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Cumming Georgia
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As you read the Key Concepts, don't just memorize individual facts (although you do need to know them.) It is important that you know how facts serve as examples of the larger concepts under which they are indexed.
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The Great War: The Ottoman Empire and China |
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| Economic Contraction, Anxieties, and New Paradigms |
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New Balance of Power, Cold War, and Decolonization |
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Final Podcast |
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8/2-8/3 |
Greetings. Course intro: What is World History and why should we care? HW-Internet scavenger hunt, About Me essay. Key Concept 1.1, Big Geography, “out of Africa,” Paleolithic characteristics, tools, short History Channel video on fire. First discovery of farming (Key Concept 1.2) |
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2 |
8/6 |
Cover class syllabus. Neolithic Revolution and it's consequences. Effect of Pastoralism and Agriculture on land. (short video) Key Concept 1.2. Homework: Read article "The Worst Mistake in History." |
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3 |
8/7 |
Quiz/discussion on article "The Worst Mistake in History." Continue KC 1.2. Tools (stone to bronze), Surpluses to hierarchies, stratification. The development of patriarchy. (KC 1.2, II, C) "Skipping Stones" --the Causation argument |
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5 |
8/8-8/9 |
Systems of writing (Cuneiform) and their benefits to civilization: Laws (Code of Hammurabi, and Literature.(Epic of Gilgamesh). What is an empire? What makes it difficult to rule? KC 1.3 Harappan civilization, worksheet on historical inferences. KC 1.3 |
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6 |
8/10 |
How to make an argument. Culture and the state: monumental architecture, the rise of belief systems. HW: Read Hammurabi and Moses for Wednesday/Thursday. HW: For Monday, turn in polished essay on causes of the fall of Indus River Valley Civ. Remember topic sentences, evidence, analysis and linking language that demonstrates corroboration of evidence. This must be submitted through ItsLearning. |
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7 |
8/13 |
Finish content for Period 1. Map exercises on required locations and regions. Review for Friday's Exam. (1.1, 1.2, 1.3) Vedic Age, Monotheism, Invasions of Jewish state, trade diasporas. All of Period I on AP Worldipedia must be read by tomorrow. |
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8 |
8/14 |
Test on Period 1, Key Concepts 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 |
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9-10 |
8/15-8/16 |
Begin Period II |
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11 |
8/17 |
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13 |
8/19 |
Hinduism: Its development and impact on South Asian civilization. |
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14 |
8/20 |
Class discussion: Empire in South Asia. Ashoka, Edicts, Contextualize South Asian document. HW: Podcast 1 on Islam. |
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15-16 |
8/21-8/22 |
(Substitute) In-class Document analysis: Reasons for the decline of classical states. Mankind video on the rise and spread of Christianity (Episode: Empires. Students take notes comparing the spread of Buddhism with the Christianity) HW: Podcast 2 on Islam |
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17 |
8/23 Friday |
Quiz on Islam Podcasts. Making Historical Claims: Comparing the spread of Buddhism with the spread of Christianity. |
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18 |
8/26 |
Complete Foundations Unit: Comparison of Belief Systems. |
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19 |
8/27 |
Complete Foundations Unit. HW: Read AP Worldipedia Topic 1.1 on Chinese State-building. |
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20-21 |
8/28-8/29 |
Begin AP Exam Content Today. Peergrade question on Confucianism. Continuities and Innovations in Chinese State-building. Documents for Group Discussions. The Song Dynasty's economic revival. HW: Read AP Worldipedia Topic 1.1 on the spread of Chinese culture. |
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22 |
8/30 |
The spread of Chinese culture across Asia. HW: Read pages 76-80 in AMSCO. |
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Topics/Key Concepts |
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9/2 |
Labor Day. No School. |
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23 |
9/3 |
Class discussion: The impact of China across Asia (Notes: Sinification of Asia) |
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24-25 |
9/4-9/5-8/22 |
Review: Students create causation claims for Song China's economic recovery. Begin Topics 1.2 and 1.5. (Note: you might want to review Podcast 2 on Islam) Effects of the spread of Islamic Civilization (Documents for background/contextualization). Students analyze Documents on Islam in groups and formulate CCOT claims. (CCOT Documents for Islam) HW: Create a claim and support it with evidence on Peergrade by Thursday night 11:59 pm. |
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26 |
9/6 Friday |
Peer-evaluate claims and evidence on Peergrade. Today's topic: Variety of State formation in Africa. HW: Read AMSCO 94-100 on the Americas (go to ItsLearning to get the link). |
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27 |
9/9 |
Topic 1.4 Quiz on The Americas. Analyze documents to compare political states in the Americas. HW: AMSCO 84-90. |
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28 |
9/10 |
Finish Americas. Begin Topic 1.3 Southeast Asia. HW: Read "Oats, Peas, and Barley Grow," from Science and Technology in World History (look on ItsLearning). |
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29-30 |
9/11-9/12 |
Begin Topic 1.6: Developments in Europe.Review Unit 1 |
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31 |
9/13 |
Personal Progress Check for Unit I |
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Topics/Key Concepts |
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32 |
9/16 |
Review Personal Progress Check on Unit 1. Reteach topic 1.6 on Europe. |
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33 |
9/17 |
(Substitute) Mankind video: Plague. |
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34-35 |
9/18-9/19 |
Introduce Unit 2: Student self-check document to be filled out as we progress. In groups, students fill out Content Ladder on Topic 2.1 and complete the tasks on the back of the sheet. Students individually prepare a historical claim supported with evidence on this prompt, to be entered into Peergrade by Thursday night. HERE are the Topics for Unit 2. Print these and use them to annotate the readings this week. |
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9/20 Friday |
Peer-evaluate claims and evidence on Peergrade. Quiz on Mongol Podcast. HW: Listen to Mongol Podcast found here (scroll down) |
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37 |
9/23 |
Review Historical Claims from last week. Quiz on Mongols, Complete content/analysis on the Mongols. HW: Students read and annotate Strayer, Commerce and Culture pp. 335-341 (Find this in ItsLearning) |
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38 |
9/24 |
Networks of trade. HW: read and annotate Commerce and Culture, pp. 341-348 (Sea Roads: Exchange Across the Indian Ocean) Watch THIS VIDEO on paragraph composition before Wed/Thurs. |
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39-40 |
9/11-9/12 |
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41 |
9/13 |
In-class SAQ and quiz on Strayer readings. |