Agenda: Nov. 27 - Dec. 1, 2017

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3 - AN AGE OF ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS 500–1500
CH 12: The Mongols & CH 13: Worlds of the 15th Century
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Quiz Ch. 12 - "Pastoralists on the World's Stage: The Mongols"Quiz Review
TUE: The Great Mariners of Unit 3: Crash Course: Fifteenth Century Mariners; Engineering an Empire: China (Focus on Ming & Zheng He's Exploration); Paleolithic Persistence; The Renaissance
WED/THU: Aztec/Inca Comparison; Engineering an Empire - Aztecs; European Renaissance; Islamic Empires of the 15th Cent.; Paleolithic Persistence
FRIReading Check Quiz 13, Review Quiz
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This FRIDAY: Quiz CH 13
TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
CH. 12 - Pastoral People's on the World's Stage: The Mongols!
Learning Targets:
* Analyze the significance of pastoral societies in world history
* Explain how the conditions of nomadic life differed from the rest of Eurasia
* Explain the impact of the Mongol Empire on world history
* Examine implications of the Eurasian trade sponsored by the Mongols and determine how Eurasian trading systems changed over time.

Essential Questions:
1. Prior to the rise of the Mongols, in what ways had pastoral peoples been significant in world history?
2. What accounts for the often negative attitudes of settled societies toward the pastoral peoples living on their borders? Why have historians often neglected pastoral peoples’ role in world history
3. In what ways did the Mongol Empire resemble other empires, and in what ways did it differ from them?
4. Why did it last a relatively short time?
5. In what different ways did Mongol rule affect the Islamic world, Russia, China, and Europe?
This is a seriously tough chapter. Lots to cover. Buckle up baby, grandma's takin' the fast lane.
CH. 13 "The World's of the Fifteenth Century"
Learning Targets:
• Consider the variety of human experience in the fifteenth century and compare those experiences across cultures.
• Contrast the political and cultural conditions in China’s Ming Dynasty and Europe’s “Renaissance Period” on the cusp of the modern world and analyze why Europe came to dominate the world in the modern era.
• Determine the factors that bring about change in the Islamic world (Middle East and West Africa) in the fifteenth century and analyze the differences between the four Muslim Empires.
• Contrast Aztec and Inca thinking about political administration and culture.

Essential Questions:
1. Assume for the moment that the Chinese had not ended their maritime voyages in 1433. How might the subsequent development of world history have been different? What value is there in asking this kind of “what if ” or counter-factual question?
2. How would you define the major achievements of Ming dynasty China?
3. What political and cultural differences stand out in the histories of fifteenth-century China and Western Europe? What similarities are apparent?
4. In what ways did European maritime voyaging in the fifteenth century differ from that of China? What accounts for these differences?
5. What differences can you identify among the four major empires in the Islamic world of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
Zheng He? Vasco da Gama? or Columbus? 3 Great Explorers only 1 can emerge victorious!
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Monday, November 27, 2017
Quote: “To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn

Agenda:
1. Quiz - CH 12: The Pastoral Peoples on the World Stage: "The Mongols!" 

2. Review Quiz

Assignments:
This FRIDAY: Quiz CH 13
TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
China's "Kind of a Big Deal" - The Islamic World feels a bit confused - Europe's little engines that could... & does.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Quote: “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” —Aristotle

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Copy questions from overhead for Crash Course.
Q1: What political and cultural differences stand out in the histories of fifteenth-century China and Western Europe? What similarities are apparent?

Q2: In what ways did European maritime voyaging in the 15th century differ from that of China? What accounts for these differences?

2. Video Crash Course World HistoryFifteenth Century Mariners
What political and cultural differences stand out in the histories of fifteenth-century China and Western Europe? What similarities are apparent?

In what ways did European maritime voyaging in the 15th century differ from that of China? What accounts for these differences?

3. Engineering an Empire: China (Focus on Ming & Zheng He's Exploration)
Zheng He & the Ming Dynasty created an amazing naval power only to have the emperor destroy it all. 
While students watch the video, they will answer this question:

Assume for the moment that the Chinese had not ended their maritime voyages in 1433. How might the subsequent development of world history have been different? What value is there in asking this kind of “what if ” or counterfactual question?

Assignments:
This FRIDAY: Quiz CH 13
TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
One of Mr. Duez's former students studied in Florence during her days at Baylor. Ayla loved it!
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Quote: “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” - J.K. Rowling

Agenda:
1. DO NOWWhat distinguished the Aztec & Inca empires from each other?

2. Notes/Discussion/Video What distinguished the Aztec & Inca empires from each other?
Aztecs & Inca Compared
VIDEO: Engineering an Empire Aztecs
How did Aztec religious thinking support the empire?
How did the Aztec Empire feed their vast population (possibly 15 million)?

3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: What differences can you identify among the four major empires in the Islamic world of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

4. Notes, Video, & Discussion: How has the paleolithic lifestyle continued all the way through Unit 3 & into the 1400s?

Paleolithic Persistence in the 15th Century

IF TIME: Crash Course World History: Renaissance
What energy and inspiration gave rise to the Renaissance? Consider why Europe came to dominate the world in the modern era, & how well this could have been predicted in 1500.

Assignments:
This FRIDAY: Quiz CH 13
TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
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Friday, December 1, 2017
Quote: “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Chinese proverb

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prep for Reading Check Quiz on Chapter 13

2. Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 13 "Worlds of the 15th Century"

3. Review Quiz w/question:

Assignments:
This FRIDAY: Quiz CH 13
TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday

DBQ: Help on the posters

A little help on the DBQ Posters: 
I know a lot of students were asking questions through email. So here you go:

The Actual Attitudes Towards Mongols DBQ Handout

ATTITUDES TOWARDS MONGOLS DBQ Question Breakdown

DBQ POSTERS - HOW TO - With Examples of Attitudes Towards Mongols DBQ


HOW TO WHAP THE DBQ

For Friday, be sure you are doing whatever your group focused upon. Hopefully you have divided up the work involved to make this easier. If you have:
Meaning of the document
Analysis of the document (focusing on the question)
Point of view of the document
Your group can just cut out those and paste them onto the poster on Friday. The assembly of the DBQ Poster will take some time, but everyone should be able to finish by the end of the period on Friday.

A few examples of the layout (do not just blindly copy their work, it is not necessarily correct):



Agenda: Week of November 13-17, 2017

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3  AN AGE OF ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS 500–1500
CH 10 Christendom in W. Europe CH 11 The Worlds of Islam ~ Afro-Eurasian Connections
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 11 - Islam; Review Quiz; Discuss LEQ - Tuesday we will write it - the flip of a coin determines the question you will write. 
TUETEST Chapters 10 & 11LEQ: Flip between Comparative 2014 & 2015
WED/THUCrash Course WH: Wait for it... The MongolsMongol DBQ
FRIMongol DBQ The Mongols! - The Exception! Crash Course WH: Wait for it... The Mongols
The Mongols & DBQ Prep
"Khan" you believe that we are already on Chapter 12? It is the 1/2 way point!

ASSESSMENTS: Test over Chapter 10 and 11 is on Tuesday
Review Notes over Chapter 10 Worlds of Christendom & Chapter 11 Worlds of Islam
LEQ: Flip between Comparative 2014 & 2015

After Multiple Choice, we will flip a coin between two LEQ Comparative Prompts:
Chapter 11 - The Islamic WorldLearning Targets:
• Analyze the causes behind the spread of Islam
• Explain how the dynamism of the Islamic world was the most influential of the third-wave civilizations
• Examine the religious divisions within Islam and how they affected political development
• Compare Islam as a source of cultural encounters with Christian, African, and Hindu cultures
• Compare the accomplishments of the Islamic world in the period 600–1500 C.E. with those of their contemporaries.


Essential Questions:
1. In what ways did the early history of Islam reflect its Arabian origins?
2. How does the core message of Islam compare with that of Judaism and Christianity?
3. In what ways was the rise of Islam revolutionary, both in theory and in practice?
4. Why were Arabs able to construct such a huge empire so quickly?
5. What accounts for the widespread conversion to Islam?
6. What is the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam?


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Monday, November 13, 2017
Quote: "History is philosophy teaching by examples."  - Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 11 - Islam (You may use your handwritten notes).

2. Review the quiz. & Question: 

3. Discuss LEQ for tomorrow's test

Assignments:
Test over Chapter 10 and 11 is on Tuesday
Review Notes over Chapter 10 Worlds of Christendom & Chapter 11 Worlds of Islam
LEQ: Flip between Comparative 2014 & 2015
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Quote: "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."  - James Baldwin

Agenda:
1. TEST: CH 10 & 11 - 25 M/Choice Questions

2. LEQ Comparative: 2014 & 2015 FLIP
3. Pick up the Mongol DBQ packet & read and annotate for tomorrow's class. 

Assignments:
Friday - CH 12 - The Mongols!
Quiz on the Monday after the break
Chapter 12 - Pastoralists on the World Stage
The Mongols!Learning Targets: 
* Analyze the significance of pastoral societies in world history
* Explain how the conditions of nomadic life differed from the rest of Eurasia
* Explain the impact of the Mongol Empire on world history
* Examine implications of the Eurasian trade sponsored by the Mongols and determine how Eurasian trading systems changed over time.

Essential Questions:
1. Prior to the rise of the Mongols, in what ways had pastoral peoples been significant in world history?
2. What accounts for the often negative attitudes of settled societies toward the pastoral peoples living on their borders? Why have historians often neglected pastoral peoples’ role in world history?
3. In what ways did the Mongol Empire resemble other empires, and in what ways did it differ from them? 
4. Why did it last a relatively short time?
5. In what different ways did Mongol rule affect the Islamic world, Russia, China, and Europe?
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Wednesday, November 16, 2017
Quote: "History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days."  - Winston Churchill

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Why were the Mongols "The Exception?"

2. Crash Course WH: Wait for it... The Mongols

3. Notes over Crash Course: The Mongols & DBQ Prep

4. DBQ: The Mongols & The DBQ Poster
Students will work on the DBQ Posters the second half of the period. They will be finished in class on Friday before the break.
Mongol DBQ

Assignments:
Begin reading Chapter 12 - The Mongol World. We will have a quiz over it on Monday. After the break.
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Friday, November 17, 2017
Quote: "History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up."  - Voltaire

Agenda: 
1. DBQ: The Mongols & The DBQ Poster
Students will work on the DBQ Posters the second half of the period. They will be finished in class on Friday before the break.

Assignments:
Friday - CH 12 - The Mongols!
Quiz on the Monday after the break
Begin reading Chapter 12 - The Mongol World. We will have a quiz over it on Monday
The test is after the Thanksgiving Break along with Chapter 13 - Worlds of the 15th Century.

Agenda: Week of Nov. 6-10, 2017

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3 -  Age of Accelerating Connections, 500 - 1500
Chapter 10 - European Christendom & Chapter 11 Islamic World
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Reading Check Quiz: CH 10
; Review Quiz

TUE: Was this a 'Dark Age'?Andrew Marr's Into the Light  How does the Islamic Empire’s Golden Age lead to Europe’s “Dark Age” recovery? 
WED/THU: Continue Video: The Crescent & The CrossWhat was the impact of the Crusades in world history?; POV Statements - Review the work from the last test - Examples of good & bad work; POV Practice from CH 10 & 11; Intro to The Worlds of Islam - Chapter 11: What distinguished the first centuries of Islamic history from the early history of Christianity & Buddhism? 
FRI: Role of Women in Islam; How did the rise of Islam impact women? Examine Patriarchy in the Islamic World

ASSESSMENTS AT A GLANCE:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over CH 10 & 11 next Tuesday
There will be an LEQ prompt after the next test
We will write this essay as part of the Unit 3: Ch 10 & 11 Test the Tuesday before Thanksgiving Break. 
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. In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns?
2. How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity differ from Roman Catholicism?
3. In what ways was the Byzantine Empire linked to a wider world?
4. How did links to Byzantium transform the new civilization of Kievan Rus?
5. How did the historical development of the European West differ from that of Byzantium in the post-classical era?
6. What replaced the Roman order in Western Europe?
7. In what ways was European civilization changing after 1000?
8. What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?
9. In what ways did borrowing from abroad shape European civilization after 1000?
10. Why was Europe unable to achieve the kind of political unity that China experienced? What impact did this have on the subsequent history of Europe?
11. In what different ways did classical Greek philosophy and science have an impact in the West, in Byzantium, and in the Islamic world?
Very confusing chapter for students. West & Eastern Europe go by many pseudonyms. 
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Monday, Nov. 6, 2017
Quote:  “The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others wish to join us.” - Hubert Humphrey

Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz - CH 10

2. Review Quiz & Question

ASSESSMENTS:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over CH 10 & 11 next Tuesday
There will be an LEQ prompt after the next test
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Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017
Quote:  “An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.” - Pope John Paul I

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What replaced the Roman order in Western Europe? In what ways was European civilization changing after 1000?

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Was this a 'Dark Age'?

3. Andrew Marr's Into the Light  How does the Islamic Empire’s Golden Age lead to Europe’s “Dark Age” recovery? 


ASSESSEMENTS:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over CH 10 & 11 next Tuesday
There will be an LEQ prompt after the next test
The Crusades: What a mess!
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Wednesday, Nov 8, 2017
Quote: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Waldo Emerson

Agenda:
1. Do Now: What impact did the Crusades have on world history?

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: The Crusades

Video: The Crescent & The Cross - What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?

3. POINT OF VIEW: Review the work from the last test - Examples of good & bad work

POV Practice from CH 10 & 11

4. Notes, Video, Discussion: Introduction to Chapter 11, The Worlds of Islam
What distinguished the first centuries of Islamic history from the early history of Christianity and Buddhism? What similarities and differences characterized their religious outlooks?

ASSESSEMENTS:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over CH 10 & 11 next Tuesday
There will be an LEQ prompt after the next test
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Learning Targets:
• Analyze the causes behind the spread of Islam
• Explain how the dynamism of the Islamic world was the most influential of the third-wave civilizations
• Examine the religious divisions within Islam and how they affected political development
• Compare Islam as a source of cultural encounters with Christian, African, and Hindu cultures
• Compare the accomplishments of the Islamic world in the period 600–1500 C.E. with those of their contemporaries.

Essential Questions:
1. In what ways did the early history of Islam reflect its Arabian origins?
2. How does the core message of Islam compare with that of Judaism and Christianity?
3. In what ways was the rise of Islam revolutionary, both in theory and in practice?
4. Why were Arabs able to construct such a huge empire so quickly?
5. What accounts for the widespread conversion to Islam?
6. What is the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam?
7. In what ways were Sufi Muslims critical of mainstream Islam?
8. How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women?
9. What similarities and differences can you identify in the spread of Islam to India, Anatolia, West Africa, and Spain?
10. Why was Anatolia so much more thoroughly Islamized than India?
11. What makes it possible to speak of the Islamic world as a distinct and coherent civilization?
12. In what ways was the world of Islam a “cosmopolitan civilization”?
It is like the "Mecca" of Islam. (Probably because it is Mecca)
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Friday, Nov 10, 2017
Quote: “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.” - Earl Shoaf

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Is the Islamic world a single entity or distinct communities?

2. Discuss this question in class: Islam Single World or Distinct Communities?
“Islam was simultaneously both a single world of shared meaning and interaction and a series of separate and distinct communities, often in conflict with one another.” What evidence could you provide to support both sides of this argument?

3. Role of Women in IslamHow did the rise of Islam impact women? Examine Patriarchy in the Islamic World
How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women?

Andrew Marr's Into the Light "Islam" last portion of the video. 

ASSESSEMENTS:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over CH 10 & 11 next Tuesday
There will be an LEQ prompt after the next test