Honors Week of November 22, 2019

Short week,  We will focus on Martin Luther and his reasons for finally breaking from the Church in 1521


Book work due next week:

15(3)Struggle for North America (482-486)
Identify  5 of 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.

15(4) The Atlantic Slave Trade (487-490). 
Identify 5 0f  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.

Week of November 12, 2019 CP1 and CP2

14(3) and 14(4) are due this Friday

We will study  the Renaissance  this week,  be ready for a quiz on Thursday/Friday on material covered in class

Due  next Friday

15(1) The Search for Spices (364-368)
Read The Spice Trade (364)  What spices were in demand in Europe?
Read the Biography of Henry the Navigator (365)  Identify two reasons Henry wanted to fund voyages of exploration.
Draw and identify the two tools of navigation pictured on page 367.
Answer questions 2+3 on page 366.
Read the primary source (368) What type of food did Magellan's crew eat on their voyage? 
Answer questions 3,4,5,6 on page 368

15(3)  European Footholds in SE Asia and India  (373-376)
Read the primary source (373)  Where is the Straits of Malacca and why did the Portuguese want to control it?
Read about the Dodo bird (374)  Why were they extinct within 100 years?
Read about the cyclone that destroyed Calcutta (375)   Explain why the tsunami waves are so devastating?
Read Prized Imports (376) Why did the British Parliament try to ban Indian tapestries?

Identify outpost, sepoy, Alfoonso Albuquerque, Robert Clive
Answer questions 3,4,5 on page 376

Honors Week of November 12, 2019

Rum reading due next Wednesday-
Fully annotate
OR 10 facts with page numbers
Make sure to identify and comment on facts which must include  at least one of the following:

1. Fascinating fact and why it interested you
2.  Confusing term or phrase with explaination (Mr. Google may be referenced)
3.  Meaningful term or phase with explaination
4.  Impactful quotation and its meaning
5.  Turning point and explaination of how it impacted history
6.  Visual that supported a key idea or extended your thinking/understanding
7. Something that made you rethink your ideas- explain how
8.  Something that added to knowedge you already had-explain how

2 good Questions and answers
One paragraph each-
1.React to author's writng style
2. React to the reading

13(3) and 13(4) are due by Friday
We will have a quiz on Friday on material covered this week in class.
Due next Friday:

14(1) the Search for Spices(446-451)
Identify 5 of the terms people and places listed on page 446. 
Read the search is on at the top of p.446, list four of the spices Europeans wanted from Asia.
Look at the Map Skills on page 447, answer question #3.
Look at the infographic on page 449.
Identify  illustrate three of the tools used in the Age of Exploration. Read the biography on page 450 and list three facts about Prince Henry the Navigator.
Answer assessment questions #3-6  on page 451.

 14(2) Turbulent Centuries in Africa (p.452-455) 
Identify 5 of the terms, people and places on page 452. 
Answer map skills questions #2+3 on page 454. 
Look at the picture on page 455. Why did the Portuguese build castles in Africa?
Answer Assessment questions #3, 4,6 on page 455.

November 8

1. Why are poppies significant Monday,  November 11th -  Rememberance Day/Armistace Day/Veteran's Day?'

2. Before 1500 what was the leading civilization in the world and inventor of  gun powder, paper, porcelin,  noodles, coal ...


2. Who united the Mongols in the 1200's and made them a world power?

3. What was the kamakazi and what country did it save from Mongol invasion in 1274 and 1281?

4.  Who was nicknamed Marco Millions (a million stories)  after he came back from China and wrote a book about his travels there?








A classes add

Identify the difference between medieval and renaissance art. 

November 8

1. Why are poppies significant Monday,  November 11th -  Rememberance Day/Armistace Day/Veteran's Day?

2.   How would Socialism end poverty?  What is a nanny state and safety nets?

3.  What are quotas and rationing used for?

4 How would Capitalism end poverty?  What is the motivator and regulator?

5.   What is the goal of Greyston Bakery if it's primary mission is not just to bake great cakes?

6. .  Is Greyston Bakery more capitalist or socialist?  Explain "do good and do well"

Week of November 4, 2019 CP1 and CP2

14(1) and 14(2) are due by Friday

Question for class discussion:  When we look at the Crusades and the Reformation we see that religion is a creative as well as a destructive force.  Why do you think that is the case?  What is it about religion that leads to these forces?


Due next week
14(3)  The Protestant Reformation (346-350)
Identify:  Indulgence, recant, predestination, theocracy
What does the picture on 347 show?  Do you think this is supportive or opposes the Roman Church?
Why?
Read Comparing viewpoints (349)  Explain the goal of education in one sentence each for the ideas of  Confucius (China), Luther (Germany) Marti (Cuba).  Whose views do you think is most correct?  Why? 
Read the primary source on Jean Calvin (350).  What type of life did he warn against?
Answer  #3,4,5,6 on page 350 in complete sentences.

14(4)  Reformation Ideas spread  (351-355)
Identify annul, canonize, compromise, scapegoat, ghetto
Look at the picture of Henry VIII(351)  list 4 things he was known for.
Read the biography of Elizabeth I (352) List three ways she promoted the arts.
Look at the map (353)  Identify the 5 religions mapped.  What three countries do you think would have the most religious strife around 1600?  (Hint it won't be Italy or Portugal. Explain why.
Read Global Connections about Salem. (354)  How many people were charged in Salem?  How many executed?  Why do you think the witch hunts ended soon after the Governor's wife was named a suspect?
Answer questions #4,5,6,7 on page  355

Week of November 4, 2019 Honors

13 (1) and 13(2)  are due by Friday


Question for class discussion:  When we look at the Crusades and the Reformation we see that religion is a creative as well as a destructive force.  Why do you think that is the case?  What is it about religion that leads to these forces?

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 Christian 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.