First Civilizations, what was gained for humankind, and what was lost?
Key Concept 1.3 — The appearance of the first urban societies 5,000 years ago laid the foundations for the development of complex civilizations; these civilizations shared several significant social, political, and economic characteristics.
I. Core and foundational civilizations developed in a variety of geographical and environmental settings where agriculture flourished.
II. The first states emerged within core civilizations in Mesopotamia and the Nile River Valley.
III. Culture played a significant role in unifying states through laws, language, literature, religion, myths, and monumental art.
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Monday, Sept 18, 2017
Quote: "I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival." - Kurt Vonnegut
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prep for the reading check quiz over Chapter 3. You can use your handwritten notes.
2. READING CHECK QUIZ - Chapter 3 - First Civilizations
3. Review the quiz
ASSIGNMENTS:
FRI - LEQ Organizer due in class. LEQ Comparison Prompt & Rubric
Next Monday - Chapter 3 Quiz - you can use hand-written notes
WED next week UNIT 1 Test: CH 1-3 First Peoples, Farmers, & Civilizations
WED next week (after Unit 1 Test): LEQ Comparison
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Tuesday, Sept 19, 2017
Quote: "No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious." - Deepak Chopra
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up LEQ Comparison Prompt & Rubric; Pick up the LEQ Organizer (due on Friday in class)
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Writing like "Law & Order" -- create a persuasive argument.
Notes & Discussion: How to write the Comparative FRQ
3. Last 10 minutes: Crash Course WH: #1 - Agricultural Revolution
ASSIGNMENTS:
FRI - LEQ Organizer due in class. LEQ Comparison Prompt & Rubric
Next Monday - Chapter 3 Quiz - you can use hand-written notes
WED next week UNIT 1 Test: CH 1-3 First Peoples, Farmers, & Civilizations
WED next week (after Unit 1 Test): LEQ Comparison
Wednesday, Sept 20, 2017
Quote: "Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
1. DO NOW: In what ways did humans interact with the environment in early river valley civilizations? How did these differ in Egypt & Mesopotamia?
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Part I: Comparing River Valley Civilizations: Egypt & Mesopotamia
How did early civilization develop? What do they share in common?
3. Andrew Marr's History of the World, Episode 1: "Survival"
We will watch the intro & a few portions to get a feel for what this time period looked like. This video series is much like "Strayer Come to Life" and students in the past have really connected with it. It has made reading the text book much easier because students can visualize and imagine the time period much easier.
ASSIGNMENTS:
FRI - LEQ Organizer due in class. LEQ Comparison Prompt & Rubric
Next Monday - Chapter 3 Quiz - you can use hand-written notes
WED next week UNIT 1 Test: CH 1-3 First Peoples, Farmers, & Civilizations
WED next week (after Unit 1 Test): LEQ Comparison
Friday, September 22, 2017
Quote: "Science is nothing but perception." - Plato
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: LEQ Organizer due in class. LEQ Comparison Prompt & Rubric
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Part II Indus River, China, Norte Chico, & Olmec
3. Crash Course WH: Indus River Valley
ASSIGNMENTS:
Monday - Chapter 3 Quiz - you can use hand-written notes
WED next week UNIT 1 Test: CH 1-3 First Peoples, Farmers, & Civilizations
WED next week (after Unit 1 Test): LEQ Comparison