Essential Questions

  • H.2.3- Why did European powers "suddenly" focus their efforts on exploration and how did their discoveries create a growing cycle of change?
  • G.1.1- How is the Ottoman Empire at least partially responsible for the European's discovery of the Americas, the eventual colonization of Africa, and the global British Empire?
  • C&G.1.4- How does foreign occupation dramatically impact both the occupiers and occupied?
  • E.1.1- Is competition for scarce resources good?
  • C.1.1- Do the benefits of global interaction outweigh the costs for those involved (both in the short and long term)?

Weekly Agenda

Week#3
  • Monday: Continue working on Explorers Museum Project (Homework: Project due Friday; Unit Test Mon. 8/1)
  • Tuesday: Continue working on Explorers Museum Project (Homework: Project due Friday; Unit Test Mon. 8/1)
  • Wednesday: Last day in-class to work on Explorers Museum Project (Homework: Project due Friday; Unit Test Mon. 8/1)
  • Thursday: Mrs. Lewis will be teaching today! (Homework: Project due Friday; Unit Test Mon. 8/1)
  • Friday: PROJECT DUE, Study Guide and Test Review! (Homework: Project due Friday; Unit Test Mon. 8/1)
Week #2
  • Monday: Crusades Notes, Crusades Map (Homework: Quiz Tomorrow)
  • Tuesday: Mapping Skills Quiz, Crusades Map (Homework: Crusades Map due tomorrow)
  • Wednesday: Explorer Notes On Kindle Tablets (Homework: *Homeroom Only* Return Student Handbook and BYOD Contract)
  • Thursday: Prince Henry the Navigator Assignment (Homework: Prince Henry Assignment due Tomorrow)
  • Friday: Begin working on Explorer Project (Homework: Project due Friday 7/29)
Week #1
  • Monday: Getting to Know You; Folder Setup (Homework: Return all signed documents)
  • Tuesday: Intro to ClassDojo, "What Causes Change?", Mapping Skills Notes (Homework: Mapping Skills Quiz next  Tuesday 7/19)
  • Wednesday: "Where are you from?", Map My Schedule (Homework: Mapping Skills Quiz next Tuesday 7/19)
  • Thursday: Silk Road  (Homework: Mapping Skills Quiz next Tuesday 7/19)
  • Friday: Silk Road (Homework: Mapping Skills Quiz next Tuesday 7/19)

Table of Contents

1. 2016-2017 S.S. Info (7/11)
2. Mapping Skills Notes (7/12)
3. Map My Schedule (7/13)
4. "The Silk Road" (7/14)
5. Bartering on the Silk Road (7/15)
6. July 18th- July 22nd Warm-Ups (7/18)
7. Crusades Notes (7/18)
8. Crusades Mapping Assignment (7/18)
9. Explorers Notes (7/20)
10. Prince Henry the Navigator (7/21)

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