week of 06.02.14

This Week’s Schedule… Monday:

Introduce: The Final Analysis Review for our year-end CRES Stored binders should go

home today Tuesday:

Review for our year-end CRES; Wednesday:

CRES prep Thursday:

Group project presentations; Complete CRES prep; Buzzer competion

Friday: Our year-end CRES

Monday, 06.02.14

Your Final Writing – “The Final Analysis”

As stated in the beginning of the year, this class has been about reading comprehension and thinking. Medieval history is simply how you master these two points.

The Final Analysis is simply multi-paragraph essay: Introduce the Talents Unlimited

Thinking Skills Review: how have these skills been

used throughout the historical period we have studied this year? Cite history!

Apply: how will these skills be applied by you in your life?

Value: 40 points, as scored by the Social Studies rubric

Due Date: Friday, June 6th, 2014

Productive Thinking Communication Planning Forecasting Decision Making

Hmmm…Romans, the Church, Islam, Asia, the early American civilizations, ME!

The Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox

Church: how do we solve the schism? China: how do we keep the silk road open? How did the explorers reach the east? Is there

a better way? Can we get to the east by sailing west?

Human sacrifice by the Aztecs to please the Gods

How can the Romans control the ever-expanding empire?

China: gunpowder and inventions

Productive Thinking: many and varied

ideas

How did the Mayan people communicate? What did the Mongols do to increase communication

along the silk road? Muslims: calligraphy and geometric designs Incans people and the use of quipus Ghana, Songhai & Mali: how can we communicate the

Qur’an? Rome – how did they communicate across a vast

empire? Japan – the folds in the fan Samurais – dress going into battle

Communication: use oral & written words to express ideas

What are the long-range impacts for Islam in

the West African cultures? Europeans: what will happen if we bring all

this gold back from the new world? How will Shoguns allow for a better

government in Japan? What happens in China if we use the civil

service exams (meritocracy) or money (aristocracy)

Forecasting: cause & effect of

circumstances

Japan and the Heian Period: plan for keeping our success in

culture going How can we keep Islam pure across Mali, Ghana and

Songhai? How can we maintain or improve the training of the

samurais? How do we as Incans improve our agricultural practices? What would happen if we as Mayans would control or

expand our slash and burn practices? How did European rulers plan for voyages to the new world? How did the Mayans train themselves for the extensive

math and astronomy skills they had?

Planning: identify materials & equipment needed; steps for

action

What would go into the decision making

process before funding a voyage to the new world?

How did the Roman empire split into various cultures?

What did the Mayans use to create their empire?

Should Justinian rebuild Constantinople or begin again somewhere else?

How do we use Timbuktu as a trading center in northern Africa?

Decision Making: identify your criteria & alternatives