Agenda: Week of Nov. 10 - 14, 2014

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez

Unit 3  AN AGE OF ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS 500–1500

CH 10 Christendom in Western Europe

CH 11 The Worlds of Islam  Afro-Eurasian Connections

CH 12 Mongols! The Nomadic World

WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 11 - Islam; Review Quiz; World's of Islam - Impact
TUE -  Islam: Simultaneously both a single world of shared meaning & interaction -AND- a series of separate & distinct communities, often in conflict with one another
WED/THU - TEST Chapters 10 & 11; CCOT Introduction
FRI - With Counselor - NO WORLD HISTORY :(

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Monday, November 10, 2014
Quote: "History is philosophy teaching by examples."  - Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

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”?

Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 11 - Islam (You may use your hand written notes).
2. Review the quiz.
3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Discuss the Impact of Islam - trade, culture, and patriarchy.

Assignments:
Test over Chapter 10 and 11 is on Wed/Thu.

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Quote: "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."  - James Baldwin

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”?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: “Islam was simultaneously both a single world of shared meaning & interaction -AND- a series of separate & distinct communities, often in conflict with one another.”
What evidence could you provide to support both sides of this argument?
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Islam - Vast Economic Empire & Diversity
3. Discuss the CCOT Questions (for the timed writing on Friday, Nov. 21st): 

I. Analyze continuities & changes that resulted from the spread of Islam into ONE of the following regions in the period between circa 800 C.E. and circa 1750: 
  • West Africa • South Asia • Europe

II. Analyze continuities and changes in trade networks between Africa and Eurasia from circa 300 C.E. to 1450 C.E

Assignments:
Test over Chapter 10 and 11 is on Wed/Thu.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014 & Thursday, November 13, 2014
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

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?

Agenda:
1. TEST - Chapter 10 & 11. European Christendom & The World of Islam
2. Introduction to the CCOT pick up packet
3. Crash Course World History - The Mongols
4. Mongol Montage: Every "Wait for it... The Mongols" in the Crash Course Series

Assignments:
Begin reading Chapter 12 - The Mongol World. We will have a quiz over it on Monday. The test is after the Thanksgiving Break along with Chapter 13 - Worlds of the 15th Century.

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Friday, November 14, 2014
Quote: "History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up."  - Voltaire

NO WORLD HISTORY TODAY 
MEETING WITH COUNSELORS FOR THE ENTIRE PERIOD
QUIZ ON MONDAY - Chapter 12

Assignments:
Begin reading Chapter 12 - The Mongol World. We will have a quiz over it on Monday. The test is after the Thanksgiving Break along with Chapter 13 - Worlds of the 15th Century.
Quiz over Chapter 12 The Mongols on Monday

We will begin prepping for the CCOT Monday after the quiz, Tuesday, & Block day next week. The question will focus on:
1. Analyze continuities & changes that resulted from the spread of Islam into ONE of the following regions in the period between circa 800 C.E. and circa 1750:   • West Africa • South Asia • Europe
2. Analyze continuities and changes in trade networks between Africa and Eurasia from circa 300 C.E. to 1450 C.E

Agenda: Nov. 3 - 7, 2014

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; Engineering an Empire: Byzantium
TUE: The Crusades; Video: The Crescent & The Cross
WED/THU: Finish Crusades; Philosophical Chairs: Comparing Islam to Christianity & Buddhism

FRI: Cooperative Thesis Work; Role of Women in Islam

And who thought European Christendom could be so confusing?

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Monday, Nov 3, 2014

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

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?

Agenda:

1. DO NOW: Reading Check Quiz - CH 10; then answer this question -  In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns?

2. Review Quiz & Question

3. VIDEO & DISCUSSION: Engineering an Empire: Byzantium

Assignments:

Reading Check Quiz over Chapter 11 - Islam on Monday
Study Notes/Target Sheets/Strayer/Companion Site
Test over CH 10 and 11 next Wed/Thu

Hagia Sophia: Once an Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church... then an Islamic Mosque... now a museum to both.

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Tuesday, Nov 4, 2014
Quote:  “An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.” - Pope John Paul I

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?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Feudal Europe, The Crusades, and Comparing post-classical Europe to the rest of the world
3. Video: Crusades: The Crescent & The Cross

Assignments:
Reading Check Quiz over Chapter 11 - Islam on Monday.
Study Notes/Target Sheets/Strayer/Companion Site
Test over CH 10 and 11 next Wed/Thu.

The Crusades: What a mess!

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Wednesday, Nov 5, 2014 and Thursday, Nov 6, 2014
Quote: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Waldo Emerson

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?

Agenda:
1. Do Now: Was the Byzantine Empire "Roman" or were they something else?
2. Finish Video Study, if not complete: Crusades: The Crescent & The Cross.
3. POINT OF VIEW: What is it? How does it work?
4. (if time) Philosophical Chairs: Possible Topics include:
Was the Byzantine Empire "Roman" or were they something else?
Will the United States last longer than the Roman Empire did?
Say you were living during the time period of Unit 3 (500-1500) - Where would you rather live: Western Europe or in The Islamic Empire?
4. 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?

Assignments:
Reading Check Quiz over Chapter 11 - Islam on Monday
Study Notes/Target Sheets/Strayer/Companion Site
Test over CH 10 and 11 next Wed/Thu

It is like the "Mecca" of Islam. (Probably because it is Mecca)

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Friday, Nov 7, 2014
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

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”?

Agenda:
1. Do Now Question:  How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women?
3. 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?
4. Video: Andrew Marr's History of the World: Word and Sword - Islam.  Compare the story of Perpetua to that of the Islamic convert in the video?

Assignments:
Reading Check Quiz over Chapter 11 - Islam on Monday
Study Notes/Target Sheets/Strayer/Companion Site
Test over CH 10 and 11 next Wed/Thu

Agenda: Week of Nov. 11 - 15, 2013

Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez

Unit 3  AN AGE OF ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS 500–1500

CHAPTER 12 Mongols! The Nomadic World

CHAPTER 11 The Worlds of Islam  Afro-Eurasian Connections

CHAPTER 10 Christendom in Western Europe

WEEK AT A GLANCE:
MON - Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 11 - Islam; Review Quiz; World's of Islam - Influence & Impact
TUE - Competitive Game - Chapter 10 & 11
WED/THU - TEST Chapters 10 & 11; Documents - Perspectives of the Mongols
FRI - Impact of Mongol Rule; The Black Death

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Monday, November 11, 2013
Quote: "History is philosophy teaching by examples."  - Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

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”?

Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 11 - Islam (You may use your hand written notes).
2. Review the quiz.
3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Discuss the Impact of Islam - trade, culture, and patriarchy.

Assignments:
Test over Chapter 10 and 11 is on Wed/Thu.

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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Quote: "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."  - James Baldwin

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”?

Agenda:
1. Competitive and Cooperative Teaming: Compete to answer questions regarding Chapter 10 & 11.

Assignments:
Test over Chapter 10 and 11 is on Wed/Thu.

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013 & Thursday, November 14, 2013
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

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?

Agenda:
1. TEST - Chapter 10 & 11. European Christendom & The World of Islam
2. Document Study - Perspectives of the Mongols.

Assignments:
Begin reading Chapter 12 - The Mongol World. We will have a quiz over it on Monday. The test is after the Thanksgiving Break along with Chapter 13 - Worlds of the 15th Century.

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Friday, November 15, 2013
Quote: "History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up."  - Voltaire

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?
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What was the impact of the Mongol rule on the Eurasian world (China, Persia, Russia & Europe)?

2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Impact of the Black Death. 

Assignments:
Begin reading Chapter 12 - The Mongol World. We will have a quiz over it on Monday. The test is after the Thanksgiving Break along with Chapter 13 - Worlds of the 15th Century.
Quiz over Chapter 12 The Mongols on Monday

We will begin prepping for the CCOT Monday after the quiz, Tuesday, & Block day next week. The question will focus on:
1. Analyze continuities and changes that resulted from the spread of Islam into ONE of the following regions in the period between circa 800 C.E. and circa 1750:   • West Africa • South Asia • Europe
2. Analyze continuities and changes along the Silk Roads from 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E.
3. Analyze continuities and changes in trade networks between Africa and Eurasia from circa 300 C.E. to 1450 C.E

Notes: Unit 3 - Chapter 10 - The Dark Ages???

YouTube: Unit 3 - Chapter 10 - The Dark Ages???
Notes - Unit 3 - Chapter 10 - The Dark Ages???

Yeah, it wasn't really like that... but cool.

Notes - Unit 3 - CH 10 - Western Europe After Fall of Rome

YouTube: After the fall of Rome
Notes: CH 10 - After the Fall of Rome

Notes - Unit 3 - CH 10 - The Crusades

YouTube: Notes - Unit 3 - Chapter 10 - The Crusades
Notes: Unit 3 - Chapter 10 - The Crusades

Notes - Unit 3 - CH 10 - East & West European Christendom

YouTube - Unit 3 - CH 10 - East & West European Christendom
Notes - Unit 3 - CH 10 - East & West European Christendom

Hagia Sophia as depicted in the video game Assassins Creed.

Agenda: Week of Nov. 4 - Nov. 8, 2013

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; Engineering an Empire: Byzantium
TUE: The Crusades
WED/THU: Finish Crusades; Comparing Islam to Christianity & Buddhism

FRI: Cooperative Thesis Work; Role of Women in Islam

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Monday, Nov 4, 2013

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

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?

Agenda:

1. DO NOW: Reading Check Quiz - CH 10; then answer this question -  In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns?

2. Review Quiz & Question

3. VIDEO & DISCUSSION: Engineering an Empire: Byzantium

Assignments:

Reading Check Quiz over Chapter 11 - Islam on Monday.
Test over CH 10 and 11 next Wed/Thu.

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Tuesday, Nov 5, 2013
Quote:  “An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.” - Pope John Paul I

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?

Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Feudal Europe, The Crusades, and Comparing post-classical Europe to the rest of the world.
3. Video: Crusades: The Crescent & The Cross.

4. Crash Course: The Dark Ages & The Crusades

Assignments:
Reading Check Quiz over Chapter 11 - Islam on Monday.
Test over CH 10 and 11 next Wed/Thu.

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Wednesday, Nov 6, 2013 and Thursday, Nov 7, 2013
Quote: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Waldo Emerson

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?

Agenda:
1. Do Now:  In what different ways did classical Greek philosophy and science have an impact in the West, in Byzantium, and in the Islamic world?
2. Finish Video Study, if not complete: Crusades: The Crescent & The Cross.
3. Crash Course: The Dark Ages & The Crusades
4. Introduction to Chapter 11: What distinguished the first centuries of Islamic history from the early history of Christianity and Buddhism? What similarities and differences characterized their religious outlooks?

Assignments:
Reading Check Quiz over Chapter 11 - Islam on Monday.
Test over CH 10 and 11 next Wed/Thu

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Friday, Nov 4, 2013
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

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”?

Agenda:
1. Do Now Question:  How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women?
2. Cooperative Thesis Work: Students will write their responses down in their notes. Then students will work in groups to compile a better answer to the question. Then students will write their responses on the front board. These responses will accumulate throughout the day, resulting in a day long note-taking marathon of knowledge. :) Mr. Duez will post pictures of the final result for all students to see.
3. Discuss this question in class: “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?
4. Andrew Marr's History of the World: Word and Sword - Islam.  Compare the story of Perpetua to that of the Islamic convert in the video?

Assignments:
Reading Check Quiz over Chapter 11 - Islam on Monday.
Test over CH 10 and 11 next Wed/Thu.

Targets - Unit 3 - Chapter 10 - European Christendom

Targets - Unit 3 - Chapter 10 - European Christendom

Agenda: Week of Oct 28 - Nov 1, 2013

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: Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 9; Review Quiz; Engineering an Empire - China: Grand Canal
TUE: Crash Course - China; China's impact on their neighbors - Vietnam, Korea, & Japan
WED/THU: TEST CH 8 & 9: Test CH 8 & 9; Review Unit 2 - DBQ results
FRI: Chapter 10 Notes, Discussion, & Video

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Monday, Oct. 28, 2013
Quote: "He Who Knows Others Is Wise. He Who Knows Himself Is Enlightened." - Tao Te Ching

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?

Agenda:

1. Reading Check Quiz Chapter 9. (Students may use their notes from Chapter 9)
2. DO NOW after quiz - In what ways did Tang and Song dynasty China resemble the classical Han dynasty period, and in what ways had China changed?

3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: China Part I
4. Video from Engineering an Empire: China - The building of the Grand Canal (9 minutes) The video will focus on the unification of China through a giant series of canals that united the northern and southern regions. It is over 1,000 miles in length and it created a booming economic explosion in China.

Assignments:

Test is Wed/Thu. Prepare by using the "Notes" link above. Also read Ch. 8 & 9. Use the Strayer Companion Site. Use GetaFive.com. Use Quizlet.com. Study with a trusted friend or two. Come to tutoring. Good luck!

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Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013
Quote: "I haven’t failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” - Thomas Edison

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. What assumptions underlay the tribute system?
2. How did the tribute system in practice differ from the ideal Chinese understanding of its operation?
4. How did the Chinese and their nomadic neighbors to the north view each other?

Agenda:

1. DO NOW: How did the tribute system in practice differ from the ideal Chinese understanding of its operation?
2. Video Study with Notes & Discussion: Crash Course World History - 2,000 Years of Chinese History
3. Notes, Discussion, Video - China & East Asian Neighbors, Part II
Video, "Ancient China" - Discovery Science - Chinese technology
Compass discovery in China and then sold through trade networks, ending up in Europe around 1200. 

Assignments:

Test is Wed/Thu. Prepare by using the "Notes" link above. Also read Ch. 8 & 9. Use the Strayer Companion Site. Use GetaFive.com. Use Quizlet.com. Study with a trusted friend or two. Come to tutoring. Good luck!

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Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013 - and - Thursday, Oct. 31, 2013
Quote: ”It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle

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?

Agenda:

1. DO NOW: Prep for Test - Ch. 8 & 9

2. Test - Ch. 8 & 9

3. DBQ Analysis: Students will use their hand written DBQ from Unit 2 and review the documents again quietly after the test. When everyone is finished with the test we will go over the results.

Assignments:

Begin reading Chapter 10 - European Christendom. Quiz is on Monday. Check the Notes tab at the top of the screen for more information that can help, including the Target Sheet.

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Friday, Nov. 1, 2013
Quote: “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.” - Milton Berle

 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?

 Agenda:
1. DO NOW: In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns?
3. Notes, Video, Discussion: Fall of Rome and Emergence of Eastern Orthodoxy & The Byzantium Empire.

Assignments:

Read Chapter 10 - European Christendom. Quiz is on Monday. Check the Notes tab at the top of the screen for more information that can help, including the Target Sheet.