Today's Frame- Renaisance Art

How do Renaissance artists exemplify the major philosophical shift away from the medieval mindset?

Renaisance art project

Today's Frame- Machiavelli

How does Machiavelli represent a shifting perspective and develop a political theory or approach that is uniquely "modern"?

Machiavelli primary source excerpts (The Prince)

Unit 4 Test Corrections available

Niccolo Machiavelli

Today's Frame: The Renaissance

How did the Renaissance represent a dramatic rupture from medieval Europe?

Today's Frame- The Black Death

How did the Black Death remake European society in many fundamental ways and help it pivot away from the Medieval period?

Review- before the review

Here's an activity to get us into "application"mode- and to start "synthesizing" content before you start reviewing/studying...
Click here

Today's Frame(s)

• How did the Crusades affect the relationship between Christians, Muslims, and Jews both in Europe and throughout the Middle East?

• What separated the "High Middle Ages" from the "Dark Ages"?

Chartres Cathedral, France

Today's Frame- Background to the Crusades

How did the Crusades unify Europe, including the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church?

Spread of Islam DBQ

Click here for the 2nd DBQ that you'll be writing about.  The documents from the syllabi were "warm-ups":

Click here for the DBQ rubric

Today's Frame: Islamic Expansion

How did Islam expand rapidly beyond the original "ummah" in Arabia (Mecca, Medina) and create an Arab Islamic civilization linking together North Africa, the Middle East, and south and central Asia within approximately 150 years?

Today's Frame- Origins of Islam

How did the Arabian merchant known ultimately as the Prophet Muhammad receive revelations that would form the last major form of monotheism: Islam?

Today's Frame(s)

• How was The Roman Catholic Church the dominant political and cultural force in the Middle Ages for much of Europe (Christendom)?

• How and why was feudalism the fundamental mode of political and social organization during the Middle Ages?

Primary Source Documents

Today's Frame- Christian Empires in Europe (Byzantines & Charlemagne)

• How did the Byzantine Empire unifiy the various Eastern and Slavic kingdoms and cultures into one Christian (Eastern Orthodox) Empire?

• How did Charlemagne and the Carolingians unify the various Germanic kingdoms into one large Christian (Roman Catholic) Empire?

The Haghia Sofia (Church of Divine Wisdom)- Constantinople/Istanbul

Travel Journals

Today we will begin an ongoing project: travel journals.  At least a couple of times per unit, we will be working on these.  Here's what you need to know:

1) Create a folder in Hapara called "Travel Journals"

2) These journals will be first-person accounts- think "historical fiction" about our curriculum

3) You will be responding to a prompt as you begin writing

Today's Prompt:

You are visiting an exact location in China.  You select the period: Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, or Qing. If you have strong feelings about medieval Japan, you can select that period as well.  What happens to you in this location, who do you meet, and what's the outcome? Write a minimum of a three paragraph narrative or "scene" that tells this story in the first person. This scene should have a beginning, middle, and an end and should connect at least indirectly, to our course material. When you are done writing, please create or locate an image that corresponds to your journal.  At the top of your journal, please title it "Travel Journal 1" and the time period in parentheses.

You are open to use GoogleDocs. GoogleSlides, Prezi, Animoto, Powtoon, WeVideo- or any app you like as long as you respond to the prompt.  Good luck and happy trails!

Today's Frame & Activity

• How did the Mongols create and maintain the largest land-based empire in history?
• How was medieval Japan influenced by China and simultaneously fiercely independent as an island nation?

ACTIVITY:  In groups of two, look over notes from the past three readings.  Locate an image that represents a main idea about the Mongols or Japan.  Write a thesis statement about this image and its broader idea.

Finally, have one member of your group post the image and the thesis to our online community. You will have 20-25 minutes for this activity.

2nd quarter and Online communities

Now that we're in the 2nd Quarter, we will be using Google+ online communities. We will begin today in class.

Links to each section's community appear to the left under "important links" and will remain there.

Today's Frame: Buddhism spreads & adapts

Why did Buddhism split into two main sects (Theravada and Mahayana) and how did this impact its expansion throughout Asia?

Today's Frame: Buddhism- & Activity

The Buddha made enlightenment a possibility for all followers through the concept of the Middle Path.  How did the Middle Path offer a way toward nirvana, much like the Old Testament and the Torah do so for Jews and the New Testament (and Old Testamant) do so for Christians?

ACTIVITY:
Shared GoogleSlide.  You will be assigned a theme from the below.  In groups of 3: 

1) Please construct a thesis statement that discusses what you believe is the singular main idea or common denominator of your assigned theme. You can focus on how it impacted the development of that society/religion for example.

2)  From the book or class notes, find "evidence" to prove your thesis (simple fact in this case- not developed research like the paper/project.

THEMES:
1.  Indus River Valley civilization/Harappans
2.  Geography of the subcontinent
3.  Aryan invasion of the subcontinent
4.  The Hindu caste system
5.  Hindu reincarnation (samsara)
6.  The story of Siddhartha becoming the Buddha
7.  Buddhism's embrace of the "Middle Path"

Today's Frame: Hinduism & Buddhism

Ancient India gave birth to two great religions (as well as many others): Hinduism and Buddhism. How did Buddhism splinter out of Hinduism and became a separate faith, ultimately spreading throughout Asia?

Frame: Han China

The Han Dynasty is famous for a number of achievements. In fact, Chinese people throughout history, including today, refer back to this time period and continue to call themselves "People of the Han". What is it about the Han Dynasty that still defines Chinese civilization through today?

Today's Frame: Philosophy and Social Order in Ancient China

Why did Legalism prevail over Confucianism and Daoism as the main philosophy of the Qin Dyansty (221-202 BCE)?    And... why was Confucianism later championed by the Han?

Today's Frame: China's Origins

How do China's origins spring from the Shang and Zhou Dynastiues?

Mid-Term Reflection

With the Unit 1 Test behind you, reflect on your daily approach to class, both in and out of class:

• How did your daily approach to class (listening, participating, merging notes, discussing) prepare you for the assessment?
• How did your formal studying prepare you for the assessment?  Were you successful in spreading out your studying?
• What worked and what didn't overall?  Reflect again once you receive your test back.

BALANCE your time magaging daily reading/notes/Activity Points and the 1st Quarter Project...

Progress Reports will be posted to Infinite Campus soon.

Today's Frame: Christianity & Rome

How did Christianity dissolve from an obscure Jewish sect into a separate (universal) monotheistic faith in its own right?

And... how did Christianity emerge from a persecuted religion to the official state religion of the Roman Empire?

The Transfiguration of Christ (Raphael)

Today's Frame: Origins of Rome

How did Rome's geography affect the development of Roman civilization (during the periods of monarchy, republic, and empire?)

And... during the late Hellenistic period, how did Rome emerge as the dominant power in the Mediterranean?

Today's Frame: Arts & Sciences...

If Golden Age Athens was a center of artistic brilliance, how did Hellenistic Alexandria champion both the arts and sciences, and what was the overall impact?

Pharos (below): a metaphor for Alexandria...

Today's Frame: Back to Greece...

How was Hellenism a cultural and political force in ancient Greece, Egypt, and central Asia?

Two links for today's activity:

Greek & Architecture Activity

Art & Architecture assignments

HW this weekend...

Because of the holiday, there will not be any homework this weekend.  However, we will be making up reading and there is "double reading" when your section is not in session the following day (next week).  See your syllabus for more information. If you'd like, feel free to read ahead, but try not to move more than one reading ahead as it may be confusing as we start to discuss the material in class.

Today's Frame: The Golden Age/Periclean Athens

What made the "Golden Age" golden?  And... why did Pericles' arete ultimately descend into hubris- and what were the implications?

Today's Frame: Geography of Greece

How did geography affect the development of ancient Greek civilization?

Today's Frame- Monotheism & Judaism

In the ancient world, polytheism predominated in civilizations across the globe- with a couple of exceptions...

Why was a strict code of ethics integrated into the first great monotheistic faith: Judaism?

Today's Frame- Geography

This will be a constant question and a key target for us both semesters:

How does geoography impact the development of civilizations?  More specifically for us today, how does the unique geography of the Sumerians and Babylonians compare with that of the Phoenicians- and what were the results?

Today's Frame: Civilization and Being Civilized

Now that we have the ingredients of civilization, how "civilized" are civilizations?  And who gets to decide?

Hammurabi (Friday Activity)

Hammur- who?

Hammurabi!  Here are selections from Hammurabi's Code

Today's Frame: Why Sumer?

Why is Sumer in ancient Mesopotamia widely considered to be one of the first clear examples of a "civilization"?

Welcome to World History!

Here's a link to our e-book, Patterns of Interaction.

You will receive your log-in and password in class today.  Please be sure to bookmark this site to your Chrome browser (I can help you with this in class).  Please copy down the log-in and password in your planner or notebook as well so that you have it in at least two places.

Please bookmark this website as well as this will be the place to receive all information about class, including homework, announcements, projects, papers, etc.  Welcome- and I'm looking forward to a great year together