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