January 30th
Warm Up:
January 30th
Warm Up:
Marco Polo (1254-1324) was an Italian merchant who lived in China for 17 years during the 1200s. Here is a description he wrote about one Chinese invention:
"(The emperor) has money made.....out of the barks of trees....(The money is) cut up into rectangles of various sizes, longer than they are broad(and worth different amounts)....With this currency(money) he orders all payments to be made throughout every province and kingdom and region of his empire."
Source:The Travels of Marco Polo
1.Why do you think paper money was adopted by other cultures?
2.Has money changed over time? How?
Chinese inventions: Which one is most important to us today?
Comparison between the Eastern and Western China
Essential Question: How did the Chinese inventions change the ancient world and also today's world?
January 29th
Warm Up:
Chinese inventions-10 minutes
Essential Question: What impact did geography have on the interactions, both culturally and economically, with other civilizations and China?
Vocab: philosophy, feudalism, virtue, Confucianism
I. Geography activity: Using the textbook on p. 415 label and color the map of China.
II. Using only the colored and labelled map in front of you, write in your notebook three reasons that support the hypothesis: Most people settled on the North China Plain because of its geography.(Hint: Consider including reasons why other regions would not be good fro settlement.)
III. Create this chart in your notebook to organize important details about the physical geography of China while reading p.414, 416,417,418 and 419 in the textbook.
Geography of China/ Map of China
Map of mountain and deserts/ Map of China/ Topography China
China /Ancient China
Yellow River Civilization
China one of the oldest civilizations
Homework: China
Reflection: Are the cultures unique because of the geography?
January 28th
Warm Up:
Homework on the desk!
Write the title Ancient India on an odd numbered page in you notebook.
Write these new words and leave space for the definitions
SUBCONTINENT
MONSOON
PLATEAU
SURPLUS
CITADEL
DEFORESTATION
CASTE SYSTEM
HINDUISM
REINCARNATION
Essential Question: Were the monsoons a blessing or a curse for the Indian civilization?
Vocabulary words: subcontinent, monsoon, plateau, deforestation, Hinduism, reincarnation, Vedas, caste system
Ancient India / India
Map of India
Physical Geography and Resources of India
Video of monsoons
Triangulation document
Homework: Inventions
January 27th
Warm Up:
1. What was The Silk Road?
2. What did it connect?
3. Why was it called the Silk Road?
4. Why is silk so expensive?
How does the Silk Road affect us today?
Many items we use every day would be unavailable to us if not for Silk Road trade.
At its height during the Tang (tahng) Dynasty (618-907 CE), over 1,000 years ago, the Silk Road gave passage to raw materials and finished goods, but also to ideas, inventions, and religions. The exchange on the Silk Road between East and West led to a mingling of cultures and technologies on a scale that had been previously unprecedented. Trade is very different today from the exchange undertaken on the Silk Road. Yet, the Silk Road provided a model for trade between many cultures over an extremely long period of time. Technological advances plus increased connectivity via the internet have made it possible to trade on a truly global scale. In fact, global trade is so widespread that we often do not think about where the items we use originate. Items that would once have been considered rare luxury goods can now be acquired at any corner market.
Wordsplash
Essential Question: How has the quest for resources affected the societies along the Silk Road then and now?
Choose any of these locations on the Silk Road and complete p.3 and 4 in your Travel Journal
Silk Road Stop: XIAN
Silk Road Stop: DUNHUANG
Silk Road Stop: KASHGAR
Silk Road Stop: SAMARKAND
Silk Road Stop: NEW DEHLI(INDIA)
Silk Road Stop: ANTIOCH
Silk Road Videos
Religions on the Silk Road
Achieve 3000/Mailbox/
Articles: "A Really Great Wall"
"China: What Qianlong Left Behind?"
" China and Japan:Can animals sense trouble?"
January 26th
Warm Up:
1. How do we get information today?
2. Can you imagine waiting for a letter for 12 days?
3. Can you imagine your day without mirror, perfumes, paper, pepper and cinnamon?
4. Where and when did these commodities come from?
Essential Question: Why did the Silk road developed?
Video
Silk Road Travel Journal-Imagine you have the opportunity to be world traveler just like Marco Polo
Use the map to label all the places and physical features in your journal
Physical map of Asia
Intro to Silk Road
Secrets of the Silk Road
Along the Silk Road
Virtual tour
Along the Silk Road
National Geographic
Journey on the Silk Road
Do a research to answer the questions in the journal
Warm Up:
January 30th
Warm Up:
Marco Polo (1254-1324) was an Italian merchant who lived in China for 17 years during the 1200s. Here is a description he wrote about one Chinese invention:
"(The emperor) has money made.....out of the barks of trees....(The money is) cut up into rectangles of various sizes, longer than they are broad(and worth different amounts)....With this currency(money) he orders all payments to be made throughout every province and kingdom and region of his empire."
Source:The Travels of Marco Polo
1.Why do you think paper money was adopted by other cultures?
2.Has money changed over time? How?
Chinese inventions: Which one is most important to us today?
Comparison between the Eastern and Western China
Essential Question: How did the Chinese inventions change the ancient world and also today's world?
January 29th
Warm Up:
Chinese inventions-10 minutes
Essential Question: What impact did geography have on the interactions, both culturally and economically, with other civilizations and China?
Vocab: philosophy, feudalism, virtue, Confucianism
I. Geography activity: Using the textbook on p. 415 label and color the map of China.
II. Using only the colored and labelled map in front of you, write in your notebook three reasons that support the hypothesis: Most people settled on the North China Plain because of its geography.(Hint: Consider including reasons why other regions would not be good fro settlement.)
III. Create this chart in your notebook to organize important details about the physical geography of China while reading p.414, 416,417,418 and 419 in the textbook.
Geography of China/ Map of China
Map of mountain and deserts/ Map of China/ Topography China
China /Ancient China
Yellow River Civilization
China one of the oldest civilizations
Homework: China
Reflection: Are the cultures unique because of the geography?
January 28th
Warm Up:
Homework on the desk!
Write the title Ancient India on an odd numbered page in you notebook.
Write these new words and leave space for the definitions
SUBCONTINENT
MONSOON
PLATEAU
SURPLUS
CITADEL
DEFORESTATION
CASTE SYSTEM
HINDUISM
REINCARNATION
Essential Question: Were the monsoons a blessing or a curse for the Indian civilization?
Vocabulary words: subcontinent, monsoon, plateau, deforestation, Hinduism, reincarnation, Vedas, caste system
Ancient India / India
Map of India
Physical Geography and Resources of India
Video of monsoons
Triangulation document
Homework: Inventions
January 27th
Warm Up:
1. What was The Silk Road?
2. What did it connect?
3. Why was it called the Silk Road?
4. Why is silk so expensive?
How does the Silk Road affect us today?
Many items we use every day would be unavailable to us if not for Silk Road trade.
At its height during the Tang (tahng) Dynasty (618-907 CE), over 1,000 years ago, the Silk Road gave passage to raw materials and finished goods, but also to ideas, inventions, and religions. The exchange on the Silk Road between East and West led to a mingling of cultures and technologies on a scale that had been previously unprecedented. Trade is very different today from the exchange undertaken on the Silk Road. Yet, the Silk Road provided a model for trade between many cultures over an extremely long period of time. Technological advances plus increased connectivity via the internet have made it possible to trade on a truly global scale. In fact, global trade is so widespread that we often do not think about where the items we use originate. Items that would once have been considered rare luxury goods can now be acquired at any corner market.
Wordsplash
Essential Question: How has the quest for resources affected the societies along the Silk Road then and now?
Choose any of these locations on the Silk Road and complete p.3 and 4 in your Travel Journal
Silk Road Stop: XIAN
Silk Road Stop: DUNHUANG
Silk Road Stop: KASHGAR
Silk Road Stop: SAMARKAND
Silk Road Stop: NEW DEHLI(INDIA)
Silk Road Stop: ANTIOCH
Silk Road Videos
Religions on the Silk Road
Achieve 3000/Mailbox/
Articles: "A Really Great Wall"
"China: What Qianlong Left Behind?"
" China and Japan:Can animals sense trouble?"
January 26th
Warm Up:
1. How do we get information today?
2. Can you imagine waiting for a letter for 12 days?
3. Can you imagine your day without mirror, perfumes, paper, pepper and cinnamon?
4. Where and when did these commodities come from?
Essential Question: Why did the Silk road developed?
Video
Silk Road Travel Journal-Imagine you have the opportunity to be world traveler just like Marco Polo
Use the map to label all the places and physical features in your journal
Physical map of Asia
Intro to Silk Road
Secrets of the Silk Road
Along the Silk Road
Virtual tour
Along the Silk Road
National Geographic
Journey on the Silk Road
Do a research to answer the questions in the journal