Monday, November 7, 2011

WH: Unit 3 Syllabus

Reading and Due Dates

World History

Unit 3 Syllabus

Week 1

Monday, November 7 Charlemagne

HW: Read / Take Notes pages 214 -224

Tuesday, November 8 Feudalism & Manorialism

Wednesday, November 9 Feudalism & Manorialism

HW: Ch 7, Sec 3 Summary & pps 231 - 236

Thursday, November 10 Economic Changes in the Middle Ages

HW: Ch 8, Secs 1 & 2 Summaries

DUE: Chapter 7 Study Guide Due

DUE: Honors Paper Group A

Week 2

Monday, November 14 Growth of Royal Power in Middle Ages

HW: Study

Tuesday, November 15 Unit 3 Quiz 1

DUE: What So What Cards

HW: Read / Take Notes pages 304 -309

Wednesday, November 16 Islam

HW: Ch 10, Sec 2 Summary

Thursday, November 17 Islamic Empires

HW: Ch 10, Sec 3 Summary

DUE: Honors Paper Group B

Friday, November 18 Islamic Culture

HW: Read / Take Notes pages 282 -288

DUE: Chapter 10 Study Guide Due

Week 3

Monday, November 21 Byzantine Empire

HW: Study

Tuesday, November 22 Unit 3 Quiz 2

DUE: What So What Cards

DUE: Chapter 9 Study Guide Due

HW: Get Caught Up or Work Ahead

Week 4

Monday, November 28 The Crusades

HW: Read / Take Notes pages 255 - 260

Tuesday, November 29 The Crusades

Wednesday, November 30 Medieval Culture

HW: Read / Take Notes pages 262 - 268

Thursday, December 1 Medieval Culture

HW: Study

DUE: Honors Paper Group C

Friday, December 2 Unit 3 Quiz 3

DUE: What So What Cards

DUE: Chapter 8 Study Guide Due

HW: Read / Take Notes pages 269 -275

Week 5

Monday, December 5 Crisis In The Fourteenth Century

HW: Review 269 -275

Tuesday, December 6 Crisis In The Fourteenth Century

HW: Review 269 -275

Wednesday, December 7 Crisis In The Fourteenth Century

HW: Review 269 -275

Thursday, December 8 Crisis In The Fourteenth Century

HW: Study

DUE: Honors Paper Group D

Friday, December 9 Unit 3 Quiz 4

DUE: What? So What? Cards

HW; Get caught up or work ahead

Week 6

Monday, December 12 Unit 3 Review

HW: Study

Tuesday, December 13 Unit 3 Review

HW: Study

Wednesday, December 14 Unit 3 Review

HW: Study

Thursday, December 15 Unit 3 Test

What? So What?s

Week 1

• Charlemagne

• serf

• feudalism

• papal supremacy

• manorialism

• capital

• vassal

• charter

• fief

• guild

Week 2

• Muhammad

• Abu Bakr

• hijra

• caliph

• Kaaba

• sultan

• hajj

• Justinian

• Quran

• icon

Week 3

• Crusades

• vernacular

• Pope Urban II

• Thomas Aquinas

• Reconquista

• Gothic style

• Inquisition

• Dante Alighieri

• scolasticism

• flying buttresses

Week 4

• Great Famine*

• longbow

• Black Death

• John Wycliffe*

• epidemic

• Jan Hus*

• inflation

• flagellants*

• schism

• peasant revolts*

Honors Paper Topics (see syllabus for your group)

Group A

a1. Explain how the collapse of the western Roman empire lead to a new age in Western Europe.

a2. Compare and contrast the manor economy with the kind of economy that developed in medieval towns during the commercial revolution.

a3. Explain why the pope became a powerful figure in medieval Europe.

Group B

b1. Compare and contrast traditional Bedouin society and the society that formed under Islam.

b2. Describe the split between Sunni and Shiites.

b3. Explain how the Byzantine empire preserved the heritage of the Roman empire.

Group C

c1. Explain how the rise of vernacular literature reflected a change in education and literacy in medieval Europe.

c2. Compare and Contrast the Crusades and the Reconquista.

c3. Describe how changing economic and social conditions led to the emergence of universities and to new philosophy an literature during the high Middle Ages.

Group D

d1. Examine the relationship between trade and the spread of the Black Plague.

d2. Explain the causes and outcomes of the Hundred Years War.

d3. Describe how the changing economic and social conditions, wars, and the growing power of monarchs began to build the framework for the modern nation state.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

WH & APE: Jeff Mangum/Neutral Milk Hotel @ #occupywallst

Great music, live @ The Revolution

Monday, October 3, 2011

AP: "The Twilight of Meaning" by John Michael Greer

"The Twilight of Meaning" by John Michael Greer

This is the piece I discussed in class relative to

From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, by Jacques Barzun.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

AP: Unit II Syllabus

Adavanced Placement European History

Unit II: Conflict and Order: The Rise of the Nation-State

Syllabus

Chapter 15: The Age of Religious Wars and Overseas Expansion

Vocabulary

• Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis

• St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

• politiques

• Huguenots

• Edict of Nantes

• astrolabe

• Union of Utrecht

• Escorial

• Spanish Armada

• bourse

• Protestant Union

• Peace of Westphalia

• magnetic compass

• Golden Century of Spain

• General History of the Indies

• price revolution

• viceroyalties

• quinto

• witch

• baroque

Essay Topics

A. The period from 1450 to 1650 witnessed a profound extension of European society beyond the borders of the Continent. What were the factors that facilitated this expansion? What was the motivation, both for the individual European explorers and the states that supported them?

B. The Reformation and wars of religion that wracked Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries began a process of conflict and negotiation that ultimately resulted in the institutionalization of religious toleration in some European societies. Find and describe specific episodes in the text that point toward a developing notion of religious tolerance.

C. In the last third of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, European diplomacy revolved around the situation in the Low Countries. Why? What was the impact of the revolt of the Netherlands on the Low Countries, Spain, and England? How did the Dutch revolt affect European politics in general?

D. The Thirty Years' War marked a major turning point in European history. What were the political, social, economic, and religious consequences of the conflict?

E. The status of women changed dramatically as a result of the Reformation. In what ways were women affected? How can we explain these changes?

F. The European witch-hunt is one of the most bizarre phenomena of Western history. How do historians explain the witch-hunt? How did this phenomenon reflect European civilization in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

G. The year 1992 marked the quincentenary of Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Americas, an event that has caused much debate about the impact of Columbus. What are the facts about the role of Columbus in the European incursion into the Americas? How do historians interpret his role? Was Columbus a typical European explorer? In what ways do his own words, presented in “Listening to the Past,” help us to understand Columbus?

H. What was the purpose of Columbus's letter describing his first voyage to the Americas, presented in “Listening to the Past”? How does the letter's content serve its purpose?

Chapter 16: Absolutism and Constitutionalism in Western Europe (ca 1589-1715)

Vocabulary

• sovereignty

• absolutism

• totalitarianism

• raison d'état

• Fronde

• mercantilism

• French classicism

• Peace of Utrecht

• Don Quixote

• constitutionalism

• Puritans

• republican government

• cabinet system

• Second Treatise of Civil Government

• States General

• stadholder

• Dutch East India Company

Essay Topics

A Explain what is meant by the term mercantilism and provide historical examples of mercantilist policies based on this chapter.

B. In the seventeenth century, the Spanish monarchy crumbled. Why?

C. Despite the evolution of a strong, centralized, monarchical system of government, France still experienced periods of civil unrest and war. Describe these periods. How can we explain the discrete occurrences? Is there an overarching reason for why France continued to experience civil unrest?

D. The seventeenth century is often called “the Golden Age of the Netherlands.” What was the basis of Dutch success in this century? What caused the decline of the Netherlands?

E. Seventeenth century France has been called the model of royal absolutism. How did the French crown create an absolutist state out of the anarchy of the civilreligious wars of the last half of the sixteenth century? How absolutist was the French monarchy?

F. In the seventeenth century England displayed little political stability, yet by the end of the century England had laid the foundations for constitutional monarchy. What were the political, social, economic, and religious factors and events that led ultimately to the Glorious Revolution?

Chapter 17: Absolutism in Eastern Europe to 1740

Vocabulary

• serfdom

• absolutism

• elector of Brandenburg

• Junkers

• Eastern Orthodoxy

• boyar nobility

• autocracy

• baroque

• Mongol Yoke

• hereditary subjugation

• Bohemian Estates

• sultan

• Pragmatic Sanction

• Cossacks

• service nobility

• millet system

Essay Topics

A. While the monarchs of central and eastern Europe tried to imitate Louis XIV's absolutism, they were forced to modify the French model. How and why did this modification take place? How successful was this modification?

B. Trace the development of absolutism in Austria and Prussia. What factors influenced the development of each state? What were the similarities and differences in the development of absolutism in these two states? Which state created stronger and more efficient absolutism, and why?

C. Absolutism in eastern Europe was built in large part on the social and economic structures that had emerged by the seventeenth century. What were these structures, and how did their evolution affect the development of absolutism in eastern Europe?

D. Waræwhether civil, international, or bothæor the threat of war is critical to the emergence and development of absolutism.” Assess the validity of this quotation in relationship to the history of absolutism in Austria, Prussia, and Russia.

E. “Peter the Great's reforms were driven primarily by military exigencies, not by any special attachment to the culture of western Europe.” Make an argument for this statement based on evidence provided in the text.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

WH & APE: 11 Charts - Inequality in America

It's the Inequality, Stupid

Thursday, September 8, 2011

WH: Unit 1 Syllabus

NOTE: Unit 1 Quiz 1 Tomorrow, What So What Index Cards are a "ticket assignment" which means that the student's grade on the quiz is a zero until the W/SW cards are turned in and complete.

World History

Unit I Syllabus

Week 1

Tuesday, September 6 Periodization & The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution Intro: “Guns, Germs, and Steel”

HW: Read / Take Notes pages 4 - 15

Wednesday, September 7 The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution: Women and the Origins of Patriarchy

HW: Read / Take Notes on handout & pages 17 – 23 in textbook.

Thursday, September 8 Characteristics of Civilization

HW; Study for Quiz and complete What? So What? Cards

Friday, September 9 Unit 1 Quiz 1

DUE: What? So What? Cards

HW; Get caught up or work ahead

Week 1 What? So What?

• historian • archaeology • animism • surplus • civilization

• anthropology • nomad • Neolithic Revolution • traditional economy • polytheistic

Week 2

Monday, September 12 Four River Valley Civilizations

HW: Read / Take Notes pages 30 - 43

Tuesday, September 13 Ancient Sumer and Mesopotamian Empires

HW: Read / Take Notes pages 44 - 56

Wednesday, September 14 Egyptian Civilization

HW: Review and works on WSW Cards

Thursday, September 15 Comparative Study: Mesopotamia and Egypt

HW; Study for Quiz and complete What? So What? Cards

Friday, September 16 Unit 1 Quiz 2

DUE: What? So What? Cards

HW; Get caught up or work ahead

Week 2 What? So What?

• Mesopotamia • Sumer • Hammurabi • Nebuchadnezzar • Zoroaster

• hierarchy • cuneiform • civil law • barter economy • colony

Week 3

Monday, September 19 Early India

HW: Read / Take Notes pages 68 -91

Tuesday, September 20 Belief Systems Born in India: Hinduism & Buddhism

HW: Read / Take Notes pages 92 - 100

Wednesday, September 21 Ancient China: The Mandate of Heaven

HW: Read / Take Notes pages 101 - 107

Thursday, September 22 Ancient China: Confucianism and Legalism

HW; Study for Quiz and complete What? So What? Cards

Friday, September 23 Unit 1 Quiz 3

DUE: What? So What? Cards

HW; Get caught up or work ahead

Week 3 What? So What?

• Harrapa • Brahman • reincarnation • Asoka • Laozi • Shi Huangdi

• Vedas • atman • dynastic cycle • filial piety • warlord • Siddhartha Gautama

Week 4

Monday, September 26 Ancient China: The Han Dynasty

HW; Study for Test

Tuesday, September 27 Review

HW; Study for Test

Wednesday, September 28 Review

HW; Study for Test

Thursday, September 29 Unit I Test

Saturday, August 27, 2011

WH: Foundations Syllabus & Required Materials

World History

Teacher: Aaron D. Ward

Telephone: (919) 560-3926

e-mail: aaron.ward@dpsnc.net

web: howirememberit-ward.blogspot.com

Availability: Tuesdays & Thursdays 4 – 5 PM or by appointment. (Subject to change.)

Required Materials

Supplies such as paper, pens and pencils have a tendency to run out. Please be sure that you child has their own supply of the materials each day.

History Journal: A single subject spiral notebook or composition book.

Three-Ring Binder: Used for handouts, loose-leaf notebook paper, and graded assignments.

College Ruled Paper: More lines per page. Used for non-History Journal writing assignments.

Blue/Black Pens: Other colors not appropriate for high school work.

#2 Pencils: Used for bubble tests.

Colored Pencils/Pens: Used for mapping and other activities.

Foundations

August 25 - September 2

This will be a slow week so as to allow you to learn the class procedures, systems, and foundational material for studying World History. When we start Unit I the pace and work load will quickly rise to the high school level.

Thursday, August 25

Welcome to World History

Course Procedures

Friday, August 26

Where Are We Now?: A Demographic Survey

Monday, August 29

Mapping The Globe

HW: Complete your map

Tuesday, August 30

The History Journal

- Warm Up

- Point of View Writing

HW: Complete a POV writing based on in class study.

Wednesday, August 31

Analyzing Primary and Secondary Source Documents

HW: Complete 3, 2, 1 Document Analysis

Thursday, September 1

Important Vocabulary: What? So What Index Cards

HW: Complete W/SW Cards & Study for Foundations Quiz

Friday, September 2

Foundations Quiz

Enrichment Reading

What? So What?

• artifact

• culture

• economy

• latitude

• communication

• primary source

• technology

• patriarchal

• longitude

• means of production

APE: UNIT I Syllabus

Advanced Placement European History

Unit Syllabus

Suggested Reading Schedule Posted in Classroom

Due Dates;

September 2, Chapter 12 Essay

September 9, Chapter 13 Essay

September 16, Chapter 14 Essay

September 27, Unit I Test

Quizzes given and taken as needed.

I: Crisis and Renewa
l: A Civilization is Born

Chapter 12: The Crisis of the Later Middle Ages

Key Terms
• Great Famine

• representative assemblies • merchet
• Black Death • nationalism • banns

• buba • Babylonian Captivity • Jacquerie

• flagellants • schism • racism

• Crécy • conciliarists • Dalimil Chronicle

• Agincourt • Statute of Kilkenny • peasant revolts

• Joan of Arc

Essay Topics

A. Defend or Refute: The Black Death of the fourteenth century a crucial turning point in European history?

B. Discuss the outbreak of popular uprisings all across Europe during the fourteenth century, their causes, goals of the rebels, tactics use by all sides, and extent of their success of the uprisings.

C. Examine the immediate political, social, and economic results and the long term implications of the Hundred Years' War on for both England and France?

D. Explain the problems of the papacy, exemplified by the Babylonian Captivity, the rise to the conciliar movement and how it contributed to schism in the church. What were the consequences ⎯ religious, social, and political ⎯ of this crisis in the Christian church?

E. The later Middle Ages witnessed a transformation on the frontiers of Europe, a transformation that was caused by the great surge in migration and colonization from England, Germany, and France. Describe the changes resulting from this colonization of frontier regions. What was the primary cause of these changes, and what were the consequences?

Chapter 13: European Society in the Age of the Renaissance

Key Terms

• Renaissance • princely courts • Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges

• communes • The Prince • royal council

• popolo • humanism • court of the Star Chamber

• signori • secularism • justices of the peace

• oligarchies • individualism • New Christians

• republic • gabelle • hermandades

Essay Topics

A. How did anti-Semitism in Spain contribute to the development of modern theories of race?

B. The Italian city-states developed a theory and practical forms of international politics that would eventually be adopted by the great powers of Europe ⎯ the balance of power. Describe the basic tenets of this system of international relations and assess why that system was able to preserve the independence of the Italian city-states. What were the major deficiencies of the system, and what was the impact on the Italian city states?

C. In what ways do Machiavelli's The Prince, Castiglione's The Courtier, and Alberti's “Self-Portrait of a Universal Man” echo the fundamental principles of the Italian Renaissance? Choose one of the three and explain how that work would have been used by a Renaissance person to provide guidance.

D. In many ways the Renaissance was primarily an artistic movement. Describe Renaissance art including its themes and techniques, how were artists trained, the status of the artist in society, their audience, and how Renaissance art reflected the changing attitudes and interests of Europeans?

E. Discuss the status of women, both upper-class and common, and what it reveals about Renaissance during this period.

F. Discuss the formation of the modern Spanish state under Ferdinand and Isabella and how its experience resembled, yet differed from that of of England and France and the historical implications of this development.

Chapter 14: Reform and Renewal in the Christian Church

Key Terms

• pluralism • consubstantiation • Anabaptists

• The Imitation of Christ • Lord's Supper • Book of Common Prayer

• ecumenical council • preacherships • Elizabethan Settlement

• indulgence • peasant revolts • Jesuits

• Diet of Worms • Institutes of the Christian Religion • Holy Office

• Protestant • predestination • sola scriptura

• transubstantiation

Essay Topics

A. Explain why Luther's challenge to the sale of indulgences sparked such a startling revolution in European history in light of previous uprisings against the Church?

B. Discuss the political, social, and economic consequences of the Reformation and the affect it had on women?

C. How did the established Christian church, headquartered in Rome, respond to the challenge presented by Luther and subsequent Protestant reformers?

D. Explain the political motivations for European rulers to join the Protestant Reformation, providing specific examples of the links between politics and the Reform movement.

E. Examine the English Reformation was an act of state, initiated by the king's emotional life, as well as by dynastic and political concerns, the accuracy of is this assessment, and the long-term consequences of the Reformation in England?