Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez - Agenda
Unit 5: THE EUROPEAN MOMENT IN WORLD HISTORY 1750-1914
CH 19 Internal Troubles, External Threats: China, the Ottoman Empire, & Japan -and- CH 20 Colonial Encounters
Week at a Glance:
MON - Quiz CH 20; Student Presentation (or Duez will finish Africa)
TUE - Student Presentations
WED/TH - Student Presentations; Finish Ch 19 and 20 - India; Review 19 and 20
FRI - TEST CH 19 and 20
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LEARNING TARGETS:
Chapter 19 Targets:
• To make students aware of the refocusing of racism in the nineteenth-century West
• To examine the effects of Western dominance on the empires of Asia
• To explore the reasons behind the collapse of the Chinese and Ottoman empires
• To investigate the reasons for Japan’s rise to its position as an industrial superpower and to compare Japan’s experience with that of China
Chapter 20 Targets:
• To examine the ways in which Europeans created their nineteenth-century empires
• To consider the nineteenth-century development of racism as an outcrop of European feelings of superiority and to investigate the ways in which subject peoples were themselves affected by European racial categorization
• To consider the extent to which the colonial experience transformed the lives of Asians and Africans
• To define some of the distinctive qualities of modern European empires in relationship to earlier examples of empire
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
Chapter 19 Essential Questions:
1. What differences can you identify in how China, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan experienced Western imperialism and confronted it? How might you account for those differences?
2. In what ways did the Industrial Revolution shape the character of nineteenth-century European imperialism?
3. “The response of each society to European imperialism grew out of its larger historical development and its internal problems.” What evidence might support this statement?
4. What accounts for the massive peasant rebellions of nineteenth-century China?
5. How did Western pressures stimulate change in China during the nineteenth century?
6. What lay behind the decline of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century?
7. How did Japan’s historical development differ from that of China and the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth century?
Chapter 20 Essential Questions:
1. Why were Asian and African societies incorporated into European colonial empires later than those of the Americas? How would you compare their colonial experiences?
2. In what ways did colonial rule rest upon violence and coercion, and in what ways did it elicit voluntary cooperation or generate benefits for some people?
3. Was colonial rule a transforming, even a revolutionary, experience, or did it serve to freeze or preserve existing social and economic patterns? What evidence can you find to support both sides of this argument?
4. Why might subject people choose to cooperate with the colonial regime? What might prompt them to rebel or resist?
5. How did the power of colonial states transform the economic lives of colonial subjects?
6. How did cash-crop agriculture transform the lives of colonized peoples?
7. How were the lives of African women altered by colonial economies?
8. What impact did Western education have on colonial societies?
9. What were the attractions of Christianity within some colonial societies?
10. How and why did Hinduism emerge as a distinct religious tradition during the colonial era in India?
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Quote: "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
Agenda:
1. Do Now - Prep for the Quiz. Then Quiz Ch 20.
2. Student Presentations - Students will take notes during the presentations. They must note the 3 'main points' or 'main ideas' that the presentation focuses on during their description of their area (Europe, Africa, Ottoman Empire, India, Japan, China)
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Quote: "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." - Erica Jong
Agenda:
1. Do Now - Prep notes for student presentations.
2. Student Presentations - Students will take notes during the presentations. They must note the 3 'main points' or 'main ideas' that the presentation focuses on during their description of their area (Europe, Africa, Ottoman Empire, India, Japan, China)
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Wednesday, February 27 & Thursday, February 28, 2013
Quote: "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix
Agenda:
1. Student Presentations - Students will take notes during the presentations. They must note the 3 'main points' or 'main ideas' that the presentation focuses on during their description of their area (Europe, Africa, Ottoman Empire, India, Japan, China)
3. Review Chapter 19 and 20.
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| The British Empire will see their fortunes shift in our next chapter. |
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Friday, March 1, 2013
Quote: "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill
Agenda:
1. Test - Chapter 19 and 20.
2. Read Ch 21 for Monday's Quiz. 1st half.
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