Week of December 18, Due Friday this week or Wednesday after vacation

We will be working on an accurate Medieval timeline.  I will pass out graph paper in class and begin work.  This will be graded as a quiz.
Honors class will also be assigned a reading on MLK and J Edgar Hoover 

    Medieval Timeline  476 CE- 1453 CE/1517                  

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 
1450 Johann Gutenberg ____________ printed,  movable ____________ invented.
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

1475 Michelangelo born in ___________________, Italy

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

1517  Martin Luther  nails his ____  __________________  on Church door in

     Wittenberg, Germany

Week of December 18, 2018 Honors

Don't forget about your history day project. 

Book work Due week after vacation: 
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

Week of December 11, 2018 Honor's Homework

History Day Project Part 4 is due next Monday

Do not forget

Thesis Statement

Background-must relate to thesis
Obstacles/Accomplishments

Legacy-must relate to thesis
Triumph/Tragedy

Written Copy (500 typed words is due)
   Also due-  powerpoint with images and be ready to present and explain your thesis to the class.
   If you have started project include pictures

Week of December 11, CP1 and CP2

Homework due next week,
No homework over Christmas break, this work is due the day before break
Don't forget current events

11(1) The Rise of Islam (p.252-255)
Identify oasis, Khadija, Quran, hijra, monotheistic, mosque, hajj, jihad, 3 People of the Book
Read  Connections to today (252) Why do Muslims consider Mecca sacred?
What angel is pictured on page 253? What is he blowing? Why?
Where is the Dome of the Rock (picture 254)? Why do Muslims hold this Dome sacred?   Draw the Dome.  
What is the name of the law court pictured on page (255)
Answer questions 3,4,5 on page 255  in complete sentences

11(3) Golden Age of Muslim Civilizations (261-266)
Identify: social mobility, arabesque, calligraphy, Avicenna

What are scholars studying in the picture on page 251?

What is a modern version of what is pictured on page 252?
What did the Muslim super hero complain to God about in the primary source? (263)
Bullet three facts about the Art of the Muslim world (264)
Read the biography.  (265)Why was the scholar Averroes exiled to Spain?
What is pictured on page 266?
Answer questions 4 and 5 on page 266 in complete sentences.

Week of December 4, 2018 CP1 and CP2

We finally wrap up WW2 this week, be ready for a quiz at the end of the week. 
We begin our Medieval studies next week, below is the homework

8(1) and 8(2) are due next Monday 
Due next Friday 

8(3) The Medieval Church   Read pages 191-196
Define:  sacrament, title, secular, papal supremacy, canon law, excommunication, interdict, simony, friar, antisemitism
Read Geoffrey Chaucer's description of a parish priest (191)  Is it a positive or a negative description?  Explain
Look at the map Spread of Christianity (192)  answer questions #2+3
What is pictured on page 193?  Where was it written?  Why do you think it was thrown in a bog?
Read "You are there" (194)  List three facts about life in a monastery
Who is pictured on page 195.  What type of early life did Francis lead?
What is pictured on page 196?  Why was this plate decorated so elaborately?
Answer questions 3-6 on page 196.

8(4) Economic expansion and change  Read pages 197-201.
Identify:  charter, capital, partnership, bill of exchange, tenant farmer, middle class, usury, guild , apprentice, journeyman, master
Read Geography and history (197)  How did the glove maker die?  Why did this happen?
Look at the map on page 198.  What does this illustrate?  Why do you think trade increased during this time?
Read connections to today (199)  List two medieval trade ideas used in business today.
What is pictured on page 200?  What are the artisans making?
Read the primary source (201)  What did London youth do in the winter?
Answer questions 3,4,5 on page 201.

Week of December 4, 2017 Honors

7(1) and 7(2) are due next Monday
Due next Friday
7(3) The Medieval Church  Read pages 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


Chapter 7(4) Economic Recovery Sparks Change. Read pages 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.

Don't forget Part 4 of History day project is due December 14, 2018

Week of December 4. 2018 Honors, CP1 and CP2

We will be working on an accurate Medieval timeline.  I will pass out graph paper in class and begin work.  This will be graded as a quiz.
Honors class will also be assigned a reading on MLK and J Edgar Hoover 

    Medieval Timeline  476 CE- 1453 CE/1517                  

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 
1450 Johann Gutenberg ____________ printed,  movable ____________ invented.
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

1475 Michelangelo born in ___________________, Italy

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

1517  Martin Luther  nails his ____  __________________  on Church door in

     Wittenberg, Germany

Week of November 27, 2018 CP1 and CP2

We will wrap up our study of WWII and the Cold War this week and begin our study of the Middle Ages next week.  How did the Middle Ages get their name?

Homework due next week

8(1) The Early Middle Ages (182-185)
Identify medieval, missi dominici, curriculum
Look at the map on page 184  Answer question #2 on Skills Assessment (184)
 Read Did you know? (185) Describe Valhalla.  How did a Viking get there when he died?
Answer questions  #1, 3, 4, 5 on page 185.

8(2)  Feudalism and the Manor Economy (186-191)Read the feudal contract on page 188.  Answer Skills Assessment #1+2.  Why do you think feudalism so complicated?  Who did you owe allegiance to?
Read the biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine?  Who did she marry?  What countries came into conflict because of her marriages?
Look at the painting on page 190.  What is the building in the background on the top left?  Why do you think this view of peasant life is idealistic and not realistic?
Answer questions 3,4,5 on page 190 in complete sentences.

Week of November 27, 2018 Honors

This week we wrap up our study of WWII and the Cold War

We begin our study of the Middle Ages next week.  This homework is due at the end of next week How did the Middle Ages get its name?

 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 #3,4,5 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 13, 2018 Honors

FDR reading is due this Friday

Don't forget National History Day Project,  part III is due after Thanksgiving

Read  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  

Week of November 13, 2018 CP1 and CP2

Happy week after Armistice Day and week before Thanksgiving

Due next  Wednesday  before vacation

Read 31(5)  From World War to Cold War (791-795)
Define: Iron Curtain, Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, Berlin Airlift, NATO, Warsaw Pact
Look at the fact finder (792)  Which nation had over 20 million deaths and 14 million military wounded?  Why do you think this nation would want to protect itself in the future?
Look at the Primary Source (793) What metaphor did Churchill coin describing Soviet control of Eastern Europe? 
Look at the map on 794.  What German city was divided into 4 zones?  Why would Greece and Turkey be early areas for Cold War Conflicts?  
Read the Berlin Airlift (795) What was Operation Vittles and Operation Little Vittles?
Answer questions 3-6 on page 795. 

Week of November 5, 2108 Honors

Next Sunday marks the armistice  that ended WWI.  How did WWI change the world? 
Do not forget History Day Project/  Part III due 11/19

  Due next Monday

Define these WW2 terms:  due next Monday

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

Hideki Tojo and Emperor Hirohito

Final Solution  /Genocide

Holocaust

Kristallnacht

Auschwitz

Complete the FDR reading for the end of next Thursday  (11/15).   
What do you think of FDR?  What do you think of Doris Kearns Goodwin's writing?
 Answer 4 of these 5 questions.

1. Polio was a transformative experience for FDR according to Eleanor.  Describe the character of FDR before and after his contracting polio.  How did FDR change both physically and psychologically (mentally)?

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2. How did talks with FDR change his general’s behavior during WWII?  How did FDR use his fireside chats?   Who were these chats directed towards? Why didn’t he give a chat every week?   How many fireside chats did FDR deliver in the 13+ years of his presidency?  ________

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3. When “Doc Win the War “replaced “Doc New Deal” how did Eleanor react?  Describe the relationship between Franklin and Eleanor.  What was Eleanor’s role in the presidency?    What caused this relationship to change?   Why did some call FDR to “muzzle that wife of yours”?    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
4. Actor Gregory Peck cried as a child when he saw FDR?  Why?  What caused Peck to cry and why did he soon laugh?   How did FDR manipulate his public persona?  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
5. How did America react when FDR died in April 1945 one month before VE Day? Why were the people so emotional? -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Week of November 5, 2018 CP1 and CP2

Next Sunday marks the armistice  that ended WWI.  How did WWI change the world?

Define these WW2 terms:

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

Hideki Tojo and Emperor Hirohito

Final Solution  /Genocide

Holocaust

Kristallnacht

Auschwitz

Week of October 29,2018 Honors

Mark Twain said: Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.  What did he mean?

We will be in the learning commons on Monday working on our history day project.
Assignment #2 is due this week.

Also, don't forget current events, three sets are due this term.  I will take late work until Friday afternoon.

Book work 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.