WHAP Assignments Calendar
August 2011
Monday
8.
Tuesday
9. Turn in summer
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
10. Class procedures;
11. “I Can” 1.1 I C &
12. Maps Quiz!!;
assignment (maps and
questions);
Introduction to
Advanced Placement
Classes
HW: “The Big
Picture” reading packet
& questions due 8/10
Summer reading
discussion; “I Can”
statements 1.1 I A-B
notes
HW: “Human Web”
p.17-20 and questions
due 8/11
1.2 E writing and
discussion; Begin
Neolithic Revolution
lecture
Neolithic Revolution,
continued
HW: “Human Web”
41-51 due 8/15
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FROM ONLINE
CLASSROOM
15. Neolithic
16. Early Civs map;
17. Egypt/
18. Student graffiti:
19. Chinese
Revolution, cont.
HW: Strayer
textbook p.61-69
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FROM ONLINE
CLASSROOM &
questions
“What is a
Civilization?” notes;
Mesopotamia & Egypt
examples
HW: Strayer textbook
p. 69-73
DOWNLOAD FROM
ONLINE
CLASSROOM &
questions
Mesopotamia
JIGSAW group work
chart
What is the
difference between a
state and am empire?;
Early civilization
primary sources work
HW: Strayer p. 128133 & questions
Civilization &
Philosophies Day
HW: Strayer 133-141
& questions
22. Early
23. Learning Target
24. Early
25. Empires Unit
26. Whole-class
Interactions:
Religion and Trade
primary source pair
work, Early
religious beliefs
power point & Rig
Veda reading
Period I breakdown
pair work and wholeclass presentation
Civilizations wholeclass essay prompt
HW: Strayer
textbook p. 97-108
Intro & Craine
Brinton’s paradigm
for Empires; Classical
Empires map
HW: Strayer 142-144
timeline; Greece/
Persia SPRITE chart
in small groups
HW: Strayer
textbook p. 108-119
29. Greece/Persia
30. Whole-class
31. Han China and
2. Empires: Rome
primary resources
discussion circles
HW: Strayer 155160 & 165-170
timeline; Rome/China
SPRITE chart in small
groups
Rome primary
resources discussion
circles
1. China and Rome
applying the Brinton
paradigm of Empire
HW: India readingby
9/6
and China Venn
Diagram to Thesis
statement (methods
of political control
prompt from 2010)
WHAP Assignments Calendar
September 2011
Monday
5. Labor Day –
No School
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
6. Maurya & Gupta
7. Social Hierarchy in
8. Empires QUIZ
9. Religions
India power point
HW: Strayer p. 160165 & questions
the Age of Empires
Venn & Discussion;
Han, Rome, and
Indian (Bhagavad
Gita) primary sources
(Greece, Persia,
Rome, Han China,
Maurya/Gupta India)
HW: Religions
readings
presentation group
work
HW: be ready to
present with your
group on Monday!
12. Religions
13. Trade Routes
14. Bridging World
15. Zones of
16. The Arts in
Presentations!
HW: trade routes
readings Strayer
334-342
Maps
HW: trade routes
readings Strayer 343355
History Trade
Networks videos
Interaction: the
development of long
distance trade &
associated
technologies & crops
HW:
“Southernization” &
mindmap by 9/19
Classical
Civilizations:
Hellenism and Indian
culture
19. Southernization
20. Plan test
bubbling
21. Period II Target
22. Plan testing
23. Period I & II
breakdown and class
presentations
After School Review
from 4:00-5:00pm
Test (early river
valley civs, early
Empires, large
empires; trade routes,
religions)
HW: Bulliet textbook
p. 193-202 & optional
questions
fishbowl
After School Review
from 4:00-5:00pm
26. Islam Power
27. vocabulary sheet;
28. The Messenger
29. Caliphates power
30. The Awakening
point
HW: Bulliet p. 202208 & optional
questions
Caliphates chart
DVD
HW: Bulliet p. 208216 & optional
questions
point
HW: When Asia Was
the World Ibn Battuta
Chapter p. 97-115
and NOT
OPTIONAL
questions by 10/3
DVD
WHAP Assignments Calendar
October 2011
Monday
Tuesday
3. Urban decline and
4. Byzantine Empire
5. Byzantine Art &
6. Viking
7. Medieval Europe
revivals: causes and
effects
HW: Bulliet p. 219223
Overview;
Constantinople
googlemaps tour
HW: Bulliet p. 223231
Western European
Art; animated Bayeux
Tapestry
HW: Bulliet p. 231234
Migrations: Video
Game & quick
notes; Kievan Rus &
the trading city of
Novgorod
HW: Bulliet p.234241
Overview power
point
HW: Strayer
textbook (online
classroom) p.241247 WITH NOT
OPTIONAL
QUESTIONS!
10. Crusades & the
11. Concept 3.3
12. “Increasing
Compare and
Contrast in-class
essay prep work
Economic
Productivity” C&C
whole-class essay
13. FALL
BREAK!
14. FALL
revival of European
trade contacts in
trading city-states ;
primary sources and
video clip (Islam:
Empire of Faith)
17. Sui, Tang, Song
China timeline
HW: Strayer p. 247252 & 259-265
18. Pastoral
19. Solidifying
20. The influence of
contacts with China
& the Asian
commercial
revolution; Video Bridging World
History unit 8 early
economies
Confucianism in
China: Crack down on
Buddhism primary
sources and foot
binding ppt
HW: Strayer p. 252259 & Japanese feudal
system wksheets
China & Eurasian
trade networks on
Japan
HW: Begin “Fire Is
Born” National
Geographic article
and questions –
begin it! NOT
OPTIONAL
21. “Fire is Born”
National
Geographic article
and questions on
Maya city-states
and discussion
HW: Inca Empire
Nat Geo article and
questions NOT
OPTIONAL
24. Maya, Aztec, Inca
25. Maya, Aztec,
27. Mongols DBQ
28. Mongols
ppt; Pre-Columbian
primary resources
whole class discussion
HW: Day of Empire
online reading &
questions Part I – Not
Optional
Inca SPRITE Chart;
thesis practice
26. Discuss DBQ
rubric; Mongols DBQ
documents Act-It Out
HW: Day of Empire
Part III – Not
Optional
HW: Day of Empire
Part II – Not
Optional
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
BREAK!
Fishbowl
Zheng He’s Ship
WHAP Calendar
November 2011
Columbus’s Ship
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
31. Comparing
1. 2011 Compare and
2. African Islamic
3. Quiz on Islam,
4. Discuss Quiz;
Mongol Empires:
Persia, Russia, China
Graphic Organizer
Contrast Essay wholeclass and individual
work
Trading Empires:
Ghana, Mali,
Songhay, Great
Zimbabwe group
notes
HW: Bentley
textbook p. 492-496;
500-504
Byzantium,
Medieval Europe,
Sui/Tang/Song;
& Mongols;
Finish group notes;
Millennium video –
Malian Empire and
video questions
Swahili Coast trade
questions; Black
Death primary
source
HW: Bulliet
textbook p. 356-364
9. Period III
Multiple Choice
EXAM!
10. European
11. Medieval versus
Renaissance guided
notes
Renaissance Art
power point and
discussion questions
worksheet
HW: Bulliet
textbook p. 312-316
(including “The Fall
of the Yuan”)
HW: Online
Classroom Bentley
textbook p. 487-492;
496-500
7. Jewish Diaspora
8. Period III Review
Traders in the Indian
Ocean Article and
Questions; European
Revival - trading cities,
guilds, and banking
discussion
After School Review
with Sully Monster in
the Library 4-5
After School Review
with Panda Booth in
the Library from 4-5
14. Ming Dynasty
15. Government
16. Early European
17. Finish Guns,
18. Spice Fishbowl
Graphic Organizer in
small groups, Zheng
He Millennium Video
HW: Bulliet textbook
p. 368-373
Change in Early
Modern Europe
brainstorming;
Compare and Contrast
Ming and Renaissance
Revivals discussion
exploration guided
notes; Begin Guns,
Germs, and Steel
DVD Episode II &
questions
HW: Online
Classroom reading
and questions from
Spice – needs to be
done by 11/18
Germs, and Steel
Video Episode II &
questions
HW: Bulliet
textbook p. 389-399
23.
Thanksgiving
Break!
24.
21. European
22. In-class DBQ
Encounters with
Africans and
Americans – primary
source analysis and
notes
HW: Read Flow of
Silver DBQ
Documents & complete
analysis worksheet
Essay
HW: Bulliet
textbook p. 364-368
& Renaissance Man
worksheet
Beef is good
for you!
25.
WHAP Calendar
December 2011
SNOW DAYS ARE NOT EXCUSES! KEEP UP WITH READING!
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
28. Protestant
29. Catholic
30. Scientific
1. Political and
2. Review &
Reformation guided
notes; Martin Luther
Primary Sources
HW: Bulliet p. 405412
Reformation guided
notes & witch hunts
discussion, Monty
Python clip! 
HW: Bulliet p. 412418
Revolution &
Enlightenment
guided notes
HW: Bulliet p. 418428
Economic Changes
in Europe guided
notes
Exploration/Ch. 16
Quiz

HW: Bulliet p. 431434
5. Columbian
6. Finish learning
7. Spanish Colonies
8. British & French
9. The Atlantic
Exchange Learning
Stations
HW: Bulliet p. 434440
stations; Millennium
Video & questions
HW: Bulliet 440-445
& Native American
Resistance guided
notes & Millennium
Brazil video
HW: Bulliet p. 445454
Colonies –
comparison
pictures with
Spanish; thesis
creation
System overview
guided notes; Group
discussion questions
HW: Bulliet p. 459466
12. Sugar and
13. The World Trade
14. Atlantic
15. Indentured
16. Ch. 17-18 Quiz
Slavery & The Middle
Passage guided notes
HW: Bulliet p. 473481
Created Reading and
Discussion with
Questions
HW: Indentured
Servitude DBQ
Document Analysis
worksheet
Economy Art
Analysis;
Indentured Servitude
DBQ in-class work
servitude DBQ
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
No School
Happy Relaxation
Time!
Eat some cookies, lay
around,
watch a movie,
generally do nothing
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
WHAP Calendar January 2012
Remember to keep up with your reading on snow days!
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
2. 1450-1750 Mind
3. Gun-Powder
4. Islamic Empires
5. Gunpowder
6. Gunpowder
Map
Chart
HW: Bulliet p. 485 495
Empires Intro
guided notes; Group
Discussion- land v.
sea power
HW: Bulliet p. 495 503
Empires vs. Trading
Sea Empires:
Compare and
Contrast in-class
essay preparation
Empires vs. Trading
Sea Empires:
Compare and
Contrast in-class
essay
HW: Bulliet 516 –
525
9. China in the late
10. China in the
13. Ch. 19 – 20
Late Ming and Early
Qing/ MacCartney
Mission to Qing
China play readthrough
11. Club Day
MacCartney Mission
to Qing China – act
out play and discuss
HW: Bulliet p. 511516
12. Tokugawa Japan
Ming and early Qing
guided notes
16. NO SCHOOL –
17. Tokugawa
18. Russian
19.Discuss 2007 AP
MLK Jr. Day
Shogunate - DVD
HW: Bulliet p. 525 –
531
Westernization
under Peter the
Great & Catherine
the Great
HW: Bulliet p. 531534
Exam Compare &
Contrast question &
create thesis
After School
Review Session 4-5
23. Unit IV Multiple
24. Age of
25. French
26. French
27. Haitian
Choice Test (Ch. 1420) & Notebooks Due!
HW: Bulliet p. 537 –
552
Revolutions Intro &
American
Revolution guided
notes; Declaration of
Independence v. Dec
of Rights of Man tchart
HW: 552- 561
Revolution
(moderate & radical
phases) guided notes;
French Rev
Cartoons group
work
Revolution:
Napoleon
HW: p. 561 - 566
Revolution reading
& group questions;
Revolutions review
HW: 503 – 507
Review
20. Unit IV Review
WHAP Calendar
February
Monday
1. Revolutions
Comparison work &
Ch. 21 short quiz
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
2.
3. Industrial
4. Industrial
5. Charlie Chaplain
HW: 578-588
Revolution Ppt;
Population Explosion
demonstration
Urban planning game
Revolution Social
Consequences: Child
Labor & Disease;
Train travel Primary
Sources
Modern Times clip;
“Isms” notes &
discussion
HW: 593-598
HW: 569-578
HW: 589-590
8. Ch. 22 Quiz;
9. snow
10. snow
11. snow
12. Ch. 23 Reading
Industrialization Goes
Global wksheet;
Industrialization and
Social Change
Discussion
HW: 599-606
In-class DBQ:
Industrialization and
Laborers
Latin American
Revolutions
characteristics ppt
Quiz; Finish group
notes
HW: 624-633
HW: 606-615
HW: 615-621
Latin American
Revolutions group
notes
After school study
session
15. snow
16. snow
17. snow
18. snow
19. Chapter 24
Millennium Video:
19th Century &
questions
Early Empire
Building
HW: Finish 6 Glasses
British Empire
After school study
session
HW: 633-640
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Episode III & questions
HW: 646-648 & History
of the World in 6 Glasses
Reading Quiz;
Tea & Empire
Fishbowl
HW: 651-653; 663667
22. Mohammad Ali –
23. Chinese responses
24. Japanese
25. Chapter 25
26. Lag Day
Late Ottoman and
Egypt Ppt; Russia’s
Expansion
to the West: Isolation
HW: 700-705
HW: 667-675
Africa Map Quiz
NEXT Tuesday!
responses to the
West: Meiji
Restoration &
Engagement
After school study
session
Reading Quiz; Chinese
and Japanese
Responses: Writing
Point of View
statements for DBQs
HW: 2002 AP Exam
C&C Thesis & Outline
Early Release
WHAP Calendar
March
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1. Meiji to Modern:
2. Chapter 26 Notes &
3. Changes in Europe:
4. Imperialism
5. Imperialism
Discussion
HW: 681-691
Art Activity
HW: 691-700;
conclusion
Nationalism
HW: 708-713
Overview Ppt &
Motives pairwork
HW: 722-727
Learning Centers
HW: 713-722
After School
Review
8. Berlin Conference:
9. Complete Africa Map
10. Change and
Notes & Discussion of
bias – African v. British
primary sources
HW: 727-732
Quiz;
Wanting to be Top
Dog: Imperialism
primary source
discussions
HW: study CCOT
Essay rubric
Continuity Over
Time: The Final
Essay Frontier
11. Unit IV Review
After School
Review
12. Unit IV Exam
(Ch. 21-27) (Unit
V in your Barron’s
review on p. 259)
HW: 736-745
15. WWI
16. Russian Revolution
HW: 745-752
& WWI Aftermath
17. WWI
18. Stalin’s Russia
19. No School!
& Aftermath, cont.
Early Release
HW: 766-769
Mr. Faust teaches!
After School
Review
HW: 769-776
22. World Economic
23. WWII in Europe
24. The Homefront &
25. WWII in the
26. WWII Events
Depression & Fascism
HW: 779-784
HW: 786-790
Propaganda: What is
Total War?; Sniper
Grannies video 
HW: CCOT
Thesis/Topic
Sentences &
Evidence in bullet
points!
Pacific – video
After School
Review
History Alive
Activity; Atomic
Bomb discussion
HW: p.776-779; 784786; 840-842
29. Modern Chinese
30. Modern China
31. Cold War
1. Cold War
2. Cold War Ppt
HW: 821-830
ideologies; iron
curtain wksheet
HW: 807-815
HW: 807-815; 835839; 848-852
History: Communism in
China
HW: worksheet
HW: 830-832; 839840; 845; 858-862
WHAP Calendar
April
Monday
Tuesday
5. Spring Break! Do
your homework!
6.
12. Decolonization:
13. Decolonization:
Latin American
Compare & Contrast:
Mexican revolutions
HW: 794-800; 832-834;
836-837
Africa
HW: 856-858 &
handout
19. Indian
20. CATS
Wednesday
9. ARE YOU
DONE YET??
14. Decolonization:
15. CCOT Practice:
16. Indian
Asia; Millennium
Video “Asian Tigers”
HW: 858-861
2007 Exam, National
Identities;
Russian government
and economics
HW: 800-806; 894897
Independence;
Alphabet Soup:
Modern
Organizations &
NGOs
HW: India Aftermath:
Choices reading &
questions
21. CATS
22. Modern Problems:
23. Decolonization
CHOICES
HW: 842-844; 861862
Israel-Palestine ppt &
vocab
HW: handout
Quiz;
28. Modern
Problems:
Fundamentalist
Islam; Totalitarian
Dictatorships (North
Korean propaganda
videos of
hilariousness)
29. Review
30. Review
Unit I: 8000BCE600CE
Unit II: 600CE-1450
5. Review
6. Review: Weak
7. Final Exam/Mock
Unit IV:1750-1914
Unit V: 1914Present
Points!
MC Exam
SATURDAY MOCK
MC EXAM: 9:001:00 @ SCHOOL
10. Analysis of
11. Essay Practice
12.Essay Practice
commonly missed
questions
HW: C&C Thesis;
CCOT Thesis
After School Review!
4-5
After School
Review! 4-5
HW: DBQ Thesis
After School
Review! 4-6
Eat Well! Sleep
LOTS!
13.AP Testing
Day! Arrive Early
for Breakfast!
Test is at
14. Gossip Day –
how’d the test go?
26. CATS – Go to
the auditorium if
you are taking the
WHAP test to fill in
millions of
bubbles! Weee!
27. Modern
MAY!
4. Review
3. Review
Problems: Social Stuff
HW: 852-853; 862870; 883-885; 892-893
8. Be sure to complete
Friday
readings on Latin Am!
Independence
7.
Thursday
Unit III: 1450-1750
8:00 am!!!
Breakfast at 7:45
Israel-Palestine maps
and primary sources
• Early release dates:
November 5
December 10
January 21
February 11
March 11
April 22
Breaks:
Sept.1
Oct.6-10 Fall Break
Nov. 4 – Election Day
November 26-28 Thanksgiving
December 22-Jan.2 – Christmas
Jan. 19 – MLK Day
March 20 – Flex Professional Day
March 30-April 3 – Spring Break
May 25 – Memorial Day
June 1 – Last Day for Students