HONORS Modern World History E and G
Bells (T, W, F)
*This syllabus is subject to change at any time by the
teacher. Changes announced in class take precedence over the on-line syllabus
at all times, students who are absent should always call someone from their bell
(not a different bell) to find out what they have missed, DO NOT just rely on
this webpage as I do not have the time to update it on a daily basis.
**reading and assignments are listed next to the days they are due!!! Late Work Policy is at the bottom of the screen.
WEEK OF March 9-13: Work on your Research Paper Outline. The Outline must be done by Friday according to the requirements of the Outline Handout that you were given in class. DO NOT WAIT until Thursday night, you can't do a decent outline in one night, this is a significant part of your third quarter grade.
PAST ASSIGNMENTS:
Week 2 Sept. 2-5
Due Tuesday: Notes The Renaissance and The Intellectual and Artistic Renaissance 154-171
Due Wednesday: Notes The Protestant Reformation 171-177
Friday: European Countries Geography Test 4 from the Geography Packet at www.summitcds.org/cronin
Week 3 Sept 8-12
Due Tuesday: Notes The Spread of Protestantism and the Catholic Response 177 to 183 and Exploration and Expansion 186 to 196
Due Wednesday: Notes Africa in an Age of Transition 197-201
Friday: Rampolla Quiz Ch. 5 "Writing a Research Paper"
Week 4 Sept 15-19 (school off 2 days)
Wednesday: Notes Southeast Asia in the Era of the Spice Trade 201-204 and Europe in Crisis 208-216
Friday: Craft of Research Quiz From Topics to Questions and Quick Tip
Week 5 Sept 22-26
Tuesday: Notes Social Crisis, War, and Revolution 216-223
Wednesday: Notes Response to Crisis: Absolutism 223-230
Friday: Notes The World of European Culture 230-233
Week 6 Sept 29 to Oct. 3
Tuesday: Unit Test IDs: Early Modern World Part 1
Wednesday: Unit Test Free Response Questions and Source Analysis: Early Modern World Part 1
Week 7 Oct. 6-10
Tuesday: Notes The Ottoman Empire and The Rule of the Safavids 236-255
Wednesday: Notes The Grandeur of the Moguls 255-261
Friday: Notes China at Its Height 264-273
Friday: Craft of Research Chapters 5 and 6 Quiz: You may bring and use on the quiz 1 piece of paper one or both sides of handwritten notes. Notes are NOT required and I am not giving credit for them, but given how poorly many of you are doing on the research reading quizzes you might want to consider doing them. DO NOT rewrite the chapters but other than that there is no specific format for whatever you wish to put on the page.
Week 8 Oct. 13-17 (no classes Wed for PSATs)
Tuesday: Notes Chinese Society and Culture 273-278
Friday: Notes Tokugawa Japan and Korea 278-End of Chapter 9; Round 2 of Where in the World Is It Test
LATE WORK POLICY: late work will rarely be accepted since we will often be discussing the work on the day it is due and of course once it is discussed it would be completely unfair to then allow a student to do the work with such an advantage. If you get lucky and we happen not to discuss the work the day it is due then it can be handed in with a 20% penalty for every day that it is late, this includes days when your class does not meet. If you are in school on the day work is due but left before my class or arrived after my class you MUST drop off your homework or penalties will be assessed based on what your class discussed that day. So work due on a Wednesday that we don't discuss that day that you then hand in on Friday would be graded and then docked an additional 40% off since Friday would be 2 days late. But if we do discuss it that day then it's a zero. If you're absent, work is due the day you return to school unless special circumstances exist. THE SOPHOMORE RESEARCH paper has a different set of late work rules which we will go over when we begin that project in the fall. HIOMEWORK PASS: the homework pass can be found in the course document bin, printed out, filled out, and used once per quarter for the Cornell Notes textbook assignments only and result in an excused no credit, no fault mark for that assignment.
Week 9 Oct. 20-24
Tuesday: Geography Test 5 Countries; Research Work Due Location of 3 Tertiary Sources of at least 2 pages in length, print them out or xerox if you found in Summit library or other and bring them in, if they are from a website you must include an explanation of why they are ok to use based on who publishes the website and/or wrote the information.
Wednesday: Geography Test 5 Bodies of Water and Mountain Ranges; Typed Summary of 1st Tertiary Source Due must turn in the summary AND the tertiary source
Friday: Research Work Location of 8 Secondary Sources and 8 primary sources, type out the information you will need to cite them but it does not have to be in correct citation format yet.
Week 10 Oct. 27-30 (no School Friday) End of Quarter
Tuesday: Early Modern World Test; 1 Essay you will be writing a Compare/Contrast Essay based on the cultures in this unit and the categories you have examined in your groups (S.P.E.C/air.) Bring in sources that you have access to for source approval (if you have sources that you know about but haven't checked out just bring the information you have and you can get official approval later but if they are online primary sources then print them out or at least the first page to be checked). I can get them checked off while you write the essay test. BINDER CHECKS WILL BE DONE DURING THE TEST
Wednesday: Typed Summary of 2nd Tertiary Source Due must turn in the summary AND the tertiary source
Week 11 Nov. 3-7
Tuesday: Typed Summary of 3rd Tertiary Source Due must turn in the summary AND the tertiary source
Wednesday: Where in the World Is it? Round 3
Friday: Research Proposal with COMPLETE Annotated Bibliography Due in correct Rampolla Format (called Chicago if you are using Zotero.com), divided into Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, and Overview Sources. See handout for annotation example.
Week 12 Nov. 10-14
Tuesday: Secondary Source Research Notecards Set 1 AND the source(s)
Wednesday: Resume
Friday: AE Article #15 Notes
Week 13 Nov. 17-21
Tuesday: Scientific Revolution MiniTest: Matching on the 10 guys and some free response questions on overall ideas coming out of the scientific revolution and how they changed ways of thinking.
Wednesday: Secondary Source Research Notecards Set 2 first half (10 cards) AND the source(s)
Friday: Secondary Source Research Notecards 2 second half (10 cards) AND the source(s)
FORMATION DAYS NO CLASSES (Research Notecards Set 3 AND the source(s) must be dropped off Monday or Tuesday)
Week 14 Dec. 2-5 (Monday Off)
Tuesday: Secondary Source Research Notecards Set 4 AND the source(s)
Wednesday: All 80 notecards should be sorted by topics to be covered in the paper and you must have a concept mapping with a proposed thesis in the middle and the proposed categories attached to the thesis bubble. Your 80 notecards will be graded and judged by whether or not they back up your proposed paper structure in your mapping, IF the mapping structure and thesis makes since.
Friday: Secondary Source Research Notecards Set 5 AND the source(s)---
Week 15 Dec. 8-12
Tuesday: Enlightenment Test
Wednesday: European Bodies of Water and Mountain Ranges Geography Test
Friday: DBQ Exercises 1-4
EVERY SET OF CARDS MUST HAVE A CARD ON TOP IN THE RUBBERBAND THAT HAS YOUR NAME, YOUR RESEARCH QUESTION, AND YOUR PROPOSED THESIS. THE NEXT CARD MUST BE YOUR SOURCE CARD. IF YOU HAVE CARDS FROM MORE THAN ONE SOURCE THEN EACH SOURCE MUST HAVE IT'S OWN SEPARATE SOURCE CARD IN THE STACK. FAILURE TO FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS MEANS THAT THE ASSIGNMENT IS INCOMPLETE AND THUS LATE. IF YOU ARE USING GOOGLE NOTEBOOK PRINT THEM OUT, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BIBLIOGRAPHY CARD SECTION, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A CARD AT THE TOP AT ALL TIMES WITH YOUR RESEARCH QUESTION(S) AND MAKE SURE YOU ARE CODING AND USING PAGE NUMBERS AND QUOTATION MARKS JUST LIKE YOU WOULD ON REAL PHYSICAL CARDS. ALL NOTECARD STACKS ARE GRADED AND THEN 10% OF THE TOTAL POSSIBLE POINTS IS DEDUCTED FOR EACH DAY THAT THE STACK WAS LATE. STUDENTS WHO OWE NOTECARDS, EVEN 1 SET, MUST SPEND THEIR H BELL STUDY HALLS WITH ME (not your leadership class if you're in one). THESE STUDENTS ARE ALSO NOT ELIGIBLE TO VIEW THE H BELL EXTRA CREDIT FILMS SINCE THEY MUST BE DOING NOTECARDS DURING THE H BELLS. IF SPENDING H BELLS DOES NOT RESULT IN THE NOTECARDS BEING CAUGHT UP FOR THE WEEK THEN PARENTS WILL BE CONTACTED AS WELL AS COACHES IF APPLICABLE AND STUDENTS WILL BE ASSIGNED EITHER 7:30-8:15AM WITH ME OR 3:15-4PM WITH ME.
Getting behind in a long term research project like this spells disaster. You cannot expect to suddenly do months worth of work in a day or a week before the paper is due. WARNING: if you treat the notecards as something just to be completed and you aren't doing them to master the material or you aren't taking notes that will help you make your argument it is the same as expecting to do months of work in a day or a week before the paper.
Monday G Bell/Tuesday E Bell: U.S. States Geography Test
Wednesday: Geography Test #2 from the Packet on this website: Latin America, countries and the questions listed in the packet
Friday: Write out or Type out an essay answer to Either DBQ question #1 (4 body paragraphs) OR DBQ question #3 (4 shorter body paragraphs or two rather long ones depending on which set up approach you take) from Exercise 3 in your packet. Do not attempt to write an essay answering either #2 or #4 as the documents you were given will not help with those, you were supposed to choose those as poor questions for this set of documents. You must use and cite all of the documents you were given that are relevant to the essay you chose. You cite by putting the number of the document you used in parenthesis behind the sentence(s) where you used info or a direct quote from that document. DO NOT use the word document in your essay. Refer to what it is, so for example The Ptolemic drawing clearly shows that... or In his book Francis Bacon promotes the idea that.... You will not be able to answer the question well without also using outside information, i.e. info you got from class. So you must use the documents but you do not have to confine yourself only to the documents.
XMAS BREAK
Week 17 Jan. 5-9--if you lost the document packet it is in the course document bin on blackboard in a pdf file
Tuesday: Answer all Questions in Document Packet on "Declaration of the Rights of Man", questions follow the document
Wednesday: Answer all Question in Document Packet on "Report on the Principles of Political Morality", questions follow the document on 2 pages
Friday: Extra Credit: answer questions on the other documents in the packet.
UPPER SCHOOL EXAM WEEK---SEE MIDYEAR EXAM STUDY GUIDE available in course doc bin on BB as of 12/27/08
G Bell exam Monday Afternoon Exam Slot
E Bell exam Thursday Morning Exam Slot
H bell exam slot is Thursday Afternoon and is by prior arrangement only.