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Weekly Homework. Homework is due on the day it appears. For example if notes for pg.210-215 are due Monday, then Monday in class is when they are due. Therefore the homework should be done on the weekend if it is due on Monday. World History: 8-10-09. Review Questions. None today!. Quote
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Weekly Homework • Homework is due on the day it appears. For example if notes for pg.210-215 are due Monday, then Monday in class is when they are due. Therefore the homework should be done on the weekend if it is due on Monday.
World History: 8-10-09 Review Questions • None today! Quote None today!
World History: 8-11-09 Review Questions • None today! Quote None today!
World History: 8-12-09 Review Questions • None today! Quote None today!
World History: 8-13-09 Review Questions • Why does talking about controversial subjects make some people uncomfortable? • What is the teacher’s job? • What is the student’s job? • Who is unlimitedly responsible for a failing student? • Quote • “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” Aldous Huxley
World History: 8-14-09 Review Questions • What is the most “evil” country in the world? Explain. • What is your favorite part of World History? • Who is your favorite person in World History? • Who is the biggest villain in World History • Who is the biggest hero in World History? • Quote • “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” Elbert Hubbard
Weekly Homework • Homework is due on the day it appears. For example if notes for pg.210-215 are due Monday, then Monday in class is when they are due. Therefore the homework should be done on the weekend if it is due on Monday.
World History: 8-17-09 Review Questions • How much money do you give to charity every year? • How does your nationality effect who you are? • What prejudices do people from other countries have against Americans? • Why are obituaries important to people? • Quote • “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” -Arnold H. Glasow
World History: 8-17-09 Reflection Questions • In your opinion, what were the two most important reasons to study history? Explain. • Did any of the history related careers interest you? Explain.
World History: 8-18-09 Review Questions • Is our country getting better or worse? Explain. • How can bodies of water play an important role in shaping human society and economy? • How are geography and history linked? • What is culture? • Quote • “Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.” -Alice Duer Miller
World History: 8-18-09 Reflection Questions • What is geography? • What is latitude? • How do historians try to reconstruct the past?
World History: 8-19-09 Review Questions • What is your purpose? • What is longitude? • What is prehistory? • How do historians function as detectives? • Where do you think humans came from? • Quote • “Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. Shirley MacLaine”
World History: 8-19-09 Reflection Questions • What were some of the claims the documentary was making? • What are some of the methods used to reconstruct history?
World History: 8-20-09 Review Questions • Will there be a cure to AIDS in your lifetime? • What is anthropology? • What is archaeology? • What is an artifact? • Quote • “Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” -Mencius
World History: 8-20-09 Reflection Questions • What were some additional claims the documentary was making? • What are some major differences between chimpanzees and humans?
World History: 8-21-09 Review Questions • What do you see yourself doing in 10 years? • What was the Paleolithic age? • What is animism? • Why would economic scarcity often lead to increased warfare? • Why did Geography play a bigger roll in the stone age then it does today? • Quote • “Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” -Mencius
World History: 8-24-09 Review Questions • Pass out and go over quiz
Reflection Questions • What does it mean to domesticate? • How do some people think farming first started?
World History: 8-25-09 Review Questions • What is more useful to learn….Spanish or Chinese? • What is civilization? • What is a city-state? • What is cultural diffusion? • How did job specialization lead to the emergence of social classes in early civilizations? • Quote • “I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” Plutarch
Reflection Questions • Give 3 examples of cultural diffusion in today’s world • What does it mean to be polytheistic?
World History: 8-26-09 Review Questions • How are you going to impact the world? • Why were many civilizations found in river valleys? • What is a steppe? • What is an empire? • What is government? • Quote • “Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.” Elbert Hubbard
Reflection Questions • How do some people think “government” was started? • How does farming help the military?
World History: 8-27-09 Review Questions • Are cigarettes evil? • What is silt? • What is a cataract? • How did geography influence ancient Egypt? • What were the main features and achievements of Egypt’s three kingdoms? • Quote • “He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.” Mary Wilson Little
Reflection Questions • How are colossal monument, such as the pyramids, a source of information on Egypt? • Why do you Ramses ordered misleading information about his battles to be etched in public monuments? That jerkface!
World History: 8-28-09 Review Questions • Where is the most dangerous place to live in the U.S? • What is mummification? • What are hieroglyphics? • How did religion beliefs shape the lives of Egyptians? • How was Egyptian society organized? • Quote • “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson
Reflection Questions • How were religion, government, and the arts linked in ancient Egypt? • Describe two ways that Egyptian inventions or scientific advances were linked to geography.
World History: 8-31-09 Review Questions • Is it fair that only men have to register for the draft? • What advances did Egyptians make in learning and the arts? • What was your favorite current event last week? • What do you like best about Egypt? • What is demotic? • Quote • “A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.” William Shakespeare
Reflection Questions • What have you found most interesting about Guns, Germs, and Steel? • How could have religion been used to control workers to build the pyramids? • What does it mean to decipher?
World History: 9-01-09 Review Questions • If there was a draft (for men and women) because more troops were needed in Iraq, would you serve? • What is a hierarchy? • How did geographic feature influence the civilizations of the Fertile Crescent? • What were the main features of Sumerian civilization? • What advances in learning did Sumerians make? • Quote • “A people free to choose will always choose peace.” Ronald Reagan
Reflection Questions • What are some of the benefits and drawbacks of keeping records in cuneiform on clay tablets? • What later inventions made it easier to preserve and pass on information?
World History: 9-02-09 Review Questions • Has the US ever fought an unjust war? • What is a ziggurat? • What is cuneiform? • What does Mesopotamia mean? • Quote • “Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.” Benjamin Franklin
Reflection Questions • Compare the duties of Sumerian rulers to those of rulers of countries today. • How are they similar? How are they different?
World History: 9-03-09 Review Questions • Will cell phones be replaced by brain chips that can ask as cell phones in the next 20 years? • How has geography influenced India? • What is a subcontinent? • How has archaeology provided clues about Indus Valley civilizations? • What theories do historians advance to explain the decline of the Indus Valley civilization? • Quote • “If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.” Napoleon Bonaparte
Reflection Questions • What is a monsoon? • What is veneration?
World History: 9-04-09 Review Questions • Will there ever be another crusade? • What is a caste? • What were the main characteristics of Aryan civilization in India? • What is a Brahman? • How did expansion lead to changes in Aryan civilization? • Quote • “I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.” Georges Clemenceau
Reflection Questions • What is a mystic? • What is a rajah?
World History: 9-08-09 Review Questions • none
World History: 9-09-09 Review Questions • Will the South ever “rise again?” • How did geography influence early Chinese civilization? • What were key cultural achievements in early China? • What is feudalism? • What are dynastic cycles? • Quote • “It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.” John F. Kennedy
Reflection Questions • How did Chinese culture take shape under the Shang and the Zhou? • What are oracle bones?
World History: 9-10-09 Review Questions • Will makeup ever go out of style for women? • What is global warming? • How did geography affect the development of cultures in the Americas? • What were the main features of Olmec and Mayan civilizations? • What is tribute? • Quote • “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reflection Questions • How did the Aztec culture develop? • What is a chinampas?
World History: 9-11-09 Review Questions • Will make up ever become in style for men? • What were the main achievements of the early peoples of Peru? • How did the Incas live? • What is a glyph? • What is a alloy? • Quote • “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” Charles Darwin
Reflection Questions • How did Incan emperors extend and maintain their empire? • What is a quipu?
World History: 9-14-09 Review Questions • none
World History: 9-15-09 Review Questions • What year will the world end? • What does it mean to be monotheistic? • What were the main events in the early history of the Israelites? • How did the Jews view their relationship with God? • What moral and ethical ideas did the prophets teach? • Quote • “But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.” Umberto Eco
Reflection Questions • What does patriarchal mean? • What is the Sabbath?
World History: 9-16-09 Review Questions • Why are so many women really into shoes? • What is a covenant? • What is a prophet? • What are ethics? • How are ethical beliefs of the Israelites similar to those commonly accepted in out society? • Quote • “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” Buddha