Activity for Week of April 28, 2019

Monday: San Jose Art Museum Presenter

Tuesday: Japan Project Due TOMORROW
U4 Section 4 Slides Done
Independent work on U4 project
Quiz: Unit 4 Test on Friday
Unit 4 Packet collected

Wednesday: Presentation
Roster done: 1

Thursday: Community Meeting
Japan Presentation
Roster:

Friday: Sub
Unit 4 Test
Submit Unit 4 packet

Activity for Week of April 15, 2019

Monday:
U4 Section 4 Vocabulary loading

Slide #10 (done)
HW: Japan Project - May 1 Due

Tuesday: U4 Section 4 Vocabulary loading

Slide #15 (next)

Wednesday: U4S4 Vocabulary Slide #21 (done)
HW:Map #1
Ming Dynasty China 1368-1644
Copy map on page 282
Map #2
Zheng He’s Voyage 1405-1433
Copy map on page 284

Thursday: Community Meeting

Cornell Notes Unit 4 Section 2 -- Sorry so late!


Item #1
Li Bo
Most popular poet of the Tang era
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Item #2
porcelain
Fine clay and baked at high temperature

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Item #3

calligraphy
Brush and ink to write beautiful characters

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Item #4

• Improved irrigation
• Introduce new ways of growing crop
• Farmers began to grow tea which became a popular drink

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Item #5

• Used coal to heat furnaces to high temperatures
• While producing iron, molten iron mixed with the coal and created steel

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Item #6

In AD 1000s, Chinese printer named Pi Sheng who invented movable type for printing

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Item #7

• Printing allowed for yet another important Chinese invention: paper currency.
• Earliest printed book in AD 868
• Buddhist book called Diamond Sutra

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Item #8

• Chinese made gunpowder for explosives
• fire lance (ancestor to the gun)
• Fireworks

Activity for Week of April 8, 2019

Monday: U4 Sectiont 3 Vocabulary loading
Slide #5

Tuesday: U4 Sectiont 3 Vocabulary loading

Slide #7
Wednesday: SBAC Testing


Thursday - Sub
Japan Jigsaw Project

Friday- SBACk Makeup

Cornell Note Unit 4 Section 3


Item #1
Gobi
A vast desert that covers part of Mongolia and China


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Genghis Khan
Means strong ruler

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Marco Polo

• Most famous European traveler to reach China
• From Italy
• Wrote a book about China

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tribe

Groups of related families, loosely joined together

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steppes

Wide, rolling, grassy plains

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terror

Violent actions that are meant to scare people into surrendering or giving up

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The Mongols

• Known for two things
• Ability to ride horses
• Ability to wage war

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Temujin elected Genghis Khan

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From the Chinese: gunpowder for explosive and fire lance for battle

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Kublai Khan started Yuan dynasty which came after the Song

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Enlarged China’s empire by conquering Vietnam and Northern Korea

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Activity for Week of April 1, 2019

Monday: Unit 4 Section 3 Cornell Notes (Next slide #11)
               HW:  Copy the map for
1) Mongol Empire Under Genghis Khan
(p. 268)
2) Mongol Empire (p. 269)

Tuesday - Independent Work
- Map work
- Complete Cornell Notes
- Study for Quiz
- Unit 4 project

Wednesday -- Quiz Unit 4 Section 3

Thursday -- Community Meeting
Time used to review the ELA
Performance project

Friday -- Japan Jigsaw Project
Selected topic