Agenda: Week of January 8-12, 2018

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 4 Early Modern World, 1540 - 1750
CH 14 Empires and Encounters, CH 15 World Commerce & CH 16 Science & Religion
Week at a Glance:
MON: Reading Check Quiz CH 14; Review Quiz
TUE: Prompts for the LEQ Comparative Flip on Thu. Jan. 18th Impact of Colombian Exchange on Economic World: Russian Empire compared with Americas-Fur Trade
WED: Read & Discuss the student sample essays for Columbian Exchange & Racial Ideologies NA/LA; 
Article: A Slaves Journey. Read and annotate; Slavery; Silver Mines & Mercantilism; Notes, Video, Discussion: Atlantic Slave Trade; Video Clip - African Queen Queen Nzinga & Her story of slavery from Mankind: A Story of Us All
FRI: Andrew Marr: Unit 4 Video - Plunder w/Questions
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Mon: Quiz CH 14
Article: A Slaves Journey Read & annotate due on Wed
Next Tuesday: Ch 15 Quiz
Monday, Jan. 22nd: Ch 16 Quiz
Thu, Jan 18th: Prompts for the LEQ Comparative Flip
Wed Jan 24th: TEST Unit 4 (14, 15, 16)
Unit 4 is quite an explosive time period. Empires, Exploration, Enterprise, and Enrichment.
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Learning Targets:
★ To explore the creation of the first true global economy in the period 1450–1750
★ To examine Western European commercial expansion in a context that gives due weight to the contributions of other societies
★ To encourage appreciation of China as the world’s largest economy in the early modern period
★ To increase student awareness of the high costs of the commercial boom of the early modern period in ecological and human terms
★ To investigate the various models of trading post empires that were created in this period

Essential Questions:
1. In what specific ways did trade foster change in the world of the early modern era?
2. To what extent did Europeans transform earlier patterns of commerce, and in what ways did they
assimilate into those older patterns?
3. Describe and account for the differing outcomes of European expansion in the Americas (see Chapter 14), Africa, and Asia.
4. How should we distribute the moral responsibility for the Atlantic slave trade? Is this a task appropriate for historians?
5. What lasting legacies of early modern globalization are evident in the early twenty-first century? Pay particular attention to the legacies of the slave trade.
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Monday, January 8, 2018
Quote: “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ― Lao Tzu

Agenda:
1. Read Check Quiz Chapter 14: Students may use hand written notes

 2. Review the quiz in class, discuss questions.

Assignments:
Article: A Slaves Journey Read & annotate due on Wed
Next Tuesday: Ch 15 Quiz
Monday, Jan. 22nd: Ch 16 Quiz
Thu, Jan 18th: Prompts for the LEQ Comparative Flip
Wed Jan 24th: TEST Unit 4 (14, 15, 16)
Queen Anna Nzinga, also known as Ana de Sousa Nzinga Mbande, was a 17th-century queen of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms of the Mbundu people in Angola. 
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Quote: “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Pick up prompts - LEQ Comparative Flip on Thu. Jan. 18th

 2. Notes, Video, Discussion:  Impact of Colombian Exchange on Economic World: Russian Empire compared with Americas-Fur Trade

3. Crash Course 2: Little Ice Age

Assignments:
Article: A Slaves Journey Read & annotate due on Wed
Next Tuesday: Ch 15 Quiz
Monday, Jan. 22nd: Ch 16 Quiz
Thu, Jan 18th: Prompts for the LEQ Comparative Flip
Wed Jan 24th: TEST Unit 4 (14, 15, 16)
(insert drama) Hello... I'm Peter Weller.
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Wednesday, January  10, 2018
Quote: “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.” ― Sarah Dessen

Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: Pick up student sample packet at the front. Read & Discuss the student sample essays for Columbian Exchange & Racial Ideologies NA/LA

 2. Slavery Document. Article: A Slaves Journey Read and annotate.

 Video Clip - African Queen Queen Nzinga a Mbande & Her story of slavery from Mankind: A Story of Us All

 3. Notes, Discussion, Video: The Atlantic Slave Trade
World Commerce - the 3 S's -- Slaves, Silver, & Soft Gold (furs)
Slavery, Silver, Sugar, Fur = a new world economy.

 Assignments:
Article: A Slaves Journey Read & annotate due on Wed
Next Tuesday: Ch 15 Quiz
Monday, Jan. 22nd: Ch 16 Quiz
Thu, Jan 18th: Prompts for the LEQ Comparative Flip
Wed Jan 24th: TEST Unit 4 (14, 15, 16)
S's of World Commerce
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Friday, January 12, 2018
Quote: "Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly." - Lawrence G. Lovasik

Agenda:
1. Andrew Marr's A History of the World: Plunder
We'll watch segments and then discuss as a class.
  • How does it relate to Strayer's Unit 4?
  • What is the big picture?
  • Change Over Time?
  • World Historical Context?
  • Anything Marr's "Point of View" - that may be biased or influenced in some way?

MLK Day - No School Monday

 Assignments:
Article: A Slaves Journey Read & annotate due on Wed
Next Tuesday: Ch 15 Quiz
Monday, Jan. 22nd: Ch 16 Quiz
Thu, Jan 18th: Prompts for the LEQ Comparative Flip
Wed Jan 24th: TEST Unit 4 (14, 15, 16)
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