Week of 10/28-11/1

REMINDER: Migrations assignment is due on Friday, November 1st---changed to MONDAY, November 4th!



Monday 10/28:
1. Assignment #8 due tomorrow.
2. DBQ Quiz

Tuesday 10/29:
1. Assignment #8 due TODAY!
2. DBQ quiz

Wednesday 10/30:
1. Assignment #7 due tomorrow.
2. Migrations assignment due on FRIDAY!

Thursday 10/31:
1. Assignment #7 due TODAY!
2. Migrations assignment due MONDAY!

Friday 11/1:
Migrations are due MONDAY!

Empire video from 10/25

We watched the first 10-15 minutes on Friday.  We are finishing it on Monday.


http://www.learner.org/vod/vod_window.html?pid=2148

Migrations Assignment---Polynesia and Sub-Saharan Africa

Migrations Assignment:

Compare Migrations in Polynesia and Sub-Saharan Africa

 

Essential Question:

What are the common factors that prompted human migration up to 1200?

 

Focus Questions: ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS IN TWO SHORT PARAGRAPHS

• What are the similarities and differences in the factors that prompted migrations within Polynesia and Sub-Saharan Africa?
• What are the similarities and differences in the issues historians have in analyzing those factors?

 

Directions:

1. Mark Polynesian migration routes on the SE Asia and Australia map.
2. Use information from the research to identify the factors that prompted migrations within Polynesia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
3. Mark Bantu migration routes on a map of Africa you create.
4. Create a Venn diagram or T-chart to compare the evidence you find about both regions.  Are the factors more similar or more different?
5. Discuss with the class the issues historians have in analyzing those factors.

 

Polynesian migrations

http://www.pbs.org/wayfinders/polynesian2.html -- full webquest

http://www.pbs.org/wayfinders/game.html#

http://maaori.com/people/maoriara.htm -- map

 

http://solo.manuatele.net/facts.htm -- DNA debate

 

http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~oal/background/polyhist.htm -- archaeology in Polynesia

 

http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/index.html -- Polynesian voyaging society

 

http://www.camelotintl.com/world/oceania.html -- timeline

 

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/02/oc/ht02oc.htm -- timeline

 

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/04/g68/index.html -- National Geographic site with links to other web quests

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Bantu migrations -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page95.shtml

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_languages

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantu_expansion

 

http://www.ischool.zm/plans/Grade10HistoryBantuMigrations.pdf

 

Week of 10/21-10/25

Monday 10/21
1. Byzantine reading in textbook due today (assignment #6).

Tuesday 10/22
1. Assignment #4 due tomorrow.

Wednesday 10/23
1. Middle Ages reading due today.
1. Assignment #4 DUE TODAY!

Thursday 10/24
1. Assignment #10 due tomorrow.
2. Read and answer the question on What is an Empire? reading.

Friday 10/25
1. What is an Empire? reading due today
2. Assignment #10 DUE TODAY!
3. Assignment #8 due on Tuesday 10/29.

Week of 10/14-10/18

Monday 10/14 NO SCHOOL
1. Test tomorrow on F-600CE. Remember to look at the vocabulary posted.

Tuesday 10/15
1. Read and complete questions/outlines for assignments #1 & #2. Due on Thursday 10/17.

Wednesday 10/16
1. Islam packet. Read and take notes on organizer. Due tomorrow.
2. Read and complete questions/outlines for assignments #1 & #2. Due tomorrow 10/17.  I feel a reading quiz coming!

Thursday 10/17
1. Readings #1 & #2 DUE TODAY! 
2. Readings/outlines for #6 due tomorrow---Friday 10/18.
3. BRING TEXTBOOK TO CLASS TOMORROW---FRIDAY!!!!

Friday 10/18  BRING TEXT BOOK TO CLASS!!!!
1. Readings/outlines for #6 DUE TODAY!!
2. Readings/outlines for #5  Monday 10/21

Words to know for Foundations-600CE test

Vocabulary you should know for the exam:

• Benevolent
• Bureaucracy
• Centralized and decentralized bureaucracy
• Consolidate
• Culminate
• Devout
• Englightened
• Eeadicate
• 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

Week of 10/7-10/11

Monday 10/7:
1.  Textbook reading pages 108-115. Read and take notes for tomorrow.
2.  Read and take notes on the Buddhism reading (handout) for tomorrow.

Tuesday 10/8: 
1. Trade routes reading.  Read and take notes.  Be able to discuss your trade route.
2. Study for test!!!!!

Wednesday 10/9:
1. Study for test!!!!


Thursday 10/10:
1. Study for test!

Friday 10/11:
1. Study for test!

TEST IS ON TUESDAY Oct. 15th!  Foundations-600CE