Agenda: Week of Jan. 1 - Jan. 5, 2018

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 4: THE EARLY MODERN WORLD 1450–1750
Chapter 14 -- Empires and Encounters, 1450–1750
Chapter 15 -- World Commerce, 1450-1750
Chapter 16 -- Science & Religion, 1450-1750
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - NO SCHOOL
TUE - NO SCHOOL
Wed, Thu, & Fri are 7 period days this week
WED - New Seats; Welcome Back: 40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes; Intro Unit 4 & CH 14, 15, & 16; Video: America Before Columbus
THU - European Explorers in the New World - Guns, Germs, & Steel: Conquest; 
Differences in Colonization - Comparing English & Spanish Colonies
FRI - Columbian Exchange; Crash Course & Notes discussing the Impact of Columbian Exchange; Reviewing Essay Writing in WH: Columbian Exchange 2012 LEQ-Comparison Question
Compare demographic and environmental effects of the Columbian Exchange on the Americas with the Columbian Exchange’s demographic and environmental effects on ONE of the following regions between 1492 and 1750.
 Africa -- Asia -- Europe
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ASSIGNMENTS:
Next Monday: Quiz CH 14
MLK Day Jan 16th - no school for students
Tuesday, Jan. 16: Quiz CH 15
Monday, Jan. 22: Quiz CH 16 
Wednesday, Jan. 24: TEST - CH 14-15-16
Friday, Jan. 26: Timed-Writing LEQ-CCOT

CHAPTER 14 - Empires & Encounters, 1450–1750Learning Targets:
• Explain the differences in the variety of empires of the early modern period
• Explain how empire building was not just a Western European phenomenon
• Compare and Contrast the range of colonial societies that evolved and the reasons for differences between them
• Analyze the massive social reordering that attended European colonization in the Western Hemisphere

Essential Questions:
1. What enabled Europeans to carve out huge empires an ocean away from their homelands?
2. What large-scale transformations did European empires generate?
3. What was the economic foundation of colonial rule in Mexico and Peru? How did it shape the kinds of societies that arose there?
4. How did the plantation societies of Brazil and the Caribbean differ from those of southern colonies in British North America?
5. What distinguished the British settler colonies of North America from their counterparts in Latin America? 
6. In what different ways was European colonial rule expressed and experienced in the Americas? 
7. Why did the European empires in the Americas have such an enormously greater impact on the conquered people than did the Chinese, Mughal, and Ottoman empires? 
8. In what ways did the empires of the early modern era continue patterns of earlier empires? In what ways did they depart from those patterns?
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Quote of the Day: "Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right." - Oprah Winfrey

Agenda:
1. Do Now - New Seats on Chart. 
Goals for this semester & AP Test.

3. Notes, Discussion, & Video -Intro Unit 4 & CH 14, 15, & 16

4. Video: America Before Columbus, part II
What was America like before Europeans arrived?
How did it change?
In what ways do you think this will impact the lives of people in the era that followed?
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ASSIGNMENTS:
Next Monday: Quiz CH 14
MLK Day Jan 16th - no school for students
Tuesday, Jan. 16: Quiz CH 15
Monday, Jan. 22: Quiz CH 16 
Wednesday, Jan. 24: TEST - CH 14-15-16

Friday, Jan. 26: Timed-Writing LEQ-CCOT

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Thursday, January 4, 2018

Quote of the Day: "New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time."  - James Agate
Agenda:
1. Do Now Question: Why didn’t China or India develop colonies & explore ... Yet Western European nations did. What advantages did Europe have over China/Asia?

 2. Notes, Discussion, Video:  European Explorers in the New World - Guns, Germs, & Steel: Conquest; Differences in Colonization - Comparing English & Spanish Colonies

 3. Notes, Discussion, Video: Compare European Colonial Rule in the Americas of the British & Spanish. 
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ASSIGNMENTS:
Next Monday: Quiz CH 14
MLK Day Jan 16th - no school for students
Tuesday, Jan. 16: Quiz CH 15
Monday, Jan. 22: Quiz CH 16 
Wednesday, Jan. 24: TEST - CH 14-15-16
Friday, Jan. 26: Timed-Writing LEQ-CCOT
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Friday, January 6, 2017
Quote of the Day: "Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What was the impact of the Columbian Exchange on the world?

2. Notes, Discussion, Video: Columbian Exchange; 
Crash Course & Notes discussing the Impact of Columbian Exchange

 3. Reviewing How to Write the WHAP Essays - Columbian Exchange 2012 Comparison Question
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ASSIGNMENTS:
Next Monday: Quiz CH 14
MLK Day Jan 16th - no school for students
Tuesday, Jan. 16: Quiz CH 15
Monday, Jan. 22: Quiz CH 16 
Wednesday, Jan. 24: TEST - CH 14-15-16
Friday, Jan. 26: Timed-Writing LEQ-CCOT
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What do I have to make on the final exam?

Many students ask me this question. 

This is a good reference:

Yeah, don't do that!

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Fall 2017 Mock AP Test High Scores (Multiple Choice)

Each of these students should be proud of their work. Although we have only gone through one semester and the first three units, they have mastered the work to this point. Their performance on the multiple choice was excellent. 

However, it is only 40% of the AP Test score. The Short Answer Questions (20%) and the Document-Based Question (25%) & Long Essay Question (15%) account for the majority of the score.

Still the Multiple Choice is the largest percentage portion of the test with 40% going to your overall score. So it is important. These questions are not just rote memorization questions any longer. They involve skills (comparison, causation, continuity & change over time, understand time periods of world history, map, chart, graphic, passages to understand).



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Agenda: Week of Dec. 4-8 & Dec. 11-15, 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 of Dec. 4-8 -- WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Document Analysis CH 12 & 13 Handout; Review Mongols CH 12 Documents & DBQ Posters; POV statements. Strickland Rules for SAQ Analysis (for Thursday's SAQ questions on the MOCK AP Test)
TUE: TEST CH 12 & 13
WED: MOCK AP TEST - Multiple Choice; 55 Questions in 55 minutes. Groups of 2-5.
THU: MOCK AP TEST - SAQ - The Short Answer Questions; MOCK AP TEST - 3 SAQ Questions, 50 Minutes
FRI: Final Day for Extra Credit.; Review for Final Exam; MOCK AP TEST CORRECTIONS

EXTRA CREDIT DUE ON FRIDAY, DEC. 8
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Week of Dec. 11-15 -- WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Review for Final Exam; MOCK AP TEST CORRECTIONS
TUE: Review for Final Exam; Collect: MOCK AP TEST CORRECTIONS
MOCK AP TEST CORRECTIONS DUE (sooner the better! that way I will be able to add it to your score and increase your chances of exempting if needed)
WED, THU, FRI: FINAL EXAMS

 Chapter 13 - The Worlds 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?
Although not a huge part of the test, Chapter 13 is very diverse. Don't forget about Paleolithic Persistence.
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Monday, December 4, 2017
Quote: “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” ― Vince Lombardi Jr.

1. DO NOW: Pick up both...
Document Analysis CH 12 & 13 Handout
Strickland Rules for SAQ Analysis (for Thursday's SAQ questions on the MOCK AP Test)

 2. Point of View Statements & Document Analysis

3. Review 12 & 13 - Prep for Test on Tuesday (pre-Thanksgiving stuff has a heavy emphasis)

 ASSIGNMENTS:
Test Tuesday CH 12 & 13
MOCK Exam Wed/Thu
EXTRA CREDIT DUE ON FRIDAY, DEC. 8
Don't forget about The Mongols!
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Quote: "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow

Agenda:
1. Test Chapter 12: Mongols & Chapter 13: Worlds of 15th Century

 EXTRA CREDIT DUE ON FRIDAY, DEC. 8

 For next time - prep for the 50 Question, 50 minute Mock AP Test. Review the semester. 

 ASSIGNMENTS:
MOCK Exam Wed/Thu
EXTRA CREDIT DUE ON FRIDAY, DEC. 8
Sadly, some students may want to start over from August. Or just ask me to repeat everything I said all semester.
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Wednesday, December 6, 2017 
REGULAR 7 PERIOD DAY
Quote: "You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life." - Steve Jobs

Agenda:
1. MOCK AP TEST - 55 Questions, 55 minutes. Based off of released test questions and those that closely approximate them. 
ASSIGNMENTS:MOCK Exam SAQ on Thursday
EXTRA CREDIT DUE ON FRIDAY, DEC. 8
Hopefully that is not how it will feel on the MOCK AP Test. If you know what I MEME?
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Thursday, December 7, 2017
Quote: 
"You can spend your time alone, re-digesting past regrets, oh
Or you can come to terms and realize
You're the only one who can't forgive yourself, oh
Makes much more sense, to live in the present tense"
- Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam, Present Tense

1. MOCK AP TEST - 3 SAQ Questions, 50 Minutes.
First 2 questions are mandatory. 
The 3rd and 4th students will pick one or the other to complete. 
This is exactly like the AP Test. 

Reminder: 

Star Wars continues next Friday! :) 
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Friday, December 8, 2017
Quote: "A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother." - Author Unknown

Agenda:
Extra Credit (Review &/or Graphic Org.) due.
1. MOCK AP Test Corrections: We will continue these in class through Tuesday of next week. 
You may work with other students.
Do not write out the question and answer choices. 

 Just write it out like this, explaining why your choice is correct:

 1. C - The Mongols were able to control the Silk Road trading network, which opened up trade in a more secured and efficient way. Because the Silk Road flourished during their reign, the Indian Ocean trading network saw a dip in activity. 

 You may not take these questions outside of the classroom. 

 ASSIGNMENTS:
Test Tuesday CH 12 & 13
MOCK Exam Wed/Thu
EXTRA CREDIT DUE ON FRIDAY, DEC. 8
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Monday, December 11, 2017
Quote: "A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother." - Author Unknown

Agenda:
1. MOCK AP Test Corrections: You may not take these questions outside of the classroom. 

 2. Mr. Duez will sign any exemption forms.
You know you do this...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Quote: "A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother." - Author Unknown

Agenda:
1. MOCK AP Test Corrections: You may not take these questions outside of the classroom. 

 2. Mr. Duez will sign any exemption forms.

 3. Mr. Duez will collect Test Corrections when students are finished, but they only have until the end of the period.

 3. Final Exam Review & a look back at a great semester
What you might say if given a 1 in a million chance of passing a final exam. Thanks Lloyd Christmas!
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FINAL EXAMS: 
December 13 - December 15, 2017
Quote: "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time." - Leonard Bernstein
FULL FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE
Best of Luck on Your Finals!

Have a fantastic holiday

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