Week of February 29, 2016

Happy Leap Year Day.   Why do we have leap year?  How is this associated with Copernicus and the heliocentric view of the solar system?
Tuesday is Super Tuesday.  Why do we have off tomorrow?

17(3) Birth of the American Republic (557-563)

Identify five of the terms, people, and places
Read Witness History (557) What was the point of Paine's Common Sense?
Look at map skills (558) Answer question #3.
What three men are pictured on page 559?  What did they write?
Read the three biographies on page 560. Answer the bold questions at the bottom of each reading.
Who is the focus of the picture on page 561?
What three branches are pictured on page 562?
Read the Bill of Rights (563) Why do you think they had to be added as amendments to the US Constitution?
Answer 4 of the 5 checkpoint questions OR #3-6 on page 563.

Week of February 22, 2016

 Essay Question:   DBQ question: Do you believe that Christopher Columbus a hero or a villain? Why is he viewed as  a hero or a villain to some scholars? 

Due next week:

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.

Separate Homework Grade:
Read the Primary Source : John Locke on page 549. Answer questions #1+2.

17(2) Enlightenment Ideas Spread (550-555) 
Identify five of the terms, people, and places Read the Witness History (550) What does reason, tolerance, and love overcome in the Magic Flute? 
Look at the picture on 551, why did writers hide their feelings in satire?
Read the infographic (552-3), how does Rococo Art differ from Baroque Art?
Who are the three enlightened despots pictured on page 554?
Read about Operas on page 556, answer question #1.
Answer the four checkpoint questions in complete sentences OR question #3-6 on page 555.

Week of February 8, 2016

Happy Mardi Gras week,  I hope you enjoyed your extended weekend.
Why is Mardi Gras (fat Tuesday) and Carnival (eating of meat) celebrated this week?  
Honors reading is due on Wednesday.

Friday we will complete a dbq on Columbus:  hero or villain?13(4) and 16(1) are due by Friday.

Homework due after vacation:
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 in COMPLETE sentences or questions #3,4,5 on page 514 in complete sentences.

Week of February1, 2016

Honor's 4th Horseman reading due next Monday.

Don't forget current events due by the end of the week.
Homework due next Monday

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.

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 COMPLETE sentences or questions 3,4,5 on page 508

Separate home work  grade 

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

Week of January 25, 2016

I hope you enjoyed this weekend's snow.  This week marks the beginning of term 3, don't forget to do your current events.   

In class DBQ to be completed on Thursday or Friday: Do you believe that Christopher Columbus a hero or a villain? Why is he viewed as a hero or a villain to some scholars? 

Background to be covered this week in class: What was the Colombian Exchange?  Describe the transfer of plants, animals and diseases between the New and Old World and explain its impact on world history.

Homework due next Monday.

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.

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.


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 tulipmaina? 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

Week of January 19, 2016

Grades for the term close Friday.
No homework assigned this week.  Study for mid-terms and complete any missing homework for the term.

Week of January 11, 2016

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 the Black Death is due Wednesday.
    annotate the reading,   three column writeup due:
  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:  B1 and B2 Exams
Next Monday:  MLK Day, no school
Next Tuesday: A4 and A3 Exams
Next Wednesday: B4 and B3 Exams
Next Thursday: 1/2 day   A1 and A2 Exams
Next Friday:  B1 Day, no exams
Midterm open ended questions

1.  What is civil disobedience?  Who developed this policy of reform?  What are its two components?  Why is civil disobedience so effective?  Identify and explain a civil disobedience protest and explain if you think its effectiveness.  How do the recent protests against the police mistreatment of African Americans break from the concept of civil disobedience?

2.  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?

3.  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.

4.  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?

5.  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.

6.  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?