Agenda Week of Sept. 15th-19th

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Part 2-  The Classical era in World History

500 B.C.E.-500 C.E.

Chapter 4-  Eurasian Empires

Week at a Glance:

Monday-  Big Picture...Changes and continuities & Chapter 4 Reading Quiz

Tuesday-  Greece and Persia

Wednesday-  Primary Source Exploration (SOPASTone)

Thursday-  Imperial Rome & Han China

Friday-  Rome & China cont...Mauryan Gupta India

Learning Targets:

• Consider the nature of imperial systems in the classical era
• Explore why empires developed in some regions but not others
• Explain the important similarities and differences between imperial systems and the reasons behind them

Essential Questions:

1. What common features can you identify in the empires described in this chapter?
2. In what ways did these empires differ from one another?  What accounts for those differences?
3. How did Persian and Greek civilizations differ in their political organization and values?
4. Why did semi-democratic governments emerge in some of the Greek city-states?  
5. What were the consequences for both sides of the encounter between the Persians and the Greeks?
6. What changes did Alexanders conquests bring in their wake?
7. How did Rome grow from a single city to the center of a huge empire?
8. How and why did the making of the Chinese empire differ from that of the Roman Empire?
9. In comparing the Roman and Chinese Empires, which do you find more striking- their similarities or differences?
10. How did the collapse of empire play out differently in the Roman world and in China?
11. Why were centralized empires so much less prominent in India than in China?

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 15th-17th, 2014

Quote of the Day:  "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."  -Pericles

Agenda:  

1. Do now questions:  What are some changes and continuities going from period 1 to period 2?
2. Chapter 4 Reading Quiz
3. Notes Chapter 4 "Comparing Empires"
4. Comparing Athens and Sparta
5. Primary Source Investigation- Pericles "Funeral Oration"  
1. SOAPSTone 
2. Utilize citation from document to support one of the characteristics of Classical Empires
3. Complete SOAPSTone for remaining documents 

Crash Course- Greeks and Persians

Lost Worlds- Persopolis

Battle of Thermopylae

Crash Course Alexander the Great

Thursday, September 18th, 2014

Quote of the Day: 
"Veni, vidi, vici." - "I came, I saw, I conquered".  It seems a bit like bragging, spoken by Gaius Julius Caesar

"Nos morituri te salutant!"  -  "We, who are about to die, salute you".  Used by gladiators about to enter battle when speaking to the Roman emperor. 

Agenda:

1.  Do Now Question:  How did Rome grow from a single city to the center of a huge empire? 

2.  Notes- Roman Republic / Rome & China Empires Compared

3.  Group activity- 

 Making of the empire/Similarities/Differences/Collapse

-Vocabulary use...

• Caesar Augustus
• Han Dynasty
• Mandate of Heaven
• patricians
• pax romana
• plebeians
• Punic Wars
• Qin Dynasty
• Qin Shihuangdi
• Wudi
• Xiongnu
• Yellow Turban Rebellion

Friday, September 19th, 2013

Quote of the Day:  
"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."
Marcus Aurelius 

Agenda:

1.  Do NOW question...reform your group, BUT before continuing work, write up a characteristic for Mauryan empire and Gupta empire and explain why empires were so much less prominent in India.    
2.Complete Empire rise/fall/comparison of Rome & China

4.  Analyze commonalities of Classical Era civilizations. (GPERSIA)

Agenda: Week of September 8th-12th

Monday, September 8th, 2014

Quote of the Day:  "Chance favors the prepared mind."

Targets:  

1.  Understand the spread of human societies in the Paleolithic era
2.  Describe the conditions of life in gathering and hunting societies
3.  Analyze factors that eventually led to change in the gathering and hunting societies

Essential Questions:  

• What is the significance of the Paleolithic Era in world history?
• In what ways did various Paleolithic societies differ from one another, and how did they change over time?
• How does our place in history influence how we might view Paleolithic societies?

Agenda:

1. Discuss note taking strategies for WHAP
2. Address Big Picture Questions for Chapter One
3. Watch Crash Course: Agricultural Revolution

Tuesday, September 9th, 2014

Quote of the Day:    "Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?"  -Jared Diamond

Targets:  
1.  Understand how, when and where agriculture evolved independently in the several regions of the world.
2.  Trace the development of agriculture and its local variations.
3.  Speculate as to the social implications of the Agricultural Revolution.  

Essential Questions:  

• What evidence is there for and against the Agricultural Revolution as a major turning point in world history?
• Assess the validity of the following statement..."The Agricultural Revolution provides evidence for 'progress' in human affairs."  

Agenda:

1. Go over Big picture questions in groups.
2. Go over notes and vocab.  
3. Go over notes and tie to Jared Diamond "Out of Eden" 
1. 1. What is Diamond’s “Thesis”?
   2. What are the 3 major elements that separate the world’s “haves” from the “have nots” according to Diamond?
   3. What is Diamond’s theory about huge discrepancies among different countries. Explain the theory & give several examples from the film to support your answer.
   4. For 1000s of years, people have been cultivating crops. Describe the process used to domesticate crops & create plants that yielded bigger, tastier harvests.
   5. How did the domestication of animals help people?

Wednesday, September 10th, 2014

Quote of the Day:    

Targets:  
1.  Understand the relationship between the First Civilizations and the Agricultural Revolution
2.  Contrast civilizations with other forms of human communities
3.  Analyze how, when and where the First Civilizations arose in human history
4.  Explain how the emergence of civilizations transformed how humans lived and how their societies were structured
5.  Contrast the various ways in which civilizations differed from one another.
6.  Evaluate the emergence of the First Civilizations.  

Essential Questions:  

• What distinguished civilizations from other forms of human community?
• Assess the validity of the following statement..."Civilizations were held together largely by force."  
• In the development of the First Civilizations, what was gained for humankind, and what was lost?

Agenda:

1. Go over Big picture questions in groups.
2. Go over notes and vocab. 
3. Compare first wave civilizations.

Thurday, September 11th, 2014

Quote of the Day:  "I've failed over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed."  -Michael Jordan

Agenda:

1. Review of AP concepts
2. Review of terms
3. Review of Chapter questions 

Friday, September 12th, 2014

Quote of the Day:  "Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."  -Martha Graham

UNIT ONE TEST!!!