Ch 19 Reading pgs 487 - 496

African Kingdoms and Trade Routes

Post a picture of your beautiful Africa maps to your blog!

Homework!

Essay Progress Link - Don't forget to make a copy for yourself!

Homework for 1/29: Read pgs 484-487 (to islamic kingdoms)

Post  on your blog: Would you like learn history verbally like the Griots in Africa?  Why or why not?

Mongol Verdict and Review Information

AND THE VERDICT IS....

Key Concepts APWH  - We've only done units 1-3

Doesn't follow our book, but covers general topics we've covered
HUBBS Review 8000BCE - 600CE
HUBBS Review 600CE - 1450CE 

Don't forget Getafive.com - our class code is 7429AFE and you can watch lectures, take quizzes, and review essay formats!

AP Midyear Essay Info

You will have both the Comparative Essay and the Continuities/Change Over Time essays on the midyear.  For each essay category, you will have a choice between two essay topics.  You will have to write one essay and outline one essay, but you get a choice of which essay topic you will write and which you will outline.

FOR EXAMPLE:
Comparative - Choice A or Choice B
CCOT - Choice A or Choice B

I will choose comparative choice B and CCOT choice A, and  I will write out the whole CCOT essay and outline my comparative essay.  OR I could write my Comparative and outline my CCOT.

In Class 1/16

Hi All!  Unfortunately I will not be in class today, January 16.  Because there was a general consensus yesterday that you'd like to review Ch 1-6, make that your goal for today.  Use your classmates as your resources.  Tomorrow, we'll talk about the Dynasties and Ch 17/18.

The answer to the question - well what do I need to know?

Think SPICE (Social, Political, Interactions with the Environment, Culture/Religion, Economy)
How do these groups make money?  How is their social structure?  Religion - beliefs vs. deities), Farming?  Technology?

Use your time wisely and keep it down to a dull roar (and be nice to the substitute!)

Mongol Trial #2

Process of the Trial

Wait for it...Mongols Crash Course (they're the exception!)

To guide your progress a bit -

If you are a witness, start to create a backstory for yourself.  Creating an identity will help you place the facts into a context and will help you remember your role.  For example, if you are a Chinese peasant - what is your timeframe?  where would you have lived?  what would you have done there?  How did the Mongols change your life? If you are a named witness, like Guillaume Boucher, find out as much about that person as possible and then think about how they would have thought about the Mongols/how their life was impacted by the actions of the Mongols. Besides knowing your character inside and out, think about what questions/points the other side MIGHT ask you.

If you are a lawyer, you can break up the roles and have one person in charge of a opening statement, one person in charge of the closing argument, maybe two in charge of direct questioning of your witnesses, and two in charge of cross-examining witnesses.  

Trial Definitions

Yesterday in class we created the following working definitions of the charges brought on the Mongols. 

Terrorism - the act of causing fear, terror, or physical harm to others, usually for a specific reason or cause. 

Genocide - the systematic, deliberate, mass extermination of a race, culture, or a group of people.  

Kidnapping - the deliberate stealing of a person for an intended purpose without their consent. 

Things to be working on

• Chapter 18 reading - on your own.  18 will be on the midyear and the information will be IMMENSELY helpful in your trial prep. Sooner better than later! 
• Know your role.  Who are you going to be and what do you need to know to get your stuff done?
• Within your groups - group witnesses meet with your other witnesses to see who's saying what/focusing on what; lawyers meet with lawyers to see who's doing what; lawyers meet with witnesses to focus on questioning and what needs to be said in the courtroom
• Social Media - group blog = what your group worked on that day; personal blog = what you are doing to prepare, your plan of action.  Each one every day! Twitter will be a bigger deal during the trial.  
• Send me your group blog addresses.

Timeline

Tuesday - Finish Ghengis Khan bio.  Time to work in groups.

Wednesday - 20min. world conquerors video, time to work in groups. 

Thursday - Tartars video - time to work in groups. HW - Khan of Khan video (on last blog post - youtube) 

Friday - Final day to work in groups, finalize plan. 

Monday - Trial Day One

Tuesday - Trial Day Two /Wrap Up 

Mongol Trial

Over the next week, we will be spending some time looking deeper into everyone's favorite world-dominating nomads, the Mongols!  We will be looking at the actions of the Mongols and putting them on trial for several crimes against humanity.  It is your job (with your teammates)  to put together a case that will help put the Mongols away forever or clear their name of all accusations.

All of the handouts of the trial are linked below:
Overview of the Trial
Process of the Trial and Witness List
Role of the Witness
Role of the Lawyers (Defense and Prosecution)
Mongol Trial Score Sheet
Rubric for the Overall Project

The videos we will watch parts of in class are all available on YouTube:
World Conquerors
Tartar Crusaders 
Khan of Khans

Each team will need to create a Mongol Trial Blog and a Twitter handle.  See more about this requirement n the Process of the Trial handout!!