Week of December 19, 2016

Be ready for a quiz this week on the Middle Ages

The Medieval timeline is due on Monday

I hope you enjoy your vacation, but for those students who want to get ahead here is the homework due the  Friday after vacation
13(1) The Renaissance in Italy (410-416)
Identify the terms, people and places.
Read the focus question on page 410, what is a "Renaissance man"? 
Look at the picture on page 411, what was David intended to convey? 
How is the wealth of the banker shown in the picture on page 412.
Answer question #3 on the Map Skills on page 413. 
Answer Thinking Critically questions 1+2 on page 415.
          Answer the 4 checkpoint questions OR answer questions #3-#6 on page 416 OR 3 bullets per section

Separate homework grade

Read: Primary Source, The Prince, p. 417. Answer questions #1 and #2

13(2) The Renaissance in the North (418-421)
Identify the terms, people, and places. 
Who and what are pictured on page 418? 
Answer the question in the picture on Durer on page 419
Read: Realism in Northern European Art (420-21) Answer question #1
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR 3 bullets per section

Separate homework grade:
Read Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre (422) Draw a picture of the stage, answer questions #1+2

Medieval Farming Terms

Bailiff /Reeve– Top peasant who was the lord's manager. The bailiff helped oversee the villeins’ work, the profits and expenses of the manor and farm.  The term mayor and sheriff also originates from this term. The reeve made sure the villeins and serfs worked for the lord, started their work on time and did not cheat the lord out of any money.

Serf/ Villein – a peasant who was not free. They worked on the lord’s land and did certain jobs for him in return for the use of some land for himself. A villein was bound to work on a certain manor.

Manor – all the land owned by the lord in a medieval village which included the fields, the common land and the woodland.

The Manor house – the main house owned by the lord of the manor

Demesne (pronounced “domain”) – the best land in the manor for the Lord to farm.

Freeman – Serfs could escape the manor and live in a city for a year and a day and become a freeman.  That is where the saying "city air makes one free" originates.  Freeman on the farm were peasants who paid the lord to farm their land. They did not have to work for the lord every week like the serfs/villains, but did have to help out at busy times of the year and pay to use the lord’s oven and his mill. They could be thrown off the land if the lord had enough serfs to farm the land.

The Hayward – The peasant who looked after the cows

The Shepherd – The peasant who looked after the sheep

The swineherd – The peasant who looked after the pigs

Crops – the plants grown by the farmers which commonly included wheat and barley.  Look at three field system notes.

Harvest – Gathering in the crops from the fields when they are ready. Reaping is the cutting of the grain for harvest, using a scythe or sickle. Completed in the fall, the Octoberfest would follow.

Ploughing – This is when the top layers of soil are cut open, and turned over to bring nutrients to the surface and to allow air to enter, usually done around Groundhog's day also called Candlemas.(rows were blessed by local priest)

Harrowing – Used to break up the earth even more than ploughing and also used to cover the seeds after sowing.

Sowing – The process of planting the seeds in the fields.  Seeds scattered throughout the fields.

Fallow - the land that is left to rest and not farmed for a year so the nutrients can be replaced.

Furrow – long lines made in the fields after ploughing.

Open field system/Three field system – the system by which the manor was split into three or four big unfenced fields which were in turn divided up into strips farmed by the peasants

Week of December 12, 2016

Homework due this week:   10(1) and 10(3)
Essay question due Friday:   Think of life in the low middle ages.  Given a choice of freedom, security, and prosperity, which is most important?  Explain why that is the most important and the other two are not as important.

Take home quiz grade:  Medieval timeline which will be started in class is due next Monday.

Due next week: 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 Or 3 bullets per checkpoint section

Week of December 5, 2016

Wednesday is Pearl Harbor Day,  as Winston Churchill referred to 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 coming up quickly, and it marks not the end of your freshman year, not even the beginning of the end, but...

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 Or 3 bullets per checkpoint section

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 OR  3 bullets per checkpoint section

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 Or 3 bullets per checkpoint section

Medieval Timeline

Name: ___________________________      Quiz Grade:  Complete Medieval timeline

Medieval Timeline  476 CE- 1453 CE 
Low Middle Ages or ________________  Ages  500CE -1100CE
High Middle Ages    1100-1350 CE  

476 AD  Official Fall of _________________

570-632  Life of _______________________, founder of Islam

622  ___________________, Mohammed’s holy flight from Mecca to Medina

600- 800  Irish________________  Age

732  Battle of Tours, Charles Martel defeats  _______________, European Muslims

800-1000   _________________  invaders from Scandinavia ravage Europe

800 Coronation of Charlemagne by _________  Leo III.  The beginning of Holy Roman Empire (1^st Reich)

843  Treaty of ____________________  Charlemagne’s empire split into 3 parts

988  Prince Vladimir converts Kiev (Ukraine) to Orthodox _____________________ St. Cyril and Methodius sent by Byzantine Emperor invent _______________ alphabet to translate Bible into Russian language

1054  The ____________ of the Christian Church between Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Church

1066 The Norman ____________________ of England, William the __________________ becomes. William the _____________________

1095 Pope Urban II calls the 1^st ______________________ to save the Holy Land from Muslim control and reunite the  Church

              8 Crusades 1096-1291
The crusades in 1096, 1146, 1309 witnessed mass killing of ___________ along Rhine
1100’s Champagne trade fairs, High ____________ Ages begin (growth of trade)

1204 Venetian trading rivals sack ___________________ in the 4^th Crusade

1215 King John signs the Magna ________________ protecting nobles’ rights.  Era of common law and rule of law emerges in England.

1240 Mongols capture and destroy ______________, Mongols crush Kiev and rule Russia for 200 years

    1240-1368  Mongol domination of Eurasia  It is referred to as the Mongol ___________

1275 Marco _________ visits China, ruled by Kubla Khan (Genghis Khan’s grandson)

1291  ___________ forces seize Acre, the last Christian stronghold, ______________ end

1300- Renaissance spirit emerges among Northern _____________  city states

1337 Start of the 100 Years War  between _________________ and France
100 Years War  1337-1453

1341 Petrarch become 1st poet __________________  since fall of Rome,  Renaissance begins

   Renaissance or Early  ______________  Period 1350-1650
1348  New outbreaks of Bubonic __________________ (Black Death) in Europe.
     Massive pogroms occur in Europe as ___________are blamed for poisoning wells and food.
1452  Leonardo da Vinci born in ____________________, Italy (near Florence)

1453  Constantinople falls to Ottoman  ________________  and  Byzantine Empire ends.

1453  End of the 100  Years War between England and ________________, home of Joan of Arc

1452 Johann Gutenberg ____________ printed,  movable ____________ invented.

1475 Michelangelo born in ___________________, Italy

1492 Columbus sails from Spain and ____________________ New World (Americas)

Week of November 28, 2016

We are almost at the mid point of the 2nd quarter.  Don't forget current events.
Honor's reading on MLK and Hoover is due Friday.
Be ready for a quiz Thurs/Friday on notes taken this week.

Due next week: 
Chapter 7(4) Economic Recovery Sparks Change. (p. 231-236)  
Identify the terms, people, and places.
Answer map skills questions #1+2 on page 232. 
Answer the primary source question on page 233, and the question on Medieval Advertising on the picture on page 235. 
Why should ice hockey players be interested in the primary source on page 236?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR answer questions #3-6 on page 236 or three bullets for each.


8(4) Learning and Culture Flourish p. 262-267 
What causes cultural diffusion? (ask in class if you don't know)  Why do you think European culture and learning flourished after the Crusades? 
Identify the terms, people, and places. 
What is pictured on page 262?  
Answer the biography question about Christine de Pisan on page 263. 
Identify the four types inventions brought to Medieval Europe in the HMA shown on page 264. 
What does the Bayeaux Tapestry (picture 266-267) show? 
Answer the three checkpoint questions OR questions #3-5 on page 267 or 3 bullets for each 

Week of November 21, 2016

Last week was national gratitude week.
This week we celebrate Thanksgiving.  Think of three people you are grateful for and let them know how you feel.   Why is it important to celebrate gratitude and give thanks?  

Wrapping up our 20th century review define: 

Kamikaze

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Cold War: What
 2 major countries involved?

Which country was a Communist dictatorship?
Which country is Capitalist democracy?

Containment/Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Chapter 7: The Rise of Europe 500 AD-1300 AD

Read 7(1) The Early Middle Ages (214-218), 
· 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 or 3 bullets for each section

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 or 3 bullets for each section

Due next week:
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 or 3 bullets for each section

Week of November 14, 2016

Be ready for a WWII quiz either Wednesday or Thursday.
Home work due this week:  27(3)

Homework due by next Wednesday  (the day before Thanksgiving )

We begin our study of the Middle Ages next week;
 Chapter 7: The Rise of Europe 500 AD-1300 AD

Read 7(1) The Early Middle Ages (214-218), 
· 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 or 3 bullets for each section

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 or 3 bullets for each section

Week of November 7, 2016

Tuesday is election day, and's it reminds me of Gerald Ford's  reference to the end of Watergate:  "our long national nightmare is finally over."   I am looking to the end of this election season, and no matter who  wins, hoping that the new US President can unify the country after this divisive election.

I want you to be able to follow the election coverage and be able to analyze the election looking at the following electoral map.   Circle the key swing states on the back of this sheet and predict who will be our next President. 

Homework for next week: Mahatma Gandhi cited 7 Social Sins afflicting western culture.  Choose three of the following and explain why you agree or disagree with Gandhi's observation.  Explain how Gandhi lived his words.  Would Gandhi be happy or unhappy with western life today?

Use the  Answer,  Evidence, Explain method

Wealth without Work  
Pleasure without Conscience
Science without Humanity
Knowledge without Character
Politics without Principle
Commerce without Morality
Worship without Sacrifice

  

27(3) India Seeks Self-Rule (865-867)

Identify the terms, people, and places.
Read Witness History (865)  Why were many Indians frustrated?  With whom?
Read The Salt March (866) How do you think Americans would have viewed the British if they 
       violently reacted to the Salt March?
Answer the 3 checkpoint questions in complete sentences or 3 bullets for each section

Week of October 31, 2016

Honors class has FDR reading due Wednesday

We will wrap up Swing Kids this week as well as discuss the Weimar election simulation that   led to Hitler eventually being  chosen as Chancellor of Germany.



Book work due next week.
 30(1) The Cold War Unfolds (966-974) (Double homework grade)

Identify 5 of  the terms, people and places.
Read Witness History (966) what metaphor did Churchill use to describe the area sealed off by Soviet domination?
*Look at the picture on 967, when is the major Soviet holiday? Why did they show their nuclear might?
*Look at the chart on 968, what type of weapon was limited by arms control agreements?
*Look at the Cold War World , 1977, on page 969. Where is the Soviet soldier pictured?

 Identify 4 Cold War conflicts. Why do you think the US and USSR did not want to fight each other directly in a hot war? 
* Read the Infographic on page 971. Answer Thinking Critical questions #1+#2.
*Look at the picture of the supermarkets on page 972. How do the two types of stores differ?
* What are children practicing for in the picture on page 973?
* What is pictured on page 974?
*Answer four of the five checkpoint questions in complete sentences or list 3 bullets from each section.

30(2) The Industrialized Democracies (976-984)
Identify the terms, people, and places.
*Read the Marshall Plan (976) Why do you think the US built up Western Europe after WWII? Who were we afraid of taking over the region?
*What is pictured on page 977? What is a suburb and why did people move there?
*Look at the picture on 978. Why did long gas lines appear in the 1970's?
*Read biography on MLK (979) What issue is MLK most associated with?
*What is picture on page 981? Why rebuild Germany after WWII?
*What is pictured on page 981?
*Why are doves, small farmersand workers pictured on 983+984? What nation was rebuilding?
Answer the 4 checkpoint questions in complete sentences. 

Week of October 24, 2016

There are two weeks left in the term.  Catch up on missing homework and don't forget current events.

Due next week
29(5) The End of WWII (952-956)

Identify the terms, people, and places.

Look at the picture on page 952, what happened on V-J Day?

Look at chart on page 953, which nation suffered over 22 million deaths and 14 million

     wounded?

What does the Soviet poster pictured on page 954 warn against?

Read about the Berlin Airlift (955) How were Germany and Berlin divided?

What threat to America does the Red Menace (956) warn against?

Answer three of the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR list 3 bullets for each term. 

Explain these WWII terms or answer the WWII questions:

Anschluss

Appeasement

Totalitarian vs. Democracy

The (London) Blitz/Operation Sea lion   

Operation Barbarossa

Blitzkrieg

Pearl Harbor 

Date of Infamy  December 7,1941

In what 2 parts of the world (theaters )did the US fight World War II?

Arsenal of Democracy

Battle of Midway

Battle of Stalingrad

Battle of El Alamein

Battle of Midway

Allies vs. Axis Countries

D-Day

The Battle of the Bulge

Island Hopping

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Big Three at Allied Conferences-

Winston Churchill

FDR

Harry Truman

Joseph Stalin

Adolf Hitler

Benito Mussolini

Tojo Hideki and Emperor Hirohito

Final Solution  /Genocide

Holocaust

Kristallnacht

Auschwitz

Week of October 17, 2016

Field Trip to the Museum of Science Wednesday.

Have your permission slips and $10 in ASAP.  Talk to Mr. Loranger privately if money is a concern.

Work will be left for those students who choose not to go.

Homework due next week:

29(3) The Allies Turn the Tide (939-945) 

Identify the terms, people, and places. 

Read Witness history (939) why did WWII become a total war for the US?  

Read the infographic (941) identify three new WWII technologies and explain how they were used to win the war. 

Read the three biographies on page 944, identify each of the 3 Allied leaders, their country and two facts about the leaders from each reading.

Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences or 3 bullets for each section.

Separate homework grade: 

Read D-Day 946-7, answer the three thinking critically questions on page 947

29(4) Victory in Europe and the Pacific (948-951) Identify the terms, people, and places.

Answer map skills question #3 on page 949.

Draw the shape of the nuclear cloud on page 950.

Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences or three bullet facts per section.

Colombian Exchange

Week of October 11

This is a short week with the Columbus Day holiday.  What was the Columbian Exchange?

We will focus on Fascism, Socialism, Capitalism and Communism this week and see if we can  understand how Hitler came to power in Germany in a democratic election.

Quiz grade for the week will include preparation and presentation in class  of Weimar simulation roles assigned this week.. 

Homework due next week.
27(5) Conflicting Forces in Japan (874-877) 
Identify 5 of the terms, people, and places.

Answer Map Skills  question #3 on page 876.
Answer  the biography question on Hirohito on page 877.
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences or 3 bullets from each section.

29(2) The Axis Advances (930-938)

Identify the terms, people, and places.
Answer Thinking Critically questions #1+2 on page 933.
Answer Thinking Critically #1 on page 935. 
Read the picture caption on 936, how did the Japanese treat the Chinese?
Read the caption to the picture on 938, answer the question. 
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences: or 3 bullets for each section.

Week of October 3, 2016

This week we will recreate the 1932 Weimar election which led to the Nazi take-over of Germany.
A quiz grade will be given based upon your participation in the simulation.
You will have to understand the basic political positions of the Nazis, Socialists, Communists, and Center Party to complete the quiz.

Honors reading on the Treaty of Versailles is due this Friday.

Next Monday is Columbus day: homework due next Tuesday/Wednesday:

28(5) Hitler and the Rise of Nazi Germany (912-917)

Identify the terms, people and places.
Look at the picture on 912, how did Hitler give hope to the Germans? Who did he blame?
Look at the picture on 913, what is inflation and how did it impact prices?
Read the biography of Hitler on 914. List three adjectives to describe his personality.
Look at the picture on 915. What happened on Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)?
Look at the picture on page 916. Why were books like All Quiet on the Western Front burned?
Look at the chart on page 917. Why were Jewish books also burned? What Jewish scientist exiled from Germany came to the US to teach at Princeton University?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR 3 bullets for each checkpoint section.

29(1) From Appeasement to War (924-929)
Identify the terms, people and places
Look at the picture on page 925. What did Neville Chamberlain think he had brought Britain in September 1938 with his agreement with Hitler?
Look at the picture on 925, what treaty did Germany break by rearmament?
Look at the picture on page 926. List the four fascist leaders and their countries.
Why is the woman crying on page 927?
Look at the map on page 928. Answer questions #1+2.
Look at the chart on page 929. Identify what you think are the top two reasons to appease (give into) Hitler.
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR 3 bullets for each section 

25(1) Japan Modernizes (784-790)
Identify five of the terms, people, and places.
 Answer Travelers's Tales 786-7 Thinking Critically (787) questions 1+2. 
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences  or 3 bullets from each section.

27(5) Conflicting Forces in Japan (874-877) 
Identify five of the terms, people, and places. 
Answer Map Skillsquestion #3 on page 876.
Answer  the biography question on Hirohito on page 877.
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences or 3 bullets from each section.

Don't forget current events.  Three current event sheets are due this term.

Week of September 25, 2016

100 million Americans are expected to watch tonight's debate between Donald Trump  and Hillary Clinton.  If you have a chance watch 15-20 minutes and summarize what your view of the debate. Identify at least three separate points in your analysis.

I will take this as one current events story.  Current event sheets will be passed out this week and be due by the end of the week.  5 sets of stories will be due each term.

I have changed how homework is assigned this
Homework due NEXT Monday 

28(1) Postwar Social Changes. (884-889)
Identify the terms people and places. 
Who is pictured on age 884? What type of music did he play?
Look at the picture on 885, what is a speakeasy? 
Read about the Jazz Age (886-7) 
How did flappers shock their elders? 
Illustrate three changes in technology pictured. 
Read Marie Curie (888) what was she best known for? 
Read abstract art, why is Kadinsky's art (889) and Picasso's art (890) called Cubist? 
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR 3 bullet facts for each checkpoint section

28(2) The Western Democracies Stumble (891-897)

Identify the terms, people, and places
Look at the picture on 891. What is a soup kitchen?
Look at the picture on page 892. What were the Irish Republican Army trying to resist?
Look at the political cartoon on 893. What point is the cartoonist trying to make?
Read the infographic (894-5). In which country did the Great Depression begin?
What country had the highest unemployment (line graph on 895)
Describe the woman pictured on page 896.
Look at the Economic Theory bloc on page 897. What does John Maynard Keynes think the government should do during depressions?
Answer four of the five checkpoint questions in complete sentence, or 3 bullets/section.

Separate HW grade
Read Pablo Picasso (p.890) . How do you think cubism got its name?

28(3) Fascism in Italy
Identify the terms, people, and places
How is Mussolini pictured on page 898 and 899?
Look at the infographic (900-901) What is a cult of personality?
What happened to Osip Mandelstam (900)?
Look at the picture on 902, what were children required to carry?

Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences or 3 bullets/section.