Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 1 - CH 1, 2, 3 -- First Humans, Farmers, & Civilizations
WEEK AT A GLANCE:MON: NO SCHOOL - LABOR DAY
TUE: Reading Check Quiz Chapter 1 & 2; Review Quiz
WED: Video Documentary - Andrew Marr's History of the World, Episode 1: Survival (first 15 min); Human Migration from Africa; First Farmers - Civilization Emerges
THU: Documentary: Guns, Germs, & Steel: Episode I "Out of Eden" with questions
Why did civilization occur where it did on the globe?
FRI: Notes, Discussion, Video: River Valley Civilizations: How did early civilization develop? What do they share in common? Introduction to the Early River Valley Civilizations: Focus on Egypt & Mesopotamia; Students will create direct comparisons of RV Civs.; Crash Course WH: #1 - Agricultural Revolution
ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Next Monday - Chapter 3 Quiz - you can use hand-written notes
WED next week UNIT 1 Test: CH 1-3 First Peoples, Farmers, & Civilizations
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★To establish the relationship between the First Civilizations and the Agricultural Revolution
★To contrast civilizations with other forms of human communities
★To explore when, where, and how the First Civilizations arose in human history
★To explore how the emergence of civilizations transformed how humans lived and how their societies were structured
★To show the various ways in which civilizations differed from one another
★To explore the outcomes of the emergence of civilizations, both positive and negative, for humankind
Essential Questions:
1. What distinguished civilizations from other forms of human community?
2. How does the use of the term “civilization” by historians differ from that of popular usage? How do you use the term?
3. “Civilizations were held together largely by force.” Do you agree with this assessment, or were there other mechanisms of integration as well?
4. In the development of the First Civilizations, what was gained for humankind, and what was lost?
Key Concept 1.3 — The appearance of the first urban societies 5,000 years ago laid the foundations for the development of complex civilizations; these civilizations shared several significant social, political, and economic characteristics.
I. Core and foundational civilizations developed in a variety of geographical and environmental settings where agriculture flourished.
II. The first states emerged within core civilizations in Mesopotamia and the Nile River Valley.
III. Culture played a significant role in unifying states through laws, language, literature, religion, myths, and monumental art.
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Monday, September 3, 2018
LABOR DAY 2018
NO SCHOOL
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Quote: "No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious." - Deepak Chopra
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prep for the reading check quiz over Chapters 1 & 2. You can use your handwritten notes.
2. READING CHECK QUIZ - Chapters 1 & 2
3. Review the quiz
ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Next Monday - Chapter 3 Quiz - you can use hand-written notes
WED next week UNIT 1 Test: CH 1-3 First Peoples, Farmers, & Civilizations
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Wednesday, Sept 5, 2018
Quote: "No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious." - Deepak Chopra
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Explain the first human migration and how it occurred.
2. Video Documentary - Andrew Marr's History of the World, Episode 1: Survival (first 15 min);
We will watch the intro & a few portions to get a feel for what this time period looked like. This video series is much like "Strayer Come to Life" and students in the past have really connected with it. It has made reading the text book much easier because students can visualize and imagine the time period much easier.
3. Notes, Discussion: Human Migration from Africa; First Farmers - Civilization Emerges
ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Next Monday - Chapter 3 Quiz - you can use hand-written notes
WED next week UNIT 1 Test: CH 1-3 First Peoples, Farmers, & Civilizations
Thursday, Sept 6, 2018
Quote: "Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find." - Neil deGrasse Tyson
1. DO NOW: Copy the questions from the screen that we will use to guide our viewing of the documentary.
2. Documentary: Guns, Germs, & Steel: Episode I "Out of Eden" with questions
Why did civilization occur where it did on the globe?
3. Discuss documentary. Do you agree with Diamond?
ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Next Monday - Chapter 3 Quiz - you can use hand-written notes
WED next week UNIT 1 Test: CH 1-3 First Peoples, Farmers, & Civilizations
Friday, September 7, 2018
Quote: "Science is nothing but perception." - Plato
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What accounts for the initial breakthrough of civilization?
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Part I: Comparing River Valley Civilizations: Egypt & Mesopotamia How did early civilization develop? What do they share in common?
3. Crash Course WH: #1 - Agricultural Revolution
ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Next Monday - Chapter 3 Quiz - you can use hand-written notes
WED next week UNIT 1 Test: CH 1-3 First Peoples, Farmers, & Civilizations
