1. What is History? Sagraves Modern World History Week 2

2. Daily Question O Should History be a required high school subject? Why? Why should we study history?

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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?

7. The Black Death Priest Blessing Plague Victims, 1360-1375

8. Spread of the Plague Spread of the Black Death through Afro-Eurasia

9. Human Costs Excavated Mass Grave of Plague Victims Martigues, France

10. 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.

11. 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.