So as to make your journey more pleasant and easygoing, keep your portfolio organized (see the provided list below)! Additionally, here are some suggestions and a few tips about preparing for any unit assessments . . .
How to study and studying tips:
•Spread out your study times (don’t do it all at once!) & find a quiet place to do this.
•DO NOT simply MEMORIZE all information.
•For each assignment, carefully consider:
a) What is the main idea(s)?
b) What activities did we do in class?
c) What are some examples?
d) Why might this information be relevant and/or important for me to know?
WORLD STUDIES PORTFOLIO, TABLE OF CONTENTS:
*Keep lined loose-leaf paper at the back of your portfolio
UNIT ONE: World Studies Toolbox
1) Cultural Studies (power point notes and practice activity responses)
2) Notable Numbers and 6 themes of World Studies (power point notes)
3) Signs, Signifiers the Signified and You Project sheet
4) Unit One Test
5) World Studies Analysis sheet (yellow)
UNIT TWO: The Road to 1500
UNIT THREE: Renaissance, Reformation & Reconnaissance
1) Renowned Renaissance power point notes
2) Renaissance Art
3) Politics in Renaissance Italian City-States
4) Emergence of Modern Nations (passages from Machiavelli's The Prince)
5) Protestant Reformation powerpoint and chart of the 3 Protestant strands
6) All NECA project materials
7) Reconnaissance cloze notes (half sheet)
8) Guided reading questions from texts on Age of Exploration and Colonization in the New World
9) Travel and Encounters Packet
10) Zinn' Columbus and the Indians (your own sheet of paper)
11) Reconnaissance and Conquering Ideology (half sheet)
12) Takaki's Why a Different Mirror
13) Summarization & Synthesis of Content (unit 3 flowchart)
UNIT FOUR: Nation-States & Monarchical Rise to Power
1) Summarization & Synthesis of Content (unit 3 flowchart)
2) Cities and Citizens (answers to guided reading on your own sheet of lined paper)
3) Carnage and Culture (google classroom) OR Monarchies Rise to Power (on lined paper)
4) Hundred Years' War + War of the Roses
5) War has become very different (annotated text)
6) Enter the Early Modern + the Tudors
6) Queen Elizabeth, England's most famed monarch
7) Gombrich's The Church at War + French Wars of Religion
8) 30 Year's War (text annotations and guided reading questions)
9) The English Civil War + Post Civil War & the Glorious Revolution
How to study and studying tips:
•Spread out your study times (don’t do it all at once!) & find a quiet place to do this.
•DO NOT simply MEMORIZE all information.
•For each assignment, carefully consider:
a) What is the main idea(s)?
b) What activities did we do in class?
c) What are some examples?
d) Why might this information be relevant and/or important for me to know?
WORLD STUDIES PORTFOLIO, TABLE OF CONTENTS:
*Keep lined loose-leaf paper at the back of your portfolio
UNIT ONE: World Studies Toolbox
1) Cultural Studies (power point notes and practice activity responses)
2) Notable Numbers and 6 themes of World Studies (power point notes)
3) Signs, Signifiers the Signified and You Project sheet
4) Unit One Test
5) World Studies Analysis sheet (yellow)
UNIT TWO: The Road to 1500
- Why are we starting with the Mongols? + The Horse in Mongol Culture
- The Road to 1500 power point notes + Kublai Khan text and guided reading
- Ancient China: Ethical structures of Asia power point notes (Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism)
- The How of Pooh + summative chart
- Ancient Japan (two pages): Shinto, Heian Era, Kamakura Era + guided reading for Kamakura era and Tale of the Heike questions and answers
- Samurai violence writing prompt (on lined paper)
- The West, Rome, Germanic Tribes & the Middle Ages
- Viewing guide for PBS series on Islam Empire of Faith + summative question
- The Crusade cloze notes
UNIT THREE: Renaissance, Reformation & Reconnaissance
1) Renowned Renaissance power point notes
2) Renaissance Art
3) Politics in Renaissance Italian City-States
4) Emergence of Modern Nations (passages from Machiavelli's The Prince)
5) Protestant Reformation powerpoint and chart of the 3 Protestant strands
6) All NECA project materials
7) Reconnaissance cloze notes (half sheet)
8) Guided reading questions from texts on Age of Exploration and Colonization in the New World
9) Travel and Encounters Packet
10) Zinn' Columbus and the Indians (your own sheet of paper)
11) Reconnaissance and Conquering Ideology (half sheet)
12) Takaki's Why a Different Mirror
13) Summarization & Synthesis of Content (unit 3 flowchart)
UNIT FOUR: Nation-States & Monarchical Rise to Power
1) Summarization & Synthesis of Content (unit 3 flowchart)
2) Cities and Citizens (answers to guided reading on your own sheet of lined paper)
3) Carnage and Culture (google classroom) OR Monarchies Rise to Power (on lined paper)
4) Hundred Years' War + War of the Roses
5) War has become very different (annotated text)
6) Enter the Early Modern + the Tudors
6) Queen Elizabeth, England's most famed monarch
7) Gombrich's The Church at War + French Wars of Religion
8) 30 Year's War (text annotations and guided reading questions)
9) The English Civil War + Post Civil War & the Glorious Revolution