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Agenda: Week of Jan. 22 - 26, 2018

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 4 - Early Modern World, 1450-1750
Chapter 14 - Empires & Encounters
Chapter 15 - World Commerce
Chapter 16 - Science & Religion
Week at a Glance:
MON"A Slave's Journey" with questions & Socratic discussion; The Ascent of Money - Episode #1 - Dreams of Avarice - Niall Ferguson (first 15 min); Rise of Financial History? Spanish Empire & Silver Trade: Inflation - Supply & Demand
TUE- East India Companies - Indian Ocean TradeIntroduction to Ch 16: Scientific Revolution Enlightenment & Protestant Reformation
WED/THUQuiz CH. 16: "Science & Religion"; Review Quiz; Religion with The Reformation
FRI- World History Thinking Skill - Contextualization & the CCOT
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ASSIGNMENTS:
MONDAY - "A Slave's Journey" - answer questions
WEDNESDAY - Quiz Chapter 16 - Science & Religion 
NEXT TUESDAY - TEST Unit 4 (CH 14, 15, 16)
With transportation of new world & Asian riches, piracy emerges in the Early Modern Era.
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Learning Targets CH. 16 - Science & Religion:
Indulge me!
- Examine the early modern roots of modern tension between religion and science
- Compare the Reformation movements in Europe and their significance
- Analyze the global spread of Christianity and the extent to which it syncretized with native traditions
- Expand the discussion of religious change to include religious movements in China, India, and the Islamic world
- Understand the reasons behind the Scientific Revolution in Europe, and why that movement was limited in other parts of the world
- Examine the implications of the Scientific Revolution for world societies 

Essential Questions:
1. Why did Christianity take hold in some places more than in others?
2. In what ways was the missionary message of Christianity shaped by the cultures of Asian and American peoples?
3. Compare the processes by which Christianity and Islam became world religions.
4. In what ways did the spread of Christianity, Islam, and modern science give rise to culturally based conflicts?
5. Based on Chapters 13 through 16, how does the history of Islam in the early modern era challenge a Eurocentric understanding of those centuries?
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Monday, January 22, 2018
Quote: "If gridiron were a timeline, w/ Big Bang at one goal, then cavemen to now spans thickness of single turf-blade at other goal." — Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson February 7, 2011


Agenda:

1. DO NOW QUESTION: Pick up "A Slave's Journey" read & answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper.

Socratic Discussion over the document

2. Notes, Discussion, Video
A True World Economy: 
The Ascent of Money - Episode #1 - Dreams of Avarice - Niall Ferguson
Do you understand the rise of Financial History? 
Can you imagine a world with no money?
Inflation - Supply & Demand
Silver Inflation
Silver Mines & Mercantilism
Tulip Bulb Bubble in The Netherlands: Economic Speculation. How does it work? & How does it BREAK?

ASSIGNMENTS:
MONDAY - "A Slave's Journey" - answer questions
WEDNESDAY - Quiz Chapter 16 - Science & Religion 
NEXT TUESDAY - TEST Unit 4 (CH 14, 15, 16)
Luther, word! Indulgences, yo!
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Quote: "Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge." - Carl Sagan



Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: How did the Indian Ocean trade change during this time period? 

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: East India Companies - Indian Ocean Trade

3. Introduction to Ch 16: Overview of the themes of Scientific Revolution Enlightenment Protestant Reformation

ASSIGNMENTS:
MONDAY - "A Slave's Journey" - answer questions
WEDNESDAY - Quiz Chapter 16 - Science & Religion 

NEXT TUESDAY - TEST Unit 4 (CH 14, 15, 16)
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Wednesday January 24, 2018
Quote: "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

Agenda:
1. Quiz - CH 16 "Science & Religion"

2. REVIEW QUIZ - CH 16 "Science & Religion"

3. Notes, Video, Discussion: Introduction to Chapter 16 - Science & Religion
Protestant Reformation

Video: Crash Course 2: Luther & Reformation

ASSIGNMENTS:
MONDAY - "A Slave's Journey" - answer questions
WEDNESDAY - Quiz Chapter 16 - Science & Religion 
NEXT TUESDAY - TEST Unit 4 (CH 14, 15, 16)
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator.
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Friday, January 26, 2018
Quote: "Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on "Big Bang Theory" lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe" — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) October 7, 2010

Agenda:
1. Do Now Question: In what was did the Protestant Reformation transform European society, culture, and politics? What changed? What stayed the same?

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: The Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution
How does the Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment compare to the Protestant Reformation? 
What characteristics did they share in common? What changed? What stayed the same?

3. CONTEXTUALIZATION: Using Context with the CCOT

Students will create contextualization statements that use Unit 4 themes and concepts

ASSIGNMENTS:
MONDAY - "A Slave's Journey" - answer questions
WEDNESDAY - Quiz Chapter 16 - Science & Religion 
NEXT TUESDAY - TEST Unit 4 (CH 14, 15, 16)