Monday

Today - we need to begin chapter 4.  Homework will be 10 pages of reading from where ever we leave off.

UNIT II: 600 B.C.E. – 600 C.E.

Unit II Goal:  Students will be able to explain at least three of the following thematic questions, backing up generalizations with analysis of specific examples and/or primary sources.  

Interaction Between Humans and the Environment:  Compare how geographic factors affected unification in Greece, Rome and China.

Development and Interaction of Cultures: How did religion influence other aspects of culture in Greece, the Gupta Empire in India, and the Mayan civilization?

State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict: Compare the ways two of these leaders administered their empires: Alexander the Great, Augustus Caesar, and Ashoka Maurya.

State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict: Analyze the similarities and differences between Mayan city-states and those in Greece.

Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems: Explain how the Silk Roads were connected to sea-based trade routes in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.

Development and Transformation of Social Structures: How Did the Indian caste system compare with the social hierarchy in Rome?

Rubric:

4 – Student can explain four or more of the following thematic questions, backing up generalizations with analysis of specific examples and/or primary sources.  

3 – Student can explain three of the following thematic questions, backing up generalizations with analysis of specific examples and/or primary sources.  

2 – With help from the teacher the student can explain three of the following thematic questions, backing up generalizations with analysis of specific examples and/or primary sources.  

1 – Even with help from the teacher the student is unable to explain or back up their generalizations with analysis of specific examples of at least three thematic questions.