1. Warm-up (on a new sheet)
Describe the Polynesian migration.
What technology or resources did they have?
What empires were declining around 1450? Which ones were on the rise?

2. Change Over Time Essay

3. 4 Essays Compare/Contrast Periodization Change over time
Document Based Questions

4. What a Change Over Time Thesis must Have
Region
Time
Any Questions Specific Details
Historical Context/Must be organized around Change and Continuity (include a sense of beginning, middle, and end)
“analyze the process and explain the cause.”

5. Two Formula’s For a thesis
During the time period (date) to (date), the (topic) changed from (A) to (B) to (C); however, (D) stayed the same throughout the era because…
In the period ___________to _________ , _______________changed from ________to _____________, while _____________ stayed the same.

6. CCOT China
In the period 600 to 1450, China’s government changed politically from rule by the ethnic Chinese elite, to the rule of the nomadic Mongols, however economically Chinese goods continued to be in high demand globally.

7. Question
Analyze continuities and changes in patterns of interaction along the Silk Roads from 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E.

8. The Silk Roads connected Europe to East Asia
The Silk Roads connected Europe to East Asia. The nomadic Mongols on the eastern steppes began the trade. The Silk Road was originally designed to transport trade but it would also begin to trade religions, ideas, and diseases through the eastern hemisphere through the merchants that used the Silk Roads. Generally too vague; does not offer a timeframe; the movement of religions, ideas, and disease is presented as a change but it was actually a continuity. What continuity is mentioned?

9. The Silk Roads fostered interaction and communication from 200 B. C. E
The Silk Roads fostered interaction and communication from 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E. Throughout this period of time, the Silk Roads would encourage the spread of religion, ideas, items, and pathogens. While the Silk Road was originally intended as an adventurous process of exchange from silk to China, and therefore valuable goods returning to China, growing empires would input new religions and items.
Student offers new religions and items as both change and continuity; which is it? Student would receive credit for thesis statement if he/she had identified the items that changed as they moved across the Road throughout time.

10. Other points
Between 200 BCE and 1450 CE, the Silk Roads were not only used for trade but also used for cross-cultural interaction with different peoples. These cross-cultural interactions caused changes in people’s lives and religion. Not only did the lives of the people change but so did the interactions on the Silk Roads. Not everything changed, though; there were definite continuities like the type of good or location of the goods. Change is acceptable with reference to introduction of different religions (“changes in people’s lives” is too vague); “type of good” is minimally acceptable as continuity (identifying the type of good would be better).

11. As the Marco Polos, Ibn Battutas, and countless other merchants can attest, the Silk Roads were an astonishing characteristic of the ancient world. These famed passageways between great empires and kingdoms spread religion, culture, and wealth around half the globe. Patterns constantly changed from 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E., the most interesting being a monopolization of the routes as a multicultural sharing of the roads early on developed into subsequent domination by at least the dar al-Islam and China, and then the Mongols. However, there always remained continuities that characterized those roads, including the spread of disease and the diversification of religion among various ethnic groups
This is not only adequate, it is sophisticated: very few students are going to come up with something as insightful as this.

12. Other Change and Continuity Points
Addresses All Parts of the Question (1)-Discusses Change and Continuity Support your thesis with appropriate historical evidence(2) – Rule of thumb is 6-8 Include the characteristics of historical periods to explain the context of change (Synthesis) (1) All time periods have characteristic changes/continuities, find those and then make larger connections Analyze the process of change and continuity. (1) Explain why that thing(s) changed or didn’t

13. Three Structures Basic- 5 paragraph essay I. Intro (thesis)
II. Explanation of Start point
III. Explanation of Change & end
V. Explanation of continuity
VI. Conclusion
Alternate Basic
Intro (thesis)
Explanation of Start, Change, & end #1
Explanation of Continuity
Conclusion
Complex- 5 paragraph Essay
I. Into-(thesis)
II. Explanation of Start, Change, End and continuity of category #1
III. Explanation of Start, Change, End and continuity of category #2
V. Conclusion
Three Structures

14. Each Body Paragraph Should
Contain a topic sentence
Three specific examples
Analysis/reasoning
Tip: Close by stating a reason for the change or continuity

15. Topic- My pets health over time
Thesis:
In the time period of Bob the cat has gone from a skinny kitten to gaining weight and become a fat cat, all the while Matt the fish has maintained his goal weight.

16. Topic sentence
In Bob the cat went from skinny kitten to a fat cat. In 2010 Bob was found in a Walmart parking lot. He was 6lbs at 6 months old. After adopting Bob the cat he gained weight, putting on 6 lbs in one year. Today in 2010 Bob the cat is overweight. The vet says Bob the cat needs to lose weight. One reason Bob the cat may have gained weight is that he became less active when he was an adult cat. My friend who works an office job (sitting down all day) also gained a bunch of weight after college.

17. Evidence
In Bob the cat went from skinny kitten to a fat cat. In 2010 Bob was found in a Walmart parking lot. He was 6lbs at 6 months old. After adopting Bob the cat he gained weight, putting on 6 lbs in one year. Today in 2010 Bob the cat is overweight. The vet says Bob the cat needs to lose weight. One reason Bob the cat may have gained weight is that he became less active when he was an adult cat. My friend who works an office job (sitting down all day) also gained a bunch of weight after college.

18. Analysis
In Bob the cat went from skinny kitten to a fat cat. In 2010 Bob was found in a Walmart parking lot. He was 6lbs at 6 months old. After adopting Bob the cat he gained weight, putting on 6 lbs in one year. Today in 2010 Bob the cat is overweight. The vet says Bob the cat needs to lose weight. One reason Bob the cat may have gained weight is that he became less active when he was an adult cat. My friend who works an office job (sitting down all day) also gained a bunch of weight after college.

19. In groups of 3-4…
Make an outline for each of the CCOT essay questions on your worksheet. Anything you don’t finish in class is homework.