Week of April 1, 2013

Happy April Fool’s Day, what is the history of this day?

This is the last week of the term, make sure to turn in your current event by Friday.

Be ready for a quiz Friday on material covered this week.

Homework due Thursday
Chapter 7: The Rise of Europe 500 AD-1300 AD
Read 7(1) The Early Middle Ages (p214-218),
· Identify the terms, people, and places listed on page 214.
· Answer the Focus Question on page 214,
· Map Skills question #3 on page 215,
   Map Skills question #2 on page 217.
· Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR answer #3-5 on page 218 in complete questions

Homework due Friday
7(2) Feudalism and the Manor Economy (219-224)
· Identify the terms, people, and places.
· Answer the focus question on page 219.
Answer Thinking Critically questions 1+2 on page 221,
Answer the biography question on Eleanor of Aquitaine on page 222.
Answer the question on the picture Back Breaking Labor, page 224.
Also, answer the three checkpoint questions OR questions # 3,4,5 on page 224 in complete sentences.

Due next Tuesday
7(3) The Medieval Church (225-230)
Identify the terms, people, and places.
Answer the Thinking Critically questions on page 227,
Answer the biography question on St. Francis of Assisi on page 229,
Answer preserving Jewish Culture on page 230.
· Answer the three checkpoint questions OR questions 3,4,5 on page 230 in complete sentences

Week of March 25, 2013

Homework due Thursday

5(3) The Roman Achievement (p.161-165)
Identify the terms people and places.  
Read Safety under the Law p. 161 Why did Caesar forgive Cicero's criticisms?
Read Primary Source p.162. What does Livy say you can learn from history?
Read Remnants of Roman daily life (163) What city was destroyed by Mt.Vesuvius in 79 AD? Answer question #2 of Thinking Critically (p.163)
Why do you think the bread pictured on page 163 was baked this way? We get the term "breaking bread" from bread baked this way.
 Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR questions #3,4,5 (165)

5(4) The Rise of Christianity (p.166- 171)
Identify the terms, people and places.
Answer the focus question on page 166.
Why do you think the Sermon on the Mount (p.168)is especially appealing to the powerless? Where is their reward?
Look at the map on page 169, answer questions 2+3. Answer the biography question on St. Peter on page 170.  
Answer 4 Checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR answer questions #3,4,5 (171)

5(5) The Long Decline page 173-177.
Identify the terms, people, and places.
Read Witness History (173)  List three reason Rome was weakening.
Read Redefining the Empire (174) What were the political reforms of Diocletian and Constantine?
What is happening to the Christian pictured on page 175? 
Look at the chart on p.175, when do the number of Christians exceed 3 milllion people?
List the 5 reasons given for the fall of Rome on page 176-177.
Answer three checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR questions #3,4,5 (177)

Week of March 18,2013

Current event week 4 due by the end of the week. Be ready for a quiz Friday on material covered this week.

Due Wednesday
34(1)  Idustrialized Nations After the Cold War (1096-1099)
Identify the terms, people, and places
Read Witness History (1096) What did the Masstrict Treaty (1992) establish?
Look at the map of EU members on page 1097.  List 5 member nations.  Identify two western European nations that have not joined.
Look at the picture on page 1098, how is Putin portrayed? What three factors tie the Pacific Rim countries together?
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Read People and the Environment (1105) answer Thinking Critically #1.

34(3)Social and Environmental Challenges (1116-1113)
Identify the terms, people, and places
Read Malaria (1107) Why do you think malaria is a risk mainly in developing countries?
Look at the chart on 1108, what country attracts 20% of the world total migrants?
Look at the picture on page 1109, though which country do you think most of the US illegal immigrants come from? Why don’t signs like the one pictured stop them?
Look at the picture on page 1110, why would some people buy clothes with the RUGMARK label? Read the Infographic (1111) what is the relationship between disease and access to safe water?
Read the biography of Edward O. Wilson (1112) why did he originally study ants? Why do you think he believes foresight and moral courage are needed to preserve the environment?
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due Thursday

34(4) Security in a Dangerous World (1115-1119)
Identify the terms, people, and places
Look at the picture on pag 1115, after what event is Pres. Bush speaking?
What is pictured on page 1116?  Why should we be concerned about biological weapons after the fall of the Soviet Union?
Look at the map on 1117, Identify 8 nations that are known nuclear powers, draw the nuclear symbol.
Look at the pictures  on 1118,  in what two ways is bin Laden portrayed?
Look at the model of the Freedom Tower pictured on 1119.  Why do you think it will be 1776 feet high?
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Week of March 11, 2013

Current event week 3 due by Friday

Due Tuesday

30(5) The end of the Cold War (1000-1006)

Identify the terms, people, and places.
Read A Democratic transformation (1000) Why were so many people afraid to speak out?
Look at the picture on 1001, where did the Soviets send in tanks in 1956? Why?
Look at the picture on 1002, what fairy tale character is Gorbachev portrayed as? Why?
Look at the picture on 1003, who is the Lithuanian woman defying? Why do you think this is significant?
Look at the picture on 1004. What Polish person and labor union is pictured? How do you think Pope John Paul II (the first ever Polish Pope) inspired the Polish people? Why do you think the Soviet secret police wanted the Pope assassinated?
Look at the picture on page 1005, what is the person shopping for in China? Why is this significant?

Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due Thursday
34(5) advances in Science and Technology (p.1120-1125)
Identify the terms, people, and places (1120).
Who was the first man on the man and what were his first words (picture 1120).
 Read Thinking Critically (1121) answer question #1.
Read the infographic (1122-23) What was the name of the US project to make a nuclear bomb?
What did Jonas Salk develop in 1954?
What structure did Watson and Crick explain in 1953?
Read A Global Food Evolves (1124) What did Native Americans in Mexico domesticate from teosinte kernels?
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

34(2) Globalization (1100-1104)
Identify the terms, people, and places
Read Witness History (1100) and look at the picture on 1104. Why do you think globalization is so controversial?
Read World Oil Resource (map 1101). Identify three countries with major oil reserves. Which country consumes the most oil?
Read the infographic (1102-03). Where did coffee originate? What is the only commodity more traded than coffee? What is the fair trade movement?
Read People and the Environment (1105) answer Thinking Critically #1.
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Be ready Friday for a quiz on material covered this week.

Week of March 4, 2013

30(1) and 30(2) assigned last week.

Homework due Tuesday
30(3) Communism spreads to East Asia (985-991)
Identify the terms, people, and places
Look at the pictures on 985, what does the Little Red Book contain?
Look at the Mao biography (986) how did he treat critics?
Look at the picture on page 987, what did the little red books urge?
Answer questions 1,2, 3 on page 989.
Look at the picture on page 990. Describe the weather conditions.
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Homework due Thursday
30(4) War in Southeast Asia (992-997)
Identify the terms, people and places
Look at the Ho biography on page 993. How did his communist view differ from the Soviet model?
Look at the picture of the calendar on page 994. What is the soldier's name? Why all the "x's"?
Read the info-graphic on page 994-995. Answer questions #1+2 on page 995.
What does the picture on page 996 show?
What are the boat people fleeing on page 997?
Answer the three checkpoint questions in the section.

Homework due next Tuesday.
Two separate homework grades:

History interactive : Read the Fall of the Soviet Union 998-999 
Answer question 1+2 on page 999

30(5) The end of the Cold War (1000-1006)

Identify the terms, people, and places.
Read A Democratic transformation (1000) Why were so many people afraid to speak out?
Look at the picture on 1001, where did the Soviets send in tanks in 1956? Why?  
Look at the picture on 1002, what fairy tale character is Gorbachev portrayed as?  Why?
Look at the picture on 1003, who is the Lithuanian woman defying?  Why do you think this is significant?
Look at the picture on 1004.  What Polish person and labor union is pictured?  How do you think Pope John Paul II (the first ever Polish Pope) inspired the Polish people? Why do you think the Soviet secret police wanted the Pope assassinated? 
Look at the picture on page 1005, what is the person shopping for in China?  Why is this significant?

Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Honors Reading on MLK vs. J.Edgar Hoover is due Friday