Week of Oct. 29 - Nov. 2, 2018

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3  AN AGE OF ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS 500–1500
CH 10 Christendom in W. Europe & CH 11 The Worlds of Islam ~ Afro-Eurasian Connections
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 11 - Islam; Review Quiz
TUE - Islam - Impact on Women; Crash Course: Islam, the Quran, & the 5 Pillars; Document/Visual Sources from Unit 3, Part I Reviewed.
WED/THU - TEST Chapters 8, 9, 10, & 11 + SAQ
FRI -  Prep for November 14th & 15th - LEQ: Flip between Comparative 2014 & 2015; Introduction to the Mongols - Crash Course WH: Wait for it... The Mongols

 ASSESSMENTS:
Wed/Thu - Test over Unit 3 Part 1 Chapter 8, 9, 10 & 11 
Next Monday - Quiz CH 12 - Pastoralists on the World State (The Mongols!)
Next week we will use the Mongol DBQ to create DBQ Posters in class. 
November 14th & 15th - LEQ: Flip between Comparative 2014 & 2015
Chapter 11 - The Islamic World
Learning Targets:
• Analyze the causes behind the spread of Islam
• Explain how the dynamism of the Islamic world was the most influential of the third-wave civilizations
• Examine the religious divisions within Islam and how they affected political development
• Compare Islam as a source of cultural encounters with Christian, African, and Hindu cultures
• Compare the accomplishments of the Islamic world in the period 600–1500 C.E. with those of their contemporaries.

Essential Questions:
1. In what ways did the early history of Islam reflect its Arabian origins?
2. How does the core message of Islam compare with that of Judaism and Christianity?
3. In what ways was the rise of Islam revolutionary, both in theory and in practice?
4. Why were Arabs able to construct such a huge empire so quickly?
5. What accounts for the widespread conversion to Islam?
6. What is the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam?

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Monday, October 29, 2018
Quote: "History is philosophy teaching by examples."  - Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 11 - Islam (You may use your handwritten notes).

 2. Review the quiz. & Question: 

ASSIGNMENTS:
Wed/Thu - Test over Unit 3 Part 1 Chapter 8, 9, 10 & 11 
Next Monday - Quiz CH 12 - Pastoralists on the World State (The Mongols!)
Next week we will use the Mongol DBQ to create DBQ Posters in class. 
November 14th & 15th - LEQ: Flip between Comparative 2014 & 2015
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Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Quote: "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."  - James Baldwin

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women?

 2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Islam - Impact on Women; Crash Course: Islam, the Quran, & the 5 Pillars

 3. Document/Visual Sources from Unit 3, Part I Reviewed.

 ASSIGNMENTS:
Wed/Thu - Test over Unit 3 Part 1 Chapter 8, 9, 10 & 11 
Next Monday - Quiz CH 12 - Pastoralists on the World State (The Mongols!)
Next week we will use the Mongol DBQ to create DBQ Posters in class. 
November 14th & 15th - LEQ: Flip between Comparative 2014 & 2015
Chapter 12 - Pastoralists on the World Stage
The Mongols!
Learning Targets: 
* Analyze the significance of pastoral societies in world history
* Explain how the conditions of nomadic life differed from the rest of Eurasia
* Explain the impact of the Mongol Empire on world history
* Examine implications of the Eurasian trade sponsored by the Mongols and determine how Eurasian trading systems changed over time.

Essential Questions:
1. Prior to the rise of the Mongols, in what ways had pastoral peoples been significant in world history?
2. What accounts for the often negative attitudes of settled societies toward the pastoral peoples living on their borders? Why have historians often neglected pastoral peoples’ role in world history?
3. In what ways did the Mongol Empire resemble other empires, and in what ways did it differ from them? 
4. Why did it last a relatively short time?
5. In what different ways did Mongol rule affect the Islamic world, Russia, China, and Europe?
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Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Quote: "History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days."  - Winston Churchill

Agenda:
1. TEST: CH 8, 9, 10, & 11 - Plus, SAQ questions


2. Pick up the Mongol DBQ packet & read and annotate for tomorrow's class. 

ASSIGNMENTS:
Wed/Thu - Test over Unit 3 Part 1 Chapter 8, 9, 10 & 11 
Next Monday - Quiz CH 12 - Pastoralists on the World State (The Mongols!)
Next week we will use the Mongol DBQ to create DBQ Posters in class. 

November 14th & 15th - LEQ: Flip between Comparative 2014 & 2015
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Friday, November 2, 2018
Quote: "History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up."  - Voltaire

Agenda: 
1. DO NOW: Pick up the prompt for the LEQ - November 14th & 15th - LEQ: Flip between Comparative 2014 & 2015

2. Crash Course WH: Wait for it... The Mongols

3. Notes over Crash Course: The Mongols & DBQ Prep

ASSIGNMENTS:
Wed/Thu - Test over Unit 3 Part 1 Chapter 8, 9, 10 & 11 
Next Monday - Quiz CH 12 - Pastoralists on the World State (The Mongols!)
Next week we will use the Mongol DBQ to create DBQ Posters in class. 
November 14th & 15th - LEQ: Flip between Comparative 2014 & 2015
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Agenda: Week of Oct. 22 - 26, 2018

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3 -  Age of Accelerating Connections, 500 - 1500
Chapter 10 - European Christendom & Chapter 11 Islamic World
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: Reading Check Quiz: CH 10; Review Quiz
TUE: Was this a 'Dark Age'?; Andrew Marr's Into the Light  How does the Islamic Empire’s Golden Age lead to Europe’s “Dark Age” recovery? QUESTIONS FOR MARR VIDEO
WED/THU: Continue Video: The Crescent & The Cross; What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?; POV Statements - Examples of good & bad work; POV Practice from CH 10 & 11; Intro to The Worlds of Islam - Chapter 11: What distinguished the first centuries of Islamic history from the early history of Christianity & Buddhism? 
FRI: Role of Women in Islam; How did the rise of Islam impact women? Examine Patriarchy in the Islamic World

ASSESSMENTS AT A GLANCE:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over Unit 3 Part 1: 8, 9, 10 & 11 next Wednesday & Thursday
The next test will also have an SAQ - Short Answer Questions

Chapter 10 - Worlds of Christendom
Learning Targets:
★ Explain the changes that occur in European society after the breakup of the Roman Empire
★ Compare the diverse legacies of Rome in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire
★ Describe medieval European expansion and analyze the factors that led to its development
★ Analyze the evolution of Europe from backward medieval Europe relative to other civilizations, and the steps by which it caught up

Essential Questions:
1. In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns?
2. How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity differ from Roman Catholicism?
3. In what ways was the Byzantine Empire linked to a wider world?
4. How did links to Byzantium transform the new civilization of Kievan Rus?
5. How did the historical development of the European West differ from that of Byzantium in the post-classical era?
6. What replaced the Roman order in Western Europe?
7. In what ways was European civilization changing after 1000?
8. What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?
9. In what ways did borrowing from abroad shape European civilization after 1000?
10. Why was Europe unable to achieve the kind of political unity that China experienced? What impact did this have on the subsequent history of Europe?
11. In what different ways did classical Greek philosophy and science have an impact in the West, in Byzantium, and in the Islamic world?
Very confusing chapter for students. West & Eastern Europe go by many pseudonyms. 
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Monday, October 22, 2018
Quote:  “The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others wish to join us.” - Hubert Humphrey

Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz - CH 10

2. Review Quiz & Question

 ASSESSMENTS AT A GLANCE:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over Unit 3 Part 1: 8, 9, 10 & 11 next Wednesday & Thursday
The next test will also have an SAQ - Short Answer Questions
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Quote:  “An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.” - Pope John Paul I

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What replaced the Roman order in Western Europe? In what ways was European civilization changing after 1000?

 2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Was this a 'Dark Age'?

 3. Andrew Marr's Into the Light  How does the Islamic Empire’s Golden Age lead to Europe’s “Dark Age” recovery? 
QUESTIONS FOR MARR VIDEO
ASSESSMENTS AT A GLANCE:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over Unit 3 Part 1: 8, 9, 10 & 11 next Wednesday & Thursday
The next test will also have an SAQ - Short Answer Questions
The Crusades: What a mess!
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018
and Thursday, October 25, 2018
Quote: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Waldo Emerson

 Agenda:
1. Do Now: What impact did the Crusades have on world history?

 2. Notes, Video, Discussion: The Crusades

 Video: The Crescent & The Cross - What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?

 3. POINT OF VIEW: Review the work from the last test - Examples of good & bad work

 POV Practice from CH 10 & 11

 4. Notes, Video, Discussion: Introduction to Chapter 11, The Worlds of Islam: 
What distinguished the first centuries of Islamic history from the early history of Christianity and Buddhism? What similarities and differences characterized their religious outlooks?

ASSESSMENTS AT A GLANCE:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over Unit 3 Part 1: 8, 9, 10 & 11 next Wednesday & Thursday
The next test will also have an SAQ - Short Answer Questions
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Chapter 11 - Worlds of Islam 
Learning Targets:
• Analyze the causes behind the spread of Islam
• Explain how the dynamism of the Islamic world was the most influential of the third-wave civilizations
• Examine the religious divisions within Islam and how they affected political development
• Compare Islam as a source of cultural encounters with Christian, African, and Hindu cultures
• Compare the accomplishments of the Islamic world in the period 600–1500 C.E. with those of their contemporaries.

Essential Questions:
1. In what ways did the early history of Islam reflect its Arabian origins?
2. How does the core message of Islam compare with that of Judaism and Christianity?
3. In what ways was the rise of Islam revolutionary, both in theory and in practice?
4. Why were Arabs able to construct such a huge empire so quickly?
5. What accounts for the widespread conversion to Islam?
6. What is the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam?
7. In what ways were Sufi Muslims critical of mainstream Islam?
8. How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women?
9. What similarities and differences can you identify in the spread of Islam to India, Anatolia, West Africa, and Spain?
10. Why was Anatolia so much more thoroughly Islamized than India?
11. What makes it possible to speak of the Islamic world as a distinct and coherent civilization?
12. In what ways was the world of Islam a “cosmopolitan civilization”?
It is like the "Mecca" of Islam. (Probably because it is Mecca)
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Friday, October 26, 2018
Quote: “Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.” - Earl Shoaf

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Is the Islamic world a single entity or distinct communities?

 2. Discuss this question in class: Islam Single World or Distinct Communities?
“Islam was simultaneously both a single world of shared meaning and interaction and a series of separate and distinct communities, often in conflict with one another.” What evidence could you provide to support both sides of this argument?

 3. Role of Women in Islam; How did the rise of Islam impact women? Examine Patriarchy in the Islamic World
 How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women?

 Andrew Marr's Into the Light "Islam" last portion of the video. 

 ASSESSMENTS AT A GLANCE:
QUIZ on CH 11 next Monday
TEST over Unit 3 Part 1: 8, 9, 10 & 11 next Wednesday & Thursday

The next test will also have an SAQ - Short Answer Questions
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Agenda: Week of October 15 - 19, 2018

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3 - Age of Accelerating Connections, 500 - 1500 
Chapter 8 & 9 - Commerce, China, East Asian Connections
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON: China: Sui Dynasty & Grand Canal; Tang & Song Dynasties Compared China & Friends: Impact on their neighbors: Vietnam, Korea, & Japan; Visual Sources Ch 9; SAQ Handouts
TUE: Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 9; Review Quiz
WED/THU: Article on Foot Binding; SAQ & POV work - Using CH 8 & 9; SAQ Writing assignment
FRI: EXTRA CREDIT IS DUE! CH: 10-  The Confusing World of European Christendom
Friday-We will be on Pep Rally Schedule

 ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
TUESDAY: Quiz CH 9 China & East Asia 
FRI: EXTRA CREDIT IS DUE!
Next Monday: Ch. 10 "Worlds of Christendom" Quiz
Chapter 9: China & East Asian Connections
Learning Targets:
• Explain the development of China as “superpower” among the third-wave civilizations.
• Analyze the impact of China’s deep influence on East Asia.
• Describe the ways in which interaction with other peoples had an impact on China.
• Examine modern assumptions about China and determine the root of that perception.

Essential Questions:
1. How did China influence the world beyond East Asia? 
2. How was China itself transformed by its encounters with a wider world?
3. In what different ways did Korea, Vietnam, and Japan experience and respond to Chinese influence
4. In what different ways did Japanese and Korean women experience the pressures of Confucian orthodoxy?

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Monday, Oct. 15, 2018
Quote: "He Who Knows Others Is Wise. He Who Knows Himself Is Enlightened." - Tao Te Ching

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: How did the tribute system in practice differ from the ideal Chinese understanding of its operation?

2. Notes, Discussion, Video: China & East Asian Neighbors, Part II
Coping with China: Comparing Korea, Vietnam, & Japan

3. Visual Sources: Chapter 9 China & East Asian Connections
We will show these in class. 
In groups, students will discuss the questions that go with each visual source and answer them. 

The visual sources are at the end of Chapter 9 in Strayer. And they are also highlighted in the notes. So be sure to look them over before the test.

ASSIGNMENTS:
TUESDAY: Quiz CH 9 China & East Asia 
FRI: EXTRA CREDIT IS DUE!
Next Monday: Ch. 10 "Worlds of Christendom" Quiz
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Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018
Quote: "I haven’t failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW after quiz - In what ways did women's lives change during the Song & Tang Dynasties?

2. Reading Check Quiz Chapter 9. (Students may use their notes from Chapter 9)

 3. Review Quiz

 ASSIGNMENTS:
TUESDAY: Quiz CH 9 China & East Asia 
FRI: EXTRA CREDIT IS DUE!
Next Monday: Ch. 10 "Worlds of Christendom" Quiz
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Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018
and Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018
Quote: ”It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle

Agenda:
2. SAQ & POV work - Using CH 8 & 9

 3. SAQ Writing assignment - Practice writing SAQs - there will be SAQ on the next test over 8, 9, 10 & 11 featuring questions from 8 & 9.

ASSIGNMENTS:
TUESDAY: Quiz CH 9 China & East Asia 
FRI: EXTRA CREDIT IS DUE!
Next Monday: Ch. 10 "Worlds of Christendom" Quiz
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Chapter 10: Worlds of Christendom
 Learning Targets:
• Explain the changes that occur in European society after the breakup of the Roman Empire
• Compare the diverse legacies of Rome in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire
• Describe medieval European expansion and analyze the factors that led to its development
• Analyze the evolution of Europe from backward medieval Europe relative to other civilizations, and the steps by which it caught up 

Essential Questions:
1. How did the histories of the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe differ during the era of third-wave civilizations?
2. What accounts for the different historical trajectories of these two expressions of Christendom?
3. In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns?
4. How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity differ from Roman Catholicism?
5. In what ways was the Byzantine Empire linked to a wider world?
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Friday, Nov. 19, 2018
Quote: “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.” - Milton Berle

 Agenda:
Friday-We will be on Pep Rally Schedule

 1. DO NOW: How did the histories of the Western Europe & Byzantine Empire  differ during the era of third-wave civilizations?

2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: WHAP-UNIT-3-CH-10-WEST-EAST-EUROPE

3. Discuss the quote from after the fall of Western Rome:

 ASSIGNMENTS:
TUESDAY: Quiz CH 9 China & East Asia 
FRI: EXTRA CREDIT IS DUE!
Next Monday: Ch. 10 "Worlds of Christendom" Quiz
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Agenda: Week of Oct. 8-12, 2018

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3  AN AGE OF ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS 500–1500
Chapter 8 Commerce and Culture 500–1500
Chapter 9 China & The World 500 - 1500
WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - NO SCHOOL - BUILDING CLOSED
TUE -  NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS - TEACHERS ONLY
WED - (6th Period Only) Documentary Video over Unit 3 - China
THU - Reading Check Quiz Chapter 8
FRI - SAQ - Spread of Buddhism handout; 
Working with Documents; Analysis & Discussion: Marco Polo & Ibn Battuta; Students will read and answer the questions; discuss. Video: Polo in China/Battuta's Travels.Crash Course WH: Silk Road Trade & Ancient Trade

ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
THURSDAY - Reading Check Quiz CH 8
Read the notes over Chapter 8 and 9
Quiz over CH 9 is next Monday
DBQ Practice next week on WED/THU
Trading routes like this one traversed very long distances in this Third Wave of Civilization.
Learning Targets for Chapter 8:
- Analyze the significance and impact of trade in human history
- Explain the interconnections created by long-distance trade in the period of third-wave civilizations and analyze why they existed
- Explain the full range of what was carried along trade routes (goods, culture, disease) and the impact on the people, culture, history, and development of their societies
- Compare the differences between the commerce of the Eastern Hemisphere and that of the Western Hemisphere and the analyze the reasons behind those differences

Essential Questions:
1. What motivated and sustained the long-distance commerce of the Silk Roads, Sea Roads, and Sand Roads?
2. In what ways did commercial exchange foster other changes?
3. What lay behind the emergence of Silk Road commerce, and what kept it going for so many centuries?
4. What made silk such a highly desired commodity across Eurasia?
5. What was the role of Swahili civilization in the world of Indian Ocean commerce?
Pre-Columbian Trade in the Americas was more like a "Web" rather than the strong roads of Afro-Eurasian trade. They did trade over long distances - however, it was not a vigorous amount of trade, in comparison to AfroEurasia.
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Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018
Quote: “Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.” - Daniel Kahneman

 1. DO NOW: Prep for the Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 8 - Commerce & Culture
Students can use hand written notes on the quiz.

2. Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 8: Commerce
Question after the quiz: 


ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Read the notes over Chapter 8 and 9
Quiz over CH 9 is next Monday
DBQ Practice next week on WED/THU
The Trung Sisters of Vietnam!
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Friday, Oct. 12, 2018
Quote: "I am learning all the time.  The tombstone will be my diploma."  - Eartha Kitt

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: SAQ - Spread of Buddhism handout

2. Notes, Discussion, Video: Crash Course WH: Silk Road Trade & Ancient Trade
Discuss video and how it connects with the chapter

3. Notes, Discussion, Video: Silk Roads, Sand Roads, & Sea Roads (& American Web of Trade)

 ASSIGNMENTS AT A GLANCE:
Read the notes over Chapter 8 and 9
Quiz over CH 9 is next Monday
DBQ Practice next week on WED/THU
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