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.
TUE - TEST Chapters 10 & 11; LEQ: Flip between Comparative 2014 & 2015
WED/THU - Crash Course WH: Wait for it... The Mongols; Mongol DBQ
FRI - Mongol 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:
• 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.
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
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
Assignments:
Friday - CH 12 - The Mongols!
Quiz on the Monday after the break
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.
* 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?
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.
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.
