Week 1 | Readings & Assignments | Jan 16
| The Uses of History | Bookmark this page (on phone, computer, etc.)
Read Syllabus
| | Jan 18 | What's Human? | Gorman, “Cooking Up Bigger Brains” |
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Week 2 | Readings & Assignments | Jan 24
| Peopling the Planet
| McNeills, Introduction and Chapter I
Mithen, “A Lost World Revealed”
| | Jan 26 | Neolithic Transformations | McNeills, Chapter II
Diamond, “The Worst Mistake”
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Week 3 | Readings & Assignments | | Jan 30 | River Valley Urbanization | McNeills, Chap III, pp 41-65
| | Feb 1 | Invention of Writing/Primary Sources
| Three Flood Myths: Gilgamesh (Babylonian)
Genesis, bks 6-9
Satapatha Brahmana, “The Ida”
Essay #1A Due!
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Week 4 | Frontiers and Conflicts
| Readings & Assignments | | Feb 6 | Behind City Walls
| Primary Documents on Ancient Hierarchies and Food
Essay #1B Due!
| | Feb 8 | Beyond City Walls
| Anthony, “Economic and Military Effects of Horseback Riding”
CWHF “Africa South from the Sahara” Part 1
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Week 5 | Frontiers and Conflictcont'd | Readings & Assignments | | Feb 13 | Bantu Expansion (Game) | CWHF “Africa South from the Sahara” Part 2
Bantu Expansion addendum
| | Feb 15 | Midterm! | Exam #1! |
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Week 6 | Ancient Political Economies | Readings & Assignments | | Feb 20 | Empires, Commerce, & Politics | McNeills, Chap III, pp 65-81
Primary Documents on Ancient Statecraft
| | Feb 22 | Film Discussion 1: 300 | Filmpack 1 (300)
Essay #2A Due!
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Week 13 Reflection Guided Reading 101 3rd Edition
Reading 101 is a self-paced professional development course for K-3 teachers, developed by Reading Rockets. The program provides teachers with an in-depth knowledge of reading and writing so they are prepared to guide their students into becoming skilled and enthusiastic readers and writers. Week 13 Readings Day 1 Reading: Deuteronomy 21-23 Background 'Chapter 21- The Lord provides laws regarding violence and family, beginning with a sacrifice for an unsolved murder. He emphasizes the value of human life by describing the atonement that must be made for it. Israel is to act differently than the world around them. Fall 2017ARS101. Class news and resources. Week 5: September 25-Oct 1st. Week 6: October 2-8. Week 7: October 9-15. Week 8: October 16-22. Week 9: October 23-29. Week 10, October 30-November 5th. Week 11: November 6-10. Week 12: November 13-19. Week 13: November 20-26. Week 14: November 27-December 3rd.
Week 13 Reflectionguided Reading 101 Reading
Week 7 | Readings & Assignments | | Feb 27 | Continental Empires | Salt and Pepper in Antiquity
| | Mar 1 | Imperial Collapse | Documents from Falling Empires
Essay #2B Due!
| | Week 8 | S P R I N G | B R E A K |
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Week 9 | Universalist Religions | Readings & Assignments | | Mar 13 | Doctrines and Institutions | McNeills, Chap IV, pp 82-108
Buddhist Texts
Christian Texts
Islamic Texts
| | Mar 15 | Geographies of Faith | Conversion Documents
Essay #3A Due!
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Week 10
| Readings & Assignments | | Mar 20 | Vikings!
| Viking Documents
Essay #3B Due! | | Mar 22 | CLASS CANCELLED! | SNOW DAY |
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Week 11 | Fragile Environments cont'd | Readings & Assignments | | Mar 27 | Americas/Pacific Tropics | McNeills, Chap IV, pp 108-15
| | Mar 29 | Midterm! | Exam #2! |
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Week 12 | Eurasian Middle Ages
| Readings & Assignments | | Apr 3 | Governments & Peasantries | Agriculture in Outer Eurasia
Emperor Henry IV, Truce of God
Chuyuki, Edict against Enryakuji (and other documents)
| | Apr 5 | Towns and Technology | McNeills, Chap V, pp116-37
Urban documents
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Week 13 Reflectionguided Reading 101 Lesson
Week 13 | Readings & Assignments | | Apr 10 | Pagans, Jihadis, and Crusaders | The First Crusade Documents | | Apr 12 | Film Discussion #2: Kingdom of Heaven | Filmpack #2 (Kingdom of Heaven)
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Week 14 | Readings & Assignments | | Apr 17 | The Fringes of Islam | McNeills, Chap V, pp 150-52
Salt in West Africa
Ibn Battuta, excerpts from Travels
Essay #4A Due!
| | Apr 19 | Mongols! | Eating with the Mongols
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Week 15 | Readings & Assignments | | Apr 24 | Cooling, Famine, Plague | Records of the Plague
Essay #4B Due!
| | Apr 26 | Pacific Rim Empires | McNeills, Chap V, pp 147-50 and 153-54
Excerpt from “The Pristine Myth”
Inspection of the Chupaychu |
Week 16 | Readings & Assignments | | May 1 | Technology and Politics in Eurasia | McNeills, Chap V, pp 137-47 | | May 3 | The Invention of the Globe | McNeills, Chap VI, pp 155-74
International Encounters
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EXAM WEEK!
Tuesday, May 8, 1:00 pm
Exam #3 guide! |
Week 13 Reflectionguided Reading 101 Dalmatians
| MWF Schedule |
| M: Reading Response 4 Rodriguez & One Prewriting Question DUE. In class, we will discuss features of Rodriguez’s narrative essay in terms of the Unit 1 Essay Assignment. For next class, please complete Reading Response 5 Graff and respond to at least two furtherPrewriting Questions, using a mix of strategies. |
| W: Reading Response 5 Graff & One Further Prewriting Question DUE. In class, we will discuss features of Rodriguez’s narrative essay in terms of the Unit 1 Essay Assignment. For next class, please complete at least three further prewriting questions, using a mix of strategies. Please remember to bring all your work for this unit with you next class. |
| F: Three Further Prewriting Questions DUE.(You should have a minimum of five prewriting questions completed by now.) In class, we will discuss how to get started with a rough, discovery draft of your essay. For next class, please write that exploratory draft. This draft should be typed and printed, ready to use in class. (We start taking the steps of revising, clustering, and architectural outlining next week.) NOTE: First step of your Discovery Draft due next week Monday! |
| TR Schedule |
| T: Reading Response 4 Rodriguez & Two Prewriting Questions DUE. In class, we will discuss features of Rodriguez’s narrative essay in terms of the Unit 1 Essay Assignment. For next class, please complete Reading Response 5 Graff and respond to at least two furtherPrewriting Questions, using a mix of strategies. |
| R: Reading Response 5 Graff & Two Further Prewriting Questions DUE. (You should have a minimum of four prewriting questions completed by now.) In class, we will discuss how to get started with a rough, discovery draft of your essay. For next class, please respond to at least one more prewriting question (for a minimum total of five), and write that exploratory draft. This draft should be typed and printed, ready to use in class. (We start taking the steps of revising, clustering, and architectural outlining next week.)NOTE: Your complete Discovery Draft due next week Tuesday! |