Monday
- Read: none
- Ancient Mesoamerica lecture/film
- Due: completed exam review sheet
- Exam 2
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
Monday
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
Tuesday
- Read: none
- Due: detailed outline of change-over-time essay
- In-class: essay workshop
- Read: none
- Due: change-over-time essay
- In-class: exam review
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
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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
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