Friday, December 19, 2014

Smith vs. Marx Assignment--Due 1/30

Smith vs Marx project: Due Friday 1/30




Karl Marx and Adam Smith

 Using the websites listed below as your jumping off point, create a dialogue between Marx and Smith. The dialogue should include:

  • Reference to their major written works
  • What motivated their life’s work
  • Why each loves his own philosophy
  • Why each does not like the other’s philosophy
  • The role of religion in economics




Week 12/22-12/23

Monday 12/22: Read your bio on the Enlightenment thinker (front and back). Complete the chart for your thinker.  Be prepared to discuss your person in class.  Know the person's views and where they stood on the idea of absolutism.

Assignment due dates for 1750-1900

Assignment #1:    1/7

Assignment #2:    1/13

Assignment #3:    1/23

Assignment #4:    2/2


Marx vs Smith Assignment (more info to follow but assignment is on the blog): 1/30

Friday, December 12, 2014

Week of 12/15-12/19

Monday 12/15: Coffee reading and questions due today.

Tuesday 12/16:

Wednesday 12/17:

Thurday 12/18:

Friday 12/19: Test 1450-1740

Monday, December 8, 2014

Week 12/8-12/12

Monday 12/8: Please read the Japanese isolation reading and answer the questions.

Tuesday 12/9:  Japanese reading due

Wednesday 12/10: Assignment #10 Due

Thursday 12/11:

Friday 12/12: Assignment #9 Due

Coffee article due on Monday 12/15


Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Week of 12/1-12/5

Happy December!
 
 
Monday 12/1: Please have your male/female reading and questions ready for class today.
 
Tuesday 12/2: Assignment #8 due
 
 Wednesday 12/3:
 
Thursday 12/4: preparing for a DBQ on SILVER!! Have your thesis, groups, and missing voice prepared.
 
Friday 12/5: In class DBQ
 
 
Due dates:
12/9: Assignment #10 due
12/11: Assignment #9 due


Thursday, November 13, 2014

week 11/17-11/21

Monday 11/17: Assignment 1 and 2 are DUE

Tuesday 11/18: Transoceanic readings DUE

Wednesday 11/19:

Thursday11/20: Assignment #3 DUE

Friday 11/21: Assignments #4 and 5 are due on MONDAY 11/24

Friday, October 24, 2014

Week of 10/27-10/31

Monday 10/27:
1. Assignment #4 due today
2. Please read the article on Empress Wu.  What role does Buddhism play during the Tang?
3. If the webquest was not completed in class, please complete at home.

Tuesday 10/28:
Assignment #10 Due tomorrow

Wednesday 10/29:
Assignment #10 DUE today

Thursday 10/30:
Assignment #7 Due tomorrow
Gender reading due tomorrow

Friday 10/31:
Assignment #7 DUE
Gender reading due today

Friday, October 10, 2014

Week 10/13-10/17



Monday 10/13 NO SCHOOL

1. Due tomorrow assignment 1A.

Tuesday 10/14
1. Assignment 1A due today
2. Tommorrow--Assinment 1B due

Wednesday 10/15
1. Assignment 1B due today

Thursday 10/16
1.Assignment #2 due tommorrow.

Friday 10/17 

1. Assignment #2 due today

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Week of 10/6-10/10

Monday 10/6: We are preparing for the comparative essay for classical civilizations. 
Homework be sure to have your thesis created and ideas for your three comparisons ready for class tomorrow. You are writing the essay in class tomorrow.
Also, voc sheet is due on THURSDAY.

Tuesday 10/7: In class timed essay.
Homework: Voc Sheet is due on THURSDAY!

Wednesday 10/8: VOC sheet due today.

Thursday 10/9: Periodization and review in class
STUDY! STUDY! STUDY! STUDY! STUDY!

Friday 10/10: Test #1 Foundations-600CE 45-50 multiple choice questions

Words to know for F-600CE DUE 10/9

Vocabulary you should know for the exam:


Please print this list and define each and every word.  If you understand/know the meaning you still have to write a definition for the word.  Also, to take it a step further...see if you can relate the word to a topic from these two time periods. This will help with not only this test but the AP test as well!
  •  Benevolent
  • Bureaucracy
  • Centralized and decentralized bureaucracy
  • Consolidate
  • Culminate
  • Devout
  • Englighten
  • Eradicate
  • Eurasian
  • Faciliate
  • Fortified
  • Fragmented
  • Imperial
  • Intensive
  • Isolatiionist
  • Legitimacy
  • Pastoralism
  • Pastoralists
  • Patriarchal & Matriarchal
  • Polygamy & Monogamy
  • Polytheistic & Monotheistic
  • Provincial
  • Reverence
  • Revolutionized
  • Subordination
  • Succession
  • Standardize
  • Syncretism
  • Synthesize
  • Theocratic
  • Trans-Saharan
  • Uncontested
  • Universal
  • Urbanization
  • Usurpations

Monday, September 15, 2014

Week of 9/15-9/19

Monday 9/15
1. Metallurgy article due today.
2. Comparative essay skills today.
   

Tuesday 9/16
1.In class we are working on our outline for the complex society essay question.
2. Read periodization handout and assignment for tomorrow.


Wednesday 9/17
1. In class today, we are working on periodization for the first time period F-600BCE.
1. Read and answer questions on China in textbook. Due tomorrow 9/18.


Thursday 9/18
1. Read and answer questions on India in textbook. Due tomorrow 9/19.


Friday 9/19
1. Read and answer questions on Greece and Rome in textbook. Due Monday 9/22.

Monday, September 8, 2014

Week of 9/8-9/12

Monday 9/8:
Tuesday 9/9: Read Diamond's “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race” and Howell’s “Back of History.”  Pick a side and complete the worksheet.  DUE 9/10
Wednesday9/10: 
 1. Diamond and Howell due today!
 2. Read “Settled Societies: The Emergence of Cities.”  As you read the article list 10 connections to the WHAP themes DUE tomorrow

Thursday 9/11:
1. “Settled Societies: The Emergence of Cities.”  due today
2. Read pages 16-28 in the text book and complete the “Complex Societies Chart” or use your notes from last year due tomorrow 9/12.

Friday 9/12:
1. “Complex Societies Chart” due.

In-class essay 9/16!  Compartive essay

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Week of 9/2-9/5

Tuesday 9/2:  Read and take notes on History is like an Onion article---due tomorrow

Wednesday 9/3: Course sheet signed


Thursday 9/4:  DBQ: POV
                                     Write a thesis
                                      Missing voice


Friday 9/5: Theme assignmnet due TUESDAY 9/9

Friday, August 1, 2014

Welcome

This is AP World History. Please refer to this blog for due dates and test dates. Please be aware that I may change things in class and therefore you must pay attention in class to any changes that may be made.

My extra help schedule is as follows:

Monday:
7:00-7:20
2:15- 2:40

Thursday:
2:15-2:40

Extra help will take place in room 128.  See you there!