Week of December 11th

Tuesday, Dec. 13

• Read: Strayer 477-482
• Lecture: Scientific Revolution
• Due: 2 scientist biographical sketches

Thursday, Dec. 15

• Read: Strayer 482-487
• Lecture: Enlightenment
• Due: 2 enlightenment thinker bio sketches

Week of December 4th

Monday, Dec. 5

• Read: Strayer 445-457
• Homework: complete review sheet
• Lecture: Atlantic Economy
• Workshop: review session

Wednesday, Dec. 7

• EXAM 3

Friday, Dec. 9

• none - get some rest and enjoy the show!

Week of November 27th

Tuesday

• Reading: none
• Lecture: Asian Commerce
• Due: Reilly reading questions (the ones we worked on in class before the break)

Thursday

• Reading: Strayer 434-442
• Lecture: Silver Trade
• Due: Asian Commerce ids.
• trading post empire
• cartaz
• East India companies
• Tokugawa Shogunate
• daimyo

Week of November 13

Monday

• Reading: Strayer 417-424
• Lecture: Empires in Russia & China
• Workshop: DBQ essay development
• Homework check: introductory outline to DBQ essay
• including a thesis, and at least 3 arguments consistent with your grouping of the documents

Wednesday

• Reading: Strayer 424-425; Reilly 640-643
• Lecture: Muslims & Hindus in Mughal Empire
• Discussion: "Akbar and Religion"
• Workshop: DBQ development
• please bring a well-developed outline or a draft of your DBQ essay to class

Friday

• Reading: Strayer 425-429; Reilly 640-649
• Lecture: Muslims & Christians in Ottoman Empire
• Discussion: "Ottoman Inter-communal Relations"
• Due: DBQ essay

Week of November 6

Great job getting through the first quarter!! We have completed our review of ancient history and have introduced most of the components of the AP exam. Looking forward, we will now transition into the early modern period. Our first major writing assignment of the second quarter will be the document-based question. We will begin to talk about the various components of those essays this week, and the first essay will be due sometime next week.

Monday

• Read: Strayer 397-399, 403-409
• Lecture: Intro to Modern Period
• Workshop: the document-based question
• Due: none

Wednesday

• Read: Strayer 409-417
• Lecture: American colonialism
• Due: comparative chart
• Compare North American and Latin American colonial societies using the 4 analytic categories that you think are most useful
• Workshop: DBQ PoV & grouping

Week of October 30th

We will be taking the second quarterly exam on Wednesday of this week. You'll have an opportunity to ask questions about some items you may be unsure of on Monday. In order to make the review session most effective you should complete your review sheet as best you can in advance. I will check these for a homework grade in class. See you then...

Monday

• Read: none
• Ancient Mesoamerica lecture/film
• Due: completed exam review sheet

Wednesday

• Exam 2

Week of October 23rd

Good job with the review of ancient history that we have been working on. We are now finished with that reading material, so we can focus solely on our longer written assignments over the weekend.

Tuesday

• Read: none
• Due: detailed outline of change-over-time essay
• In-class: essay workshop

Thursday

• Read: none
• Due: change-over-time essay
• In-class: exam review

*our next regular exam will be held on Monday, October 31st*

Week of October 16th

Great job on the exams last week. I will hand these back on Monday and discuss them briefly. Thanks for the feedback you shared with me last Thursday. I feel really good about where we are with the process of ancient history review. Over the next week or week-and-a-half we will bring our review up to about 1450 and begin to transition into the modern period. Our pace will slow a bit and we will be going into greater depth with some of our subjects. I think this marks an important transition for us, and I hope you share my confidence in your abilities. I think we have already laid a substantial foundation of skill-sets around which we can build our body of knowledge.

Here are the assignments for the week. I know this is a lot of material to cover in one week, but that's the nature of review. Try to get through the reading before class, and assemble the id terms as you go as best you can. I will not collect them each day, but rather collect the entire set on Friday. I'll touch base with you as the week progresses and depending on how you're feeling we can push our schedule back if need be.

Monday

• Read: packet 134-138 (on Islamic empires); 164-165 (on religious expansion)
• Homework: id terms
• Mecca
• Medina
• Five Pillars
• Jihad
• Caliph/Caliphate
• Sunni/Shi'a split
• Umayyad
• Abbasid
  

Wednesday

• Read: packet 148-154 (on Asia); 162-164 (on trade)
• Homework: id terms 
• T'ang/Song comparison
• Yuan/Ming transition
• tribute system
• meritocracy
• neo-Confucianism
• Shintoism
• Shogun
• Daimyo
• Bushido
• Delhi Sultanate

Friday

• Read: packet 154-162 (Mongols, Africa, Latin America); 167-168 (women)
• Homework: id terms
• Genghis/Kublai Khan
• Hordes
• Tamerlane
• Kush
• Axum
• Swahili Coast
• Mali/Mansa Musa
• Benin
• Tenochtitlan
• Quipu 

Week of October 9th

This week we will be completing our first of two review units on ancient history with an examination on Tuesday. Their purpose has been two-fold: 1) to ensure that you have a solid grounding in the most important aspects of ancient history, and 2) to introduce the skills required for the AP exam alongside content that you already have some familiarity with. I am very pleased with our progress on those fronts, and anticipate that our second unit will proceed more quickly than the first. Good luck on the exam - I know you will do well.

Looking ahead, we will proceed with a review of the period from 600-1450 CE. Our next writing assignment will be a change-over-time essay that I will hand out on Thursday and have due the following Monday.

Tuesday

• In-class: exam
• hand out: 2nd review packet

Thursday

• Read: review packet 2, pp 138-148.
• Due: first set of term ids (the ones on Europe)
• note-don't worry about defining the terms, just id the people, places & events

Week of October 2nd

We're making rapid progress through our review of ancient history. You are building a body of knowledge that covers the largest span of time in our course, about 10,000 years of human history. I know that can seem overwhelming but I think you're developing some good habits of mind to bring order to that knowledge. We will take our first major exam this week, which will be an all-written format. I know this is a new method of assessment for many of you and as such may seem intimidating. Keep in mind that any time you do something for the first time there is an adjustment period. I want you to know that I recognize this and we are going to work in class to ease the transition. It will be a busy week and a major milestone in the course.

Tuesday, Oct.4

• Read: packet 117-127
• Due: Ids & definitions for terms on 117-127; comparative chart for Han, Maurya/Gupta & Roman empires
• In class: workshop essay introductions

Thursday, Oct. 5

• Read: none
• Due: Comparative essay
• In class: review for Tuesday's exam on ancient history (to 660 CE)

**Next week - our first exam will take place on Tuesday, Oct.11.

Week of September 25

Tuesday Sept. 27

• Read: packet pp 90-103
• Homework: write definitions for the "Important Terms" and identifications for the "People, Places and Events" from p 128 that are mentioned on pages 90-103(see note below for explanation)

Friday Sept. 30

• Read: packet pp 104-116
• Homework: definitions for the terms, and ids for the people, places & events (pp104-116)

**How to write definitions and identifications**

• Defs - write simple one line definitions that capture the meaning of the term. Ex: Agriculture - "the practice of growing food"
• Ids - write 2-3 sentence explanations that include 1)a simple definition, 2)context in time and space, and 3)a brief statement of its historical significance (why it's important)

Week of Sept. 18

This week we will begin to practice some skills that we need to develop for the AP exam. We will start with the two FRQ essays; the "comparative" and the "change-over-time." We will also start to compile a body of knowledge that we can draw from when preparing for the exam this spring. Please bring to class some kind of folder in which to collect this information. For now, just a simple paper folder will suffice. As our collection grows you may want to move up to something more intricate. Here are the reading and homework assignments for the week:

• Monday, Sept. 19
• Read: Strayer 24-29; Reilly 10-16
• DUE: Reading question (1 type-written paragraph)
• Is the life story of a 20th century hunter-gatherer useful to our understanding of Paleolithic human culture? Include both advantages and limitations.
• Wednesday, Sept. 21
• Read: Strayer 29-32; Reilly 1-9
• DUE: Comparative outline
• details to be discussed in class

Week 1 - Welcome & Introductions

Welcome to World History Intensive. This week in class we will discuss how the course works, including how to use this blog. One of its most important functions is that you can find homework and reading assignments here. So for this week:

• Thursday Sept. 15th
• Read: Strayer, 3-20 (its really only 10 pages of reading)
• DUE: Summer Reading Assignment

See you soon...

Week of May 29th

Last week of classes!! (We'll only have one class period this week.)

Wednesday

• In class - Time will be provided to complete the film analysis essay. I will be available to answer questions, fill in research holes, read drafts, etc.

Friday

• Due - 3-5 page film analysis essay
• *note* Friday is our field trip to Green Lakes, so we won't have class this day. Please hand in a hard copy of your paper before the end of the day.

Week of May 22

Tuesday

• Due - Analysis of Battle of Algiers (see below)
• In class - meet with Stegeman to approve film choice
• begin research on film's background

Thursday

• Due - view film choice for homework
• In class - discuss film choices in roundtable format

Note on Film Analysis Assignment:

Your assignment is to write a two-to-three page analysis of The Battle of Algiers, generally following the rubric distributed on Friday. Be aware that you have some greater flexibility to determine how you meet the parameters outlined in the rubric. Feel free to be creative in how you engage the assignment, but try to address as many of the criteria as you can while still constructing a coherent essay. Remember, the idea is to view the film as a historian and answer the question, "Does this film do a good job of telling history?" At the same time, the essay should make sense to a reader who has not viewed the film. Try to strike a balance between "movie review" and "critical commentary." Discussing the three concepts we introduced last class will help you to do that (Compression, Historical Fiction/Drama/Romance, True/False Invention).

Links to Historical Film Resources

"100 Films Reviewed by Historians" page discussed in class:

http://blog.historians.org/resources/1316/100-films-reviewed-by-historians

Internet Movie Database


http://www.imdb.com/


History on Film - Check out the "historical background" tab to search for films about a given subject. Also, the "movie reviews" and "commentary" tabs may be helpful to read what others have already said about the film you're researching.


http://www.historyonfilm.com/

Reel History - A column on historical films in an independent British newspaper.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/series/reelhistory

world-history-movies.com - Searchable by era

http://www.world-history-movies.com/

Week of May 15th

Congratulations on completing the AP section of the course!! For the last three weeks of the year we will be learning about historical films. This unit will include three components. First we will watch the The Battle of Algiers in class this week, and complete a film analysis assignment. Then, you will select a historical film of your own choosing and analyze it for its historical significance. Finally, you will conduct research into the historical context of the film's setting, and perhaps it's making (as appropriate). The time frame for the completion of this unit will roughly follow the last three weeks of school, with the first film viewed in class this week, your own film analysis due the following week, and the research component due the last week of school. Schedule for this week is as follows:

Monday

• View Battle of Algiers, first half
• discuss parameters of assignment
• begin analysis

Wednesday

• View Battle of Algiers, second half
• complete analysis
• begin selection of second film

Friday

• Stegeman approves of second film selection
• Analysis of B of A due
• Watch film over the weekend

Week of May 8th

AP EXAM WEEK!!!

Tuesday

• read - complete second review packet
• lecture - review 600-1450 CE
• due - self-assessment of Comparative Essay (including score derived from AP rubric and one-paragraph explanation of your score)
• study - flash cards

Thursday

• AP Exam - 8:00 am, Pebble Hill Church basement
• due - Get a good night's sleep and eat a healthy breakfast :)

Week of May 1st

Monday

• In class - write practice DBQ
• Read - pp. 113-130 in review packet
• Due - complete MC corrections - these should include typed, one-sentence statements for each wrong answer that explains why the right answer is best
• Due - Begin writing flash cards for the key terms in the review packet. Try to select at least the 10 terms in bold that you think are most important (emphasizing ones you don't already know well).

Wednesday

• In class - write practice change-over-time essay
• Read -132-148 in review packet
• Due - score your DBQ essay based on the rubric distributed in class. Also, type up a one-paragraph explanation of why/how you arrived at your score.
• Due - make another 10 flashcards from the reading

Friday

• In class - write practice comparative essay.
• Read - 148-172 in review packet
• Due - score your COT essay, including the one-paragraph justification
• Due - make another 10 flashcards from today's reading

Week of April 24

The AP exam in World History will take place on Thursday, May 12 at 8:00 am in the Pebble Hill Church basement. Until that day we will be reviewing for the exam and conducting practice tests during class. Here is an agenda for this week:

Tuesday

• practice Multiple Choice exam
• discuss MC strategy
• introduce Ancient History review

Thursday

• complete MC section
• lecture on Ancient History
• read pp. 90-113 in review packet

Week of April 10th

Plan for the week:

Tuesday

• Read Reilly 986-end of section (last 2 readings)
• Discuss Israel-Palestine
• Lecture on Cold War

Thursday

• no reading
• Israel-Palestine 3-5 page paper due
• Lecture on Cold War & decolonization

**That completes the new material for the course. After Spring Break we will have 3 weeks of review before the AP exam. Enjoy your break!!

Week of April 3rd

Plan for the week:

Monday

• Lecture - finish WWII & introduce Cold War
• Discussion - Reilly on Israel-Palestine
• Reading - Strayer 659-674; Reilly 959-965 & 966-973 (note that the first two were actually due last week)

Wednesday

• Lecture - Cold War
• Discussion - Reilly on Israel-Palestine
• Reading - Strayer 675-681; Reilly 973-979

Friday

• Lecture - Race & Decolonization
• Discussion - Reilly on I-P
• Reading Strayer 681-688; Reilly 980-986

Notes

• I have not given you reading questions this week because we have a lot of reading to do and material to cover in class. However, it is essential that you do the reading so that we can complete this material before Spring Break, and begin AP exam review after break.
• We will have our next exam in class on Thursday, April 14th and it will cover WWII & its aftermath (Cold War, Decolonization & Neoliberalism)

Week of March 27th

Here is an outline of this week's activities:

Tuesday, March 29th

• DBQs due
• finish WWII chronology lecture
• introduce Cold War, Palestine-Israel Conflict

Thursday, March 31st

• Read Strayer 659-674; Reilly 959-965
• Cold War lecture
• discuss Palestine-Israel Conflict

Homework for Week of March 21st

We will have our second quarterly exam on Friday, March 25. For Wednesday, please begin your exam preparation and revise your DBQ intros. Please bring both to class. The DBQ intro should be typed and include your 3 point-of-view analyses. I will check your exam preparation for a homework grade.

Reading and homework for Monday, March 21

Please finish reading chapter 21 in Strayer (pages 653-657) and email me your five suggested id terms for our next exam. I will distribute the review sheet on Monday and the test will be held on Friday.

Homework for Thursday, March 17th

Please begin to prepare your next DBQ assignment. Review the documents, make notes on the main idea of each and select your PoV choices. Type up a thesis and introduction that establishes your groups and submit for feedback on Thursday. Also, please review the reading assigned for today. We will discuss Japan and the Reilly readings next class.

Reading for Tuesday, March 15

Please read Strayer 645-653 and Reilly 932-941.

Reading for Monday, March 7th

Please read Reilly 921-932.

Homework and reading for March 3rd.

Please read Strayer 636-645 and complete the DBQ preparation assignment.

Winter Break

On Friday before winter carnival we discussed the importance of solitude for deep and original thinking. Please find one hour over the break to sit quietly by yourself or with one other person and take some time to think for yourself. Keep a pen and paper handy to jot down the thoughts that come. Think and write about whatever you want, it's your time. Relax and enjoy.

Week of February 13th

There is no reading assigned for this week. Please use the time to prepare essay responses in advance of Monday's class. We will workshop and review them in class on Monday, in preparation for Wednesday's exam.

Reading for Thursday, Feb. 10

Please read Strayer, 662-665 and 633-636.

Assignments for Tuesday, Feb. 8

Please read Reilly 911-920 and complete the mid-course reflection assignment. Remember, it includes three parts:

1. one-page typed response to questions distributed on Friday (address all 3 sections)
2. selection of one or two artifacts that showcase your growth
3. one-paragraph typed explanation of how it does that

 Please type your response using the standard format (1" margins, 12 pt. font, in this case single-space)

Homework for Wednesday, Feb. 2nd

Don't forget to bring your response to the question assigned for Monday's class.

Reading for Monday, Jan. 31

Please read Reilly, 884-893 and your choice of one of the following categories: posters, poems or theory.

Reading for Thursday, Jan.27th

Please read Strayer, 617-632. Be prepared to do an in-class exercise with the reading.

Week of January 16th

For Wednesday please read Strayer, 607-614. We will lecture briefly on that part of the chapter and spend the remainder of class reviewing for the exam that will be on Friday. Remember, students who scored lower than a B- on the last exam must turn in outlines of their essays on Tuesday, so that I can give them back to you with feedback in class on Wednesday.

Reading and Prep for Friday, January 14th

Please read Reilly 832-845 and prepare an outline for the in-class essay on Friday. You will be able to use the outline to write the essay, and must turn it in for 20% of the grade. If anyone would like some feedback on the outline before actually writing the essay, I will be available on Thursday during Tutorial, 3rd & 4th blocks, and after school.

Reading and homework for Wed, Jan. 12th

Please read Reilly 818-832. I suggest you read the Cannadine piece first, then read Orwell. Refer to the essay prompt handed out Monday, and begin to prepare your outline for Friday's essay. On Wednesday we will discuss the readings and work with the outline to prepare for the essay. Also on Wednesday you will need to turn in the following list of ids from the last two classes:

• Indian Mutiny
• Scramble for Africa
• Free-Trade Imperialism
• White Man's Burden
• Leopold II
• Peasant capitalism
• Gendered division of Labor
• Dependency theory

Reading and homework for Monday, January 10th

Please read Strayer 598-606. We will discuss terms correlating to this reading in class, and they will be due on Friday.

homework for Thursday, Jan. 6th

Please read Reilly 811- 818 & 842-843. If you didn't complete the reading due Tuesday, those pages were in Strayer, 589-598. The first list of ids for this chapter are:

• Indian Mutiny
• Scramble for Africa
• Free-Trade Imperialism
• White Man's Burden