Week of December 7, 2015

Monday is Pearl Harbor Day,  as Winston Churchill stated about the attack on Pearl Harbor and American entry into WWII:  "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."    
Midterm for quarter two is also this Friday, and it marks not the end of your freshman year, not even the beginning of the end, but...

Homework due this week 7(3) and 7(4)
We wrap up Chinese phlosophies this week and begin our study of the European Middle Ages.

Homework due next week: 
10(1) The Rise of Islam (p.304-309)
Identify the terms, people, and places. 
Read the Infographic on page 307 and answer questions #1+2.
Also, answer questions the checkpoint questions OR questions #3-6 on page 308 in complete sentences.

10(3) Muslim Civilizations Golden Age 317-323
Identify the terms, people, and places. 
Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2 on page 321. 
Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2 on page 323. 
Explain how Arabic numerals (picture 322) in Eastern Muslim Regions differed from Modern Western Arabic numerals. Who most likely brought Arabic numerals to Europe?  How?
Answer questions #3-5 on page 322 OR the checkpoint questions in complete sentences 

8(3) The Crusades and the wider world (255-260)

Identify the terms, people, and places 
Read witness history (255)What did the Franks do to the Saracens when they captured Jerusalem?
Look at the map on page 257, answer questions #2+3. 
Look at the picture on 258, why did the Moslem leader Saladin open Jerusalem to the Christians? 
Look at the infographic on page 259, what three religions hold Jerusalem sacred?
Answer the four Checkpoint questions or questions #3-6 in complete sentences.