ASSIGNMENTS:

Week Aug.18-22

Open of School
Review Syllabus
Look at websites and resources\
College Board Website
weather days 8/20-22- Tropical Storm Faye

Week of Aug. 25-29

Ch. 1- Prehistory
Preview textbook
Ch.1- Warm Up questions p. 5-6
Seat work:
Draw the geographic features of the earth from memory and see how many locations and places you can locate and identify, you will have 15 minutes.

Ch. 1 notes, discussion and Q and A.
(cultivate,agriculture, domestication,surplus,irrigation,barter and trade,specialization,monuments,religion)
DBQ, vocabulary development
Assessment:
Quiz- syllabus
Ch. 1 Quiz

We will use the following web sites for Ch. resources.
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/index.html
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/hammurabi.html
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/index.htm
http://www.confucius.org/main01.htm
http://www.confucius.org/lunyu/edcommon.htm
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/PERICLES.HTM
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html (Gospel of St Thomas)


Week of Sept. 2-5
Chapter 2- New civilizations in the Eastern and Western Hemisphere
Read Chapter,vocabulary development, DBQ
http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/chinese/artwar.html
http://www.archaeology.org/9803/abstracts/china.html

AP WORLD WEB SITES:
http://www.advancedplacementhistory.com/apworld.html
http://www.mrburnett.net/apworldhistory/APWorldHistory.htm
http://worldjourney.net/phs/id1.html
http://home.comcast.net/~mruland/WHAP/index.htm
http://home.comcast.net/~mruland/WHAP/index.htm
Socratic Seminars


Week of Sept. 8-12: Sept. 10 Early Release Day Week of Sept. 15-19

Week of Sept. 29- Oct Chapter 5-An Age of Empires: Rome and Han China


WARM UP:
Short Answer Questions
1.How did family relations create pervasive social cohesion in both Rome and Han China?
2.Compare and Contrast the cities of Rome and Chang’an.
3.Discuss the career of Paul and the development of the Christian church.
4.Discuss the role that nomadic peoples played in the history of both Rome and China. How did the settled peoples view the nomadic peoples? In what ways were they dependent on each other. v


Lecture topics: v How Christianity in Rome and Confucianism in China helped define their respective cultures and shape the destinies of these empires. v How two great empires at opposite ends of the Eurasian continent could develop similar social attributes in answer to similar environmental and political challenges. v How the Silk Road promoted trade of goods and ideas between the two empires through intermediaries but never linked their peoples directly. v What factors may have contributed to the fall of Rome and Han China, and what factors may have allowed China to continue as a cohesive cultural system, while Rome eventually evolved into a collection of discrete states.

TEST Essays: Due Thursday Oct. 9 - Answer ALL parts of the question and cite your references.

Compare and Contrast the role and status of women in Han China and Rome. How did women’s situation there compare with that in China during earlier times and with the situation of Mediterranean women?

Discuss the importance of trade to Rome and China. Who were their trading partners, and what was traded? How vital was trade to the economy of each empire? How did each empire view trade?


Compare and contrast the role of the individual in Rome and Han China. How did the individual function in the family? How did the view of the individual affect society?

Test Thurs A and Friday B day on Ch. 5 and Essays.