Another podcast: Ancient Greece, from Beginning to End (Crete, Mycenae, Dorians, Classical Athens, Alexander and Hellenism--with a long pause for Socrates and Philosophy, and a few comparisons with China. You don't have to listen to it before the DBQ--it's long (45 minutes), and the textbook chapters are enough--but it will be assigned before the Unit Test, so it's your choice. And I think those of you who are thinkers will see that I tried to make it interesting (because it is). Right-click and "Save as..." here.
**Update 1**: Sunday, 12.45 p.m.
As promised, an overview of China in a podcast. Download it here (Right Click > "Save as..."), and open it in iTunes or any player that plays m4v files.
I did the whole Shang, Zhou, Qin, and Han. If you just want to skip to Qin and Han, scroll to about 15.45 (if you go to View > Chapters, you'll see each dynasty's chapter. Click on it to go straight to that section). Qin and Han are about 30 minutes altogether.
The audio is a bit soft in the Zhou section, but louder in Qin and Han. I didn't have time to add pictures in the Qin/Han section as much as I wanted. Maybe I'll do that later, but for now--take notes on the audio. I tell you what textbook pages I'm discussing as I go, so follow along in your textbook if you think that will help.
For the DBQ Tuesday:
You won't see the question until you are in class. You'll have ten minutes to gather your thoughts, outline, make new groupings, and so forth.
Annotate DBQ at home with:
- analysis and background info (see Ashley's DBQ draft for success here, and for a pretty good "advanced road map" in her thesis)
- "insights" about the meaning and significance of the subject, and of the individual docs themselves (Brett's formative DBQ is a fine and depressingly rare example of insightful student writing)
- Good possible groupings that are general enough to include 2-3 docs, but not vague. See the "common social studies categories" in an earlier post, and remember our mini-lesson on the board about "bucketing."
FAQs:
1. "What can we bring to class?"
- the DBQ, annotated on laptop OR on print-out. Your choice.
- hand-written notes: NO FULL PARAGRAPHS: short bullet points only of 2/3 of one line maximum. If it looks like a paragraph, I WILL CONFISCATE IT!!! (Yes, I'm screaming and using !!!. That's how serious this is.)
- the Formative Greek DBQ rubric with my red-ink feedback (to remind you what to improve over last time)
2. "Can we write on our laptops?"
--No. Hand-written. WRITE LARGE AND CLEARLY. DOUBLE-SPACE. LEAVE MARGINS.
3. "What other docs will we have?"
--DBQ checklist
--Rubric (new: simpler, clearer, cleaner)
