AP World Homework:
date assigned: 4/7
assignment: read handout-background to the Suez Crisis of 1956 and pgs. 664-665 (Israel/Palestine after WWI) and pgs. 727-729 (Israel/Palestine after WWII) in your textbook
due: next class. This is background info for your DBQ-to be assigned next class
date assigned: 2/11
assignment: read handout Culture and Politics in the Early Modern Centuries-be prepared to discuss. Pay particular attention to political and cultural changes and reason for these changes (sort of like a CCOT essay)
due: next class
date assigned: 2/7
assignment: reading "Capitalism and Science" from A People's History of Science. Prepare 2 discussion questions with answers for next class-this should be in writing (to be collected). We will formally begin Unit 4: 1750-1914 next class.
due: next class (2/11)
date assigned: 2/1
assignment: coffee house trial-FEBRUARY 7 @ Che's Lounge (B period). ALSO, your CCOT essay outlines on labor/leisure-don't forget
due: next class
date assigned: 1/10
assignment: Change-Over-Time (COT) practice outline. THIS IS NOT AN ESSAY. However, it is a chance for you to get a feel for how the COT is structured. You already have the COT writing guidelines and the Indian Ocean change over time grid.
due: next class
date assigned: 1/2
assignment: in-class research on empires (due 1/8). At home begin reading chs. 18, 21 and 22 (Russia, Muslim World, Asian Markets, respectively) out of your textbook. Be prepareed to discuss these chapters on Thursday (1/10).
date assigned: 12/4
assignment: study for your unit test (600 CE-1450 CE) which is next class-format is multiple choice The essay portion will be take home.
date assigned: 11/26
assignment: a RIDICULOUS amount of reading on the Mongols and their impact on global history. This reading is in preparation for our debate (MONGOLS: Contribution or Catastrophe to world history?). See me if you need it. You can at least begin with ch. 14 in your textbook (pg. 302-323). There's also some information in your Reilly book (blue book). You may want to check out your atlas
due: next class
date assigned: 11/2
assignment: tons of reading. From the blue Reilly book, read Bentley's essay The Spread of World Religions (p. 224)+ questions (on handout). Also, there are two additional handouts to read. One on merchants and trade (Muslim, Chinese and European views) and one reading called Violence and Vengeance: Religion and the State. ALL READINGS HAVE QUESTIONS. Be prepared to discuss the reading questions as well as discuss the relationship among trade, religion and government.
due: next class
date assigned: 10/29
assignment: handout Love and Devotion: Chivalry and Sexuality. Come up with 2 discussion questions (and answers) for...well...discussion (much like the inner-outer circle, but less formal.
due: next class
assignment: text reading (handout)-Commerce, 1000 BCE-500 CE and ch. 7 Networks of Communication and Exchange, 300 BCE-600 CE. This will provide background information on the themes of movement (human, animal, commercial) & connection. Please look over the guidelines for the power point project you'll be creating next week (they'll be due on Wed).
Potential Topics:
The Silk Road
Indian Ocean Maritime Trade
Saharan and sub-Saharan Trade
The Spread of Buddhism
The Spread of Christianity
Human Migration: Germanic, Bantu, Polynesian
or one of your choosing from the reading
date due: reading due next class-presentations due next Wed (10/17)
date assigned: 9/28
assignment: reading from
Reilly (blue book)-ch. 4 China and Rome (p. 108)
Stearns (textbook)- Part II, ch. 2 Classical China (p. 32) and part II, ch. 4 Classical Mediterranean Civilizations (p. 76)
handout- ch. 8 War and Society in Classical Rome and China
due: Thursday, Oct. 4
date assigned: 9/26
assignment: reading "City and State: the Indo-European Tradition" from Reilly The West and the World. Focus on this question: how does form fit function in the Classical city? In other words, how does a city's purpose dictate its shape and layout? Be prepared to discuss in class
date due: next class
date assigned-9/12
assignment: read pgs. 19-39 from The History of the World in Six Glasses (handout in class). Be prepared to discuss the following:
•transition from Paleolithic to Neolithic
•development of agriculture
• transition from settlements ---> villages ---> cities
•what is "civilization"?
due: next class