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Notes: today was a C-Day.
-Bell Work: review questions
-Study Guide: Final Exam
-Video: “History of the Holidays: Christmas” [YouTube.com]
-Independent Practice: review for Final Exam, work on study guide (due day of exam)
-Bell Work: Historical Figure Review
-Review Presentations: small groups, focus on specific areas/regions from 1st semester
-Independent Practice: review! review! review!
-Bell Work: discuss Article of the Week
-Current Events: connecting to the past
-Independent Practice: finish Current Events assignment (due Mon./Tues.)
-Bell Work: review for test
-Test: chapters 10-14 – Medieval Europe, Aztec/Inca, Tang & Song Era China, Japan/Korea/Vietnam, Mongol Empire
-Article of the Week: “The Great 2012 Doomsday Scare” [Nasa.gov]
-Independent Practice: finish AotW (due Friday)
-Bell Work: chs. 10-14 vocabulary review
-Review/discuss ch. 13 reading notes/questions
-Mongol Empire: developments and affects on Asia
-Independent Practice: prep for test/complete chs. 10-14 study guide (due Wed./Thurs.)
-Bell Work: Mongol Empire vocabulary
-Mongol Empire: Beginnings
-Video: Digging For Truth – Lost Empire of Genghis Khan
-Independent Practice: finish Japan, Korea, and Vietnam reading notes
-Bell Work: review Medieval Europe, Aztec/Inca, China
-Discuss: Foot-binding, inventions of China
-Japan, Korea, & Vietnam: Chinese Influence
-Independent Practice: finish Japan, Korea, & Vietnam textbook notes (due Mon./Tues.), review for next week’s test (chs. 10-14)
Use these links to for information about Chinese inventions:
-Bell Work: review for quiz
-Vocab/Reading Quiz: chs. 11-12 vocab, “Chinese Civil Service Exam System”
-Tang & Song Era China: wrap-up
-Research: Inventions/Innovations of China
-Independent Practice: read “Painful Memories for China’s Footbinding Survivors”, complete AotW response (due Wed./Thurs.)
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