AP World-4 Empires in distress project

You are going to focus on one of the following empires: Ottoman, Russia, China, Japan, as it turns the corner into the 20th century and faces reformist movements.  For tonight, your homework is to read the selection in Chapter 32 that deals with your empire.  You must read the whole chapter between now and Monday.

In your groups tomorrow you need to compose the following for your empire:
1) A digital chart that shows the problems, reforms and social classes impacted
2) A digital list of terms/names and their definitions/identifications that are important to your empire
3) Digital copies of two document excerpts that have to do with the issues facing your empire.  These can focus on either the reform or the problem, or be one of each.  They should be formatted like a DBQ, and they should be primary sources, not secondary ones. You may use documents from the book, but you must reproduce the sections/selections you wish to use.
    These will combine to form a group grade. These are to be finished and made available to share by Monday.

As an individual, you are responsible for composing a political cartoon that represents either the issues/problems or the reforms for your empire.  This cartoon must be done on paper, to be handed in on Tuesday.  The cartoon must be accompanied by two typed paragraphs; the first should explain the historical context of the cartoon, and the second should be an explanation of the cartoon (Imagine telling a person who can't see it what it contains.) This is to be printed out and ready to hand in on Tuesday as well.  The cartoon will not be graded on the basis of your artistic merits!

Participation Grade US China AND AP World

For both AP World and US China relations, I will be collecting your participation scores through a Google Form.  Click the link here, and fill out the form.  Saves paper!  You have until Thursday at midnight to fill out the form, after which time it will become inactive and I will assign you a grade without your input!

AP World History--Latin American Leaders

A link to a spreadsheet containing a breakdown of the leaders in Mexico and Argentina is here.

We will have a COT on Wednesday.  There will not be a chance to re-write it.  It will be based in the time periods covered in Chapters 29-31, BUT, as a COT, it will pull from earlier time periods as well...

We will have the final test of the quarter on Thursday.  It will cover chapters 29-31, but we only read selections from Chapters 30 and 31. There will be 35 (or so) Multiple Choice questions. There will be no corrections for this test either.

AP World History: European Nationalism

Today we talked about the notion of the Revolutionary Hero during the Enlightenment.  For tonight's homework, read pages 805-811.  Tomorrow at the start of class we will re-do the connections part of the test (so South American Social Structure and slavery is the first and Christian Missionaries and the Asian rejection of the European presence is the other--how does one foster/lead to the other, and remember you can move them around!)  Thursday, for periods 2 and 5 we will have a quiz on chapter 29. Period 1 you will have it on Friday.  We will have one more test and one more in class essay before the quarter ends.

And it is a good idea to start reviewing on your own for the AP exam, coming up May 13th.  I recommend you spend some time thinking about river valley civlizations (Nile, Huang He, Indus, Tigris and Euphrates), Early migration (Indo-Euro and Bantu) and the role agriculture played in building complex societies...You can go back over old tests, revisit essays and glance over notes--you generally just want to trigger your memory to see what is stored and what is not!

AP World History You say you want a revolution...

For the weekend, read pages 782-784 about the Enlightenment.  Skip the section on the American Revolution (read it if you want to...) and then read about the French Revolution, pages 786-793.  On Monday, you will be watching a video of the French Revolution.  For those of you who have grown up in a plastic bubble, find and watch the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off.  See you Tuesday!

AP World History Test information

The test on Wednesday nominally covers chapters 23-28.  Chapter 23, 24 and 25 were blended together into the powerpoints that I shared on line (see an earlier post) and the class notes from the last week in February, first few days of March.  It seems that if you download the PPT files onto your computer you will be able to hear them. You read the start of 26, but we never discussed details of Africa's political systems, nor did we discuss from the ending of the Slave trade through the beginning of Chapter 27 (Ming and Qing China).  Conversely, we discussed Tokugawa Japan, but you didn't read much of it.  You read about the Islamic rulers in Chapter 28, and we discussed them briefly (chart of leaders activity), and we talked over the Imperial Islamic Society information.

So my recommendation is that you rely on the notes you took in class, but know that the book will help you out if your notes feel spotty/incomplete (or are just incomprehensible).

The test will consist of multiple choice questions (between 30 and 40) and connections between items that will ask you to articulate cause and effect (how does one lead to or foster the other.)  Remember that the ordering of the terms is not limited to how they are listed on the test!

AP World History

For tonight, read the essay at the start of Part V on page 594-595.  Consider how it describes the period we've been studying. Think about changes and continuities from previous time periods, and how the regions compare and contrast with each other.  We will be working with this essay tomorrow in class.

Of a slightly longer term nature, next week will feature both an in class essay and a test (on separate days) likely Wednesday and Thursday.  The contents of the test will be chapter 23, 26, 27, 28 and the PowerPoint presentations on Europe and class notes on Europe. (These are in chapters 24 and 25, but you didn't read them, and don't have to for the purposes of this test.) The essay will be either Compare and Contrast or Change Over Time. No DBQ this time.

AP World History: Ottomans

So I can't get the video to work as an upload.  So instead check out this 10 minute video on youtube about how Mehmed II conquers Constantinople (and think about taking a class with the UMass professor...) (If the link doesn't work, the video is called "Islam--Empire of Faith III--The Ottomans--part 2") and read pages 762-770 in the text book.

US China relations: facebook global connections

Click on this link to see how the world connects via facebook...the light indicates connectivity.  Interesting to see where facebook is not...

AP World History Japan

For tonight, take a look at the reading on 748.  Write an answer to the italicized question at the bottom of the page.  You may use bullets, paragraphs, charts, whatever you like, but it will be collected tomorrow.

AP Lots of Reading

For homework this weekend, read pages 716-741.  This will get you through the abolition of the slave trade and Ming and Qing China.  We will discuss the Tokugawa Shogunate and Japan on Monday.

AP World Homework

For homework tonight, read pages 676-677.  Create a chart to hand in of the social structure that the Iberian Europeans (Spanish and Portuguese) created in the Americas.

Then read pages 696-703, the political systems of Africa.  As you read, pay close attention to how the African political system changes and stays the same--it is a good topic for a Change Over Time essay...

AP World History Labor systems of Latin America

Open up the link to the ppt here. Watch/listen and learn...We will have a test on Thursday that will cover chapter 19, pages 522-534 of chapter 20, Chapter 21 and Chapter 22.  In class tomorrow we will review.  The test will be multiple choice questions--no essay.