Week of April 30, 2012

We will be in the IMC on Monday and Tuesday working on the research paper.  Your list 50 facts on your individual is due by Thursday.
Make sure you focus on the background, accomplishments/obstacles, impact, and legacy of the individual. 

Honors reading on Syphilis is due on Tuesday.

Due on Friday
18(1) On the Eve of Revolution (572-577).
Identify the terms, people, and places listed on page 572.
Look at the Witness History pn page 572. What led to the storming of the Bastille (July 14, 1789)?Answer question #1 on page 573.
Answer Critically Thinking questions #1+2 on page 574.
Read the Primary Source on page 575, why did the poor attack the nobles' homes?
Answer the 4 Checkpoint questions in the section OR questions #3-5 on page 577.

Due next Monday:

18(2) The French Revolution Unfolds (577-583)
Identify the terms, people, and places.
Read Parisian woman storm Versailles, who did the women want to kill?
Read French reaction to Am. Rev (579). What two men had great influences on both revolutions?
Read the caption on page 580, why did the starving French women resent Marie Antionette?
Read the Analyzing Political Cartoons (582). What rodent represents the French Revolution? Why did the other European royals fear the French Revolution?
Look at the sans-culotte (583), why isn't the man wearing knee high stockings?
Answer the four checkpoint questions OR questions #3-5 on page 583

Week of April 23, 2012

The end of the year will be here before we know it.  Keep up with the homework.
Current event week 4(2) due on Friday.
Honors Reading on Syphilis is due next Tuesday:  15 facts, 3 Q+ A, 1 insight, and reaction

Due Tuesday

15(5) Effects of Global Contact (491-495)
Identify the terms, people, and places listed on page 491.
Read the "Uniting the World" reading on page 491.
What did Adam Smith say were the two greatest and most important events in world history?
Why were they so important?
Look at the picture on 492. What two sources do the Spanish credit their victory in the new world? Read tulipmaina? Where and why did it occur and what year did it crash?
Read Comparing viewpoints on page 494. What was the cause of the trade war?
Answer questions #4-6 on page 495 or the 3 checkpoint questions.

Due Thursday

17(1) Philosophy in the Age of Reason (544-548)
Identify the terms, people and places listed on page 544.
Read page 543. How did Enlightenment thinkers think they could fix the problems of society? What did Rousseau (witness history p.544) think people should do in order to be free?
Look at the picture on 545, how is Hobbes's ruler pictured? Why?
Read the biographies on page 546. What did Voltaire attack in his writings? What did Montesquieu think was necessary to protect liberty?
Look at the picture on 548. What resource do investors provide :human, natural, or capital?
Answer the four checkpoint questions OR questions #2-5 on page 548.

Separate Homework Grade:
Read the Primary Source : John Locke on page 549.  Answer questions #1+2.

Due Friday
17(2) Enlightenment Ideas Spread (550-555)
Read the Witness History (550) What does reason, tolerance, and love overcome in the Magic Flute?
Look at the picture on 551, why did writers hide their feelings in satire?
Read the infographic(552-3), how does Rococo Art differ from Baroque Art?
Who are the three enlightened despots pictured on page 554?
Read about Operas on page 556, answer question #1.
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR question #3-6 on page585.

Week of April 9, 2012

Due Thursday:

Read 15(3)Struggle for North America (482-486)
Identify the terms, people, and places listed on page 482.
Read A piece of the past on page 482. What was discovered in a newly plowed field in 1867? Read the biography on page 483. What was Jacques Cartier sent to find by the French king? Look at the picture on page 484, what were English settlers promised in Virginia? Why do you think John Smith in Jamestown later said "those who do not work do not eat."
Read page 485, answer map skills questions #2+3.
Answer Comprehension questions #3-6 on page 486 OR 3 checkpoint questions.

15(4) The Atlantic Slave Trade (487-490).
Identify the terms, people, and places listed on page 487.
What are the two pictures on page 487? Draw one of them.
Read page 488. What was Ottobah Cugoano traded for?
Answer the Thinking Critically questions #1+2 on page 489.
What is the dilemma/tradeoff that William Cowper writes about on page 490?
Look at the triangular trade routes (489) why could it be called the quadrangle trade?
Answer Comprehension and Critical Thinking questions #3-5 on page 490 OR the 3 checkpoint questions.

Homework due Tuesday after vacation (April 24)
15(5) Effects of Global Contact (491-495)
Identify the terms, people, and places listed on page 491.
Read the "Uniting the World" reading on page 491.
What did Adam Smith say were the two greatest and most important events in world history?
Why were they so important?
Look at the picture on 492. What two sources do the Spanish credit their victory in the new world? Read tulipmaina? Where and why did it occur and what year did it crash?
Read Comparing viewpoints on page 494. What was the cause of the trade war?
Answer questions #4-6 on page 495 or the 3 checkpoint questions.

Honors Class Chapter 5 Rum reading due on Friday.

Research paper

100 Most Influential People in the last 1000 years:
What defines greatness?   Some argue it is the person's accomplishments, impact, and legacy. 
When you write the research paper you will focus on
     Background of the individual, not just birthdate and family, what was life like?
     Accomplishment(s) what did the person do to change his/her world?
     Impact-what was the impact of their accomplishment on the world?
     Legacy- how did this person change the world? What was the reaction?  Focus on PERSIA EMT,
           there must be some change in the political, economic, religious,social, intellectual, artistic or
           enviroment, military or technology of the time that impacts the world today.
Here is a list of 100 most influential people of the last 1000 years from Time Magazine.  This list is not exclusive, but you must have approval to choose someone off the list.

(List Courtesy of Time Magazine)
1) Johan Gutenberg, 1400-1468
2) Isaac Newton, 1642-1727
3) Martin Luther, 1483-1546
4) Charles Darwin, 1809-1882
5) William Shakespeare, 1564-1616
6) Christopher Columbus, 1451-1506
7) Karl Marx, 1818-1883
8) Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
9) Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473-1543
10) Galileo Galiei, 1564-1642
11) Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452-1519
12) Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939
13) Louis Pasteur, 1822-1895
14) Thomas Edison, 1847-1931
15) Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
16) Adolph Hitler, 1889-1945
17) Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948
18) John Locke, 1632-1704
19) Michelangelo, 1475-1564
20) Adam Smith, 1723-1790
21) George Washington 1723-1799
22) Genghis Khan 1162-1227
23) Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865
24) Saint Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
25) James Watt 1736-1819
26) W. A. Mozart 1756-1791
27) Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821
28) J. S. Bach 1685-1750
29) Henry Ford 1863-1947
30) Ludwig Van Beethoven 1770-1827
31) James Watson 1928 & Francis Crick 1916
32) Rene Descartes 1596-1650
33) Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968
34) Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778
35) Valdimir Lenin 1870-1924
36) Alexander Fleming 1881-1955
37) Voltaire 1694-1778
38) Francis Bacon 1561-1626
39) Dante Aligheri 1265-1321
40) Wilbur 1867-1912 &
Orville 1871-1948 Wright
41) Bill Gates 1955-
42) Gregor Mendel 1822-1884
43) Mao Zedong 1893-1976
44) Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922
45) William The Conqueror 1027-1087
46) Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527
47) Charles Babbage 1791-1871
48) Mary Wallstonecraft 1759-1797
49) Mikhail Gorbachev 1931-
50) Margaret Sanger 1883-1960
51) Edward Jenner 1749-1823
52) Winston Churchill 1874-1965
53) Marie Curie 1867-1934
54) Marco Polo 1254-1324
55) Ferdinand Magellan 1480-1521
56) Elizabeth Candy Stanton 1815-1902
57) Elvis Presley 1935-1977
58) Joan of Arc 1412-1431
59) Immanuel Kant 1724-1804
60) Franklin D. Roosevelt 1882-1945
61) Michael Faraday 1791-1867
62) Walt Disney 1901-1966
63) Jane Austen 1775-1817
64) Pablo Picasso 1881-1973
65) Werner Heisenberg 1901-1976
66) D. W. Griffith 1875-1948
67) Vladimir Zworykin 1889-1982
68) Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790
69) William Harvey 1578-1657
70) Pope Gregory VII 1020-1085
71) Harriet Tubman 1820-1913
72) Simon Bolivar 1783-1830
73) Princess Diana 1961-1997
74) Enrico Fermi 1901-1954
75) Gregory Pincus 1903-1967
76) The Beatles 1959-1970
77) Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679
78) Isabella I 1451-1504
79) Joseph Stalin 1879-1953
80) Elizabeth I 1533-1603
81) Nelson Mandela 1918-
82) Niels Bohr 1885-1962
83) Peter the Great 1672-1725
84) Gugliemo Marconi 1874-1937
85) Ronald Reagan 1911-2004
86) James Joyce 1882-1941
87) Rachel Carson 1907-1964
88) Robert Oppenheimer 1904-1967
89) Susan B. Anthony 1820-1906
90) Louis Daguerre 1787-1851
91) Steven Spielberg 1947-
92) Florence Nightingale 1820-1906
93) Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962
94) Patient Zero
95) Charlie Chaplin 1889-1971
96) Enrico Caruso 1873-1921
97) Jonas Salk 1914-1995
98) Louis Armstrong 1901-1977
99) Vasco da Gama 1469-1524
100) Suleiman the Magnificent 1494-1566

Research paper due dates
   50 facts with citations:  May 1
   Outline and 1st draft:  May 8
   2-4 minute powerpoint speech with 5 images May 14
   Final draft with citations and bibliography (2 copies, one for Mrs. Pare, one for me)   May 25

Length
CP 2  3-5 pages
CP 1  4-7 pages
Honors  5-8 pages
  

 
   

Week of April 2, 2012

This is the first week of the 4th term, finish strong.
Current Event week 4(1)

Due tommorrow  15(1) assigned last week

Due Thursday:

14(1) the Search for Spices(446-451)
Identify the terms people and places listed on page 446.

Read the search is on at the top of p.446,

Identify four of the spices Europeans wanted from Asia.
Look at the Map Skills on page 447, answer question #3.
Look at the infographic on page 449.
Identify the five and illustrate three of the tools used in the Age of Exploration.

 Read the biography on page 450 and list three facts about Prince Henry the Navigator.
Answer assessment questions #3-6 (odd or even) on page 451 or the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.  

Due Thursday: 14(2) Turbulent Centuries in Africa (p.452-455)

 Identify the terms, people and places on page 452.

 Answer map skills questions #2+3 on page 454. Look at the picture on page 455.

Why did the Portuguese build castles in Africa?
Answer Assessment questions #3, 4,6 on page 455 or the 3 checkpoint questions.