Generic Silk Road Bell Ringer
1. Get your DBQ folder from the front of the room.
2. Open your DBQ to the section we were last working
on.
3. Make sure you are caught up with the rest of the
class.
The Silk Road:
Recording
the Journey
A DBQ for the fourth nine weeks.
8 May 2012 – Bell Ringer
1. Get your DBQ folder
from the front of the
room.
2. Get a DBQ from the
front table. Sit
down and spend the
next three minutes
looking through it.
3. On the front of your DBQ here, answer these two
questions:
1. How will this DBQ be the same as the others?
2. How will this DBQ be different than the others?
The Silk Road:
Recording
the Journey
A DBQ road map for the fourth
nine weeks.
AGENDA – time limit 4 days
1. Hook Exercise
2. Background Essay Quickthinks and Questions
3. Understanding the Task
4. Pre-Bucketing
5. Document A
6. Document B
7. Document C
8. Document D
9. Document E
10. Bucketing
11. Further Organizing of Your Journal
12. Outline Guide
13. Essay Writing
We can do this!
Hook Exercise
• It’s time to make believe
you are a traveler on the
Silk Road.
• On page 397 of your DBQ,
please make a fictitious
persona by filling out all the
blanks on the Profile Sheet.
• Putting yourself into the
shoes of people who were
actually there is an
excellent way to adjust
your thinking.
• Use the information on page
399 to help you. You may also
use the textbook if you wish.
• You have eight minutes to
complete this task.
Would anyone like to share their creation?
You will have about
fifteen minutes for this
activity.
•I
will make groups for you.
• You
will read the background essay together. The group
leader (the person who is tallest while sitting down) will start by
reading the first paragraph.
• Everyone
in the group will then share their first impression
starting with the person to the left of the group leader.
• Everyone
will write one of those quickthinks in the margin of
the DBQ next to the paragraph.
When you finish the
quickthinks, answer the
background essay questions
and write the definitions
using your best guesses.
Understanding the Task
• When the question asks
you to describe your task
for this Mini-Q on page
405, I would like you to
tell me what you think
your final product will be.
• In other words, what will
you produce.
• The class is one group.
• Take the next five minutes to
discuss what this DBQ is about
as a class.
• When the class has come to a
common answer, write it
down.
Who will share an answer? Stand up if you’d like to speak.
Pre-bucketing
• How do you organize an
essay with ‘buckets’?
• When you write an essay,
your ‘buckets’ are body
paragraphs.
• How do you organize a
journal with ‘buckets’?
• The class is one group.
• Take the next two minutes to
discuss what this DBQ is about
as a class.
• When the class has come to a
common answer, write it
down.
Who will share their ideas on pre-bucketing?
Stand up if you’d like to speak.
Document Analysis
• There are three types
If you want to use a special document
of groups you can
analysis sheet, pick one up from the front
table. It has space for eight documents! answer questions in:
• Spend at least two
minutes silently reading
each document before
you attempt the
questions.
-or• Read and say something
(Take turns reading out
loud and say a quickthink
that you do not have to
read out loud).
▫ Solo
▫ Trio
▫ Quintet
• If you are working
with others, I want
you to answer the
document questions
Carousel style (after you
answer a question, rotate
papers, write the next answer
on someone else’s paper).
Document A Notes
This information is from the teacher’s edition. You may use it how you like.
Ignore “Writing Journal Entry #1” for now.
▫ The caterpillars then spin their
• During ancient times, the Silk Road
cocoons.
was just one of the many trade routes
▫ After this, the cocoons are placed in
headed northwest across China across
hot water, which softens them and
the Gobi Desert and then across the
makes it possible to unravel the
cast Kirghuz Steppe, which extended
filaments.
from Mongolia to the Carpathian
▫ Five to seven filaments are then
Mountains in Eastern Europe.
joined to make a thread.
• The flat terrain of the Kirghiz Steppe
▫ Later, the threads are woven into silk
made the Eurasian Steppe Route
cloth.
easier to traverse than the Silk Road.
• The Silk Road divided into two routes
• However, the danger of raiding
west of Dunhuang.
bandits and nomadic tribes reduced
• Many other trade routes connected to
the traffic on this route.
the Silk Road. Because of this, goods
• Since silk was at the very heart of the
were available from regions that were
Silk Road trade, it is fitting to say a
a long distance from the Silk Road.
word about the silk-making process:
• For example, spices from India could
▫ First, the caterpillars feed on
be found in cities along the Silk Road.
mulberry leaves for about five weeks.
• In the early 300s CE, a Buddhist
monk saw a vision of many Buddhas
shining on the cliffs near Dunhuang
(“dun-wong”).
• Inspired by this visionm the monks
began to dig out caves in the cliffs to
use as shrines.
• Buddhist monks continued this
practice for about 700 years, during
which time about 500 caves were
dug.
• The monks placed clay statues of
Buddhist deities in most of the caves
and painted many of the walls with
Buddhist images.
• These honeycombed caves came to
be called the Caves of Thousand
Buddhas.
• In 1900, a Taoist monk named
Abbot Wang was poking around
cave 16 which had been abandoned
for about 1000 years.
• He found a secret door that was
filled with scrolls and paintings.
• He found many Jewish, Buddhist,
and Confucian texts as well as
secular texts dealing with economy
and social structure of the religion.
• Artistic influences of the Silk Road
were very multicultural with similar
styles stretching from Greece to
Japan.
Document B Notes
This information is from the teacher’s edition. You may use it how you like.
Ignore “Writing Journal Entry #2” for now.
Document C Notes
This information is from the teacher’s edition. You may use it how you like.
Ignore “Writing Journal Entry #3” for now.
• The Silk Road travels through two
deserts side by side: the Gobi and
the Taklimakan.
• The Taklimakan Desert covers
125,000 square miles. Of the
United States, only Alaska, Texas,
and California are bigger than the
Taklimakan. It is filled with many
small hills and shifting sand dunes.
Gobi. Most of the soil is rocky.
• Water was hard to find in the desert.
Caravans like to travel in cold
seasons so that they could carry
blocks of ice (for water).
• If a caravan was travelling during
the warm seasons, most traveling
would take place at night. Some
• The Gobi desert is even bigger. It
caravan guides trained at nautical
covers 500,000 square miles. There
schools with sailors to learn to read
are about 250 countries in the
the stars in the sky like a map.
world. 200 of them are smaller than
the Gobi Desert. In the US, only
Alaska and Texas are larger than the
• The Pamir Mountains form a rugged • The city of Samarkand (formerly
range where the Himalayan, Hindu
Marakanda) remains a vibrant
Kush, Kunlun, and Tian Shan
urban area in the nation of
mountains meet. It is one of the
Uzbekistan. Its economy is based
highest mountain ranges in the
on cotton ginning, silk spinning,
world, with an average height more
wine production, and fruit canning.
than 13,000 feet above sea level.
• In this document, the Buddhist
pilgrim Xuanzang (“shwen-zang”)
suggests that the region around the
• Many of the markets of Marakanda
city has excellent climate and soil
sold rugs, which were made by
for growing crops. These favorable
craftspeople in the surrounding
conditions remain true today.
areas. For example, some of the
rugs came from the city of Khotan. • Uzbekistan grows cotton, carrots,
These vividly colored rugs combined
cucumbers, onions, melons,
Chinese and Central Asian designs
apricots, pears, grapes, and figs.
and often featured metallic thread.
However, irrigation has been
reduced, since the practice has
seriously depleted the main rivers.
Document D Notes
This information is from the teacher’s edition. You may use it how you like.
Ignore “Writing Journal Entry #4” for now.
Document E Notes
This information is from the teacher’s edition. You may use it how you like.
Ignore “Writing Journal Entry #5” for now.
• The Parthians came from a region
• Antioch was a major city in the
southeast of the Caspian Sea. This
Roman Empire. Since the Silk Road
land was conquered by the Persians
ended at Antioch, the Chinese
around 520 BCE and by Alexander
thought they had arrived at the
the Great around 330 BCE. The
Rome, the actual capital of Rome.
Parthians gained independence by • The caravans approached the city on
235 BCE and soon ruled a large
a 30-foot wide, paved roadway that
empire that extended from western
led into the huge gates of the city.
Central Asia in the east to the
Once inside the walls, the caravan
Euphrates River in the west.
travelled on a wide avenue lined
with columns.
• The Parthian Empire rarely took the • In some ways, the desire of silk
offensive in military matters, but
caused the Roman empire to go
often had to defend their domain
bankrupt. The Roman historian
from invaders, including Rome.
Pliny estimated that silk and spices
cost the empire 100 million
sesterces per year. Two loaves of
• Around 224 CE, the Sassanians
bread cost one sesterce.
overthrew the Parthian Empire.
Bucketing
• At the bottom of the page
407, there is a paragraph I
asked you to ignore.
• Read the ‘Writing Journal
Entry’ paragraph.
• In or near the first bucket,
write down what is
happening at that time. For
example, in Journal Entry
#1, you are just about to
leave on your Silk Road
journey, so you might write
‘departure’ in the bucket.
• This is an independent part
of the DBQ. You will not
need to work with anyone at
this time.
• Take the next five minutes
to find what each journal
entry will be about. Use
this time to describe what
each entry will be about in
the buckets on page 417.
• If you are done, stand up
and silently look around the
room to see who you were
faster than.
Further Organization of Your Journal
• Look at the ‘Writing
Journal Entry’ paragraph
again. It starts by asking
you to label your journal
entry.
• On the line for entry #1
on page 417, copy that
label. You will need it
when you are writing
your journal.
• This is an independent part of
the DBQ. You will not need to
work with anyone at this time.
• Use the next three minutes to
copy the labels from each
document page over to the
bucketing page.
• If you are done, stand up and
silently look around the room
to see who you were faster
than.
Outline Guide
• This is an independent part of
the DBQ. You will not need to
work with anyone at this time.
(page 419)• For example:
• The directions say you need
to list three details from
each document that will go
into your journal entry.
“We are leaving Japan to go to
Hawaii so we can buy silk!”
• This is not true, so if you copy it,
you will not get points!
• Imagine you are the
fictional person you created
in the hook exercise looking
at Document A.
• DO NOT TAKE DETAILS FROM
THE “WRITING JOURNAL
ENTRY #” PARAGRAPH.
THAT IS NOT PART OF THE
DOCUMENT!
• What facts would you write
that can be taken straight
from the document?
• You have three minutes until the
rubric comes on the screen.
Please try and find factual
details for all five documents.
Journal Writing
RUBRIC
0
1
2
3
4
Details (x5)
Journal entry
contain no
details from the
documents.
Entry contains
only one detail
from the
documents.
Entry contains
only two details
from the
documents.
Entry contains
three or more
details from the
documents.
X
Length
Journal entries
seem super short
with fewer than
4 sentences.
Journal entries
are almost
adequate at 5 to
9 sentences.
Journal entries
are long enough
with 10 or more
sentences.
X
X
Grammar,
Spelling,
Neatness
Paper is
unreadable due
to grammar or
neatness.
Many minor
grammatical or
spelling errors
or readability
issues.
No more than
one grammar,
spelling, or
neatness issue.
X
X
Persona
The journal
seems to be
written by a
student.
The journal
seems to be
written by a real
traveler on the
Silk Road.
X
X
X
If you need assistance, raise your hand and wait for me to come to
you. You may also come to the front table to scroll through this
presentation for help on any part of the DBQ packet.
¡Buena suerte!
がんばって!
(Gambatte!)
!‫גליק‬
Good luck!
(Glik!)
¡Buena suerte! がんばって!
(Gambatte!)
!‫גליק‬
(Glik!)
Good luck!
RUBRIC
0
1
2
3
4
Details (x5)
Journal entry
contain no
details from the
documents.
Entry contains
only one detail
from the
documents.
Entry contains
only two details
from the
documents.
Entry contains
three or more
details from the
documents.
X
Length
Journal entries
seem super short
with fewer than
4 sentences.
Journal entries
are almost
adequate at 5 to
9 sentences.
Journal entries
are long enough
with 10 or more
sentences.
X
X
Grammar,
Spelling,
Neatness
Paper is
unreadable due
to grammar or
neatness.
Many minor
grammatical or
spelling errors
or readability
issues.
No more than
one grammar,
spelling, or
neatness issue.
X
X
Persona
The journal
seems to be
written by a
student.
The journal
seems to be
written by a real
traveler on the
Silk Road.
X
X
X