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Agenda: Week of Feb 4 - Feb 8, 2019

This Week: THURSDAY, FEB. 7
8-9 am in the SMALL GYM
During late arrival time


World History AP with Mr. Duez
Unit 5: THE EUROPEAN MOMENT IN WORLD HISTORY, 1750-1914
Chapter 17 Atlantic Revolutions & their Echoes
Chapter 18 Revolutions of Industry
Week at a Glance:
MON: Quiz Ch 17Review Quiz  
FRI: The Art of the French Revolution Students will analyze the art of the French Revolution to see the elements that inspired people to revolt.; Timed Writing Practice - Comparative Atlantic Revolutions; Students will be in groups and they will write each part of the comparative. As a class we will select the best thesis, topic sentences, evidence, context, and complexity elements from each group to put together one great essay response throughout the period. 
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ASSIGNMENTS:
This Monday: Quiz on Chapter 17 - "Atlantic Revolutions"
Tuesday, Feb. 28: Quiz on Ch 18 Industrial Revolution
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Learning Targets:
• Understand the number and diversity of Atlantic revolutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how forces at work through the Enlightenment impacted them
• Explore the cross-pollination between revolutionary movements and compare their various causes and overall results
• Compare the real impact of the Atlantic revolutions on their citizens and understand the global impact of the revolutionary movement of the era.
• Consider the consequences of using violence to achieve liberty and equality.
* How much violence is necessary or justifiable?

Essential Questions:
1. In what ways did the ideas of the Enlightenment contribute to the Atlantic revolutions?
2. What was revolutionary about the American Revolution, and what was not?
3. How did the French Revolution differ from the American Revolution?
4. Compare the Atlantic Revolutions.
As it still does today, art inspired people of the Atlantic Revolutions, David's Oath of the Horatii - cartoon version.
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Monday, February 4, 2019
Quote of the Day: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte

Agenda:

1. Quiz CH 17 - Reading Check. Students may use hand written notes on the quiz.

2. Review CH 17 Quiz ~ Atlantic Revolutions

ASSIGNMENTS:
This Monday: Quiz on Chapter 17 - "Atlantic Revolutions"
Questions for the French Revolution Documentary
Video DocumentaryHistory Channel's French Revolution
Tuesday, Feb. 28: Quiz on Ch 18 Industrial Revolution
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Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Quote of the Day: "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." - Napoleon Bonaparte

Agenda:


Questions for the French Revolution DocumentaryDiscussion & Questions 

ASSIGNMENTS:

This Monday: Quiz on Chapter 17 - "Atlantic Revolutions"
Tuesday, Feb. 28: Quiz on Ch 18 Industrial Revolution
The Tennis Court Oath, by David
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Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2019 and
Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019
Quote of the Day:  "Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." - Napoleon Bonaparte

Agenda:



ASSIGNMENTS:
This Monday: Quiz on Chapter 17 - "Atlantic Revolutions"
Tuesday, Feb. 28: Quiz on Ch 18 Industrial Revolution
The Death of Marat, by David
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Friday, Feb. 8, 2019
Quote of the Day: "You are the bows from which your children are living arrows sent forth." - Kahul Gibran

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Comparison prompt analysis
Timed Writing Practice - Comparative Atlantic Revolutions
Students will be in groups and they will write each part of the comparative. As a class we will select the best thesis, topic sentences, evidence, context, and complexity elements from each group to put together one great essay response throughout the period. 


2. The Art of the French Revolution Students will analyze the art of the French Revolution to see the elements that inspired people to revolt.


ASSIGNMENTS:
This Monday: Quiz on Chapter 17 - "Atlantic Revolutions"
Tuesday, Feb. 28: Quiz on Ch 18 Industrial Revolution

Agenda: Jan. 28 - Feb. 1, 2019


World History AP with Mr. Duez
Unit 4: Early Modern World, 1450-1750 - CH 14, 15, 16
Unit 5: THE EUROPEAN MOMENT IN WORLD HISTORY, 1750-1914
Chapter 17 Atlantic Revolutions & their Echoes
Chapter 18 Revolutions of Industry
Week at a Glance:
MON: Quiz CH 16 - Science & Religion
TUE: SAQ tips & Unit 4; Humanism: Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment
WED/THU: TEST UNIT 4: 1450-1750 - Chapters 14, 15, 16 "Early Modern World"
Pick up article after test: Food & The French Revolution
FRI: Video DocumentaryHistory Channel's French Revolution
Questions for the French Revolution DocumentaryDiscussion & Questions throughout

ASSIGNMENTS:
MON: Quiz CH 16 - Science & Religion
WED/THU: TEST UNIT 4: 1450-1750 - Chapters 14, 15, 16 "Early Modern World"
Friday: Article due Food & The French Revolution
Video DocumentaryHistory Channel's French Revolution
Questions for the French Revolution Documentary
Read Chapters 17. Be able to compare the Atlantic Revolutions
Next Monday: Quiz on Ch 17 Atlantic Revolutions
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Monday, Jan 28, 2019
Quote of the Day: "One must maintain a little bit of summer, in the the midst of winter." H. D. Thoreau

Agenda:
1. Quiz Ch 16 - Science & Religion

2. Quiz Review

ASSIGNMENTS:
WED/THU: TEST UNIT 4: 1450-1750 - Chapters 14, 15, 16 "Early Modern World"
Friday: Article due Food & The French Revolution
Video DocumentaryHistory Channel's French Revolution
Questions for the French Revolution Documentary
Read Chapters 17. Be able to compare the Atlantic Revolutions
Next Monday: Quiz on Ch 17 Atlantic Revolutions
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Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Quote of the Day:  "An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you." - Goi Nasu

Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION

2. Notes, Discussion, Video: Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment

ASSIGNMENTS:
WED/THU: TEST UNIT 4: 1450-1750 - Chapters 14, 15, 16 "Early Modern World"
Friday: Article due Food & The French Revolution
Video DocumentaryHistory Channel's French Revolution
Questions for the French Revolution Documentary
Read Chapters 17. Be able to compare the Atlantic Revolutions
Next Monday: Quiz on Ch 17 Atlantic Revolutions
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Chapter 17 - Atlantic Revolutions - TARGETS
Learning Targets:
• Understand the number and diversity of Atlantic revolutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and how forces at work through the Enlightenment impacted them
• Explore the cross-pollination between revolutionary movements and compare their various causes and overall results
• Compare the real impact of the Atlantic revolutions on their citizens and understand the global impact of the revolutionary movement of the era.
• Consider the consequences of using violence to achieve liberty and equality.
* How much violence is necessary or justifiable?

Essential Questions:
1. In what ways did the ideas of the Enlightenment contribute to the Atlantic revolutions?
2. What was revolutionary about the American Revolution, and what was not?
3. How did the French Revolution differ from the American Revolution?
4. Compare the Atlantic Revolutions.

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Wednesday, January 30, 2019 and
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Quote of the Day: "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." -Carl Sagan

Agenda:
1. TEST: UNIT 4 - CH 14, 15, 16

2. Complete article briefly and be prepared to hand it in on Friday at the beginning of class. 

ASSIGNMENTS:
Friday: Article due Food & The French Revolution
Video DocumentaryHistory Channel's French Revolution
Questions for the French Revolution Documentary
Read Chapters 17. Be able to compare the Atlantic Revolutions
Next Monday: Quiz on Ch 17 Atlantic Revolutions
The original "Women's March" on the gates of Versailles
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Friday, Feb. 1, 2019
Quote of the Day: "I never look back, Darling. It distracts from the now." - Edna "E" Mode

Agenda:
1. DO NOW QUESTION: Prepare article to discuss & turn in: Food & The French Revolution

2. Video DocumentaryHistory Channel's French Revolution
Questions for the French Revolution Documentary

Discuss Chapter 17 - Atlantic Revolutions Compared.

ASSIGNMENTS:
Video DocumentaryHistory Channel's French Revolution
Questions for the French Revolution Documentary
Read Chapters 17. Be able to compare the Atlantic Revolutions
Next Monday: Quiz on Ch 17 Atlantic Revolutions

AHS Advanced Academics Course Fair

THURSDAY, FEB. 7
8-9 am in the SMALL GYM
During late arrival time

Agenda: Week of Jan. 21-25, 2019

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 4 - Early Modern World, 1450-1750
Chapter 14 - Empires & Encounters
Chapter 15 - World Commerce
Chapter 16 - Science & Religion
Week at a Glance:
MON- MLK Day - No School
TUE- Reading Check Quiz CH 15 World Commerce; Review Quiz
WEDThe Ascent of Money - Episode #1 - Dreams of Avarice - Niall Ferguson (first 15 min)Rise of Financial History? Inflation - Supply & DemandCh 16 Science & Religion with The Reformation
THU- Scientific Revolution/Enlightenment: "A New Way of Thinking: The Birth of Modern Science"
FRILEQ Timed Writing: Prompts for the LEQ Comparative Flip
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Assignments:
Next Monday - Quiz Chapter 16 - Science & Religion
This Friday: LEQ Comparative Essay Prompts
Next Wed. Jan. 30th & Jan. 31st - TEST Unit 4 (CH 14, 15, 16)

Prompts for the LEQ Comparative Flip on Thu. Jan. 18th
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Monday Jan. 21, 2019 
No School MLK Day
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Learning Targets CH. 16 - Science & Religion:
Indulge me!
- Examine the early modern roots of modern tension between religion and science
- Compare the Reformation movements in Europe and their significance
- Analyze the global spread of Christianity and the extent to which it syncretized with native traditions
- Expand the discussion of religious change to include religious movements in China, India, and the Islamic world
- Understand the reasons behind the Scientific Revolution in Europe, and why that movement was limited in other parts of the world
- Examine the implications of the Scientific Revolution for world societies 

Essential Questions:
1. Why did Christianity take hold in some places more than in others?
2. In what ways was the missionary message of Christianity shaped by the cultures of Asian and American peoples?
3. Compare the processes by which Christianity and Islam became world religions.
4. In what ways did the spread of Christianity, Islam, and modern science give rise to culturally based conflicts?
5. Based on Chapters 13 through 16, how does the history of Islam in the early modern era challenge a Eurocentric understanding of those centuries?
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Tuesday, January 22, 2019
Quote: "I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self." - Martin Luther

Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz CH 15 World Commerce

2. Review Quiz

Assignments:
Next Monday - Quiz Chapter 16 - Science & Religion
This Friday: LEQ Comparative Essay Prompts
Next Wed. Jan. 30th & Jan. 31st - TEST Unit 4 (CH 14, 15, 16)
Luther, word! Indulgences, yo!
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Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Quote: "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

Agenda:
1. Do Now Question: Trading systems questions - examples of Multiple Choice prompts. 

2. A True World Economy: 
The Ascent of Money - Episode #1 - Dreams of Avarice - Niall Ferguson
Do you understand the rise of Financial History? 
Can you imagine a world with no money?
Inflation - Supply & Demand
Silver Inflation
Silver Mines & Mercantilism
Tulip Bulb Bubble in The Netherlands: Economic Speculation. How does it work? & How does it BREAK?

3. Notes, Video, Discussion: Introduction to Chapter 16 - Science & Religion
Protestant Reformation
Assignments:
Next Monday - Quiz Chapter 16 - Science & Religion
This Friday: LEQ Comparative Essay Prompts
Next Wed. Jan. 30th & Jan. 31st - TEST Unit 4 (CH 14, 15, 16)
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Thursday, January 24, 2019
Quote: "When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin. It works because it settles the question for you, but because in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you are hoping for." - Unknown

Agenda:
1. Do Now Question: In what was did the Protestant Reformation transform European society, culture, and politics?

2. Notes, Video, Discussion: The Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution
How does the Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment compare to the Protestant Reformation? 

What characteristics did they share in common?

ASSIGNMENTS:Next Monday - Quiz Chapter 16 - Science & Religion
This Friday: LEQ Comparative Essay Prompts

Next Wed. Jan. 30th & Jan. 31st - TEST Unit 4 (CH 14, 15, 16)
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Friday, January 25, 2019
Quote: “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Agenda:
1. LEQ Flip Comparative
LEQ Comparative Essay Prompts

Assignments:
Next Monday - Quiz Chapter 16 - Science & Religion

Next Wed. Jan. 30th & Jan. 31st - TEST Unit 4 (CH 14, 15, 16)

Agenda: Week of Jan. 14-18, 2019

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 Impact of Colombian Exchange on Economic World: Russian Empire compared with Americas-Fur Trade
WEDRead & Discuss the student sample essays for Columbian Exchange & Racial Ideologies NA/LA
Article: A Slaves JourneyRead and annotate; Slavery; Silver Mines & Mercantilism; Notes, Video, Discussion: Atlantic Slave TradeVideo 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 14, 2019
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 15, 2019
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 &
Thursday, January 11, 2019
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 DocumentArticle: 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 18, 2019
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)