What is History? Sagraves Modern World History Week 2
Daily Question O Should History be a required high school subject? Why? Why should we study history?
Agenda 9/2/14 Why and how History? Activities to accomplish Objectives O 1. DQ O 2. Homework Schedule, Study Buddies O 3. Recap O 4. Sourcing Debrief O 5. World Map O Homework: World Map Assignment O By the end of this lesson, you should O 1. Know what historians do with historical evidence. O 2. Know what you already know about the world map.
What we know about history so far… O What History is….. O What historians use to write/tell history O How historians go about using the evidence that they have 1. Sourcing 2. Corroboration 3. Contextualization
Agenda 9/3/14 What does it mean to practice history? The Black Death Activities to accomplish Objectives O 1. DQ O 2. Odds and Ends O 3. Black Death – introduction O 4. Annotation Guide O HOMEWORK: Read & annotate introduction and documents DBQ – DO NOT ANSWER QUESTIONS O By the end of this lesson, you should O 1. Be able to contextualize the DBQ O 2. Start to practice annotating the primary documents
Daily Question O What would you do if you were faced with the prospect of contracting a fatal, incurable disease? How do you think others around you might react? What changes in society might you witness?
The Black Death Priest Blessing Plague Victims,
Spread of the Plague Spread of the Black Death through Afro-Eurasia
Human Costs Excavated Mass Grave of Plague Victims Martigues, France
Agenda 9/4/14 What were the effects of the Black Death on European Society in the 14 th century? Activities to accomplish Objectives O 1. DQ O 2. Black Death DBQ O HOMEWORK: Finish DBQ if necessary. Fine polish your thesis statement! O By the end of this lesson, you should have sourced, corroborated and contextualized evidence in order to answer an historical question.
Agenda 9/5/14 What is the Modern World? Activities to accomplish Objectives O 1. DQ – Reflection O 2. Map Quiz O 3. Textbook Reading Note Forms O 4. Sorting Activity O Homework: Textbook Ch. 13 Section 1 O By the end of this lesson: O 1. You should know how to start organizing your reading notes. O 2. You should begin to have a picture of the major themes of the Modern World.