Week of January 25, 2016

I hope you enjoyed this weekend's snow.  This week marks the beginning of term 3, don't forget to do your current events.   

In class DBQ to be completed on Thursday or Friday: Do you believe that Christopher Columbus a hero or a villain? Why is he viewed as a hero or a villain to some scholars? 

Background to be covered this week in class: What was the Colombian Exchange?  Describe the transfer of plants, animals and diseases between the New and Old World and explain its impact on world history.

Homework due next Monday.

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.


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