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 & questions
due 8/15
15. Neolithic
16. Early Civs map;
17. Egypt/
18. Student graffiti:
19. Chinese
Revolution, cont.
HW: Strayer
textbook p.61-69
DOWNLOAD
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 an 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
timeline; Rome/China
SPRITE chart in small
groups
Rome primary
resources discussion
circles
1. China and Rome
applying the Brinton
paradigm of Empire
2. Empires: Rome
primary resources
discussion circles
HW: Strayer 155160 & 165-170
HW: India reading
by 9/6
and China Venn
Diagram to Thesis
statement (methods
of political control
prompt from 2010)
WHAP Assignments
Calendar September 2011
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
5. Labor Day –
No School
6. Maurya & Gupta
7. Social Hierarchy in
8. Empires QUIZ
9. Definition: The
India power point
HW: Strayer p. 156170 & questions
the Age of Empires
T-chart, Venn &
Discussion
(Greece, Persia,
Rome, Han China,
Maurya/Gupta India)
HW: Religions
readings
Axial Age; Religions
presentation group
work
15. Plan testing
16. Bridging World
12. Religions
13. Plan testing
Presentations!
HW: trade routes
readings
14. Early Release
Thursday
Friday
HW: be ready to
present with your
group on Monday!
History Spread of
Religion & Trade
Networks videos
Trade Routes Maps
HW: Religions
Readings by 9/20
19. Zones of
20. The Arts in
21. Southernization
22. Period II Target
23. Unit I & II Test
Interaction: the
development of
long distance trade
& associated
technologies &
crops
HW:
“Southernization” &
mindmap by 9/21
Classical Civilizations:
Hellenism and Indian
culture
fishbowl
breakdown and class
presentations
After School Review
from 4:00-5:00pm
After School Review
from 4:00-5:00pm
(early river valley
civs, early Empires,
large empires; trade
routes, religions)
HW: Bulliet textbook
p. 193-202
26. Islam Power
27. vocabulary sheet;
28. The Messenger
29. Caliphates power
30. The Awakening
point
HW: Bulliet p. 202208
Caliphates chart
DVD
HW: Bulliet p. 208216
point
HW: When Asia Was
the World Ibn Battuta
Chapter p. 97-115 by
10/3
DVD
WHAP Assignments
Calendar
October
2011
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
3. Dar al-Islam: Ibn
4. Byzantine Empire
5. Byzantine Art &
6. Viking
7. Medieval Europe
Battuta’s travel
postcards & essay
prompt
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
10. Dar al-
11. Dar al-Islam/
12. Crusades & the
Medieval Europe
Compare & Contrast
in class essay
HW: Strayer
textbook (online
classroom) p.241-247
revival of European
trade contacts in
trading city-states ;
primary sources and
video clip (Islam:
Empire of Faith)
13. FALL
BREAK!
14. FALL
Islam/Medieval
Europe Compare and
Contrast in-class essay
prep work
17. Sui, Tang, Song
China timeline
HW: Strayer p. 247252 & 259-265
18. Pastoral contacts
19. Solidifying
20. The influence of
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
21. “Fire is Born”
National Geographic
article and questions
on Maya city-states
HW: Inca Empire
Nat Geo article and
questions
24. Maya, Aztec, Inca
25. Maya, Aztec,
ppt; Pre-Columbian
primary resources
whole class discussion
Inca SPRITE Chart;
thesis practice
HW: Day of Empire
online reading &
questions (p.88-125
by 10/28
26. Interactions
within the Americas:
Bridging World
History turquoise
roads video; 2011
Compare and Contrast
prompt individual
work
27. Mongols DBQ
documents Act-ItOuts
HW:
BREAK!
28. Mongols
Fishbowl
Zheng He’s Ship
WHAP Calendar
November 2010
Columbus’s Ship
Monday
1. Comparing Mongol
Tuesday
2.
Empires: Persia,
Russia, China
HW: Day of Empire
online reading p.178182 & textbook p.316
on gunpowder by
Wednesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
3. Ming Dynasty
4. African Islamic
5. Finish group
HW: Ch. 14 &
online homework by
11/8
Trading Empires:
Ghana, Mali,
Songhay, Great
Zimbabwe group
notes
notes; Millennium
video – Black Death
and Malian Empire
8. Swahili Coast trade;
9. European
10. Medieval vs.
11. Early Modern
12. Early
Black Death group
work
HW: Ch.15 & online
homework by 11/12
Renaissance ppt;
funny Gutenberg
video
Renaissance Art
Analysis
European Politics
Explorations ppt;
begin Guns, Germs,
and Steel DVD
HW: Spice excerpt &
written questions
(all on online
classroom)
by 11/16
15. Guns, Germs, and
16. turn in written
17. Club Day
18. Unit II Review
Steel Episode II DVD
questions from article;
Spice fishbowl
Encounters between
Europe and Africa
primary sources
After School
Review from 4:005:00pm
After School
Review from 4:005:00pm
HW: Cortez &
Aztecs primary
sources
19. Unit II
Multiple Choice
Test (Ch. 8-15)
HW: Ch. 16 &
online homework by
11/29
Beef is good
for you!
22. DBQ in-class work
23. In-class DBQ
25.
Thanksgiving
Break!
26.
27.
WHAP Calendar December
2010
SNOW DAYS ARE NOT EXCUSES!
KEEP UP WITH READING!
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
29. Protestant
30. Scientific
1. Catholic
2. Political and
3. Ch. 16 Quiz
Reformation ppt;
Martin Luther
Primary Sources
HW: Ch. 17 & online
homework by 12/6
Revolution &
Enlightenment
Reformation & witch
hunts discussion,
Monty Python clip!

Economic Changes
in Europe ppt;
Review vocab dice

6. Columbian
7. Millennium Video
8. Spanish Colonies
9. British & French
10. General
Exchange Learning
Stations
HW: Ch. 18 & online
homework by 12/13
& questions
Ppt
Colonies –
comparison
pictures with
Spanish; thesis
creation
Review Day; Bring
your PRINCETON
REVIEW!
13. The Atlantic
14. Sugar and
15. Point-of-View
16. Indentured
17. Small Group
System overview Ppt;
Group questions
Slavery; The Middle
Passage
HW: Indentured
Servitude Docs
Practice: group work
for Indentured
servitude DBQ
Servitude: In-class
DBQ
HW: Ch. 19 &
online homework
by 1/3
DBQ Grading
20. Ch. 17-18 Quiz;
21. Textbook silent
22.
23.
24.
The World That Trade
Created excerpts &
questions
reading day – BRING
YOUR TEXT TO
CLASS!
30.
31.
No School
HW: bring your
textbook to class
tomorrow!
27.
28.
29.
WHAP Calendar
January 2011
Remember to keep up with your reading
and whapapp, even on snow days!
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesda
y
Thursday
Friday
3. 1450-1750 Mind
4. Gun-Powder
5. Islamic Empires
6. Advertisement
7. Advertisement
Map
Chart; Empires
Advertisement
project intro
Group Work
HW: Middle East
Resources Article & Day
of Empire 182-191 –
online classroom
Empires Intro;
Group Discussion –
land or sea power
superiority
HW: Ch. 20 and
whapapp by 1/11
Group Work
HW: BE READY
TO PRESENT ON
MONDAY!
10. Advertisement
11. Gunpowder
12. Club Day
13. China in the
14. MacCartney
Presentation Day
Empires vs. Trading
Sea Empires:
Compare and
Contrast in-class
essay
China in the late
Ming and early Qing
HW: Ch. 21 and
whapapp by 1/25
Late Ming and Early
Qing
Mission to Qing
China – play and
discussion
HW: East Asia p.
331-338 with
questions – online
classroom
17. NO SCHOOL –
18. Tokugawa Japan
19. Tokugawa
20. Russian
21. Unit III Review
Shogunate - DVD
Westernization
under Peter the
Great; Thesis
pairwork
Comp/Contrast
2007 AP Exam
question
After School
Review Session 4-5
MLK Jr. Day
24. Unit III Multiple
25. Age of
26. French
27. French
28. Haitian
Choice Test (Ch. 1620) & Notebooks Due!
Revolutions Intro;
American
Revolution
Revolution
Revolution
Revolution
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