Week of January 30, 2017

Homework due next week:
The honor's class reading on the impact of syphilis on society is due next Tuesday.


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 Or 3 bullets for each checkpoint 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's 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.

Week of January 23, 2017

We begin 2nd semester this week, keep up with the homework. 
Our theme is history as biography this semester.  We will look at William the Conqueror,  Joan of Arc, and Leonardo da Vinci before we start a dbq on Columbus:  hero or villain?

We will also work on your Plymouth 2020 project that you started in elementary school.  Think of  a new business Plymouth can turn to in the future much like Cordage Park served Plymouth and the world in the past.

15(4) and 15(5) are due by Friday

Homework due next week:

16(1) Spanish Power Grows (504-508)

Identify 5 of the terms, people and places.

Read a Working Monarch (504)  Use  3 adjectives to describe Philip II.

Answer question #3 of Map Skills (505). Who was the Spanish enemy at Lepanto?

Read the Infographic (506) Who did Philip II marry?

What battle assured Philip II role as defender of the Catholic Church? 

Look at the picture on 507. What state broke away from Spain in 1648?

Whose painting is pictured on 508?

Answer the 3 checkpoint questions in the section or list 3 bullet facts from each section.

Separate home work  grade 

Read Don Quixote, answer questions 1+2 on page 509

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.

Week of January 16, 2017

This is the last week of the term.  The only homework due this week is the review sheets before the midterm.  Get your current events in for the term
MLK Day was Monday and President Elect Trumps inauguration will be on Friday.

Homework due next week:

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 or 3 bullets from each checkpoint section.


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 tulip mania? 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  or 3 bullets from each checkpoint section

Week of January 9, 2017

Midterms begin on Friday,  review sheets are due the day of the midterm.
The Medieval Timelines are graded as a quiz, don't forget to turn them in.
Honors reading annotation on King John and the Magna Carta is due Wednesday.
    annotate the reading,  
  5 facts with page numbers/ 3 Q+A/  idk or ah-hah

No book homework due this week;  complete the review sheets before your mid-term and turn them into me before the test. 

Exam Schedule
Friday:  B4 and B3 Exams
Next Monday:  MLK Day, no school
Next Tuesday: A1 and A2 Exams
Next Wednesday: B1 and B2 Exams
Next Thursday: 1/2 day   A3 and A4 Exams
Next Friday:  B Day, no exams
Midterm open ended questions

1.  What would be the best way to teach a class or coach a team: Confucianism, Daoism, or legalism?  Why is  one method better in the short and long term than the other two methods?

2.  Identify and explain the MAINS causes of WWI?  Explain how the implementation of the von Schlieffen Plan brought all the major European powers into WWI.  Could this war have been avoided?  Explain why or why not.

3.  How did the Treaty of Versailles lead to the election of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in 1933?  How was Germany treated by the treaty and why did all Germans dislike it? Why were Jews a common scapegoat to attack throughout most of European history?  How did Hitler use the scapegoat to unite Germans?

4.  Describe the feudal relationship between a lord and his vassal.  What obligations were owed by each to the other?   Why did feudalism develop in the Middle Ages and how was it a response to Viking attacks?  What were the obligations the peasants owed their lord?  Why would serf give up their freedom?  Identify what what was  more important in the Middle Ages than freedom.  Draw a motte and bailey castle and explain how it provided protection from invaders.

5.  Why were the Crusades called?  Were they a success or a failure?  Explain how they may have been both a success and a failure.What is cultural diffusion? How did Europe benefit culturally and commercially from the Crusades.  What is the legacy of the Crusades today?  Why is the University of Holy Cross changing its mascot from Crusaders to Suns?  

6. What were the causes and the effects of the Bubonic Plague?  How did it help to end feudalism and help to grow capitalism?  How did people respond to the plague?  How did it end?

7. How do Medieval and Renaissance art differ?   How does art reflect what we value?  (think Venus of Willendorf)

Midterm Review terms: due before your midterm exam

Week of January 9, 2017
Define or explain relationship

Middle Ages/Fall of Rome/Renaissance

Nobles/Peasants/manor

Lords/Vassals feudal relationship

Knights/chivalry  

Crusades/Pope/Holy Land

Magna Carta/King John/ rule of law/ habeas corpus
Black Death and its impact

Salvation/sale of indulgences/Reformation

Martin Luther/Pope/Protestant Revolution

Renaissance/Humanism/Perspective

Da Vinci / Mona Lisa

Michelangelo/David

Gutenberg/movable type/Scientific Revolution

Nicholas Copernicus/Heliocentric/ Geocentric

Age of Exploration/Reasons for exploration

Columbus/ Columbian Exchange

Magellan/circumnavigation

Three estates and role in French Revolution

1st estate

2nd estate

3rd estate
Napoleon

John Locke-  Natural Rights

Baron De Montesquieu-Separation of powers

WWI Allies vs.____________________

MAINS causes of WWI
Identify the county of each person and why they were important

Franz Ferdinand
Assassination
Gavrilo Princip/ Black Hand

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Czar Nicholas

VI Lenin

Ultimatum from A-H to?

Mobilization

Von Schlieffen Plan

Trench warfare

Eastern Front

Western Front

Impact of Machine Gun on the Western Front

Lusitania  

Unrestricted submarine warfare

Zimmerman Note

Propaganda

Treaty of Versailles/Reparations

WWII Allies vs. _______________
Neville Chamberlain/Appeasement

Anschluss (union)  of Germany and _______________

WWII begins with blitzkrieg of ___________________  

Benito Mussolini

Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf

Joseph Stalin

Winston Churchill

Franklin Roosevelt

Harry Truman

Hirohito/Tojo

Mahatma Gandhi

Mao Zedong

Pablo Picasso

Kamikaze Pilot

blitzkrieg

Pearl Harbor

Manhattan Project

Yalta Project

Big 3 Allies

D Day

Holocaust/Genocide

Death Camps

Aryan Race/Swastika

Totalitarianism

Kamikaze

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Cold War: What 2 major countries involved?
Which country is a Communist dictatorship?
Which country is Capitalist democracy?

Containment/Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Map of Europe with following countries:  England, France, Germany, Italy

Week of January 3, 2017

The Honors reading on the Magna Carta is due next Tuesday.

Homework due next week.
13(3) The Protestant Reformation (423-427)
Identify the terms, people and places listed on page 423.
What is Luther doing in the picture on page 423?
Read the biography of Martin Luther on page 425 and answer the question at the bottom. Look at the Calvinist Church pictured on page 427, how does it differ from Medieval Cathedrals? 
Answer the three checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR 3 bullets per section.


Double homework grade.

13(4) Reformation Ideas Spread (428-433) Double homework grade:

Identify 5 terms people and places on page 428.
Read A King Speaks out on page 428. 
Did Henry VIII originally oppose or support Luther's break from the church?
Read the biography of Elizabeth I biography on page 429. What three accomplishments of Elizabeth led to what was called the Elizabethan Age?
Read the major events of the English Reformation. Why did King Henry VIII break from the Church in 1533?
How long did it take him to take over the Church of England with the Act of Supremacy?
Look at the map of major European Religions about 1600.
How many religions existed in the Holy Roman Empire?
Why do you think the Holy Roman Empire could not unite into one unified nation? 
Look at the primary source on page 433.
How did Teresa of Avila try to end the Reformation in France?
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences or bullet 3 points from each.