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2012 - 2013Assignment Calendar

 

Unit 1: Technological and Environmental
Transformations, to c. 600 B.C.E.

 

Day of Week

Day

Month

Assignment

Topic

Due Date

Deadline 10% Off

Monday

27

August

Read Preface & Prologue in Book

1st Day

 

 

Tuesday

28

August

Read Part 1 & Chapter 1 (Pg 2-29)

Discuss

• Pottery

• Plows

• Woven textiles

• Metallurgy

• Wheels and wheeled vehicles

Prehistory

 

 

Wednesday

29

August

Complete Chapter 1 Worksheet/Vocabulary

Discuss – Iron Weapons

·         Hittite Chariots

·         Pyramids

·         Sculpture

·         Hieroglyphs

·         Trade between Egypt and Nubia

Egypt

Aug 30

Sep 6

Thursday

30

August

Complete Chapter 1 Outline/New Outline

Discuss – Ziggurats

·         Cuneiform

·         Hebrew monotheism

·         Zoroastrianism

Mesopotamia

Sep 4

Sep 6

Friday

31

August

·         The “Epic of Gilgamesh”

·         Code of Hammurabi

Mesopotamia

 

 

Monday

3

September

NO SCHOOL – Labor Day

 

 

 

Tuesday

4

September

Quiz CH1

Discuss

·         The Vedic religion

·         Trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley

Ancient China/India

 

 

Wednesday

5

September

Study for Test 1

Basic Concepts

AP Test & Class Review

 

 

Thursday

6

September

Unit 1 Exam

Read Part 2 & Chapter 2

Complete Chapter 2 Worksheet

 

Sep 7

Sep 14

 

 

 

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2012 - 2013Assignment Calendar

 

Unit 2: Organization and Reorganization of Human
Societies, c. 600 B.C.E. to c. 600 C.E.

 

Friday

7

September

Complete Test Corrections

Discuss

·         Bureaucracies and Administrative Institutions

·         Fortifications & Defensive Walls

·         The Silk Road

·         Yokes

·         Horses & Animal Domestication

·         Changes in Farming and Irrigation Systems

Zhou, Qin, Han China

Sep 10

 

Sep 10*

 

Monday

10

September

Complete Chapter 2 Outline

Read Chapter 3

Discuss – Confucius & Beliefs

o   Effect of Confucism on China

Confucianism

Sep 11

Sep 18

Tuesday

11

September

Complete Chapter 3 Worksheet

Quiz CH2

Discuss – Nomadic Incursions

o    Maurya Empire

Mayra Dynasty

Sep 12

Sep 19

Wednesday

12

September

Complete Chapter 3 Outline

Discuss - Gupta Empire

o    Indian Ocean Sea Lanes

o    Dhow Ships

Gupta Dynasty

Sep 14

Sep 21

Thursday

13

September

Read Chapter 4

Discuss - Spread of Religion

o    Buddhism

o   Hinduism

Hinduism & Buddhism

 

 

Friday

14

September

Quiz CH3

** No Homework **

Discuss - Phoenician Colonies

o   Greek Colonies

o   Slavery

Ancient Greece

 

 

Monday

17

September

NO SCHOOL –

Rosh Hashanah

 

 

 

Tuesday

18

September

Discuss –Athens & Sparta

o    Democracy

o    Greek Plays

o    Greek City States

o    Distinctive Architectural Styles

Ancient Greece

 

 

Wednesday

19

September

Write Comparison Essay

How to Write a Good Comparison Essay

Comparison Essay

Sep 20

Sep 27

Thursday

20

September

Primary Sources Homework

Discuss –Persian Empire

o    Hellenistic Influences

o    Greek Legal System

Ancient Greece

Sep 21

Sep 28

Friday

21

September

Complete Chapter 4 Worksheet

Discuss –Distinctive Architectural Styles

o    Early Republic

o    Centralized government

Ancient Rome

Sep 24

Oct 1

Monday

24

September

Complete Chapter 4 Outline

Discuss –Imperial government

o    Diplomacy

o    Supply Lines

o    Roads

o    Military organization

Ancient Rome

Sep 25

Oct 2*

Tuesday

25

September

Read Chapter 5

Complete Chapter 5 WS

Quiz CH4

Discuss – Constantinople

o    Soil Erosion & Desertification

o    Mediterranean Sea Lanes

Ancient Rome

 

Sep 26

 

Oct 2*

Wednesday

 

26

September

** No Homework **

Discuss –

·         Rome and Incursions from the North & East

·         Effects of Disease on the population

Decline of the Han & Rome 

 

 

Thursday

27

September

NO SCHOOL –

Yom Kippur

 

 

 

Friday

(Half Day)

28

September

Complete Chapter 5 Outline

Quiz CH5

Discuss–Spread of Religion

§  Buddhism

·         Gender Roles in Buddhism

§  Christianity

·         Gender Roles in Christianity

§  Hinduism

§  Influence of  Daoism

o    Medical theories and practices

Decline of the Han & Rome 

Oct 1

Oct 2*

Monday

1

October

Study for Exam

Discuss –Early Africa & America’s

o    Trans Saharan Caravan Routes

o    Ancestor Veneration

o    Mesoamerica

§  Teotihuacán

§  Mayan City States

o    Andean

§  Moche

Early Africa & America’s

 

 

Tuesday

2

October

Unit 2 Exam

Read Chapter 6

Complete Worksheet CH6 

Test

 

 

Oct 3

 

 

Oct 10


 

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Unit 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions,
c. 600 C.E. to c. 1450

 

Day of Week

Day

Month

Assignment

Topic

Due Date

Deadline 10% Off

Wednesday

3

October

Complete Test Corrections

Projects to Include: The Rise and Spread of Islam

    • The Arabian World
    • Life of Muhammad
    • The Umayyad Empire

Islam and Muhammad

Oct 4

Oct 4*

Thursday

4

October

Complete Chapter 6 OutlineMC

Read Chapter 7

(Timeline Project)

Umayyad Empire

Oct 5

 

Oct 12

 

Friday

5

October

Complete Worksheet CH7 MC

Projects to Include:Abbasid Decline

    • Spread of Islam to South and Southeast Asia
      • Indian Ocean Basins Trade Routes
      • Muslim merchant communities in the Indian Ocean region
      • Literary, Cultural, and Artistic Diffusion of Islam in Southeast Asia
    • Ibn Battuta

(Timeline Project)

Abbasid Empire

Oct 8

 

Oct 15

Monday

8

October

Complete Chapter 7 OutlineMC

(Timeline Project)

Islamic Arts & Sciences

Oct 9

Oct 16

Tuesday

9

October

Read Chapter 8

Timeline Projects Due

Islam in

SE Asia

Oct 10

Oct 17

Wednesday

10

October

Complete Chapter 8 Outline

Complete Worksheet CH8

Primary Sources to Include: Before Islam

    • After Islam
      • Timbuktu
    • Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
      • Caravanserai

Islam in Africa

Oct 11

Both

Oct 18

Thursday

11

October

Read Chapter 9

CH 6 & 7 Quiz

Primary Sources to Include: Bantu transmission of iron and agricultural techniques

    • Spread of Bantu languages like Swahili
    • Literary, Cultural, and Artistic Diffusion of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa
    • Nomadic pastoralism

Ghana to Songhai

 

 

Friday

12

October

Complete Chapter 9 Worksheet

CH 8 Quiz

Primary Sources to Include: Spread of Orthodox Religion

Byzantine Empire

Oct 15

Oct 22

Monday

15

October

Complete Chapter 9 Outline

Primary Sources to include: Rise and Fall

·         Mongol Take over

Kievian Russia

Oct 16

Oct 22

Tuesday

16

October

Quiz CH9

Write Change-Over-Time Essay

How to Write a Good COT Essay

Change & Continuity Essay

Oct 17

Oct 23

Wednesday

17

October

Read Chapter 10

Discussions to Include: Mediterranean Sea Routes

    • Hanseatic League
    • Env. Knowledge & Tech Adaptation - Vikings use of longships for open sea & inland travel

Charlemagne & Feudalism

 

 

Thursday

18

October

Complete CH 10 Worksheet

Early France&England

Oct 22

Oct 26*

Friday

19

October

NO SCHOOL – MSTA Conference

 

 

 

 

Monday

22

October

Complete Chapter 10 Outline

Discussions to Include

o    Coerced and unfree labor

o    Decline of Urban Areas – Little Ice Age

o    Craft production and guild organization

Medieval Church

Oct 23

Oct 26*

Tuesday

23

October

Quiz CH10

Discussions to Include: Technological and cultural transfers of the Crusades

The Crusades

 

 

Wednesday

24

October

Read Chapter 11

Complete Worksheet CH 11

100 Years War & Black Death

Oct 25

Nov 1

 

Thursday

25

October

Study for Test

Discussions to Include:Early Mesoamerica

      • Teotihuacán
      • Mayan City States
    • The Aztecs
      • The chinampa field systems
      • Safe and Reliable Urban Transport
      • Aztec practice of human sacrifice

Maya & Aztec

 

 

Friday

 

26

October

Unit 3A Exam

Read Chapter 12

Complete CH 11 Outline

Test

Oct 29

Nov 2

Monday

29

October

Complete Test Corrections

Discussions to Include:Improved Terracing techniques

    • Maritime migrations of the Polynesian peoples

The Inca & Other American’s

Oct 30

Oct 30*

Tuesday

30

October

Complete CH 12 Worksheet

Quiz CH11

Discussions to Include:The Sui, Tang, & Song Dynasties

      • The Silk Road
      • Silk and Cotton Textiles
      • Paper Money
      • diffusion of scientific and technological traditions -spread of printing & gunpowder to Islamic Empires and Europe
      • Religion as a traditional source of power and legitimacy
      • Tributary systems
      • Tang and Abbasid technological and cultural transfer
      • Decline of Agricultural Productivity
      • Disease and Invasions
      • End of Invasions
      • Gender Relations
      • Free peasant revolts

Tang & Song Dynasties

Oct 31

Nov 7*

Wednesday

31

October

Complete Chapter 12 Outline

Tang & Song Dynasties

Nov 1

Nov 7

Thursday

1

November

Read Chapter 13

Complete CH 13 Worksheet

Quiz CH12

Discussion to Include:Chinese traditions that influenced states in Japan

§  Neoconfucianism and Buddhism in East Asia

§  Coerced and unfree labor

Feudal Japan

Nov 2

Nov 8

Friday

End 1st Marking Period

2

November

Complete Chapter 13 Outline

Discussion to Include:New Foods and Agricultural Techniques - New Rice Varieties in East Asia

Korea & Vietnam

Nov 7

Nov 12*

Monday

5

November

NO SCHOOL – Teacher Workday

 

 

 

 

Tuesday

6

November

NO SCHOOL – Election Day

 

 

 

 

Wednesday

7

November

**Read Chapter 14**MC

Quiz CH13

Complete CH 14 Worksheet

Project to Include:Technological and cultural transfers throughout the empire

The Mongols Project

 

 

Nov 8

 

 

Nov 15

Thursday

8

November

Complete Chapter 14 OutlineMC

The Mongols Project

Nov 9

Nov 16

Friday

9

November

Complete Mongol WebQuest AssignmentMC

The Mongols Project

Nov 12

Nov 16*

Monday

12

November

Read Chapter 15

Complete CH 15 Worksheet

How to Write a Good DBQ Essay

Quiz CH14

Write DBQ

Writing the DBQ

Nov 13

Nov 16*

Tuesday

13

November

How to Write a Good DBQ Essay

Revise DBQ

Writing the DBQ

Nov 14

Nov 16*

Wednesday

14

November

Complete Chapter 15 Outline

Discussions to Include:Banking Houses

o    Italian City-States

o    Rise of Commerce and Warmer Temperatures between 800-1300

o    Increased agricultural productivity and rising population

o    Availability of labor and urban growth

o    Free Peasant agriculture

o    Government-imposed labor taxes

o    Military obligations

World Power Shifts

Nov 15

Nov 16*

Thursday

15

November

Quiz CH15

Study for Unit 3B Exam

World Power Shifts

 

 

Friday

16

November

Unit 3B Exam

Read Chapter 16

Complete CH 16 Worksheet

Test

Nov 19

Nov 26*


 

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2012 - 2013Assignment Calendar

 

Unit 4: Global Interactions, c. 1450 to c. 1750

 

Day of Week

Day

Month

Assignment

Topic

Due Date

Deadline 10% Off

Monday

19

November

Complete Test Corrections

  • Columbian Exchange
  • To Eurasia
    • Food Crops - Potatoes
    • Food Crops - Maize
    • Cash Crops – Sugar
  • To the America’s
    • Slaves
    • Christianity
    • Horses
    • Cattle
    • Rice
    • Disease

Colombian Exchange

Nov 20

Nov 26

Tuesday

20

November

Complete Chapter 16 Outline

Discussions to Include: Voyages of Zheng He

  • Astrolabe
  • Innovations in ship design
  • Portuguese maritime empire (Including Azores)
  • Spanish maritime empire (Including Philippines)

Portugal&Spain

Nov 21

Nov 27

Wednesday

(Half Day)

21

November

Quiz CH 16

Read Chapter 17

Discussions to Include: Colonial Expansion

§  Dutch maritime empires

§  French maritime empires

§  British maritime empires

§  Dutch & British East India Companies

§  Mercantilism

§  Piracy in the Caribbean (competition over trade routes)

Colonial Expansion

 

 

Thursday

22

November

NO SCHOOL – Thanksgiving Holiday

 

 

 

Friday

23

November

NO SCHOOL – Thanksgiving Holiday

 

 

 

Monday

26

November

Write DBQ

      • Renaissance art in Europe
      • Cervantes

The Renaissance

Nov 29

Dec 5

Tuesday

27

November

Complete CH 17 Worksheet

The Reformation

Nov 30

Dec 6

Wednesday

28

November

Complete Chapter 17 Outline

 

Scientific Revolution

Dec 1

Dec 7

Thursday

29

November

Primary Sources Homework

 

France

3 Kings

Dec 2

Dec 8

Friday

30

November

Quiz CH 17

 

English Monarchs

Dec 5

Dec 12

Monday

3

December

Read Chapter 18

  • The Enlightenment
    • Voltaire & Rousseau
    • The Salons of Paris
    • John Locke
    • American Declaration of Independence
    • The American Revolution
    • Expanded Rights
    • Abolition of Slavery

The Enlightenment

 

 

Tuesday

4

December

Complete Chapter 18 WorksheetMC

(Group Presentations)

The Hapsburgs

Dec 4

Dec 11

Wednesday

5

December

Complete Chapter 18 OutlineMC

      • Russian land empire

(Group Presentations)

Russian Tsars

Dec 5

Dec 12

Thursday

6

December

Thesis HomeworkMC

(Group Presentations)

Russian Serfdom

Dec 6

Dec 13

Friday

7

December

Quiz CH 18

Read Chapter 19

(Group Presentations)

Russia Economic Dependence

 

 

Monday

10

December

Complete Chapter 19 Worksheet

    • Re-conquest to Conquest
    • New forms of religion - The cults of saints inLatin America
    • Creole elites in Spanish America

Colonial America

Dec 11

Dec 17

Tuesday

11

December

Complete Chapter 19 Outline

  • Multiracial Societies
    • New ethnic and racial classifications
    • Gender and family restructuring
  • Colonial Spanish America & Colonial Brazil
    • Arts as displays of political power - Urban design

Brazil

Dec 12

Dec 18

Wednesday

12

December

Quiz CH 19

Read Chapter 20

    • Destruction of Native Societies
    • Encomiendaand hacienda systems

Plantation

Slavery

 

 

Thursday

13

December

Complete Chapter 20 Worksheet

    • Coerced labor migration

The Slave Trade

Dec 14

Dec 21

Friday

14

December

Complete Chapter 20 Outline

    • The Belgian Congo
    • The Zulu Kingdom

The Slave Trade

Dec 17

Dec 21*

Monday

17

December

Quiz CH 20

Read Chapter 21

South Africa& The Boers

 

 

Tuesday

18

December

Complete Chapter 21 Worksheet MC

  • Later Muslim Empires
  • The Ottoman Empire
    • Ottoman land empire
    • Ottoman treatment of non-Muslim subjects
    • Ottoman devshirme
  • The Safavid Empire
    • Safavid use of Shiism
    • Ottoman/Safavid conflict
  • The Mughal Empire
    • Mughal land empire
    • Cotton textile production in India

Muslim Empires Project

Dec 19

Dec 21*

Wednesday

19

December

Complete Chapter 21 OutlineMC

 

Muslim Empires Project

Dec 20

Dec 21*

Thursday

20

December

Quiz CH 21MC

Complete WebQuest Assignment

Read Chapter 22

Muslim Empires Project

Dec 21

Jan 2*

Friday

21

December

Complete Chapter 22 Worksheet

Europeans in India

Jan 2

Jan 3*

Monday

24

December

WINTER BREAK (NO SCHOOL)

 

 

 

Tuesday

25

December

WINTER BREAK (NO SCHOOL)

 

 

 

Wednesday

26

December

WINTER BREAK (NO SCHOOL)

 

 

 

Thursday

27

December

WINTER BREAK (NO SCHOOL)

 

 

 

Friday

28

December

WINTER BREAK (NO SCHOOL)

 

 

 

Monday

31

December

WINTER BREAK (NO SCHOOL)

 

 

 

Tuesday

1

January

WINTER BREAK (NO SCHOOL)

 

 

 

Wednesday

2

January

Complete Chapter 22 Outline

  • Asian Transition
  • Ming China
    • Silk textile production in China
    • Chinese examination system
  • Manchu China (Qing Dynasty)
    • Qing land empire
  • Feudal Japan
    • The daimyo in Japan
    • Samurai revolts

Europeans in China

Jan 4

Jan 9

Thursday

3

January

Quiz CH 22

Study for Test

Ming China

 

 

Friday

4

January

Unit 4 M/C Exam

Study for DBQ Test

Test

 

 

Monday

7

January

Unit 4 In-Class DBQ Essay

 

Test

 

 

Tuesday

8

January

Complete Test Corrections

Read Part 5 and Chapter 23

  • The French Revolution
    • The Rights of Man and Citizen
    • Olympe de Gouges’s “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen

French Revolution

Jan 9

Jan 9*

Wednesday

9

January

Complete Chapter 23 Worksheet

Napoleonic Age

Jan 22**

Jan 22*

Thursday

10

January

Complete Chapter 23 Outline

  • Europe’s location on the Atlantic Ocean
  • The geographical distribution of coal, iron and timber
  • European demographic changes
  • Urbanization
  • Improved agricultural productivity
  • Enclosure & Legal protections for private property
  • Steam Engines & Railroads
  • Factory System
  • Use of  rivers & Canals for transportation
  • Development of  Steamships
  • Access to foreign resources
  • Accumulation of capital
  • Spread of Industrialization outside of Europe
  • Second Industrial Revolution
  • Telegraph systems
  • Marxism
  • Expansion of suffrage in Britain
  • Development of Middle Class & Working Class
  • Change in Gender Roles
  • Parasitic Cities and the Response
  • Human Migration to Cities for Manual Labor

Industrial Revolution

Jan 22**

Jan 23*

Friday

11

January

Review Day

Study for Mid-Term

Mid-Terms

 

 

Monday

14

January

MID- TERM EXAMS

Mid-Terms

 

 

Tuesday

15

January

MID- TERM EXAMS

Mid-Terms

 

 

Wednesday

16

January

MID- TERM EXAMS

Mid-Terms

 

 

Thursday

17

January

MID- TERM EXAMS

Mid-Terms

 

 

Friday

18

January

MID- TERM EXAMS (Make-ups)

Mid-Terms

 

 

 


 

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2012 - 2013Assignment Calendar

 

Unit 5: Industrialization and Global Integration,
c. 1750 to c. 1900

 

Day of Week

Day

Month

Assignment

Topic

Due Date

Deadline 10% Off

Monday

21

January

NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

 

 

 

Tuesday

22

January

NO SCHOOL – Teacher Workday

 

 

 

Wednesday

23

January

Read Chapter 24

Work on Chapter 24 Group Presentation

  • New States of Germany & Italy
    • German Nationalism

Unification of Italy & Germany

Jan 28*

Jan 28*

Thursday

24

January

Work on Chapter 24 Group Presentation

Quiz CH 23

  •  Imperialism, Economics and European Domination
  • Industrial Rivalries
  • The British Empire
  • British Settler Colonies in South Africa, Australia, & New Zealand
  • British in India & Dutch Indonesia
  • Decline of textile production in India
  • Gold and diamond mines in South Africa
  • Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill
  • Dutch and British Stock Markets
  • Gold Standard
  • HSBC – Hong Kong/Shanghai Banking Corp.
  • Social Darwinism
  • Indian indentured servitude
  • Convict Labor
  • White Australia Policy (regulations against immigrants)

Imperialism, Economics & European Domination

Jan 28*

Jan 28*

Friday

25

January

Work on Chapter 24 Group Presentation

Revolutions of 1848

Jan 28*

Jan 28*

Monday

28

January

Re- Read Chapter 24

 

Colonial India

 

 

Tuesday

29

January

Complete Chapter 24 Worksheet

Colonial Java & Indonesia

Jan 30

Feb 6

Wednesday

30

January

Complete Chapter 24 Outline

 

Partition of Africa

Jan 31

Feb 7

Thursday

31

January

Quiz CH 24

Capitalism & Colonialism

 

 

Friday

1

February

Read Chapter 25

  • Consolidation of Latin America
  • From Colonies to Nations
    • The Haitian Revolution
    • Simon Bolivar’s Jamaica Letter
    • Latin American Independence Movement
  • Economics in the new nations
    • Export of Guano
    • Slave Resistance movement in Brazil
    • Italian temporary and seasonal migrants  in Argentina
    • Japanese migrants to Brazil & Peru and ethnic enclaves
  • Neo-Imperialism
    • U.S. and Britain and Neo-imperialism in Latin America

Latin American Independence

 

 

Monday

4

February

Work on Chapter 26 Group Presentation

Complete Chapter 25 Worksheet

Latin Am. Political Fragmentation

Feb 7*

Feb 5

Feb 7*

Feb 12

Tuesday

5

February

Work on Chapter 26 Group Presentation

Complete Chapter 25 Outline

 

Economic Imperialism in Latin Am.

Feb 7*

Feb 6

Feb 7*

Feb 13

Wednesday

6

February

Work on Chapter 26 Group Presentation

Latin Am. Under- development

Feb 7

Feb 7

Feb 7*

Feb 14

Thursday

7

February

Read  Chapter 26

Quiz CH 25

Latin Am. 1880-1920

 

 

Friday

8

February

Write Comparison Essay

  • Muslim and Chinese Decline
  • Subjects Challenge of Imperialist Government
  • Ottoman Retreat
    • Resistance of Economic Change
    • Sick Man of Europe – Establishment of Independent states in the Balkans
    • The Tanzimat Reform Movement
  • Rise and Fall of Qing China
    • Resistance of Economic Change
    • British and French attempts to open the Chinese market
    • The Opium Wars
    • The Boxer Rebellion
    • The Taiping Rebellion
    • Chinese indentured servitude
  • Muslim and Chinese Decline
  • Subjects Challenge of Imperialist Government
  • Ottoman Retreat
    • Resistance of Economic Change
    • Sick Man of Europe – Establishment of Independent states in the Balkans
    • The Tanzimat Reform Movement
  • Rise and Fall of Qing China
    • Resistance of Economic Change
    • British and French attempts to open the Chinese market
    • The Opium Wars
    • The Boxer Rebellion
    • The Taiping Rebellion
    • Chinese indentured servitude

The Ottoman Empire

Feb 11

Feb 19*

Monday

11

February

Complete Chapter 26 Worksheet

 

Rebirth of Egypt

Feb 12

Feb 19

Tuesday

12

February

Complete Chapter 26 Outline

Quiz CH26

Qing China

Feb 13

Feb 20

Wednesday

13

February

TBA

 

Opium Wars

Feb 14

Feb 21*

Thursday

14

February

Read Chapter 27

  • Russia and Japan Industrialize
  • Russian Reforms and Industrialization
    • Industrialization in Russia
    • Development of Railroads and Factories in Tsarist Russia
  • Japan’s Transformation
    • Economic reforms of Meiji Japan
    • Industrialization in Japan

Russia

1815-1914

 

 

Friday

15

February

Complete Chapter 27 Worksheet

Russian Protest & Revolution

Feb 18

Feb 21*

Monday

18

 

NO SCHOOL – Presidents Day

 

 

 

 

Tuesday

19

February

Complete Chapter 27 Outline

 

Opening of Japan

Feb 20

 Feb 21*

Wednesday

20

February

Study for Unit Test

Quiz CH27

Meiji Japan

 

 

Thursday

21

February

Unit 5 Exam

Read Part 6 Intro and Chapter 28

Test

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2010 - 2011 Assignment Calendar

 

Unit 6: Accelerating Global Change and
Realignments, c. 1900 to the Present

 

Day of Week

Day

Month

Assignment

Topic

Due Date

Deadline 10% Off

Friday

(Half Day)

22

February

Complete Test Corrections

  • World War I
    • Power rivalries between Britain and Germany
    • Military conscription
    • Improved Military Technology
    • Trench Warfare
    • The Dada movement

Causes of World War I

Feb 25

Feb 25*

Monday

25

February

 

World War I

 

 

Tuesday

26

February

Complete Chapter 28 Worksheet

Effects of WWI

Feb 27

Mar 5

Wednesday

 

27

February

Complete Chapter 28 Outline

 

Effects of WWI

Feb 28

Mar 6

Thursday

28

February

Read Chapter 29

Quiz CH28

Movie Worksheet Due

Effects of WWI

 

 

Friday

 

1

March

Complete Chapter 29 Worksheet

  • Scientific Paradigms, Medical Innovations, & Energy Technologies
    • Psychology
    • Antibiotics
    • Oil as an Energy Source

Rebuilding Europe 20's

Mar 4

Mar 11

Monday

4

March

Complete Chapter 29 Outline

 

Indust. outside Europe 20's

Mar 5

Mar 12

Tuesday

5

March

Read Chapter 30

Quiz CH 29

Mexican Revolution

 

 

Wednesday

6

March

Complete Chapter 30 Worksheet

  • The Great Depression and the Response
    • The New Deal and Keynesian Economics

The Great Depression

1930's

Mar 7

Mar 14

Thursday

7

March

Complete Chapter 30 Outline

    • Disarray of Western Europe
      • Nationalist Ideas & New States
      • Picasso and his Guernica
    • The League of Nations

Rise of Facism 30's

Mar 8

Mar 15

Friday

8

March

Read Chapter 31

Quiz CH 30

Rise of Facism 30's

 

 

Monday

11

March

Write DBQ

  • The World Changes
    • From Russia to the Soviet Union
      • Collapse of Imperial Russia due Political & Social Discontent
      • Soviet Communism & Vladimir Lenin
      • Stalin’s Five Year Plans

WWII & Stalin

Mar 12

Mar 19

Tuesday

12

March

Complete Chapter 31 Worksheet

  • World War II
    • Imperialist Expansion by European powers and Japan
    • Competition for resources
    • The Holocaust
    • The Rape of Nanjing
    • Formation of the United Nations

WWII Western Theater

Mar 13

Mar 19*

Wednesday

13

March

Read Chapter 32

Complete CH 31 Outline

WWII Eastern Theater

Mar 14

Mar 19*

Thursday

14

March

Quiz CH31

Complete Chapter 32 Worksheet

Early USSR

Mar 15

Mar 19*

Friday

15

March

Complete Chapter 32 Outline

  • The Cold War & Other Responses
    • US and USSR as rival superpowers
    • NATO and the Warsaw Pact
    • Formation of the European Union

USSR & The Cold War

Mar 18

Apr 19*

Monday

18

March

Quiz CH 32

Study for Test

The European Union

 

 

Tuesday

19

March

Unit 6A Exam*

Read Chapter 33

Test

 

 

Wednesday

20

March

Test Corrections

  • Latin America
    • Revolutions
      • Proxy Wars of the Cold War
      • Military Dictatorships in Latin America that further intensified conflict
    • Reactions

Latin Am. Eco Change & Dictators

Mar 21

Mar 21*

Thursday

21

March

Complete Chapter 33 Worksheet

 

Latin Am.

Revolution & War

Mar 22

Apr3*

Friday

22

March

Complete Chapter 33 Outline

 

Latin Am.

Democracy

Apr 3

Apr 4*

Monday

25

March

SPRING BREAK (NO SCHOOL)

 

 

 

Tuesday

26

March

SPRING BREAK (NO SCHOOL)

 

 

 

Wednesday

27

March

SPRING BREAK (NO SCHOOL)

 

 

 

Thursday

28

March

SPRING BREAK (NO SCHOOL)

 

 

 

Friday

29

March

SPRING BREAK (NO SCHOOL)

 

 

 

Monday

1

April

SPRING BREAK (NO SCHOOL)

 

 

 

Tuesday

2

April

NO SCHOOL – Teacher Workday

 

 

 

Wednesday

3

April

Read Chapter 34

Quiz CH 33

Modern Africa

 

 

Thursday

4

April

Complete Chapter 34 Worksheet

Work on Individual ProjectsMC

Egypt &British Rule

Apr 5

Apr 12

Friday

5

April

Complete Chapter 34 Outline

Work on Individual ProjectsMC

Pakistan & India

Apr 8

Apr 15

Monday

8

April

Read Chapter 35

Quiz CH 34

Work on Individual Projects MC

Israel

 

 

Tuesday

9

April

Complete Chapter 35 Worksheet

  • Africa, The Middle East, Asia, and Oceania
  • Collapse of Empires
    • Collapse of The Ottoman Empire
    • Collapse of Qing China
  • Independence Movements
    • Mohandas Gandhi & the nonviolence movement
    • Negotiated Independence of British India
    • Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Pakistan (Religious Movements)
    • The India/Pakistan Partition & Population Resettlements
    • Kwame Nkrumah and Ghana’s Independence
  • Challenges of Independence
    • Population Growth
    • Ethnic conflict
    • Proxy Wars of the Cold War
    • The Green Revolution
    • Rwandan Genocide and Xenophobia
  • Paths to Economic Growth and Social Justice
    • Pan African Movement
    • Migration of Educated Africans to Europe
    • Displacement of the Palestinians

De-Colonization

Apr 10

Apr 17

Wednesday

10

April

Complete Chapter 35 Outline

Presentations

  • Rebirth and Revolution
    • East Asia
      • Communism and Mao Zedong
      • Deng Xiaoping and Free Market Policies
      • China’s new export-oriented economy
      • New Cultural Identities in China and the one child policy
    • Japan after WWII
      • Japan’s export-oriented economy
    • Korea
      • South Korea’s export-oriented economy
    • Vietnam
      • Independence from the French Empire

Communist China

Apr 11

Apr 18

Thursday

11

April

Write Change Over Time Essay

Presentations

Communist China

Apr 12

Apr 19

Friday

12

April

Presentations

 

The Korean Peninsula

 

 

Monday

15

April

Presentations

Japan after WWII

Apr 16

Apr 23

Tuesday

16

April

Quiz CH 35

Presentations

Vietnam

 

 

Wednesday

17

April

Read Chapter 36

Presentations

Asian Tigers

 

 

Thursday

18

April

Complete Chapter 36 Outline

Presentations

  • Globalization and Resistance
    • The End of the Cold War & Dissolution of the Soviet Union
    • Global Warming
    • Birth Control
    • Violent movements like Al-Qeada
    • Fundamentalist Movements
    • The World Bank
    • Multinational Corporations
    • Greenpeace and the protest movement
    • The continuation of the Woman’s Rights movement
    • New Age Religions
    • World Cup Soccer
    • Hollywood and American diffusion of music and film worldwide

Global Warming

Apr 19

Apr 23*

Friday

19

April

Presentations

  • Population Growth
    • Exploitation of finite resources
    • Pollution
    • Extinction of Plant, Insect, Aquatic and Animal Species
  • Diseases & World Poverty
    • Malaria in Impoverished regions
    • AIDS/HIV
    • The World Health Organization

Diabetes as a major threat in the future

Global Warming

 

 

Monday

22

April

Quiz CH 36

Presentations

The World Before Us

 

 

Tuesday

23

April

Unit 6B Exam

Study for AP Exam Review Day

Test

 

 

Wednesday

24

April

Test Corrections

 

 

Apr 25

Apr 25*

Thursday

25

April

Catch-up or Review

 

 

 

Friday

26

April

Catch-up or Review

 

 

 

Monday

29

April

Catch-up or Review

 

 

 

Tuesday

30

May

Catch-up or Review

 

 

 

Wednesday

1

May

Catch-up or Review

 

 

 

Thursday

2

May

Catch-up or Review

 

 

 

Friday

3

May

Catch-up or Review

 

 

 


 

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2010 - 2011 Assignment Calendar

 

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Day of Week

Day

Month

Assignment

Due Date

Deadline 10% Off

Monday

6

May

Review Day

 

 

Tuesday

7

May

Review Day

 

 

Wednesday

8

May

Review Day

 

 

Thursday

9

May

Review Day

 

 

Friday

10

May

Final Project

 

 

Monday

13

May

Review Day

 

 

Tuesday

14

May

Review Day

 

 

Wednesday

15

May

Review Day – Last Words

 

 

Thursday

16

May

WORLD HISTORY ADVANCE PLACEMENT EXAM (Score 5!!!) J

 

 

Friday

17

May

Final Project

 

 

Monday

20

May

Final Project

 

 

Tuesday

21

May

Final Project

 

 

Wednesday

22

May

Final Project

 

 

Thursday

23

May

Final Project

 

 

Friday

24

May

Final Project (Last Day of School for Seniors)

 

 

Monday

27

May

MEMORIAL DAY (NO SCHOOL)

 

 

Tuesday

28

 May

Final Project

 

 

Wednesday

29

May

Final Project

 

 

Thursday

30

May

Final Project

 

 

Friday

31

May

Final Project

 

 

Monday

3

 June

FINAL EXAMS

 

 

Tuesday

4

June

FINAL EXAMS

 

 

Wednesday

5

June

FINAL EXAMS

 

 

Thursday

6

 June

FINAL EXAMS

 

 

Friday

7

June

FINAL EXAMS

 

 

Monday

10

 June

FINAL EXAMS

 

 

Tuesday

11

June

FINAL EXAMS

 

 

Wednesday

12

June

FINAL EXAMS

 

 

Thursday

13

June

 FINAL EXAMS

 

 

Friday

14

June

 (Last Day of School)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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