Ch. 1: Schedule

QUARTER 1              WEEK 1                     AP WORLD HISTORY                                  TAMM

AUG 19-AUG 23

MON

First Day- handouts, book cards, info cards, introduction to class, syllabus, partner meet.

TUE

6-10 human evolution

“What stages has the human world progressed through?”

Vocab: Periodization, cosmological, geological, biological, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic, australopithecine, homo habilis, homo erectus, Neanderthal, homo sapiens, ancient, classical, medieval, modern, present.

Activity: Big History / Cosmic Calendar: the cosmo, geo, bio, human timescales

Homework: read ch. 1

WED

11-15 paleolithic ways

“When did human groups move to the various continents and what imaginative leap occurred 30,000 years ago?”

Vocab: out of Africa hypothesis, hunter-gatherer, cave art, venus figurine, creativity, imagination

Activity: ch. 1 partner work: textbook tutorial

Activity: Primary source 11: Leakey on the nature of homo sapiens

Homework: map- food crops

THU

Pg. 16-22 Neolithic transition

“By what process did humans get from foraging to farming?”

Vocab: agricultural revolution, Neolithic transition, staple crop, urbanization, Jericho, catal huyuk, metallurgy, nature gods, creation myth,

Activity: partner tutorial- short answers

Activity: Primary source- Diamond’s “Worst thing” article

Homework: review

FRI

Test Ch. 1: Prehistory

Homework: Map 2 (place, geography, events); Short Answers 2 (Pol, Soc, Econ, Cult)

                        Read Ch. 2, check class website and blog if you can.