AP WH Homework
Unit 1 Foundations c.8000 B.C.E.—600 C.E.
Note: Our general pattern for this 1st unit will be to learn/study 2 chapters/week. For readings listed, you need to have the pages read when you arrive to class that day—homework from the previous night. For each reading, you are encouraged to take Cornell Notes for the pages assigned. Each blue subsection can be turned into a question and answered from the text.
Week #1 Sept. 1-3
9/1—pattern introduction/syllabus
9/2—Guns, Germs & Steel—book patterns, Yali’s question, summer ? discussion.
9/3—GGS work due, GGS quiz—one question answered in detail
HW—read Preface pp. xxxi-xli; Ch. 1 2-5, 14-19 (skim), 20-29; Ch. 2 33-58
Vocab—ch. 1-2/ Unit Vocab (PDF)
Week #2
9/6-9/10 Ch. 3 & 4—No specific readings for Ch. 4 listed. We will be looking at ch. 4 in class looking for /applying patterns. You should read Ch. 4 on your own so the material isn’t completely new to you.
9/6—No School
9/7— Summer E.C. Movie write ups due.
Quiz—ch. 1-2 reading (vocab, general details)
Ch. 3/4 vocab
9/8—Ch. 3. Read pp. 61-71
9/9—Read pp. 72-85
9/10—HW—ch. 5-6 vocab
HW—Themes chart Ch. 2 (Mesopotamia, Hebrews), Ch. 3 (Egypt, Bantus), Ch. 4 (Harappan, Aryans)
Week #3
9/13-9/17 Ch. 5/6
9/13—read pp. 111-125; Lecture Ch. 5
9/14—pp. 125-132; Lecture Ch. 6;
9/15—pp. 135-146
9/16—pp. 148-158
9/17—Quiz—Ch. 1/6; Some vocab from Ch. 3-6 & you should know Mesopotamia, Egypt, China (Shang & Zhou), Mayans, Australia—When, who interacted with, major accomplishments
HW—create essay outline ch. 1-6—will work on this in class and bring outline to class on 9/20—essay written in class. Essay question prompt: Compare and contrast the Encounters (trade, communication, warfare, etc) experienced during the early Foundations Unit (8000 BCE-1000BCE) of any two of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China (Shang & Zhou), the Mayans, Australia.
Choose ouline format: Specific (Word)/ Specific (PDF); General (Word)/ General (PDF)
Thesis statement assistance (link to someone else’s page that has created this)
Week #4
9/20-9/24 Ch. 7/8
9/20—Compare & Contrast 2 societies above—5paragraphs— essay outline due
--read pp. 160-63; pp. 165-173
9/21—read pp. 173-184
9/22—read pp. 187-200
9/23—pp. 200-209
9/24—vocab quiz Ch. 7/8; Ch. 9 read pp. 213-224
Week #5
9/27-10/1 Ch. 9/10
9/27—read pp. 213-224; Vocab 9/10 due 10/1
Lecture Ch. 9
9/28—pp. 224-235 Buddhism | Hinduism | Religion Chart
9/29—pp. 239-246; Lecture Ch. 10; HW--All About Empire—see Mr. Kreifels
9/30—246-255,
10/1—255-265; Vocab & Mult. Choice quiz Ch. 9-10
Week #6
10/4-10/8 Ch. 11-12 (reading this week is chapter 11-12)
10/4 p 269- 282 Lecture Ch. 11
10/5 282-93
10/6 Comparison Essay work
10/7 pp 295-206 Lecture Ch. 12
10/8 306-319 Vocab lesson 11/12 due—no quiz
Unit I Review Topics
Week #7
10/11-10/15
10/11 no school
10/12 unit review
10/13 Foundations Unit Test—Ch. 1-12
10/14 Unit 2 Folder Day; Ch. 13 pp. 322-33
10/15 pp 333-43