Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Class task for Dec. 18, 2018

Complete on a google drawing or slides

Choose 3-4 key ideas/bold terms from last night’s reading- 4.9 - (mix of English, Spanish, Portuguese)
Study the significance in more depth, giving more context and detail, beyond what was mentioned in the text.

Find one of the following for each:
  • Related primary document
  • Related map
  • Art or architecture feature

Resources

Here are a few sources for primary documents/sources and other assorted research helps:

Friday, December 14, 2018

Mr. Stauffer's Attempt at Rectification

Here are the required vocabulary terms:

62.    Charles V
63.    Phillip II of Spain
64.    Act of Supremacy
65.    Elizabeth I of England
66.    British East India Company
67.    James I of England
68.    English Civil War
69.    Glorious Revolution
70.    English Bill of Rights

Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Chocolate and Child Labor

What role does child labor play in the production of one of our most cherished treats - chocolate?  Here are two options to earn extra credit:

A. Read the following article and view the accompanying short video. Take notes as your read. 


B. Watch the following documentary and take notes on key parts, quotes.


When finished, write a 150+ word critique of the chocolate industry based on one or both of the above sources.

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Protestant Reformation

Watch and make additions to your notes an/or respond to the following questions.

Protestant Reformation

1. Aside from just splitting the Catholic Church, what are some additional effects of the Reformation?
2. Why was the Catholic Church the most powerful economic and political force in Europe?
3. Who is responsible for the Reformation?
4. When Luther visited Rome in 1505, what was he struck by?
5. With respect to the Church, what are indulgences?
6. On what date did Luther display his Ninety-Five Theses against indulgences?
7. Plenty of radical friars had criticized the Church’s abuses and hypocrisies – why would Martin Luther prove to be so influential?
8. What is perhaps the most revolutionary of Luther’s actions?
9. What are some examples of the spin-off denominations from the Catholic Church as a reaction to the Reformation?
10. What was the biggest revolutionary uprising in Europe before the French Revolution?

One of the features of the Catholic Counter-Reformation was the Index of Prohibited Books.  Study the Index here.  List few books that you know of. Why might they be viewed as dangerous words to be blocked?

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/indexlibrorum.asp

Friday, November 16, 2018

The Crusades!

Watch the following video and add to your notes about the Crusades and the relationships between Islam and Europe.

Crash Course World History:  The Crusades

Or here...

PBS

Friday, November 9, 2018

For November 9

5 minutes - First, review your notes with your partner.  Make repetitions as usual.  Be thorough!

10 minutes - Next, design an SAQ related to today's notes.  Write it near your notes.  Have your partner try to answer it.

Remainder of class - form one of EIGHT total groups, 3 or 4 in a group.  Each group has one of the 8 cities. Work with your group for the rest of the period.  
Create a Google Drawing or Slide Show and share with all group members.  Use at least 5 of 9 GRASPED IT categories to show and tell about the significance of the city in the period 600-1450.  You have today to work, the  weekend to keep working, and 10 minutes at the start of class Tuesday to make final touches.

Friday, October 19, 2018

Post-Classical China - Review and Introduction

Watch the video linked below.  As you watch, pause and and key ideas to your timeline. When done, you will tape your timeline into your notebook on the LH side of where you notes for 3.9.

Chinese Imperial Dynasties

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Homework For AP World History

Vocab clusters – choose 2 categories of your choosing (great thinkers, innovations, infamous folk, economics, etc.) and include 10+ terms per group, with 8-10 words per term to explain how it fits.  All time periods we’ve studied!

58-73 Due Friday:

Vocab:

58.    Sui Dynasty
59. Tang Dynasty
60. Xuan Zong
61. Empress Wu Zhao
62. Chang’an
63. Anti-Buddhist campaign
64. Song Dynasty
65. moveable type (China)
66. Yuan Dynasty
67. Ming Dynaty
68. tribute system
69. bureaucracy
70. civil service exam
71. Grand Canal
72. Neo-Confucianism
73. footbinding
74. Shinto
75. Taiko Reforms
76. Heian Period/Fujiwara
77. Shogun
78. diamyo
79. bushido
80. Zen/Chan Buddhism
81.   Delhi Sultanate

Friday, October 12, 2018

On the back of the comparison chart...

Using the comparison chart, choose 2 categories and write a claim. Must have a similarity and difference.

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

For Class - October 9

View the three videos on the Middle Ages, starting with this one:

Overview of the Middle Ages, then continue and watch the next ones on Feudalism, then Serfs and Manorialism.  When done, take the practice quizzes.

Thursday, September 27, 2018

For Class Sept 27

Answer the following questions from the Princeton book on a separate piece of paper.  You may work with a partner. When complete, review using the correct answers, which are listed after each test. Don't just mark them wrong, but read the explanation for the ones you missed in the pages following the list of answers.

Test 1
Questions 1-6, 32 & 33, 46-48

Test 2
Questions 1-12

Test 3
Questions 1-11

Test 4
Questions 3-9, 19 & 20, 48-50

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

For Class Sept 26

Choose one the “Working with Evidence” tasks from the end of ch 4 or 5. Study each image, read the associated text, and answer two questions per image in notebook in complete sentences

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Review Choices

Review Possibilities, Sept. 2018

  • Timelines for each period (Ancient, Classical)
  • Read and annotate 135-198 Princeton
  • Crash course views with notes #1-12
  • Study system/guide of your own design (i.e. concept map with relationships among vocab term)
  • Read intros and conclusions in Strayer for each unit and chapter (notes)
  • Maps and images in all Strayer pages (notes)
  • World History for us all (Big Eras 3 & 4)
  • Other method as approved by instructor