Homework for September 30

Cheerful stuff, but read page 250 in the textbook and the description of the Death of Socrates.  We will talk more about who he was and what he did tomorrow.

Homework for the weekend of September 27--Going to the Cave

For this weekend, you are to read the selection of Plato's The Republic, which was shared with you via your school email and is linked up here.

It is not an easy read, and I expect you will have to read it closely a couple of times before it starts to really make sense.  Puzzle over it a bit, and be ready to talk about it in class on Monday!

Greece is the Word!

We are leaving India and heading to the Mediterranean Sea...Classical Greece!  We won't be here long...

For tonight, read pages 231-237.

Indian Religion Vocabulary

Consolidating what we did in class yesterday, I've pulled the tweets and images together from the #apwvocab and put them in a Storify.com story.

The link to the story is: http://sfy.co/gSHx.  Enjoy!

Homework September 25: Hinduism and Zero

Tonight read about the formation of Hinduism pages 224-228.

On page 225, read the selection about numbers. On your blog explain why these "Arabic" numerals are so important. Be brief!

On page 227, Read the selection from the Bhagavad Gita and answer the question in italics.  You don't have to answer it as a paragraph, if you can think of another way to deal with the question, feel free!

Homework for September 24th--Indian Religions of Salvation

For tonight, read pages 217-221, about the formation of Jainism and Buddhism.  We will be spending some time discussing this in class.

Also, you will need to have a Twitter account for the activity we do tomorrow, so if you don't already have one, please set one up before coming to class tomorrow.

homework for Sept 23

Update:

Sorry, this post apparently just hung and never posted!


The homework for tonight is to read pages 207-213 in the textbook; Classical Indian politics is the topic.

Homework over the weekend--Prevent the empire from collapsing...

Over the weekend, you are to post on your blog how you would prevent the Han Empire from collapsing.  When and how would you intervene?  What problems were there and how would you solve them?

Once you have posted your solution, look at the blogs of the other people in your group and discuss their plan. Try to convince them that your solutions are the best, or affirm the decisions that they made. You can find everyone's blog at: http://www.protopage.com/twhittenburlington#Blog_posts/Class_Blogs

We will briefly discuss the collapse of the Han on Monday, and then we are off to India for more philosophies and fun...

Homework for September 19-Han Dynasty

For tonight, read pages 193-203 in the textbook about the rise of the Han Dynasty.

Readings for September 18

For tonight, read pages 186-193 in the textbook.

We will be looking at Legalism and the Qin Dynasty tomorrow in class.  An example of Legalist thought is linked up here. Take a look and we'll discuss it a bit more if you have questions tomorrow.

Daoism...what the what?

For tonight, take a look at the selections from the Dao De Jing that were shared with you in class today and are linked up here.  Read #s 1, 2, 8, 11, 12 until you feel you understand them. If you understand them after only one reading, you are probably not doing it right. These are meant to be obscure, paradoxical and provocative. So read them a couple of times.

Once you think you get them, come up with one sentence that describes what Daoism is all about, and post it on your blog.

Confucianism: What is it?

Over the weekend, do the following:

Learn that the name is spelled: C-O-N-F-U-C-I-U-S.

A person who follows this philosophy is a: Confucian. Many of them are: Confucians

The name for the philosophy is: Confucianism.

Then, you will need to have the iBooks app on your iPad.

Go to the iBooks store (also a part of iTunes)

Search for the iBook: The Chinese Classics--Volume 1: Confucian Analects by James Legge and download it. (It is free, but you will need to have an iTunes account, which is also free to get.)

Read Books 1 and 2.  Skim another book of your choice.  On your blog, post the following:

1) Is this a religion or not?  Why do you think so?
2) Does this reading support the idea that people are born good/bad/neutral? Refer to three examples (using the book, section and line number as the citations) that support your point of view.

Homework for Thursday, Sept 12--Let's ask Map! Can you say "Map?"

Thanks, Dora...

Today in class all of you got a piece of paper that looks like this :

Your task tonight is to take the two maps of Persia in chapter 7 of the textbook, and compile them into one hand-drawn (freehand) map that fits on this piece of paper. Once you have drawn the map, upload a picture of it into your blog and tag/label it with "Persia" and "Map." (This will help you later when you are trying to find your posts about different topics to help you study.  You should always tag your blog posts. Last night's should get tags like: religions, ancient society, Zoroastrianism, etc.) You aren't being graded on your artistic ability, nor do I expect you to be a cartographer.  I'm looking for you to get the general location of the empires, the names of major cities, regions, and rivers, and the Royal Road's location and span. It should be neat and legible, but does not need to be ready for publication by Rand McNally...

Your essay re-writes are due at the start of class on Monday.  You may type the re-write or hand write it, either is fine.  You may use the book, notes, etc. when you re-write. When you hand in the re-write, it must be accompanied by the original essay and question sheet.  Be mindful of the fact that a re-write doesn't mean re-copy, it means start it again. Most of you don't have much to work from anyway, but since you will be changing your thesis, evidence that you used before may or may not be relevant again!  Follow the score guide, and look over what we talked about today!  The presentation is linked up here if you want to review it while you write.

Homework for September 11

For tonight read page 176 in the textbook and answer the italicized question written at the bottom of the selection and post the answer on your blog.

Tomorrow we will wrap up Persia and move on to China!

Thus Spake Zoroaster

For tonight's homework, read pages 168-178. We went through the early pages of the reading in class, so you can skim the sections on the economy and imperial society, and we will talk about the religion that forms in class tomorrow.

Off to Persia

For homework tonight, complete the History Head Project by posting your comments on another's blog. (see the assignment sheet linked up here for details.)

Then read pages 159-168 about Persia. We will talk about it tomorrow.

History Head Project--Engage!

Today we began the History Head project. You have each been assigned to a group with a region as a focus. (regions are repeated, by the way, so there are groups that are working on the same region.) The description of the project is linked up here.

The five themes of the course are linked up here.

The rubric for the project is linked up here.  Please note that in order to score a 4, you must exceed my stated expectations!

The project is due on Monday, September 9th at the start of class. Please have your image of the head posted on your blog by that time. We will do the gallery walk that day and move on to part two for homework that night.

Tomorrow we will write the in-class compare and contrast essay. We will not have time to work on this project in class tomorrow, so it is to be done on your own for homework.

Essay information for Friday

OK, the first test is now history! Tomorrow you will have an assembly that will take most of the period. When you make it to class, I will introduce the first project to you, which will be due on Monday. The description of the project will be posted in tomorrow's blog post, and documents will be shared with you via your school email.

On Friday you will write an essay during class.  The style will be Compare and Contrast and the topic will be drawn from Chapters 1-6.

You should look over the scoring guide that the College Board uses for this style of essay.  It is linked up here.

You will need to write the essay in either blue or black ink.  Lined paper will be provided for you.  You may not use any notes, outlines or materials existing outside of the contents of your brain to compose the essay.

And for those of you who haven't done so, I need your blog addresses emailed to me ASAP. I am compiling them and will be sharing a link with you for the page with the addresses in the next day or so.

For homework tonight, write a reflection on the test. How was it? Were there types of questions you found hard or easy? Was it what you expected? better? worse? Now that you've seen one, what will you do to prepare for the next test?

The joy of AP: A test on day 2!

Welcome back to school!

Tomorrow (Wednesday) you will be taking a test. It will consist of 70 multiple choice questions.  The questions will be drawn from Chapters 1-6 of the textbook.  You will have 45 minutes to complete the test, and you will need to have a #2 pencil.  I will not be providing pencils. That's up to you.

On Friday you will be writing an in-class essay in the Compare and Contrast format. It will also be drawn from chapters 1-6. The scoring guide will be linked in tomorrow night's post for your review.

Both of these serve to tell me more about you and what help you will need as we go forward in the class; they are not happening because I'm mean. Mostly...

And to see the course prospectus and expectations, you should click the link here.

A copy of the letter I've emailed to your parents is linked up here.