Complete the Take Home Test A3 and A4 please be sure to finish the DBQ first

Finish the take home test that I gave out in class. I will not collect this set of questions but I will give a short (20 question) quiz at the start of our next class.

Here is the link to the quiz.

http://www.advancedplacementhistory.com/World%20Quizzes.html

Read the directions before you start please.

Write the DBQ given in class

Answer the question on the DBQ given in class (Analyze the Han and Roman attitudes toward technology). Be sure to include a thesis that answers the question and previews the main ideas you will have in your essay. You might organize your essay into three parts such as Rome, Han and similarities OR people who like tech, people who don't and people who like it a bit OR political documents, social documents, economic documents OR philosophical docs, official docs and what workers think. Whatever you choose be CERTAIN TO ANSWER THE QUESTION.

In your essay, be sure each paragraph includes at least one example of how a person's perspective changes what they say about a document (Bias) and one group of documents (two or more documents that agree about the answer to the question.

Don't worry if you are unsure about your essay. Write an essay and finishing is what's important for this assignment. Don't worry about perfection but be SURE TO FINISH THE ESSAY.

Here's a powerpoint that teaches HOW TO WRITE THE DBQ
http://www.slideshare.net/MrKeatley/how-to-nail-the-dbq/

and here's a few more guides (scroll to the bottom)
http://www.advancedplacementhistory.com/World%20Essays.html

and here's some ideas about how to do DBQs
http://www.advancedplacementhistory.com/POV%20in%20DBQs.htm

DUE THUR/FRI Compare and Contrast the Han and Rome in a Double T PERSIAN chart

DUE THUR/FRI Compare and Contrast the Han and Rome in a Double T PERSIAN chart using the following websites and your notes.

http://www.slideshare.net/dmcdowell/rome-han-comparison
and
http://www.chinainstitute.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewPage&pageID=713&nodeID=1

Put in as much information about each of the PERSIAN categories as you can from the internet, your book, the notes and the websites above.

DUE Tuesday or Wednesday - Multiple Choice questions in prep for a quiz

Here are some practice Multiple Choice questions for you to work through. Do them until you know them well - we will have a quiz on Tuesday or Wednesday depending on when you have class.

To get the questions go to top of the AP world assignments page.

DUE Oct 17/18 Thesis: Compare and Contrast Athens with Sparta or Alexander the Great

Read page 128-131 in text

Homework due Mon./Tues. October 13/14

Write a carefully constructed thesis statement with at least 3 main ideas that answers the question below.
Question: Compare and Contrast the early Greeks (Minoan and Mycenaean) with the early Indian Civilizations (Indus Valley and Aryans). Be sure to include at least 1 comparison and 1 contrast for each of your categorical comparisons. (Think PERSIAN or ESP to help you come up with categories and finish your chart that we started in class).

Greek Art and Architecture DUE Oct 9/10

Using the internet or a textbook, choose an piece of Minoan, Mycenaean or Greek art or architecture and describe the art. Then explain what you can learn about the civilization by looking at that art. Use PERSIAN categories to get yourself thinking. You don't have to use all of the categories - its just a way to get thinking.

Due Oct 7/8

AP World homework is to re-read all of the notes we have taken since the beginning of the year.

As you finish re-reading the notes for each significant dynasty write a 3-5 sentence paragraph describing its importance to the development of civilization as a whole.

What ideas, inventions, geographical changes, rulers, books, art or other important development did the civilization contribute to our world history? Only include ideas or developments that are unique to the culture and really important. This paragraph should be a nice summary of our notes. Do not include religions or philosophies because we will do a separate assignment about them.

You should write paragraphs about the following civilizations. The paragraphs should be thoughtful but do not have to be thesis statements. Think summary not thesis. The more attention you give to your notes the better.

In China: Shang, Chou, Ch'in, Han

In India: Indus Valley, Aryan, Mauryan (add Gupta if we covered it in your class)

Mesopotamia: Sumaria and/or Babylon, Persia

and one for Ancient Egypt