Week of October 28,2913

This is the last week of Term 1. Mr. Loranger will tell you to: "Pay the Price."
Current event week two due by the end of the week.
Homework club meets in room 218 on Tuesday and Thursday after school.
Be ready for a quiz Friday on material covered this week.

Due Tuesday 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 on page 165

Due Thursday
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)

Due Friday
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)

Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism powerpoint

Week of October 21, 2013

Link to story on footbinding
Current event week 2
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8966942

Assigned last week due Tuesday

12(1)Two Golden Ages in China (366-375)
Identify the terms, people and places.
Read the report on Kublai Khan's fleet (367). How did the Japanese stop a Mongol invasion of Japan in both 1274 and 1281?
Identify three Chinese inventions listed on page 370.
Describe the woman's shoes pictured on page 372.
Answer the four checkpoint questions OR questions #4-6 on page 374 in complete sentences.

Assigned last week due Wednesday
12(2) the Mongol and Ming Empires.(376-382)
Identify the terms, people and places.
Answer the biography question on page 377.
Answer Thinking Critically questions 1+2 on page 379.
Answer question #3 on page 380.
Answer the three checkpoint question OR questions #3-5 on page 382

Quiz question on Friday's quiz
:What is the best way to (choose one) coach a team, teach a class, raise a family, babysit young children (any relationship where a power difference exists):
Confucianism, Daoism, or Legalism. Be able to explain whether these would work better in the short or the long term.

Due next Tuesday

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 on page 165

Buddha panels

The Buddha’s Life in 6 panels (5 points each-30 points)

1) Birth- born Siddhartha Gautama (flower?) _____
2) Life before 29. What did he want for? What was his quest? _____
3) Ascetic life 29-35. What did it lead to? _____
4) Journey to enlightenment.
a. What did the musician say to his student? _____

5) The Dark Lord Mara’s temptations _____

(pride, greed, fear, ignorance, and desire)

6) Teachings of the path to enlightenment: Where did he sit?

4 Noble Truths (8 fold path) _____

Week of October 15, 2013

Homework Club meets Tuesday and Thursday after school in room 218. I will be there on Thursday for extra help.  Quiz Friday on material covered this week.

Honors summer reading due Thursday and Malaria reading on Friday.

This is week 2 for current events.

Due Tuesday
3(5) Strong Rulers Unite China (101-107)
Identify the terms, people and places
What did Shi Huandi do to the scholars in the picture on 102?
Look at the map skills on page 103, answer questions #2 and #3.
Look at the map on 105, list 7 cities were connected by the Silk Road. What was the key Chinese product traded on the Silk Road?
What Chinese treatment is pictured on page 106.
Look at the picture on 107, what is a bodhisattva and what is their purpose?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences

Wednesday- Boston Aquarium trip.  EC identify and explain the significance of the Boston Harbor outfall pipe.  How does the statement “dilution is the solution to pollution” explain why this pipe was built? 

Due Friday

12(1)Two Golden Ages in China (366-375)
Identify the terms, people and places.
Read the report on Kublai Khan's fleet (367). How did the Japanese stop a Mongol invasion of Japan in both 1274 and 1281?
Identify three Chinese inventions listed on page 370.
Describe the woman's shoes pictured on page 372.
Answer  the four checkpoint questions OR questions #4-6 on page 374 in complete sentences.

Due next Tuesday
12(2) the Mongol and Ming Empires.(376-382)
Identify the terms, people and places.
Answer the biography question on page 377.
Answer Thinking Critically questions 1+2 on page 379.
Answer question #3 on page 380.
Answer the three checkpoint question OR questions #3-5 on page 382

Week of October 7, 2013

Freshman Homework club meets Tuesdays and Thursdays in room 218 from 2:10-3:00. There are late busses that leave Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4:00. Go there for extra help in any class on Thursdays I will be there after school

Current Event Week #1 is due on Friday
Honors' Malaria reading is also due on Friday.

Due Tuesday
3(2) Buddhism p.79-82
Identify
Siddhartha Gautama, Eightfold Path, nirvana, sect
Answer thinking critically questions #1+2 on page 79.
List the 4 Noble Truths on page 80.
Look at the map on page 81. Answer question #2.e
Answer the two checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due Thursday: Storyboard of Buddha’s life in 6 panels

Due  Friday:  Double homework credit.
3(4) Rise of Civilization in China (92-100)
Choose 5 and Identify the terms, people, and places (p.92)
Outline the Mandate of Heaven, listed as the Dynastic Cycle on page 95.
Read the Biography of Confucius on page 97. Why do you think Confucianism lasts to today?
Draw the yin-yang symbol pictured on page 98.
Read the secrets of making silk (99) Answer thinking critically question #1.
Answer the 6 checkpoint questions in complete sentences.

Due next Tuesday
3(5) Strong Rulers Unite China (101-107)
Identify the terms, people and places
What did Shi Huandi do to the scholars in the picture on 102?
Look at the map skills on page 103, answer questions #2 and #3.
Look at the map on 105, list 7 cities were connected by the Silk Road. What was the key Chinese product traded on the Silk Road?
What Chinese treatment is pictured on page 106.
Look at the picture on 107, what is a bodhisattva and what is their purpose?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences

Buddhism powerpoint from this week: