Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Week of February 27, 2018 Honors

Smallpox/Syphilis reading is due Thursday.
Annotate the reading
10  facts Ah hahs/idks with page numbers
2 GOOD Q+A
Reflection on the reading/author/subject  is due also
This is due THURSDAY  be prepared for a discussion/quiz

16(4), 16 review , and 17 (1) questions are past due

17(2)  France Under Louis XIV
Look at the picture on 416.  Why migh French nobles encourage these Huguenot/Protestant actions?
Read the Biography on Richelieu (417)  list three facts about the Cardinal
Read Did You Know (418) and Living at Versailles (419)  List 5 facts about Versailles and Louis XIV (14th)   Illustrate either Louis or Versailles.
What does the King as Warrior (42) represent.  Identify three images of the picture.
Answer 4 of the 5 questions on page 420.





Week of February 27, 2018 CP1 and CP2


Welcome back from vacation
We will be back in the IMC next week

16(2) and 17(1)  and the Locke questions are past due
Due next week

17(2) Enlightenment Ideas Spread (550-555) 
Identify five of the terms, people, and places 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 page 555 Or three bullets/section.

17(3) Birth of the American Republic (557-563) (double hw grade)
Identify five of the terms, people, and places
Read Witness History (557) What was the point of Paine's Common Sense?
Look at map skills (558) Answer question #3.
What three men are pictured on page 559?  What did they write?
Read the three biographies on page 560. Answer the bold questions at the bottom of each reading.
Who is the focus of the picture on page 561?
What three branches are pictured on page 562?
Read the Bill of Rights (563) Why do you think they had to be added as amendments to the US Constitution?
Answer  the 5 checkpoint questions OR #3-6 on page 563 or 3 bullets/section

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Week of February 12, 2018

No new book sections this week:  catch up on the homework  DBQ on Columbus is due by Friday.

This week we will be in the Learning Commons to research and review the CRAAP test.

After you complete the island scenario go to


Columbus research
https://www.thoughtco.com/facts-about-christopher-columbus-2136702

List and explain the 10 myths about Columbus.  Does this site pass the CRAAP test?  Explain

Sunday, February 4, 2018

Week of February 5, 2018 Honors

16(4)  Turbulent Centuries in Africa   (398-402)
Look at the slave trade picture (399)  Who is pictured?  What is the material this is sculpted from?
Read the biography of King Alfonso of the Congo (400) When did he rule?  Why is he admired today?
Read the Skills Assessment (401)  What two major areas were slave brought to in the New World?
Look at the picture on 402.  What famous Indian was a medic in these wars?  Why did he reject his British citizenship after the Zulu wars?
Answer 4 of the 7 questions on page 402.

16 Review Separate HW grade  answer 4 of the questions between 26-30 on page 409.

17(1)   Extending Spanish Power  (412- 415)
Read Global Connections 412.  What resources funded the Spanish Renaissance? Where did these resources come from?
Look at the picture of Philip II (413)  How do you think being the son of Charles V (the emperor who dealt with Luther) impacted his religious beliefs?
Look at the map (414)  Who controlled the Strait of Lepanto?  Why did the Spanish and Italians fight them?
Answer 4 of the 7 questions on page 415.


Read King Affonso I letter (976)  Answer questions 1,2,3

Read Don Quixote (977)  Answer questions 1,2,3

Quixote   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVkzxDJo9-Y

Columbus  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD3dgiDreGc

Saturday, February 3, 2018

Research project

We will be in the Learning Commons next  week to research our biographical assignment.
After we determine who you will research your power point/ alternative presentation must include:
Background information: Who is your person and what is he most known for?
What obstacles did they have to overcome, both personally and in their field?
What was their accomplishment(s)?
What legacy do they have today? What is the significance of their invention/discovery/achievement? Is there a connection to your life?  Explain
Bibliography

Saturday, February 4, 2017


100 most influential people Week of February 6, 2017


"Adopt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative."  H.G. Wells
Research a person who changed world history.
Identify their  background, obstacles, accomplishments and impact on world history.
We will present your findings on a powerpoint to be presented the week of February 27th.
We will choose from the list in the class.

http://rhsweb.org/library/1000PeopleMillennium.htm

A & E's Biography: 100 Most Influential People of the Millennium

1 Johann Gutenberg (mass media--movable type for printing)
2 Isaac Newton (gravity)
3 Martin Luther (Protestant Reformation)
4 Charles Darwin (evolutionist writer)
5 William Shakespeare (Renaissance playwright)
6 Christopher Columbus (explorer)
7 Karl Marx (19th c. political writer)
8 Albert Einstein (physicist)
9 Nicolaus Copernicus (astromony)
10 Galileo Galilei (astromony)
11 Leonardo da Vinci (for science)
12 Sigmund Freud (psychoanalysis)
13 Louis Pasteur (bacteria)
14 Thomas Edison (inventor)
15 Thomas Jefferson (3rd US president, Declaration of Independence)
16 Adolf Hitler (Nazi leader during WWII)
17 M. Gandhi (led peaceful revolution in modern India)
18 John Locke (17th c. philosopher)
19 Michaelangelo (Renaissance artist/sculptor)
20 Adam Smith (18th c. Scottish philosopher and economist)
21 George Washington (1st US president, General of Revolutionary War)
22 Ghengis Khan (12th c Mongul conqueror)
23 Abraham Lincoln (16th US president)
24 St. Thomas Acquinas (Catholic philosopher)
25 James Watt (Scottish inventor; steam engine)
*26 W A Mozart (great Classic composer)
27 Napoleon (French general, president and self-proclaimed emperor)
*28 JS Bach (great Baroque composer)
29 H. Ford (mass production of automobile)
*30 Beethoven (great late Classic/early Romantic composer)
31 Watson/Crick (DNA)
32 Descartes (philosopher)
33 ML King Jr (US civil rights leader)
34 Rousseau (great philosopher of French "Enlightenment")
35 N. Lenin (Russian political lewader/writer)
36 A Fleming (pen)
37 Voltaire (great philosopher of French "Enlightenment")
38 Francis Bacon (deductive reasoning)
39 Dante Alighieri (Medieval writer)
40 Wright Bros. (first human flight)
41 Bill Gates (computer software giant)
42 Mendel (genetics)
43 Mao Tsedung (1st Chairman of Chinese Communist party)
44 A G Bell (telephone)
45 William the Conquerer (11th c. leader of Normans and English)
46 Machiavelli (political philospher)
47 Charles Babbage (17th c. early "computer" pioneer)
48 Mary Wollstonecraft (women's rights)
49 Gorbachev (1st Soviet premier to establish good relations with US)
50 Margaret Sanger (crusader for birth control legislation)
51 Edward Jenner (vaccination)
52 Churchill (Prime Minister of Britain during WWII)
53 Marie Curie (radioactivity)
54 Marco Polo (explorer)
55 F. Magellan (explorer)
56 E. Stanton (womens rights)
*57 Elvis Presley (first major icon of Rock and Roll)
58 Joan of Arc (French religious martyr)
59 I. Kant (philosopher)
60 FD Roosevelt (longest serving US President)
61 M. Faraday (chemist/physicist; electricity & magnetism)
62 Walt Disney (early animation)
63 Jane Austen (writer)
64 Pablo Picasso (painter)
65 Werner Heisenberg (physicist; "uncertainty principle")
66 D W Griffith (film)
67 Vlad Zworkin (TV/RCA)
68 Ben Franklin (inventor, writer, statesman)
69 William Harvey (blood circulation)
70 Pope Gregory VII (separated church & state)
71 Harriet Tubman (underground railroad)
72 Simon Bolivar (great South American general and freedom fighter)
73 Princess Diana (human rights)
74 Enrico Fermi (nuclear physicist; quantum theory)
75 Pincus (birth control pill)
*76 The Beatles (most influential band in rock history)
77 Thomas Hobbes (17th c. philosopher)
78 Queen Isabella I (supporter of Columbus' voyages)
79 Joseph Stalin (ruthless Russian leader during WWII)
80 Elizabeth I (Queen of England in late Renaissance)
81 Nelson Mandela (imprisoned leader against Apartheid)
82 Niels Bohr (atom)
83 Peter the Great (Russian Czar)
84 Marconi (radio)
85 Ronald Reagan (40th US President)
86 James Joyce (author)
87 Carson (environment)
88 Oppenheimer (atomic bomb)
89 Susan B. Anthony (US women's suffrage)
90 Daguerre (photo)
91 Spielberg (film)
92 Florence Nightingale (medicine)
93 Eleanor Roosevelt (United Nations and human rights)
94 Patient Zero (1st AIDS victim)
95 Chaplan (film)
*96 Caruso (famous singer and early recording star)
97 Salk (polio vaccine)
*98 Louis Armstrong (great jazz trumpeter and scat singer)
99 Vasco de Gama (explorer)
100 Suleyman I (greatest Sultan of the Ottoman Empire)

Week of February 6, 2018 CP 1 and CP2

16(2) France under Louis XIV 510-514
Identify 5 of the the terms, people, and places
Read Life at Versailles (510)  What was Versailles?  Who built it? Why?
Read the Biography (511)What job did Richelieu train for as a youth? What did he become? Why do you think the artist painted 3 views of Richelieu? 
 (note: Richelieu's soldiers fought the Three Musketeers)
Read the primary source on page 512, why was it a sin to oppose a monarch?
Read the infographic (513) Answer question #1.
Answer the 4 checkpoint questions or list 3 bullet facts from each section. 

17(1) Philosophy in the Age of Reason (544-548) 
Identify five of 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' 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 or 3 bullets per checkpoint section.


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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVkzxDJo9-Y