Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Chapter 12 - Mongol Moment & Chapter 13 - Worlds of the 15th Century
WEEK AT A GLANCE:*No late arrival this week - 5 regular schedule days*
MON - CH 13 Quiz - World's of the 15th Century; Review Quiz
TUE - 2014 FRQ Prompt - Thesis breakdown; Crash Course: Fifteenth Century Mariners
WED - 2015 FRQ Prompt - Thesis breakdown; European Renaissance?; Islamic Empires of the 15th Cent.; Aztec/Inca Comparison; Engineering an Empire - Aztecs; Paleolithic Persistence
THU - Timed-Writing: LEQ Comparative Flip
FRI - Counselors coming in to class; Depending on time we'll also see some of Andrew Marr's History of the World
ASSIGNMENTS:
This Monday - CH 13 Quiz - World's of the 15th Century
This Thursday - Timed-Writing: LEQ Comparative Flip
Test over CH 12 & 13 - After the Fall Break
Use LEQ Tab for help in preparing
Presentation to help: 2015 - LEQ - Comparative - Trading Networks
2015 scoring guidelines
2015 student samples
Presentation to help: 2014 - LEQ - Comparative - Religion & Politics
2014 scoring guidelines
2014 student samples
Monday, November 12, 2018
Quote: "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus
Agenda:
1. Quiz Chapter 13 - The Worlds of the Fifteen Century
2. Review Quiz
ASSIGNMENTS:
This Thursday - Timed-Writing: LEQ Comparative Flip
Test over CH 12 & 13 - After the Fall Break
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Quote: "Great spirits have often overcome violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein, (1879-1955)
1. DO NOW: What is your thesis for the 2014 LEQ Comparison Prompt?
2014 scoring guidelines
2014 student samples
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Notes, Discussion, Video: The Great Mariners of Unit 3: Crash Course: Fifteenth Century Mariners; Engineering an Empire: China (Focus on Ming & Zheng He's Exploration)
Copy questions from overhead for Crash Course.
Crash Course: Fifteenth Century Mariners
Q1: What political and cultural differences stand out in the histories of fifteenth-century China and Western Europe? What similarities are apparent?
Q2: In what ways did European maritime voyaging in the 15th century differ from that of China? What accounts for these differences?
Engineering an Empire: China (Focus on Ming & Zheng He's Exploration)
Zheng He & the Ming Dynasty created an amazing naval power only to have the emperor destroy it all.
While students watch the video, they will answer this question:
Assume for the moment that the Chinese had not ended their maritime voyages in 1433. How might the subsequent development of world history have been different? What value is there in asking this kind of “what if ” or counterfactual question?
Copy questions from overhead for Crash Course.
Crash Course: Fifteenth Century Mariners
Q1: What political and cultural differences stand out in the histories of fifteenth-century China and Western Europe? What similarities are apparent?
Q2: In what ways did European maritime voyaging in the 15th century differ from that of China? What accounts for these differences?
Zheng He & the Ming Dynasty created an amazing naval power only to have the emperor destroy it all.
While students watch the video, they will answer this question:
Assume for the moment that the Chinese had not ended their maritime voyages in 1433. How might the subsequent development of world history have been different? What value is there in asking this kind of “what if ” or counterfactual question?
ASSIGNMENTS:
This Thursday - Timed-Writing: LEQ Comparative Flip
Test over CH 12 & 13 - After the Fall Break
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Quote: "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - Shakespeare (Hamlet)
1. DO NOW: What is your thesis for the 2015 LEQ Comparison Prompt?
Presentation to help: 2015 - LEQ - Comparative - Trading Networks
2015 scoring guidelines
2015 student samples
2015 scoring guidelines
2015 student samples
2. Notes, Discussion, & Video: Ch 13 - World's of the 15th Century: European Renaissance?; Islamic Empires of the 15th Cent.; Aztec/Inca Comparison; Engineering an Empire - Aztecs; Paleolithic Persistence
ASSIGNMENTS:
This Thursday - Timed-Writing: LEQ Comparative Flip
Test over CH 12 & 13 - After the Fall Break
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Quote: "Education survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten." - B.F. Skinner (1904-1990)
1. Timed-Writing: LEQ Comparative Flip
Presentation to help: 2015 - LEQ - Comparative - Trading Networks
2015 scoring guidelines
2015 student samples
Presentation to help: 2014 - LEQ - Comparative - Religion & Politics
2014 scoring guidelines
2014 student samples
ASSIGNMENTS:
Test over CH 12 & 13 - After the Fall Break
Friday, November 16, 2018
Quote: "The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority." - Stanley Milgram (1933-1984)
Agenda:
PEP RALLY SHORTENED PERIODS
1. Counselors coming in to class; Depending on time we'll also see some of Andrew Marr's History of the World
ASSIGNMENTS:
Test over CH 12 & 13 - After the Fall Break