AP World History
August 18-
Monday, August 18
• Quiz Ch. 1: You need your own paper. WRITE THE QUIZ # BESIDE OF
YOUR NAME
• Essay on next slide
• D: Jared Diamond’s The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
• Crash Course: Egypt
• Homework: Refer to your calendar!
• Also watch Crash Course 2 & 3 (Indus River Valley & Mesopotamia)
Short Essay
• Why does Jared Diamond think the invention of agriculture was the worst
mistake in the history of the human race? Give specific examples from the
article.
Tuesday, August 19
• Reading Check/Questions?
• H: SOAPSTONE/ Hammurabi’s Code
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Homework: Ch. 2
H: Ch. 2 Reading Guide (Due Friday, Aug. 22)
Make-up quiz Ch. 1 Wednesday (10-13 questions)
6th Period: Watch Crash Courses 2-4 at your convenience (you do not have to
do the guides)
Wednesday, Aug. 20
• Make-up quiz
• Small Groups: “They Thought The Earth Was Flat”
• DBQ Practice/SOAPSTone
• Homework: Reading Calendar, Ch. 2 Reading Guide (parts 2 & 3)
They Thought The Earth Was Flat/ DBQ
Practice
1. What do you know about “Columbus sailing the ocean blue” in 1492?
2. How do you know the flat-earth story is true? Where did you learn it?
What evidence do you have?
They Thought The Earth Was Flat/ DBQ
Practice
Read and complete a SOAPStone for EACH doc 1-7
3. So……did the 15th century people believe that the earth was flat?
4. What evidence do you have?
They Thought The Earth Was Flat/ DBQ
Practice
• S: (Subject) What does it say?
• O: (Occasion) When was it produced AND what was the context during which it
was produced?
• A: (Audience) Who was it produced for?
• P: (Purpose) What was this document intended to do? What effect was it
supposed to have?
• S: (Source) Who created the document?
• TONE: What attitude or “voice” does the document have?
They Thought The Earth Was Flat/ DBQ
Practice (Docs 8 & 9)
5. If, as you and other historians have explained, people prior to 1492 generally believed that the earth
was flat, then how do we explain:
• The classical story of Atlas holding up a round earth?
• Eratosthenes figuring out the earth’s circumference over 2,000 years ago?
6. Was it possible that people at one time, say during the Classical era, had such knowledge of the world,
only to forget it later?
7. Why might the flat-earth story emerge? What purpose would it serve?
8. Does it make a difference which version of the story people believe? (“Phoebe and Ross argue about
evolution”)
9. Could it be the view adopted throughout our culture (about 15th century Europeans’ understanding of
the Earth) is NOT supported by evidence?
Thursday, August 21
• Continue with DBQ/SOAPStone activity
• Ross Vs. Rachel: Evolution??
• Computer Lab 4135 Friday: Bring headphones!!
• Homework UPDATE: Your Ch. 2 homework is extended until Monday.
• HOWEVER……keep up with your reading because I haven’t given you a reading check this
week!!!
• Also…..their will be no quiz on Ch. 2 this Friday. I will combine Ch. 2 & 3 next Friday.
(Amend your calendar!)
Friday, August 22
• Computer Lab 4135
• Ch. 2 Reading Guide due Monday!