Blizzard Bag Information

Mongolian Ice and Snow Festival

You know how we Blizz in WHAP? Like the MONGOLS. Yup. That's how we roll.

You have two components to your Blizzard Bag.

1. You each should have hard copies at home of the Mongols DBQ I handed out yesterday in class. Digital copies located HERE. Please fill out the document chart HERE - Attribute, Characteristics and Sourcing columns ONLY.  This chart walks you through breaking down the DBQ documents individually, making note of various components and beginning the process of document analysis. We will work on grouping and thesis development together as a group. For more information on the different categories of analysis on the chart, check out the Powerpoint located HERE.

2. If you have internet or can use you phone (parental approval for data plan required) please travel to the Caribbean, to the site of "first contact" between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres (I know, I know, Vikings, Greenland!! But, bear with me, I'm going with the colonization narrative here), the island of Hispaniola. The video is linked on the Blizzard Bag page on the right of the blog along with a series of video questions.

Please let me know if you have any issues with links or need further clarification on the assignments. In the case of no power, just do your best. Work on the hard copies of the DBQ or see if you can plug along on the Early Modern Era Map - OR - finalize your Southernization questions that were due today.

Period 4 (1450 - 1750) AGENDA

AGENDA

DUE DATES:

Monday 11/26 - Study Guide Chapter 13, Quiz Chapter 13, Study Guide Chapter 14.

Tuesday 11/27 - Southernization Questions (My Notes on Southernization)

Friday 11/30 - Chapter 15 Study Guide, Chapter 15 Quiz

Monday 12/3 - Early Modern Era Map Due

Tuesday 12/4 - Early Modern Era Unit Test

COOL MAPS TO HELP WITH YOUR MAP

Period 5 (1450 - 1750) - Agenda

Think you have WHAP under control, then along comes Period 5.

                         STAY TUNED FOR AGENDA

I am working on laying out the rest of the course up until Final Exams. I will have a due date schedule that covers Period 5 (chapters 13,14,15) posted here by the end of the day today. But until then, here are some planning tips: 

The 90 minutes in class we missed today should cover your Chapter 13 Quiz AND starting Southernization. 

Just a word to the wise on this reading. It is challenging. It is college-level history. It has been used (excerpted) on many AP World exams over the years, so it is worth your time. It is also an excellent review of the Indian Ocean Trade Network. Based on the Midterms, I think is is well worth our time as a class to shore up some of details related to this important trade network. Here is how I would approach the reading:

1. Highlight and make notes in the margins as you go. (Patrick - just highlight SOME parts :-)

2. Underline key technologies, goods and civilizations. This is content you can use on the Early Modern Mapapalooza for IOTN.

3. Try to identify the 1-2 sentences that contain Shaffer's thesis. Circle them.

4. Then (using some other system of demarcation) make note of key evidence or reasoning that supports the thesis.

* REMINDER- know those AP regions (aka. South Asia = modern territories of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)