Renaissance 2 + Debate line-up

Remember: Debate Tuesday. You know who your partners and opponents are; I'll give you your topic on Friday. (Have you put your second choice for each factor in green?)

HW: Blame Frankie Hearne (or thank him) for tricking me into thinking Thanksgiving Break was a "no-homework weekend." He won that round.

But now I have to win Round Two. I try not to assign over 30-45 minutes of HW as a rule. But by Friday, I need you to watch the entire video below. You'll be quizzed. (It's about Boticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, and Lorenzo "the Magnificent" Medici, and if you're not a mere moneyed barbarian, you should want a bit of true Cultural and Artistic knowledge anyway.)

Thanks, Frankie :)

Renaissance 1: Culture and Economics

HW: Debate Prep part 1

The debate will be Tuesday of next week. The schedule and rules:


Due Wednesday: Complete Chart + Your Choice for Each Factor

Credit: 15 points. Share this file with me in Gdocs, named "[your name] db".
 
1. Pull out your old notes and charts, and make ONE chart:

• Row headings: Muslims (Abbasid), Mongols, Ming China, Renaissance Europe
• Column headings: Political, Economic, Social, Religious, Science/Technology, Foreign Relations
• fill each cell in the chart. This data will form your arguments. You will share it with your opponent.
• In each column, make the font red for the box that shows your choice of "best" for that factor, and green for your second choice. (You can change your mind once, at the end of the Renaissance unit).
   

Warning: You will write a one-paragraph argument for each of three factors I'll assign you after class on Wednesday Friday (that's three paragraphs total), so make sure you have enough strong evidence to argue for each factor: Three really strong arguments per factor is your goal.

Again, you are not saying "One civilization is best in every way." You're saying,  "Civ. A was best politically and scientifically, Civ. B was best socially, Civ D was best religiously, etc."

Due Friday Tuesday:

Credit: 15 points. Share with me in Gdocs
2. Three 1-minute speeches (written like body paragraphs) arguing for three factors (I'll assign them Wednesday Friday) and against your opponent (I'll assign him/her Wednesday).
Graded for:
a) topic sentence and organization (transitions)
b) persuasive arguments and strongest evidence.



Tuesday: Debate
Credit: 70 points

Joking with the Padre

This is awesome (and interesting, from a "Reading Like a Historian" way--remember our discussion of Noah's "world" flood? Check out what this priest says about how some of Jesus' sayings in the Bible may have been totally funny 2000 years ago, but we don't get the joke today).

And listen to Colbert's joke about God and the suicide at the end. Classic.

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Crusades Seminar, Mongol Discussion HW: China's Golden Age

Download the textbook readings on the Tang, Song, Yuan (that's the Mongols under Kublai Khan, which you read about in the Mongol DBQ, so you're skipping that chapter), and Ming.

Again, the question for this quarter is, based on its 'Golden Age,' which major civilization would have best ruled the world?

So take notes on the "strengths and weaknesses" of China. Focus on how civilized it was, not so much on names and dates. We'll go more deeply into the Ming on Monday.

Reminder:
Quiz next Monday (30 points): Christianity, Islam (<<won't be on quiz), Middle Ages in Europe (textbook reading), First and Third Crusades.  

Crusades Part 2 and Mongols

Download this Mongol DBQ. HW: Make a Google Doc with a T Chart and invite your partner and me:
 BARBARIC   |     NOT BARBARIC

Read the DBQ for HW. List 9 items in each column.
ALSO take any notes on Sourcing, Contextualizing, Corroborating, Close Reading.


40 min. Seminar Thursday (50 points): Questions on Crusades documentary (the same ones you prepared for today). (Outline notes for Part 2 here.)


Quiz next Monday (50 points): Christianity, Islam, (<<won't be on quiz), Middle Ages in Europe (textbook reading), First and Third Crusades.

The Crusades, Part One

In Class:
I have a minor surgery today (nothing serious), so Mrs. Zitur is filling in (thank you!):

Download Seminar Questions and Video Outline.

A. Class discussion of HW questions: 10 minutes *strict limit--you're watching a 55 minute video in class!*:
1. Why did Western Europe become such a mess after the fall of the Western Roman Empire? (Remember, the Eastern Empire in Byzantium (Turkey) was still around. Only Western Europe became "Dark".)

2. What was the basic relationship between Charlemagne and the Roman Catholic Church?

3. Why did Charlemagne's empire fall?

4. What is feudalism as a political system?

5. What is the manorial economic system?

6. Which civilization would you rather have lived in--Medieval Europe or Abbasid Islam?
--If you have any questions about the questions above, reply to this blog post so I can answer them online.

Bring your outlines to class Tuesday for me to check them.


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B. Look at seminar questions on the file you downloaded, and clarify what your homework is (3 minutes, strict).


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C. Watch "Holy Warriors, Part One." 
Don't take notes. Just watch it straight through. I've taken notes for you, so let yourself learn from the film.


If you're absent, here's the film on YouTube: watch up to 46 minutes, then stop.

Islam's Rise and Spread pt. 2

In Class:
Key questions:

1. How did Islam spread--by force, persuasion, or both? How did it treat non-Muslims? (Gather evidence in bullet points from Wikipedia--I approve it because I've reviewed it for accuracy--and keep them for the final tests):

1 Conversion

• 1.1 Phase I: The Early Caliphs and Umayyads (610-750 AD)
• 1.2 Phase II: The Abbasids (750-1258)
• 1.3 Phase III: Dissolution of the Abbasids and the emergence of the Seljuks and Ottomans (950-1450)

2. What contributions did the Abbasid Caliphate (750-12500; capital in Baghdad) make to civilization in terms of science, art, technology, government, economics? (Chart it from the movie The Awakening, first 20 minutes, and see Textbook, p. 273-79)

3. Why did the Abbasid Caliphate collapse? (see WHPOI Textbook, p. 271--the Islam chapter as a separate file is here)


Homework: European Christendom--The Medieval Period (a.k.a. "Dark Ages")
Read the Medieval Europe section from the textbook and outline, following this format, pages 353-54, and read the rest below:
1. Charlemagne Unites the Germanic Kingdoms (pp. 353-57)
2. Feudalism in Europe (pp. 358-63)

--Be able to answer these questions (you don't have to write them, but you might be quizzed or "seminared" on them--they're not hard if you do the readings):
1. Why did Western Europe become such a mess after the fall of the Western Roman Empire? (Remember, the Eastern Empire in Byzantium (Turkey) was still around. Only Western Europe became "Dark".)
2. What was the basic relationship between Charlemagne and the Roman Catholic Church?
3. Why did Charlemagne's empire fall?
4. What is feudalism as a political system?
5. What is the manorial economic system?
6. Which civilization would you rather have lived in--Medieval Europe or Abbasid Islam?