Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 2: Classical Era - Eurasian Empires, 500 BCE to 500 CE
Chapters 4, 5, & 6: Eurasian Empires, Cultural Traditions, & Social Inequalities
WEEK AT A GLANCE:MON - CH 5 Eurasian Empires - "Cultural Traditions" - Reading Check Quiz - Students can use handwritten notes; Review Quiz
TUE - Are religions fundamentally alike? Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, & Islam (although it is not a religion until 610)
WED/THU - Documentary: Marr's History of the World, Part 3: The Sword & the Word video; Questions for Documentary
FRI - Caste (India) & Class (China) compared; Document Analysis Han China & Roman Empire
ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Quiz next Monday CH 6: Eurasian Empire in Classical Era - "Social Inequalities"
Test for Unit 2: CH 1, 2, 3 is on Wednesday of next week
Check the notes, YouTube lectures, and work on the Target Sheets to prepare
Learning Targets:
★ Explain the enormous influence on world history of the religious and cultural traditions developed in the classical world
★ Analyze the reasons behind the development of these religious and cultural traditions
★ Compare the common ground and significant differences between these religious and cultural traditions and examine possible reasons behind them
Essential Questions:
1. “Religion is a double-edged sword, both supporting and undermining political authority and social elites.” How would you support both sides of this statement?
2. How would you define the appeal of the religious/cultural traditions discussed in this chapter? To what groups were they attractive, and why?
3. What different answers to the problem of disorder arose in classical China?
4. How would you compare the lives and teachings of Jesus and the Buddha? In what different ways did the two religions evolve after the deaths of their founders?
5. In what ways was Christianity transformed in the five centuries following the death of Jesus?
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| "We made the buttons look so good, you'll want to lick your screen." - Steve Jobs |
Monday, September 24, 2018
Quote: "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life." - Confucius
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prep for Reading Check Quiz for Chapter 5. Prepare your handwritten notes (copying the terms and definitions on the target sheet is a great idea!)
2. Quiz: Reading Check Quiz for Chapter 5.
Question to copy after Quiz: “Is a secular outlook on the world an essentially modern phenomenon, or does it have precedents in the classical era?”
3. Review Quiz
ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Quiz next Monday CH 6: Eurasian Empire in Classical Era - "Social Inequalities"
Test for Unit 2: CH 1, 2, 3 is on Wednesday of next week
Check the notes, YouTube lectures, and work on the Target Sheets to prepare
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| Confucius say... because he never wrote. Like Jesus after him, his followers did. |
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| The Passion of St. Perpetua - one of the oldest & most notable early Christian texts. Survives in Latin & Greek forms, & purports to contain the actual prison diary of the young mother and martyr Perpetua. |
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Quote: "Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything." - Mary Hemingway
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Are religions fundamentally alike? Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, & Islam (although it is not a religion until 610)
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Is secularism a modern phenomenon? Or does it have roots in the Classical Age?
ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Quiz next Monday CH 6: Eurasian Empire in Classical Era - "Social Inequalities"
Test for Unit 2: CH 1, 2, 3 is on Wednesday of next week
Check the notes, YouTube lectures, and work on the Target Sheets to prepare
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Wednesday, Sept. 26 & Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018
Quote: "To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge." - Socrates
Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: Copy questions from the screen for Video.
2. Video Study: Andrew Marr's History of the World, Part 3: "The Word & the Sword" first 40 minutes
India - Ashoka - Buddhist leader teaches tolerance in India from the throne
2. Video & Discussion: Andrew Marr's History of the World, Part 3: "The Sword & the Word" Documentary
3. Document Analysis: Analyze several documents on the screen and answer the multiple choice questions that connect to them. (Practice for the type of AP Questions we'll see on the test for Unit 2) The questions connect to Marr's History of the World.
ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Quiz next Monday CH 6: Eurasian Empire in Classical Era - "Social Inequalities"
Test for Unit 2: CH 1, 2, 3 is on Wednesday of next week
Check the notes, YouTube lectures, and work on the Target Sheets to prepare
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Friday, September 28, 2018
Quote: "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." - William James, American psychologist and philosopher (1842 - 1910)
Agenda:
1. Do Now: What was the difference between the systems of Chinese Class and Indian Caste?
2. Notes & Discussion: How did the patriarchies of Athens and Sparta differ from one another?
ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Quiz next Monday CH 6: Eurasian Empire in Classical Era - "Social Inequalities"
Test for Unit 2: CH 1, 2, 3 is on Wednesday of next week
Check the notes, YouTube lectures, and work on the Target Sheets to prepare
Quiz next Monday CH 6: Eurasian Empire in Classical Era - "Social Inequalities"
Test for Unit 2: CH 1, 2, 3 is on Wednesday of next week
Check the notes, YouTube lectures, and work on the Target Sheets to prepare
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Wednesday, Sept. 26 & Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018
Quote: "To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge." - Socrates
Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: Copy questions from the screen for Video.
2. Video Study: Andrew Marr's History of the World, Part 3: "The Word & the Sword" first 40 minutes
India - Ashoka - Buddhist leader teaches tolerance in India from the throne
China - Ying Zheng (Qin Shi Huang) - China's first emperor, referred to by Marr as Ying Zheng. Ying was his ancestral name. Zheng (pronounced: Cheng) his given name.
Roman Empire - Julius Caesar - Great general turned megalomaniac.
Egypt - Cleopatra - Last of the great Egyptian power players.
Jerusalem - Saul becomes Paul - A great critic is reborn to preach Christianity in Rome
Rome & Carthage - Perpetua - a Christian martyr sparks a religious explosion
2. Video & Discussion: Andrew Marr's History of the World, Part 3: "The Sword & the Word" Documentary
3. Document Analysis: Analyze several documents on the screen and answer the multiple choice questions that connect to them. (Practice for the type of AP Questions we'll see on the test for Unit 2) The questions connect to Marr's History of the World.
ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Quiz next Monday CH 6: Eurasian Empire in Classical Era - "Social Inequalities"
Test for Unit 2: CH 1, 2, 3 is on Wednesday of next week
Check the notes, YouTube lectures, and work on the Target Sheets to prepare
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| "Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est" - By Seneca. "A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in a killer's hand" Roman version of "Guns don't kill people." |
Friday, September 28, 2018
Quote: "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." - William James, American psychologist and philosopher (1842 - 1910)
Agenda:
1. Do Now: What was the difference between the systems of Chinese Class and Indian Caste?
2. Notes & Discussion: How did the patriarchies of Athens and Sparta differ from one another?
ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Quiz next Monday CH 6: Eurasian Empire in Classical Era - "Social Inequalities"
Test for Unit 2: CH 1, 2, 3 is on Wednesday of next week
Check the notes, YouTube lectures, and work on the Target Sheets to prepare
