Unit 2: Cultural Diffusion



Unit 2: Cultural Diffusion

Essential Questions:

1. What is culture?

2. How are cultures defined?

3. To what extent does the acceptance or rejection of new ideas affect communities?

4. To what extent are new ideas the products of past or established cultures?

5. Are the outcomes of cultural diffusion more beneficial or detrimental?

For all textbook readings, you should record the Terms & Names at the end of each section in your notebook.

Day 1

To prepare: (1) Read textbook Chapter 1 (sections 1 & 2); (2) Print Renaissance Overview PowerPoint Presentation from website (you may print 6 slides per page and in black-and-white ink).

Topic: Unit introduction; Renaissance Europe

Format:

PowerPoint Presentation and discussion

Video: Biography of the Millennium, Gutenberg (8 minutes)

Day 2

To prepare: (1) Print and read Italian & Northern Renaissance Seminar Readings; (2) Print and review Renaissance Seminar questions.

Topic: The Italian & Northern Renaissances

Format: Seminar Discussion based on The Dawn of the Renaissance, by J.H. Plumb

Day 3

To prepare: (1) Complete map activity, Renaissance Italy, c. 1494; (2) Print Renaissance DBQ from website; (3) Print DBQ Essay Organizational Chart from Writer’s Corner

Topic: Italian & Northern Renaissances; introduction to DBQ’s

Format:

- Video: Biography of the Millennium, Renaissance (12 minutes)

- Document-Based Question (DBQ) – Middle Ages or Renaissance? Differing Interpretations. Class will examine the documents, answer the related questions, and complete organizational chart.

Day 4

Topic: Art of the Renaissance

Format: - PowerPoint presentation, Renaissance Art (no need to print)

- Discuss DBQ from Day 3

- Introduce Seminar format

Day 5

To prepare: (1) Print and read Renaissance Political Theory Seminar Readings; (2) Review discussion questions to prepare for seminar; (3) blog posting: “Should the President spend more time studying John of Salisbury or Machiavelli?”

Topic: Renaissance political theory

Format: Seminar Discussion, based on The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli and The Nature of a True Prince, by John of Salisbury

Day 6

To prepare: (1) study for Renaissance test; (2) print Protestant Reformation Introduction

Format: - Renaissance test

- Introduce Reformation

Day 7

To prepare: (1) Read textbook Chapter 1 (sections 3 & 4); (2) complete Religious Map of Europe, c. 1600; (3) print Protestant Reformation PowerPoint Presentation from website (you may print 6 slides per page and in black-and-white ink); (4) Print 95 Theses from website;

Topic: The Protestant Reformation

Format: - PowerPoint Presentation and discussion

- Video: Biography of the Millennium, Luther and Elizabeth (5 minutes)

- Class reading and discussion of Ninety-Five Theses, by Martin Luther. In groups, students will rewrite the theses in their own words and decide which three theses best capture the spirit of the Reformation.

Day 8

To prepare: Print and read Luther: Giant of His Time and Ours, by Richard N. Ostling; review discussion questions to prepare for seminar.

Topic: The Protestant Reformation

Format: - Seminar Discussion

- Complete PowerPoint presentation

Day 9

To prepare: Print Protestant Reformation Video Guide from website

Topic: The Protestant Reformation

Format:

PBS Video and website: Martin Luther

Video resources: vocabulary sheet, timeline, crossword, quiz

Day 10

To prepare: (1) study for Reformation test; (2) print Muslim Gunpowder Dynasties Worksheet from website

Format: - Reformation test (30 minutes)

- Introduce Muslim Dynasties (PBS website, Islam Empire of Faith). Class will explore the website’s resources, including faith, culture, innovation, profiles.

Day 11

To prepare: (1) Complete Muslim Gunpowder Dynasties worksheet using Chapter 2; (2) Using the blank world map, combine the maps on pps.65, 70, and 71 of the textbook into a single map of the Muslim Gunpowder dynasties; (3) Begin preparing for Islam seminar on Day 12

Topic: Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Dynasties

Format: - Class collaboration on worksheet (10 min.)

- Class discussion of worksheet (15 min.)

- Video: Islam, Empire of Faith (part III, 25 min.)

Day 12

To prepare: Print and read Muslim Gunpowder Dynasties Seminar Readings and review the discussion questions to prepare for a seminar on the topic.

Topic: Muslim Gunpowder Dynasties; cultural bias

Format: - Seminar (25 min.)

- Complete video: Islam, Empire of Faith (part III)

Seminar Discussion, based on following texts:

Suleyman: Warrior, Man of Justice

Suleyman the Magnificent, by Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq

Constantinople under the Turks, by Benedetto Ramberti

Descriptions of the Turks and the Christians, by Bertrandon de La Brocquiere and Sultan Bayezid II

Report on Persia, Persians, and Abbas I, by Father Simon

Akbar, by Father Monserrate

Shah Jahan: Legacy of Beauty

Day 13

To prepare: View Islamic Art PowerPoint on website (no need to print)

Topic: Islamic art

Format: Media Center research of Islamic Art

Day 14

To prepare: Print Comparative Essay rubric from Writer’s Corner of website

Topic: Renaissance & Islamic Art

Format: Comparative essay, “Compare and contrast the nature and function of visual arts in Renaissance Europe and the Muslim Gunpowder Dynasties.” Class time will be used to develop thesis statements and outlines. Completed essay due a few days later.

Day 15

To prepare: Study for Muslim Dynasties test

Format: - Muslim Dynasties test

- Continuation of comparative essay

Day 16

To prepare: (1) Read textbook Chapter 3 (sections 2 & 3); (2) print Chinese Exploration Readings from website

Topic: - Comparative Essay

- Introduction to Age of Exploration (East Meets West)

- Chinese Exploration & Isolation

Format: - Final questions on comparative essay

- Class reading and discussion of Letter to King George III (1793), List of Chinese Inventions and Discoveries with Dates of First Mention

Days 17

To prepare: Print Chinese Exploration NY Times Articles from website

Topic: Chinese Exploration & Isolation; Analysis of Historical Evidence

Format:

PBS Video and website: 1421: The Year China Discovered America (select chapters)

Class discussion of New York Times articles: (1) Who Discovered America? Zheng Who?, by Joseph Kahn (January 2006); (2) 1421: Pacific Overtures, by John Noble Wilford (February 2003)

Day 18

To prepare: (1) Read textbook Chapter 3 (section 1); Chapter 4 (sections 1 & 4); (2) Using a blank world map, combine and reproduce the maps on pages 87 and 104 of the textbook; (3) Print European Exploration Fact Sheets from website.

Topic: European Age of Exploration

Format:

Fact sheet, Factors Behind 15th-Century European Exploration

Fact sheet, Mercantilism vs. Free Market, 1500-1776

Fact sheet, Interhemispherical Exchange of Plants and Animals 1492-1610

Video: Biography of the Millennium, Explorers (6 minutes)

Point/Counterpoint Reading: Legacy of Columbus

Day 19

Topic: Chinese and European Exploration

Format: - Video, Geography of Food

- Comparative Essay -- Compare and Contrast Chinese and European views of and experiences with exploration. Class time will be used to develop thesis statements and outlines. (not doing full essay, but open-ended question will be on test)

Day 20

Test - Chinese and European Exploration

................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download