What is History?
Sagraves Modern World History
Week 2
Daily Question
O Should History be a required high school
subject? Why? Why should we study
history?
Agenda 9/2/14
Why and how History?
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Activities to accomplish
1. DQ
2. Homework Schedule,
Study Buddies
3. Recap
4. Sourcing Debrief
5. World Map
Homework: World Map
Assignment
Objectives
O By the end of this
lesson, you should
O 1. Know what
historians do with
historical evidence.
O 2. Know what you
already know about the
world map.
What we know about history
so far…
O What History is…..
O What historians use to write/tell history
O How historians go about using the evidence that they
have
1. Sourcing
2. Corroboration
3. Contextualization
Agenda 9/3/14
What does it mean to practice history?
The Black Death
Activities to accomplish
Objectives
O 1. DQ
O By the end of this
O 2. Odds and Ends
lesson, you should
O 1. Be able to
contextualize the
DBQ
O 2. Start to practice
annotating the
primary documents
O 3. Black Death –
introduction
O 4. Annotation Guide
O HOMEWORK: Read &
annotate introduction and
documents DBQ – DO NOT
ANSWER QUESTIONS
Daily Question
O What would you do if you were faced with
the prospect of contracting a fatal, incurable
disease? How do you think others around
you might react? What changes in society
might you witness?
The Black Death
Priest Blessing Plague Victims, 1360-1375
Spread of the Plague
Spread of the Black Death through Afro-Eurasia
Human Costs
Excavated Mass Grave of Plague Victims
Martigues, France
Agenda 9/4/14
What were the effects of the Black Death on
European Society in the 14th century?
Activities to accomplish
O 1. DQ
O 2. Black Death DBQ
O HOMEWORK: Finish
DBQ if necessary.
Fine polish your
thesis statement!
Objectives
O By the end of this
lesson, you should
have sourced,
corroborated and
contextualized
evidence in order to
answer an historical
question.
Agenda 9/5/14
What is the Modern World?
Activities to accomplish
Objectives
O 1. DQ – Reflection
O By the end of this lesson:
O 2. Map Quiz
O 1. You should know how
O 3. Textbook Reading
Note Forms
O 4. Sorting Activity
O Homework: Textbook
Ch. 13 Section 1
to start organizing your
reading notes.
O 2. You should begin to
have a picture of the
major themes of the
Modern World.