Today’s Learning: What was the significance of Chinggis Khan and Kublai Khan?

Warm Up: Finish your tweet from Marco Polo to Kublai Khan, make sure your name is in it, and hand it in on the front table. Then work quietly and independently on your Mongol memorial which is due at the beginning of class tomorrow.

Class Work: Please use the Mongol Memorial assignment sheet you received last Friday and work quietly/independently on your Mongol Memorial. Tomorrow at the beginning of class you will hand in

• your completed memorial design on the media I provided;
• your completed memorial rationale on notebook paper; and,
• the assignment sheet/grading rubric you received yesterday.

Today’s Learning: What was the significance of Kublai Khan?

Warm Up: Share your response to the close reading question, along with the supporting evidence: “What did Marco Polo really think of Kublai Khan?”  with your assigned travel partner. Discuss as a class.

Class Work: Write a tweet from Marco Polo to Kublai Khan. In your tweet imagine Marco Polo would have said to Kublai Khan after Marco left China. You have a maximum of 140 characters (EACH space and punctuation mark is a space).

Memorial discussion: What memorials have you seen? What do the memorials represent? In what ways do memorials convey their message?

• Gateway Memorial Arch
• Mount Rushmore
• Marine Corps (Iwo Jima) Memorial
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
• Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial
• Lincoln Memorial
• 9/11 Memorial (Pentagon)

Mongol Memorial Assignment. Due at the beginning of class Tuesday, February 25.

Describe the stories you hear on today’s CNN 10 in a sentence each on p. 39 of your notebook.

Today’s Learning: What was the significance of Kublai Khan?

Warm Up: List three things that made Kublai Khan significant on p. 35 of your notebook.

Class Work: View the remainder of Kublai Khan: The Mongol Empire; use the Cornell Note Taking format to add notes to the field of p. 38(b). At the conclusion of today’s viewing, write a summary of what you saw today at the bottom of p. 38. Share that summary with your table partner.

Please close read What did Marco Polo Really Think of Kublai Khan?, and respond to the questions at the bottom of the article.

Today’s Learning: What was the significance of Kublai Khan?

Warm Up: Please complete your Report Card: Kublai Khan. Remember to use text evidence from What was the Significance of Kublai Khan? to support the grade you assign to each topic.

Class Work: Share your Kublai Khan Report Card grades and supporting text evidence for each grade with your table partner. Class discussion.

Interrogatory: The answer is Kublai Khan. What is the question? Write your question at the top of Report Card: Kublai Khan. Share your interrogatory with your table partner.

Create the Cornell Note Taking format on p. 38 of your notebook. Use the “field” of the format on which to take notes while we view the film Kublai Khan: The Mongol Empire. At the end of class, use the notes you’ve taken to create key points in the left-hand column.

Today’s Learning: What is the significance of Chinggis Khan and Kublai Khan?

Warm Up: Complete this interrogatory on p. 36.

Class Work:  Share your interrogatory with your table partner; see if they can respond correctly.

Respond to these questions about Chinggis Khan on p. 36 as we view a brief video clip from Mankind: The Story of US.

Please close read – underline, highlight, annotate – What Was the Significance of Kublai Khan: Becoming the Great Khan and Conquering China.

Kublai Khan notes, notebook p. 37.

Please complete your Report Card: Kublai Khan. Remember to use text evidence – word for word quotes – from What was the Significance of Kublai Khan? to support the grade you assign to each topic.

Today’s Learning: What is the significance of Chinggis Khan?

Warm Up: Please make sure your Time Magazine cover assignment is complete. Put  your name on it and hand it in on the front table.

Class Work: Chinggis Khan notes, notebook p. 34.

Chinggis Khan Report Card Assignment. Share with your assigned travel partner.

List  three things that made Chinggis Khan significant on p. 35 of your notebook

Today’s Learning: What was the significance of Chinggis Khan?

Warm Up: Please use the sources listed on the white board to make any and all corrections to your Standards 6.1/6.2 Quiz. Cite the source and indicate the correct answer for each of those you missed originally and hand in on the front table. Due at the beginning of class Monday.

Class Work: Why are the following “people” significant? Write your responses on p. 32 of your notebook.

• Barack Obama
• Mark Zuckerberg
• The American Soldier
• The Computer
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Adolf Hitler

Assign Time cover assignment. Due Monday at the beginning of class.

Close read – underline, highlight, annotate – What was the Significance of Chinggis Khan? 

Today’s Learning: Show what you know about who the Mongols were and how they created an empire.

Warm Up: Please meet your travel partner at Abu Simbel (notebook, p. 1) and share your responses on the review activity you completed yesterday so that you’re ready for today’s quiz.

Class Work: Standards 6.1/6.2 Quiz.

Today’s Learning: How did the Mongols create an empire?

Warm Up: Please complete Standard 6.2 Formative Assessment on your table quietly and independently.

Class Work: When finished with your formative assessment, please put it on the front table and work on your Standards 6.1/6.2 Review to help prepare for the quiz tomorrow. The Standards 6.1/6.2 sources are listed on the white board.

• Steppe, cultural broker defined, p. 26
• Standard 6.1 Introduction Notes, p. 26
• Background Reading:Who Were the Mongols?
• Who were the Mongols? Notes, p. 27
• Background Reading:How did the Mongols create an empire?
• Primary Documents A, B, C
• Genghis Khan and Mongol Empire Video Notes, p. 30
• Primary Documents A, B, C Notes, p. 31

Standards 6.1/6.2 Quiz, Thursday, February 13.

Today’s Learning: How did the Mongols create an empire?

Warm Up: Write a caption describing what you see happening in this image in the space provided below the image.

Class Work: Share your caption with your assigned travel partner.

The primary weapon of war used by the Mongols as they created their empire was the bow and arrow. View Lars Andersen: a new level of archery.

Add these notes about Primary Documents A, B, C Notes to p. 31 of your notebook.

Use the resources listed below to complete your Standards 6.1/6.2 Review.

• Steppe, cultural broker defined, p. 26
• Standard 6.1 Introduction Notes, p. 26
• Background Reading:Who Were the Mongols?
• Who were the Mongols? Notes, p. 27
• Background Reading:How did the Mongols create an empire?
• Primary Documents A, B, C
• Genghis Khan and Mongol Empire Video Notes, p. 30
• Primary Documents A, B, C Notes, p. 31

Standards 6.1/6.2 Quiz, Thursday, February 13.