LCHS AP World Assignments

Top 10 Homework

2009-01-13T15:19:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone,

Choose a Dynasty of your choice unless I specifically assigned one to you. Read your notes and the book and decide what the ten most important things to know about that dynasty are in your opinion. Then write the ten things and explain what each one is and why its important to the time period.

Also include a 3 quotes from the time period or about the time period if you can find them. Check google for quotes.

Please type the TOP 10 and email it to me if possible.

lchsedmonds@gmail.com

Go to http://www.advancedplacementhistory.com/World%20Notes.html

for examples if you are curious what they look like. Please DO NOT copy one that is already there. Please do the dynasties that are not listed or are not done well on the webpage. Our goal is to have a complete list of TOp 10 Dynasty pages for every time period we have studied.

Due Thursday or Friday: Write 8 Multiple Choice Questions

2008-12-09T15:08:00.000-08:00

Please write a quality multiple choice question for each of the following civilizations. Be sure the multiple choice question has at least 8 words in the questions and that the answer choices are at least 3 words each. The easiest way to make an answer choice longer is to explain your answer choice with more words. For example, if my answer choice was "Edmonds" I could make it longer by saying "Edmonds, a social studies teacher at Lake City High School"

Also, be sure you don't write questions all about politics. Do some from different parts of the PERSIAN categories.

Write one MC question for each of the following:
Maya, Aztec, Inca, Umayyad, Abbasids, Delhi, Vikings, Franks and Feudalism

AP Viking essay: Due Tuesday for A1 and A3; Wed for B - 6

2008-12-06T10:16:00.000-08:00

Viking Essay:

Two options are available. The first is to compare and contrast the Viking strategy for expansion, accomplishments as an empire and their longterm influences to the Muslim expansion, accomplishments and long term influence between 700- 1200.

Make a double T chart and list the unique things about the Muslims, unique things about the Vikings and their similarities. Be sure to list unique things and similarities for how they expanded, their accomplishments and their long term influences. You will write a thesis statement answering the question and then one body paragraph for expansion compare and contrast, accomplishments compare and contrast and long term influence compare and contrast.

If that seems way to hard then tackle the simpler prompt which is: Describe the expansion, accomplishments and long term influence of the Vikings.

ISLAM body paragraph

2008-11-19T21:16:00.000-08:00

Research one of the important time periods during the Muslim era and explain their importance in a body paragraph. Your body paragraph must have the following:
1. A topic sentence naming the dynasty you researched and what it accomplished
2. At least 5 sentences explaining the dynasty or its accomplishments in more detail.
3. At least 10 facts about the dynasty. A fact is a name, date, place or event. The facts are not sentences but are includes within sentences.

For example, the sentence "Lake City High School is big". has one fact (Lake City High School).

Bring your body paragraph to our next class.

The possible time periods are:
1. Muhammad (research his accomplishments and write about them)
2. 4 Rightly Guided Caliphs
3. Umayyads
4. Abbasids

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

2008-10-30T18:01:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-29T17:00:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-21T15:28:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-20T15:18:00.001-07:00

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

2008-10-15T17:06:00.001-07:00

Read page 128-131 in text

2008-10-14T19:42:00.001-07:00

Homework due Mon./Tues. October 13/14

2008-10-09T17:16:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-07T19:27:00.000-07:00

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

2008-10-02T16:51:00.001-07:00

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