Tuesday
- Read: none
- Lecture: Enlightenment
- Workshop: surprise
- Due: DBQ essay
Week of December 16th
Happy Holidays!
Tuesday
Tuesday
Week of December 9th
Monday, 12/10
- Read: Strayer 463-467
- Lecture: Protestant Reformation
- Workshop: The Document-Based Question
- Read: Strayer 477-482
- Lecture: Scientific Revolution
- Workshop: DBQ
- Due: DBQ intro
- include groups, thesis
- Read: Strayer 482-486
- Lecture: Enlightenment
- Workshop: DBQ
- Due: PoV docs & additional doc
- select & explain
Week of December 2nd
Tuesday, Dec. 4
- Read: Strayer 452-457
- Lecture: Slave Trade, cont.
- Workshop: exam review
- Exam 3
Week of November 25th
Happy Thanksgiving! Please enjoy the holiday with good times shared with family and friends. Travel safely, and when we return we will complete our unit on colonial trade patterns by studying the Atlantic Economy.
*Our next exam is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, December 6th.*
Monday
*Our next exam is tentatively scheduled for Thursday, December 6th.*
Monday
- Read: none
- Lecture: The Silver Trade
- Workshop: Mapping Colonial Trade Networks
- Read: Strayer 445-448; Reilly 603-609
- Lecture: The Fur Trade
- Workshop: discuss Reilly
- Read: Strayer 449-452; Reilly 616-623
- Lecture: Atlantic Slave Trade
- Workshop: discuss Equiano
- Due: Equiano GRQ sheet
Week of November 11th
Tuesday
- Read: Strayer 437-445
- Lecture: Asian Economy
- Workshop: CCOT essay
- Read: Reilly 676-683
- Lecture: Magellan documentary
- Workshop: discuss Reilly
- Due: Change over Time essay
Week of November 4th
Tuesday, Nov 6
- Read: Strayer 433-437; Reilly 673-676
- Lecture: Trading-Post Empires
- Workshop: Intro to change-over-time essay
- Read: Reilly 686-695
- Lecture: Family, Gender & Women's history
- Workshop: discuss Reilly
- Due: CCOT essay intro/outline
- Describe and explain changes and continuities associated with Spain's role in the global economy between 1450 and 1700.
Week of October 28
*Post-Sandy Update*
Due to the school closure on Tuesday, we will move the exam to Thursday and begin the next unit on Tuesday of the following week. Updated schedule below:
Tuesday, Oct. 30
Thursday, Nov. 1
Due to the school closure on Tuesday, we will move the exam to Thursday and begin the next unit on Tuesday of the following week. Updated schedule below:
Tuesday, Oct. 30
- no school, Hurricane Sandy
Thursday, Nov. 1
- Exam 2
- Read: Strayer 433-437
- Lecture: Trading Post Empire
- Workshop: Colonial Economies
Week of October 21
Monday, Oct 22
- Read: Strayer 422-424; Reilly 631-636
- Lecture: Chinese Empire
- Workshop: Discuss Reilly
- Read: Strayer 424-425; Reilly 640-643
- Lecture: Mughal Empire
- Workshop: State & Religion comparison
- Read: Strayer 425-429; Reilly 644-649
- Lecture: Ottoman Empire
- Workshop: Exam Preparation
- Due: 2nd comparative essay *optional - 3 pages max*
- Compare and contrast the relationship between the state and religion in at least two of the following four imperial contexts: Spanish America, Mughal India, Ottoman Europe, China
Week of October 14
Great job to everyone on the first unit. I was very pleased with the
exam scores, and especially the amount of preparation everyone displayed
through their notebooks. Hopefully you now have a sense of the rhythm
of the course and what it takes to be successful. As we move into the
next unit we will be using two new texts. Those will take some getting used to and should think about adjusting your note-taking strategies as we discussed in class.
Tuesday
Tuesday
- Read: Strayer 409-415
- Lecture: The Plantation Economy
- Workshop: Race in Spanish America
- Read: Strayer 415-421
- Lecture: Sugar, Furs & Slaves
- Workshop: Patterns of Global Commerce
Week of October 7
**no school Monday**
Wedesday, Oct 10
Wedesday, Oct 10
- Read: Strayer 403-406, Reilly 559-567
- Lecture: Age of Exploration
- Workshop: exam recap - MC strategies
- Read: Strayer 406-409, Reilly 568-578
- Lecture: Colonialism in Spanish America
- Workshop: discuss Reilly
- Due: correct 3 MC questions - include:
- one bullet point paraphrasing what the question is asking
- one bullet point for each distracter explaining why it is wrong
- one bullet point for the correct answer, explaining why it is the best answer
Week of September 30
This will be a short week due to the class trip on Friday. It also marks the end of our first unit of study on ancient history review. Beginning next week we will enter the Modern Period.
Monday
Monday
- Read: none
- Lecture: miscellaneous end of unit items
- Workshop: Review Session
- Due: completed review sheet
- Exam 1
- no class - class trip
Week of September 23
We are approaching the end of our first unit. Keep building those study skills and habits and I think you will be pleased to find out how helpful they are when it comes to test time. Looking past this week, please keep in mind that we will have our first exam on Wednesday, October 3.
Monday, Sept 24
Monday, Sept 24
- Read: 138-148
- Lecture: Europe in the Middle Ages
- Workshop: Comparative Essay
- Due: Comparative Essay draft
- Read:148-154
- Lecture: The Far East
- Workshop: Exam prep
- Due: Comparative Essay
Week of September 16
Super start to the year, people! As we move through the next few weeks we will start working on some AP style essays. It will be important for you to keep building on the basic study skills and habits like note-taking and organizing your materials in the notebook. Try to build a firm foundation now and it will keep paying off for the rest of the year.
Tuesday, Sept 18
Tuesday, Sept 18
- Read: Packet 116-130
- Lecture: Survey of Religions in the Ancient World
- Workshop: AP comparative essay
- Read: Packet 132-138
- Lecture: Rise of Islam
- Workshop: AP essay construction
- Due: Comparative Chart
- create a three-column chart comparing methods of political control in Han China, Maurya/Gupta India and Imperial Rome
- remember, the more info you put into the chart, the more material you will have at your fingertips to write our first comparative essay
- bring a clean copy of this to hand in
First two weeks of school (Sept. 5 - Sept. 14)
Here is an outline of what you can expect in World History Intensive during the first two weeks of class.
*Please note that things are due to be completed on the day they are listed. For example, you are expected to complete the reading "Strayer xli-xliv" before class on Friday, Sept. 7.
Wednesday, Sept 5
*Please note that things are due to be completed on the day they are listed. For example, you are expected to complete the reading "Strayer xli-xliv" before class on Friday, Sept. 7.
Wednesday, Sept 5
- In-class: welcome, introductions & distribution of course materials
- this will be a shortened class (30-35 minutes)
- Read: Strayer xli-xliv (prologue)
- Lecture: Big History & Periodization
- Workshop: Notebook strategies
- Discuss: Achebe
- Read: review packet 90-103
- Lecture: Subsistence Patterns
- Workshop: periodization
- Discuss: Achebe
- Read: packet 104-116
- Lecture: Early Civilizations
- Workshop: the art of comparison
- Due: summer reading essay
Getting Ready for School
Hi Everybody:
Just a couple of quick things as we're all getting ready to head back to school next week.
Mr. Stegeman
Just a couple of quick things as we're all getting ready to head back to school next week.
- Supplies - Organization is an important skill in any class, but especially one that studies 500 years of history. In order to keep our materials organized, I recommend that you keep notes, homework and handouts in one large (3" or so) three-ring binder with multiple dividers. Because that may become cumbersome to carry back and forth to class every day, it might also help to have a smaller binder or folder (with pockets) for the current unit so you can leave the big one at home. There will be periodic assessments of your notebook. I will distribute a rubric the first week of class.
- Summer Reading - We will begin discussing the summer reading assignment the first week of class, and the essay will be due the second week. Those assignments are posted on Sharepoint, which is accessible through the MPH Intranet Portal, or through this link directly: Summer Reading Assignments
Mr. Stegeman
Week of May 27
Wednesday
- In-class: Reflective exercise
- Due: Film Analysis Essay
- Course Wrap-Up
- end of year celebration
Week of May 20
Monday
- Lecture: Historical Film Analysis
- historical context of 1973 coup in Chile
- Workshop: Missing, pt. 1
- Read: film analysis article packet
- Discussion: Film Analysis
- Workshop: Missing, pt. 2
- Discussion: writing the film analysis essay
- Workshop: Missing, pt. 3 and/or essay writing
Week of May 13
This is the week of the AP exam. Between now and Thursday, try to spend about an hour each night reviewing the course content. Remember it is much better to do this a little at a time than to cram at the last minute. Use your findings from last week's diagnostic test to target areas that need the most attention. Pay particular attention to the "time line of major events" sections in your review book. Hang in there - we've almost made it!!
Tuesday
Tuesday
- Final lecture on Decolonization and the Cold War
- Last-minute review session
- take ten minutes to plan out the sample comparative essay
- we will review this in class and complete a sample change-over-time essay plan
- AP Exam - report to basement of Pebble Hill Church at 7:45 am.
Week of May 6
Monday
- Lecture: The Post-War World
- Workshop: DBQ planning exercise
- Full MC practice test
- Workshop: Change-Over-Time planning
- Due: 1 page review - 19th c. Imperialism
- China, Japan, India, Africa
- Lecture: The World Today
- Workshop: Comparative essay
- Due: 1 page review - 20th century
Week of April 29
Tuesday
- Read: none
- Lecture: WWII
- Workshop: quiz, exam review
- Due: 1 page review (Industrial Revolution: Britain, US, Russia, Latin America)
- Exam 8
**Update on exam short essays:
There will be 4 short essay questions on the exam. You will have to write two; one from each category
Category 1
- Compare the authoritarian regimes of Italy, Germany and Japan in the years preceding WWII.
- Compare the ideologies that were used to justify the slaughter of civilians at Treblinka and during the Rape of Nanking.
- Explain Britain's use of the appeasement policy and how it failed.
- Compare the leadership of three countries involved in WWII, including at least one from each alliance. (Britain, US, Russia - German, Italy, Japan)
Week of April 22
Remember that each day this week you should be prepared with two things: a) bring at least one page of review on one of the major topics of the course, and b) be prepared to take a MC quiz. This week I will start mixing in questions from the major topics listed below for the purpose of review.
Monday
Monday
- Read: Reilly 923-932
- Lecture: WWII
- Discuss: Rise of Nazism
- Due: 1-page review (Age of Exploration)
- Read: Reilly 932-941
- Lecture: WWII
- Discuss: German & Japanese war crimes
- Due: 1-page review (Early Modern Europe)
- Read: Strayer 653-656, 668-675
- Lecture: The Communist World
- Due: 1-page review (Atlantic Revolutions)
Week of April 15
Welcome back from Spring Break. I hope everyone feels rested and rejuvenated. We are about to begin our final push toward the AP exam. As of Sunday, we have 32 days to go. We will discuss our plans for completing the 20th century and exam review on Tuesday.
Tuesday
Tuesday
- Read: none
- Lecture: Fascism in Germany & Japan
- Workshop: planning the AP exam review
- Read: 638-645
- Lecture: Intro to WWII
- Workshop: MC question practice
Week of March 25
Please bring Reilly book to class on Monday and Wednesday. We will fit our discussion of those readings in when we can.
Monday
Monday
- Read: Strayer 633-636; Reilly 908-910
- Lecture: End of WWI; Economic Recovery & Collapse
- Discussion: (maybe)
- Read: Strayer 662-665; Reilly 911-914
- Lecture: Russian Revolution
- Discussion: Rise of Communism and Fascism
- Read: Strayer 636-638
- Lecture: Intro to Fascism
- Workshop: exam prep
Week of March 18
Well we have just about wrapped up the third quarter. Looking to the fourth quarter, the AP exam is only 8 weeks away. You have demonstrated the ability to write well under timed conditions - good job with that. This week we will begin discussing the twentieth century. There is a lot to talk about, and we will also spend some time on review, so get ready to make that final push toward the big test. Pay particular attention to the Reilly readings this week - we will have some class discussions around very important concepts from those readings.
Tuesday
Tuesday
- Read: Strayer 625-632; Reilly 894-898
- Lecture: WWI
- Workshop:
- Multiple-Choice strategies
- Trench Warfare
- Read: Strayer 617-621
- Lecture: WWI
- Discussion: All Quiet on the Western Front
Week of March 11
Wednesday March 14
- Exam 6
- will consist of two AP-style essay questions
- one comparative and one change-over-time
- In-class DBQ
- review parameters of the DBQ to study
- no outside information will be required
- Multiple choice quiz on chapter 19
- 20 minutes - 15 questions
Week of March 4
Tuesday, 3/6
- Read: Strayer 577-585; Conrad 25-50
- Lecture:Ottoman Empire
- Discussion: Heart of Darkness
- Read: Conrad 50-77
- Lecture: Japan
- Discussion: Heart of Darkness
- modified exam on Age of Imperialism
Week of February 26
Welcome back from winter break. We are planning to hit the ground running this week. We'll complete the third quarter with a unit on 19th century imperialism before moving on to the world war era in late-March, early-April. Take notice that the reading load is increasing as we get into Heart of Darkness over the next two weeks.
Monday
Monday
- Read: none
- Lecture/activity: learning styles
- Workshop: conference prep
- Read: Strayer 564-571; Reilly 813-818
- Lecture: British Imperialism in China
- Workshop: discuss Osterhammel
- Due: reflection for conferences
- 3-paragraph, typed response to questions distributed in class Monday (be sure to address your learning styles)
- Read: Strayer 571-577: Conrad 1-25
- Lecture: Europe and the Ottoman Empire
- Workshop: Heart of Darkness
Week of February 12
Tuesday
- Exam 5
- Read: none
- In class:
- Video: Opium Wars
- individual writing conferences
Week of February 5
Monday 2/6
- Read: Strayer 548-554
- Lecture: Industrialization in Latin America
- Homework: add Latin America section to comparative chart
- Read: Strayer 559-564
- Lecture: Industrialization and Imperialism
- Due: Comparative Essay
- Read: none
- Lecture: odds & ends
- Homework: bring mostly-completed review sheet to class
- Workshop: review session
- Exam 5 - Tuesday, Feb. 14
Week of January 29
Tuesday
**Comparative Essay - due next Wednesday**
Analyze similarities and differences between the processes of industrialization in Britain and 2 of the following 3 contexts:
- Read: Strayer 541-548
- Lecture: Industrialization in US
- Due: comparative chart
- compare the processes of industrialization in Britain, the US and Russia
- Read: (monday's assignment optional)
- Lecture: Industrialization in Russia
- Workshop: comp essay workshop
- Homework: score sample comparative essay
**Comparative Essay - due next Wednesday**
Analyze similarities and differences between the processes of industrialization in Britain and 2 of the following 3 contexts:
- United States
- Russia
- Latin America
Week of January 22
Monday
- Read: Strayer 527-533
- Lecture: Intro to Industrial Revolution
- Workshop: Textile Industry film
- Read: Strayer 534-541
- Lecture: Industrialization & Social Change
- Workshop: field trip to Mrs. Salter's room
- Due: 1-2 paragraph reading response
- Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Europe? Why did it happen in Britain?
- Read: Reilly 783-789
- Lecture: Marx's theory of historical change
- Workshop: discuss Reilly reading
- Assign: first quarterly essay
Week of January 15
Tuesday
- Read: Strayer 513-516; 520-523
- Lecture: 19th c. Social Movements
- Workshop: exam review
- please bring completed review sheet to class
- Exam 4
Week of January 8
Tuesday
- Read: Strayer 507-513
- Lecture: Haitian Revolution
- Workshop: DBQ
- Homework: components of DBQ
- identify groups
- write 3 PoV analyses
- suggest additional document
- Read: Strayer 516-520
- Lecture: Spanish American Independence
- Due: DBQ
Week of January 1
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a relaxing break. For the next three weeks we will be working pretty hard to complete a unit on the Atlantic Revolutions. Remember that the second quarter ends January 20th - so we will have a DBQ essay due next week and an exam the week after. Welcome back...
Wednesday
Wednesday
- Read: none
- Lecture: American Independence
- revolution, independence, or civil war?
- Workshop: PoV analysis
- Read: Strayer 499-507
- Lecture: French Revolution
- Due: term ids
- John Locke
- popular sovereignty
- social contract
- Third Estate
- Maximilien Robespierre
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