Week Oct. 24th-28th

...short on time at the moment...I'll be back with more, but for now wanted to post homework reminder and ask how people are doing on essay preparation...

Week 8 (10/24-10/28)

Monday   Tang and Song China      12.1                           

Tuesday  Mongols (376-379)          12.2               

Wednesday    Feudal Japan            12.4

Thursday        Southeast Asia          12.5               

Friday         Connections and Review

World History Week of 10/17-21

...some more reminders and tips for the week...


Quiz Schedule(click section number for online practice quiz)

Monday                           Monarchy in Europe              8.1, 8.2                  

Tuesday                          Crusades                                8.3

Wednesday                    Feudalism                               8.4      

Thursday                         The End of Feudalism           8.5                  

Friday                              The Byzantine Empire           9.1

(Students expressed an interest in using Twitter to receive HW reminders...done...follow Rorz7)

This week I found that, while quiz scores remain consistent, some WH students are trying new things....rethinking how they learn and take notes. This is GREAT! Let me know what works so I can share with others who may need help. Some students are also using social networking to help others in WH...one of the FB groups out there is "Mr. Callendar's 5th Hour".

Context
For this week, here are a few connections/comparisons that are easy to make.
Middle East and Islam and Western Europe and Christianity: Both of these regions and culture groups experienced population growth during the postclassical era. This can sometimes be traced back to agricultural advancements for both. For the growing Islamic Empire, new techniques in irrigation brought water to new areas where new populations could grow. In Western Europe, crop rotation, new plows and horses pulling those plows instead of oxen contributed to an agricultural revolution. This along with a warming climate helped Europe's growing population to triple from 1000-1300.

Concerning religion and politics, Western Europe and the Islamic Empire both, at times, had blurred distinctions between church and state if any distinction could be made at all. The growing Islamic Empire was governed by Sharia law, meaning that clergy interpreted and enforced the law (from the Quran). In Western Europe the authority to govern shifted from secular rulers (kings, queens, etc) to the church (pope, bishops, priests, etc.). Ultimately the Pope would claim papal supremacy, or rule over everything, even secular rulers. During the postclassical era the Middle East and Western Europe *seemed* to be at odds with each other although the approach to governing through religion was a common theme.

These are the types of connections, that are useful when preparing for essay #2. If you decide to build on these ideas in your essay #2, please use your own words and include some of your own original ideas.

Conferences Thank you for attending students and parents. It was my honor to meet you. Contact me anytime with any questions. callendr@ghaps.org

World History ...week of 9-14 of Oct...

Hiya,

Here are a few important reminders and insights for the week.

Context: Just so we're all on the same page, let me provide some context for where we've been and where we're going this week in World History. We've discussed early civilizations and how they began (Unit 1). Then we talked about how they grew to be the classical civilizations (Unit 1, too), where we find things back then that still shape today. For example, Rome and Greece and their democratic stylings influence the West a lot today. The polytheistic nature of Hinduism and the caste system largely affect many things today in India. And Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism are recognizable today in China in many areas of life. 

OK...so now what?! After we discuss the development of classical civilizations, we need to move on to how the connections between those civilization grow and spread (see essay #1...what causes civilization to become more connected? Nomads, trade or religion?). Last week, we jumped right away into Islam the youngest of the 5 major religions we've discussed so far. From there, we will looked at how it spread as far as Spain in the West and India in the East. Next we will shed some light on the Dark Ages and Medieval Life in Europe.

Week 7, we'll hit Europe some more and then we'll go to Asia in week 8 where we'll read about Tang and Song China, Mongols, Feudal Japan and Southeast Asia. Week 9, Tuesday = Test!

Quizzes: Please pay attention to detail while taking your quizzes. I saw a few simple things that are easy to fix...for example, one question on quiz 10.4 asked to give specific examples for Muslim achievements and many students responded with pretty broad answers (mathematics instead of decimal system, literature instead of The Thousand and One Nights). 

Quizzes: If you are taking more than 20-30 minutes to take notes over a section, try a different approach. One we look at it that might be helpful --- If you can answer the big question found in your outline using the vocab. found in your outline, you're probably ready for passing the quiz the next day.

Essays: Please think ahead. Consider writing a draft. The earlier you get a draft to me the more I can give feedback that will be of use to you. Here are the two essay questions as a reminder...

1. During this period, societies throughout the world became more connected.  Was this due mostly to religion, nomads, or trade?
2. Compare and contrast any two postclassical civilizations (East Asia, India, Middle East, Africa, Europe, Americas) in any two of the following areas (Politics, Economics, Religion, Society, Intellectual Development, Artistic Development: 

Reading:

The quiz schedule for the week is...

Monday - Quiz 11.3 (online practice quiz)

Tuesday - Quiz 11.4 (online practice quiz)

Wednesday - Conferences

Thursday - 7.1 and 7.2 (online practice quiz 7.1, online practice quiz 7.2)

Friday - 7.3 and 7.4 (online practice quiz 7.3, online practice quiz 7.4)

Hope this helps...as always I take criticism (and kudos) well...so send any to callendr@ghaps.org

Welcome

Here are some resources for World History students. To the right are links to things like crossword puzzles, one page summaries, timelines and more. Two REALLY IMPORTANT items in the list of links to the right are your first two outlines...Unit 1 Outline and Unit 2 Outline.

The Unit Outlines are really important because they help students focus on what is important from day to day as well as over the entire unit.

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to do

update outlines
gather links
-one page summaries
-online quizzes
-online book instructions
-essay help
--portenga's stuff
--my stuff
--other
-youtube videos
-twitter info
-facebook group links