World History Advanced Placement with Mr. Duez

AP STUDENTS

It is that time of year again to sign up for your Advanced Placement Tests!

Registration

When: January 9th – February 29th 7:30 - 11:00 & 1:00 - 3:00
Where: White II reception area
OR All Lunches in Registrar’s Office

Cost: Cash or Money Order Only$87 per test**click here - important information regarding change in price
$17 for Free and Reduced

No refunds after March 2nd.

Chapter 19 - China & Ottoman Empire - Student Presentation

Click here to read the transcript.

Agenda: Week of Tuesday, Feb. 20 - Feb. 24, 2012

Learning Targets Chapter 19
• 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
Learning Targets Chapter 20

• 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

Monday, Feb. 20, 2012 - President's Day - No School For Students.
Presidents' Day, celebrated each year on the third Monday in February, is a day when Americans honor the legacies of the U.S. presidents.
The holiday was established in 1800, when Congress declared February 22–George Washington's birthday–a federal holiday.
Still legally known as Washington's Birthday, Presidents' Day has become a day to honor not only Washington, but Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. president who was born on February 12, and the lives and accomplishments of all U.S. presidents.
Quotes of the Day:

“Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt.” - Herbert Hoover

"You lose." - Calvin Coolidge, after a woman told him she made a bet that she could get at least three words of conversation from him

"Things are more like they are now than they ever were before." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012
Quote of the Day: "Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." - Abigail Adams, 1780
Agenda:
1. Quiz Chapter 20.
2. 15 minute presentation - Take Notes, ask questions, engage. Check website later for any shared knowledge.
3. 15 minute presentation - Take Notes, ask questions, engage. Check website later for any shared knowledge.
We will do two student presentations today and finish the rest from Chapter 20 on block day.

Wednesday and Thursday Feb. 22 and 23, 2012
Quote of the Day: "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." - Confucius, The Confucian Analects, Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC - 479 BC)
Agenda:
1. 15 minute presentations - Take Notes, ask questions, engage. Check website later for any shared knowledge.
We will finish the student presentations today. Any additional time will be spent reviewing for the test on Friday - Chapters 19 and 20.

Friday, Feb. 24, 2012
Quote of the Day: "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival." - W. Edwards Deming, US business adviser & author (1900 - 1993)
Agenda:
1. TEST Chapters 19 and 20.
Begin preparing for the Quiz on Chapter 21 for Monday. It's quite a chapter! We'll spend 2 weeks on it.

China - Student Presentation Video - CNN Millennium - Opium Wars

Prezi - Period 5 - Europe - Student Presentation

Europeans 19 on Prezi

The Broken Heart of Africa - The Congo

CHAPTER 19 - EUROPEAN MOMENT - STUDENT PRESENTATION

STUDENT PRESENTATION - CHAPTER 19 - EUROPE - STUDENT PRESENTATION

CH 5 - EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM - STUDENT PRESENTATION - VIDEO

CH 3 - STUDENT PRESENTATION - CHINA

Targets - Chapter 20 - The European Moment

Click to download the Targets for Chapter 20 - The European Moment

Class Project - Student Driven Instruction on CH 19 and 20

Groups for the Chapter 19 & 20 Student Driven Project
Link to the Project Information for Chapter 19 & 20.

We will write the proposal for the project on Tuesday. Include the 5 Questions you will ask the class. It is a grade and will be turned in before the end of the period. We will then have the entire block day on Wed/Thu to plan, coordinate and put your presentation together. I will help as we also have individual meeting time to go over the DBQ.

Examples of student-driven projects to get ideas from:
Youtube Clip: Re-enactment of the Boxer Rebellion
Youtube Clip: Student created Boxer Rebellion Clip
Youtube Clip: Student created documentary about Boxer Rebellion
Power Point Presentation: Boxer Rebellion Student Created Prezi on Boxer Rebellion

AP Test Signup Date Reminder - 2/29

Just a reminder that the signup date deadline for the Advanced Placement World History test is February 29th.

Currently I have 17 of the 52 students who are signed up to take the test. Kind of a shame. Not even a full class period out of 4. Hoping some more of you decide to sign up.

Realize that the funds$$$ for students in need are dwindling (and may already be gone). So the sooner the better.

Also, keep in mind a couple of things:

We will be spending an entire month prepping for the AP test. We'll finish Chapter 24 on April 13th. Each week we'll take the equivalent of an AP World History test as practice in class. So we'll be plenty prepared.
Also know that although the price has gone up, this is an invaluable opportunity to experience the test and improve your chances of future success in AP testing during your Junior and Senior year.
Also realize that I will push each and every one of you exactly the same and hold you to the same standard, regardless of whether you are signed up for the test or not. It is the right thing to do because I want you to be prepared for AP US History next fall. You are going to knock Ms. Flynn and Mr. Scalia's socks off! They have NEVER had students this prepared for their class before.

If anyone has any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to ask.

Agenda - Week of Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 - Friday, Feb. 20, 2012

CHAPTER 19 Internal Troubles, External Threats:

China, the Ottoman Empire, & Japan 1800–1914

Learning 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

Extra Credit is due Friday!
Quiz - 19 - this Monday.
Quiz - 20 - Next Tuesday.
Presentations to the class on 19 & 20 beginning on Friday.
Each group will spend a couple of class periods researching their target 'expert' area. They will design a visual presentation (poster, skit, video, power point, discussion) using Strayer and any other World History source material needed. There will be two formative grades assessed for this work (preparation/proposal -and- presentation).
CH 19 Groups:
1. Europeans
2. China
3. Ottoman Empire
4. Japan
CH 20 Groups:
5. 2nd Wave European Conquests
6. Colonial Economies
7. Colonial Identities and Cultural Change
Test for Chapters 19 & 20 is next Friday, Feb. 24

Monday, Feb 13, 2012
Quote: "You know you are in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." - Dr. Seuss
Agenda:
1. Quiz - Chapter 19
2. Discuss Group Project on 19 & 20.
3. Get into groups for planning.

Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012
Quote: "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
Agenda:
1. Video Clip - Love. Anthropologist Helen Fisher studies gender differences and the evolution of human emotions. She's best known as an expert on romantic love, and her beautifully penned books -- including Anatomy of Love and Why We Love -- lay bare the mysteries of our most treasured emotion.
2. Group work in preparation for presentation to the class beginning on Friday.

Wednesday & Thursday, Feb 16/17, 2012
Quote: "You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen
Agenda:
1. Video Clip - Imperialism.
2. Group work in preparation for the presentation to the class beginning on Friday.

Friday, Feb 17, 2012
Quote: "Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it." - Benjamin Franklin
Agenda:
1. First group in CH. 19 will present:
Europeans!

NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY.
QUIZ Chapter 20 on Tuesday.
Presentations will continue.
Test next Friday the 24th.

Agenda - Week of Monday Feb 6, 2012 - Friday Feb 10, 2012

Learning Targets:

• To explore the causes and consequences of the Industrial Revolution
• To root Europe’s Industrial Revolution in a global context
• To examine the question of why industrialization first “took off ” in Great Britain
• To heighten student awareness of both the positive and the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution
• To examine some of the ways in which nineteenth-century industrial powers exerted an economic imperialism over their non-industrialized neighbors

Monday, Feb. 6, 2012
Quote: "The more I know about people, the more I like my dog." - Mark Twain
Agenda:
1. Quiz Ch 18 "Revolutions of Industry" (open notes)
2. Students will pick up a Rubric for the Comparison Essay Prompt. Friday's test will be a timed writing on Comparison in the Industrial Revolution.
3. We'll discuss the prompt and also review the quiz.

Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012

Quote:“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” - Darth Vader

Agenda:

1. Do Now Question: What was distinctive about Britain that may help to explain its status as the breakthrough point of the Industrial Revolution?

2. The Industrial Revolution. Notes, Video, and Discussion.

Wednesday & Thursday, Feb. 8/9, 2012
Quote: "All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it." - Samuel Butler
Agenda:
1. Review DBQ from Enlightenment, French Revolution & Slavery
2. Discuss writing prompts for Friday's timed-writing, the rubric, and tips for the AP test essays.
3. Review the concepts of the Industrial Revolution, especially from the perspective of US and Russia. Why did Russia have a revolution and turn to socialism and the US did not?

Friday, Feb. 10, 2012
Quote: "There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." - Ben Williams
Agenda:
1. Timed-writing Comparison Essay. All period.
2. Begin reading CH. 19 and 20 for the next quiz on Chapter 19 on Tuesday. Chapter 20 Quiz is Wed/Thu.

Learning Targets - Chapter 18 - Revolutions of Industry

Click here to download: Learning Targets - Chapter 18 - Revolutions of Industry

Prep Guide for Test - 17 and DBQ

WHAP DBQ RUBRIC.
HOW TO WHAP! THE DBQ.

French Revolution:
Targets Chapter 16 - Atlantic Revolutions & Their Echoes
French Revolution Summary Notes.
Great video from "Horrible Histories: The French Revolution." (3:37)
French Revolution Documentary with Video Questions
God and Grain: The French Revolution Part I with John Green
Headless Monarchy: The French Revolution, Part II
Regin of Terror: The French Revolution, Part III
The French Revolution ("Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga)
Napoleon ("Gone Daddy Gone" by the Violent Femmes)

American Revolutions:

America: The Story of US - The Revolutionary War (3:31)

Nicely created student video "The Haitian Revolution." (7:19)

Bolivar & San Martin, The Latin American Revolutions (10:00)

Slavery:

Great documentary on Slavery: http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/rough-crossings/

Simon Schama tells the fascinating story of the African-American slaves who chose to fight for Britain – and their freedom – in the American Revolutionary War.

With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova Scotia where many who had served the Crown were betrayed in their promises to receive land at the war’s end.

Their fate became entwined with British abolitionists: inspirational figures such as Granville Sharp, the flute-playing father-figure of slave freedom, and John Clarkson, the ‘Moses’ of this great exodus, who accompanied the blacks on their final rough crossing to Africa, where they hoped that freedom would finally greet them.

Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.

The French Revolution ("Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga)

Agenda for Week of January 30 - February 3, 2012

Learning Targets:
Chapter 17 - The Atlantic Revolutions
• To make students aware of the number and diversity of Atlantic revolutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

• To explore the cross-pollination between revolutionary movements

• To investigate the real impact of the Atlantic revolutions

• To consider the broader long-term implications of the revolutionary movements for sweeping social change

Delaroche's The Conquerers of the Bastille before the Hotel de Ville in 1789 oil on Canvas

Monday, January 30, 2012
Quote: "All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." - Henry Ellis
Agenda:
1. John Green explains the 2nd and 3rd portions of the French Revolution.
2. We will discuss the impact of the French Revolution.
3. Students will work in groups to deconstruction the DBQ on Slavery, Revolutions and the Enlightenment. They will group the documents in 2 with a T-Chart. We will review their findings at the end of period.

J.M.W. Turner, The Slave Ship (1840). Oil on canvas.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Quote: "Every man dies. Not every man really lives." - William Wallace
Agenda:
1. Each student will have 5 minutes to write their thesis statement for the DBQ on Slavery, Revolutions and the Enlightenment.
2. We will work in groups to write one single group thesis statement for the DBQ.
3. We will discuss each group's thesis and choose a single best one for the class at the end of the period.

Wednesday/Thursday, Feb. 1 & 2, 2012
Quote: "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost
Agenda:
1. DO NOW Question: "What accounts for the growth of nationalism as a powerful political and personal identity in the 19th century?"
2. We will discuss Nationalism and Feminism.
3. Review game over Chapter 17's Margin Review Questions.
4. Video "The Power of Art: Jacques-Louis David."

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Friday, February 3, 2012
Quote: "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases." - Carl Jung
Agenda:
1. TEST CHAPTER 17 - Atlantic Revolutions
2. Begin to prepare for the Quiz on Monday Chapter 18 "Revolutions of Industrialization, 1750-1914"

Crash Course: World History with John Green, episode 1 Jan. 2012

YES! This is what I'm talking about. As I mentioned in class last week, John Green (Best-Selling New York Times Author and DFTBA initiator) has a new channel on Youtube called "Crash Course World History." It is devoted to World History. Very, very good work.

There are at least a dozen things here that I would love for you to really have learned by the AP test (May 17th, btw). Check it out. Let me know what you think:

John has also just recently been interviewed by NPR on his new book - The Fault in Our Stars.
A book that Time Magazine called this week "damn near genius."

John Green on The French Revolution

Great videos to help you keep all the events of the French Revolution in order and context:

Part I:

Part II:

Part III:

John Green is a New York Times Bestselling Author. He is also part of a brother tag-team called The Vlogbrothers on Youtube. John and his brother Hank post videos to each other (and anyone else who would like to view them). John will be hosting a World History channel on Youtube as well. I am very much looking forward to seeing what he comes up with on there. He has some really cool & fun insight.

These guys also made famous: DFTBA :)

TAKE HOME DBQ - Due Friday, Feb. 3, 2012

Here is a link to our Take Home DBQ. The essay response is due back to Mr. Duez on Friday Feb. 3rd, 2012.
Link to the DBQ here.

CH 17 - French Revolution Video Questions

Click here for the direct link to the Google Docs for CH 17 - French Revolution Video Questions
Watch the video on Youtube:

Agenda: Mon-Fri, January 23-27, 2012

Liberty Leading the People By Eugiene Delacroix (1830)

Learning Targets for Chapter 16 "Atlantic Revolutions":
• To make students aware of the number and diversity of Atlantic revolutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

• To explore the cross-pollination between revolutionary movements

• To investigate the real impact of the Atlantic revolutions

• To consider the broader long-term implications of the revolutionary movements forsweeping social change

Jacques-Louis David's painting of the Tennis Court Oath.

Monday, Jan. 23, 2012

Quote: "The brain is wider than the sky." - Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886
1. Quiz Chapter 17 - Atlantic Revolutions & Their Echoes
2. Begin the documentary History Channel's French Revolution.
3. Use the question handout to assist and help prepare for the test.

Jacques-Louis David's painting of the Death of Marat.

Tuesday Jan. 24, 2012
Quote: "We know what we are but not what we may be." - Ophelia in Hamlet, Shakespeare
1. Continue The French Revolution video. Use questions to assist.
Just before we watch the next portion, we'll review what we watched on Monday with this:
God and Grain: The French Revolution Part I with John Green

Jacques-Louis David's painting of Napoleon crossing the Alps.

Wed/Thursday Jan. 25, 2012
Quote: "I have not failed. I have just found 10,000 things that do not work." - Thomas Edison, 1847-1931
1. Finish any portion of the French Revolution & Discussion, if needed.
2. After the video is over, we will review and discuss. Mr. Duez will collect the question sheets & answers for the video. We'll also see these two short video clips that help to review what we have learned:
Headless Monarchy: The French Revolution, Part II
Regin of Terror: The French Revolution, Part III
3. Work in groups on Document 17.1 "The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789" (page 806-809) and Docuument 17.2 "A Vindication of the Rights of Women, 1792" (Pages 808-809). We will work to answer the questions associated with each and compare & contrast both documents.

The Execution of Robespierre.

Friday Jan. 26, 2012
Quote: "Great spirits have often overcome violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
**Mr. Duez will be out today**
1. Substitute will take attendance.
2. Students will have the remainder of the period to work independently on three documents:
Document 17.3 "The Jamaica Letter, 1815"
Document 17.4 "What to the Slave is Fourth of July?, 1852"
Document 17.5 "Letter to a Friend, 1899"
Students will answer the questions that are bullet-ed in the section before each document.
And they will write out their answers to page 816 1-3 "Using the Evidence: Claiming Rights"

Targets - Chapter 17 - Atlantic Revolutions

Click here to download the Google Docs Targets CH 17 Atlantic Revolutions

Great Martin Luther Documentary - PBS Reluctant Revolutionary

Direct link to the website to watch it on PBS.com.

Watch Martin Luther: Reluctant Revolutionary on PBS. See more from Empires.

Notes - Chapter 16 - The Enlightenment

Google Docs direct link to CH 16 - The Enlightenment

Notes - Chapter 16 - Scientific Revolution

Direct link to the Google Docs Presentation for CH 16 - Scientific Revolution.

Notes - Chapter 16 - English Reformation

Direct link to the Google Docs Presentation for Ch 16 English Reformation.

Notes - Chapter 16 - Protestant Reformation

Link to the Google Docs page for the Protestant Reformation Notes.

Course Selection Information

On Friday you will need to bring your course selection sheets to class. The counselors will be taking you to a computer lab to complete your junior schedule course requests.

The counselors sent this power point to assist you in helping to understand the flow of course selection. Good luck!

CH 15 Notes - East Indies Company

Link to the Google Docs for CH 15 East Indies Company

AP TEST SIGNUP!

AP STUDENTS

It is that time of year again to sign up for your Advanced Placement Tests!

Registration

When: January 9th – February 10th
Where: 7:30 – 11:00 and 1:00 - 3:00 White II reception area

OR All Lunches in Registrar’s Office

Cost: Cash or Money Order Only
$57 per test
$17 for Free and Reduced

No refunds after March 2nd.

Unfortunately you do have to pay to take the test. It is not administered by me or AHS. It is a College Board test and very official. So there is a fee to administrate, score, and send those scores to colleges/universities.

These details on my website about the AP test, are copied from Eaglemail that was sent out from Ms. Rovengo today.

If you have free or reduced lunch, there is a discounted price.

One other note to consider, the fee is $57 for the test. That may seem like a lot, until you consider the fact that you could gain enough college credit to by pass taking an entire course in college. Here is a link to explain the benefit in further detail: Graduate from college early, might mean some students could save as much as $50,000.

And this link: AP Classes - 6 Reasons Why They Matter

This link discusses some very specific examples of what AP credit can do for you at certain schools: AP World History - Score and College Credit Guide. But, don't be deceived by schools like Stanford U. or Yale U. -- they do take certain AP credits (English, APUSH for example) but if you want to try to get into either school not having taken any AP classes or tests, good luck. It won't happen.

Just some food for thought.

Like I said today in class. Taking 2 AP classes statistically doubles your chances of graduating from college (and that's not even taking the AP test). So it is well worth your time and effort.

Agenda for the Week of 1-6-2012 through 1-10-2012

Texas 31 - Bengals 10. On to Baltimore!

Monday
Quote of the Day: "You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act." - Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
1. Quiz Chapter 15. Students may use their notes & target sheets on the quiz.
2. Video - Engineering an Empire - Russia.
3. Discuss the 3 "S's" of this pre-modern world trade: "Silver" "Slaves" and "Soft Gold (Furs)"

No one deserves it more than Dre.

Tuesday
Quote of the Day: "Life is something that everyone should try at least once." - Henry J. Tillman
1. DO NOW Question: "In what specific ways did trade foster change in the modern world?"
2. Review Chapter 14 & 15 with particular focus on slave trade & the documents.

Beast Mode.

Wednesday & Thursday
Quote of the Day: "Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes." - J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
1. Test - Chapter 14 & 15
2. After the test, begin reading chapter 16. Quiz is on Tuesday, test is next Friday.

Namaste!

Friday
Quote of the Day: "Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream." - Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
1. Counselor will be scheduling classes for next fall.
No school Monday.
Tuesday - Quiz Ch. 16
Friday - Test Ch. 16

GO TEXANS!