Final Exam Review Sheet

Here it is!  Feel free to take a peek, but as for studying, we will be discussing strategies and then reviewing content starting next week.  Have a great weekend!

1st Semester HWH Final Exam Review Sheet (Click here)

Memes, DBQs, & Finals

Now that Activity Points are completed, please balance your time between finishing up the reading and completing the DBQs that are due next Tuesday.  If you have not finished your meme background, please contact me so that we could make arrangements (last day in class for 3rd period is Friday.)  PLEASE NOTE: The DBQ rubric is now posted to the website (near the assignment page) and the Final Exam Review sheet will be posted before the weekend (be sure to check the website).  Next week we will go over how to place text on the memes, briefly conference regarding course recommendations, and then review for the final exam.

Welcome Back & Happy New Year!

I hope you had a wonderful and refreshing break.  Up next before the end of the semester and final exam review are the meme projects and a short DBQ project.

Today's Frame - Christendom

Medieval Europe conceived of itself as "Christendom"- God's Kingdom on Earth or a lesser version of the promised paradise in Heaven available to believers and pious individuals.  How did Christian theology infuse itself into all aspects of daily life in the Medieval period?  (think about our buckets)

Today's Frame - Early Medieval Europe

How did Medieval Europe blend together ingredients from German barbarian culture, the Roman Empire, and The Roman Catholic Church? (Cultural diffusion)?

Today's Frame - Dar al-Islam

How did Dar al-Islam reflect a diverse, yet relatively unified Islamic civilization during the Middle Ages?  How did it find its parallel in Europe's Christendom?

Today's Frame - Spread of Islam

How and why did Islam spread so rapidly following the death of The Prophet Muhammad, creating Islamic empires known as caliphates? 

Today's Frame - Islam

How did Islam emerge as the fastest-growing faith and the latest version of monotheism?

Today's Frame - The Byzantines

Why did the Byzantine Empire outlast the Western (Latin) Roman Empire by approximately 1,000 years? How were the Byzantines, with their capital in Constantinople, different politically, culturally, and socially from Rome?

The Project, Unit 4, & Activity Points

As you know, I pushed back the deadline for the project by a few days, providing one last weekend (new due date is Monday, 11/20 at 8 AM). Activity Points for the 2nd Quarter have been posted. And finally, today we will start looking at outlines, subtopics, and get our first intro to Animoto and our new GoogleCommunity.

Today's Frame - The Emergence of Christianity

How did Christianity emerge from a persecuted religion to official state religion of the Roman Empire?

Today's Frame - Roman Empire

What conditions led to the dramatic rise and fall of the Roman Empire?  What are the Roman Empire's greatest legacies?

Today's Frame - The Roman Republic

During the late Hellenistic period, how did Rome emerge as the dominant power in the Mediterranean?

Today's Frame - Art & Architecture

How does the art and architecture of Classical and Hellenistic Greece reflect the values and ideas of these civilizations?

Greek Art & Architecture Activity handout (Click here)

Art & Architecture Google Folder (Click here)

Today's Frame- Hellenism

How was Hellenism a cultural and political force in ancient Greece, Egypt, and central Asia?

Today's Frame- Classical Greece

"Classical Greece", "Golden Age Greece", "Periclean Athens"...  these are ways to describe the ascendance of Greek civilization during the 5th century BCE.

• What conditions enabled Athens to rise above other city-states and become a center of cultural achievement? (think art, architecture, philosophy, politics, theater, math, engineering, etc.)

• How was war a defining factor for Greek civilization, shaping it immeasurably by uniting and fracturing Greek city-states and cultivating a fierce sense of competition, arete, and ultimately, hubris?

Today's Frame- Origins of Greece

How did geography affect the development of ancient Greek civilization?

Today's Activity: Adapted from a "mini" DBQ, you will read and annotate all the documents in your packet. You must write a short thesis statement that addresses the prompt and share that as a stand-alone GoogleDoc to your Hapara folder (due tomorrow).

Today's Frame- Persia

How and why did the Persians (Achaemenids) create the world’s first multilingual, multiethnic, multireligious, and multilingual empire?

Unit 3... But First...

A day to take some time away from curriculum to discuss current events.

Today's Frame: The Qin and the Han

Why did Legalism prevail over Confucianism and Daoism as the main philosophy of the Qin Dynasty 221-202 BCE? Why was Confucianism later championed by the Han?