WHAP Calendar 2015-16 Text: Earth & Its Peoples, AP Edition by Richard W. Bulliet, Pamela K. Crossley, Nancy Blaine
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ISBN-13: 978-1439086087 Edition: 5th
~ September 2015 ~
◄ Aug 2015
Sun
Mon
Tue
Objectives:
*Describe the components of History:
P.E.R.I.S.A.
*Describe how historian “divide”
history
*Describe the early Hominids.
*Explain how the Neolithic Revolution
created civilization
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HW: Letter to self
HW: Partner bio
6 Objectives:
*Identify criteria for “civilization”
*Explain how the 5 themes of
geography effect human history
*Differentiate between the early River
Valley civilizations.
*Describe how agriculture helped
shape social systems.
13 Objectives:
*Explain the term “Bronze Age
Civilizations”
*Describe how belief systems begin to
emerge to strengthen rulers.
7
8
Video: Guns, Germs, Steel
20 Objectives:
*Describe how Iron Age civilization
led to the dominant political
organization.
* Describe the basis for Phoenician,
then Greek civilizations in the
Mediterranean.
27 Objectives:
*Identify Iron age Mediterranean civilizations.
* Explain the importance of trade in cultural
diffusion.
1
First day of School
Personal timeline/ turning point
Collect /review summer
work, course expectations. /chronology
Labor Day
Thu
Fri
2
3 Read Pp. 4-33 Origins to
Video: First Peoples: Africa River Valley Civilizations Due
Friday 9/11 Copy vocabulary P.
Global timeline: Periodization 34
Video: Prehistoric
Notes on Hominids
HW: Crash Course #1 wks Classify: Hunter- Foragers/
pastoralists/ farmers
HW: Timeline of Hominids
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9
Video: Civilization
10
11
Video: Mummification, et al.
Egypt, Mesopotamia notes
Indus Valley Civ. Notes
HW: Crash Course #2 wks.
HW: Chap. 1 test- online
due by 12AM
18
Video Mankind: Iron
men
DBQ due
Begin DBQ in class
Why do other countries celebrate Notes on G,G&S
Labor Day May 1?
Five theme of geography
HW: Crash Course #3 wks.
Oct 2015 ►
Wed
HW: Crash Course #4 wks.
Video: Icemanx2
Neolithic Revolution notes
HW: Mankind The story of
all of us: Inventors/ Wks.
14 early release
15
Review ch 1
Video: Crash course II civilization Notes on China
HW: Read Pp. 38-64 New
Civilizations Eastern- Western Peer review of DBQ
due Fri. 9/18
HW: Crash Course #7 wks.
Copy vocab: P. 64
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17
Notes on the Celts
Notes on Early Africa and
America
Video: Crash Course II : The
end of civilization
HW: DBQ
HW: DBQ
HW: Chap. 2 test online
due by 12AM
21 ch. 2 review
Notes on Greece
HW: Read Pp. 68-97
Mediterranean and Middle East
Due Fri. 9/25
Copy vocab: P. 98
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23
24
25
28 Ch. 3 review
HW: Read Pp. 106-135 Greece
and Iran Due Fri. 10/2 Copy
vocab P. 136
29
Begin Compare and contrast essay
26
HW: All part one vocab complete and
All part one vocab check
HW: Chap. 3 test online
due by 12AM
review
30 Test on Part I
Essays:
Change over time: Neolithic revolution, or Iron age.
Compare and contrast: Egypt and Mesopotamia; or China
and Indus Valley
DBQ: Hammurabi’s code, or Geography
Compare essay due
http://www.pearlandisd.org/webpages/gjohnson/ap_world.cfm?subpage=47990
19
HW: Compare and contrast essay
Begin Change over time essay
HW: Study for test
12
Vocabulary review
Video: Minoan culture
HW: Crash Course # 5 wks
Sat
5
HW: Change over time
study guide/ PowerPoint