Today’s Learning: How did ancient China contribute to global trade?

Warm Up: Please find your Afroeurasian Trade Map; we need to add to it today.

Class Work: Use pp 152-153 in the atlas on your table to help you locate and label the following cities on your Afroeurasian Trade Map:

• Baghdad 
• Beijing 
• Mumbai 
• Kashgar (Kashi, p. 168, NDA)

On the Afroeurasian Trade Chart, for “Goods Produced” and “Asia”, write:

• Silk
• Gunpowder
• Cotton
• Spices
• Livestock

In the box on the chart for “Trade Routes” and “Asia”, write:

• Beijing to Kashgar (land)
• Kashgar to Baghdad (land)
• Beijing to Mumbai (sea)
• Kashgar to Constantinople (land)

Then, use a colored pencil to trace those routes, using dashed green lines for land routes and solid blue lines for sea routes.

“If I had a million dollars (x 100)…”: Imagine you won $100 million dollars today. What is the FIRST thing you would do with your new-found wealth? Please respond to this scenario on p. 21 of your notebook quietly and independently.

Standard 5.4 Wealth presentation/discussion.

Close read – underline, highlight, annotate – Trans-Saharan Trade. Then compare Trans-Saharan trade with other trade routes we’ve studied. In what ways were Trans-Saharan trade methods, locations, goods, ideas, etc., alike and different. Write your response on p. 21 of your notebook.

Today’s Learning: How did ancient China contribute to global trade?

Warm Up: Attach your completed China: Dynasties of Power video guide to p. 20 of your notebook.

Class Work: Access the Walking Gallery on Google Classroom; work with your assigned jigsaw home and expert group partners to complete the accompanying Walking Gallery packet.

Today’s Learning: How did ancient China contribute to global trade?

Warm Up: Please make sure your Silk Road Trade graphic organizer is complete and neat. When you are finished, attach it to p. 18 of your notebook.  

Class Work: Share your completed Silk Road Trade graphic organizer with your assigned travel partner.

Standard 5.3 Formative Assessment, notebook p. 19.

Complete your video guide as we finish viewing the video China: Dynasties of Power.

Today’s Learning: How did ancient China contribute to global trade?

Warm Up: Close read – underline, highlight, annotate – the article entitled Song Dynasty.

Class Work: After you have close read this article, list the contributions made by the Song Dynasty to trade along the Silk Road at the bottom of the article.

Add these Song Dynasty Notes to p. 17 of your notebook.

Use the sources (Song Dynasty reading and Song Dynasty Notes, p. 17) we’ve studied to help you complete the Song Dynasty column of your Silk Road Trade graphic organizer. Complete the bottom part first, then decide which contribution you believe to be the most important (top part). Make your illustration colorful.

Complete your video guide as we finish viewing the video China: Dynasties of Power.

Today’s Learning: How did ancient China contribute to global trade?

Warm Up: Please close read – underline, highlight, annotate – the Tang Dynasty. 

Class Work: How did the Tang contribute to global trade? Write your response at the bottom of the article.

 Tang Dynasty Notes, p. 16.

Respond to the questions on this video guide as we view China: Dynasties of Power.

Activity Schedule due to MLK, Jr./SMS Wall of Honor assembly.

Class Work: View I Have a Dream presentation.

Add these Han Dynasty notes to p. 15.

Use the sources (Han Dynasty reading and Han Dynasty Notes, p. 15) we’ve studied to help you complete the tasks in the Han Dynasty column of the Silk Road Trade graphic organizer. Complete the bottom part first, then decide which contribution you believe to be the most important. Make your illustration colorful. Share your response with your assigned travel partner.

Today’s Learning: How did the Han Dynasty contribute to Afroeurasian trade?

Warm Up: Please close read – highlight, underline, and annotate – Han Dynasty found on your table.

Class Work: Then list the inventions/achievements of the Han Dynasty at the bottom of the article. Share your list with your table partner.

Please title p. 14(b) of your Social Studies notebook, Treasure Seekers: The Silk Road, and create the Cornell Note-Taking format there.

Then take notes in the “field” (Step 2) on p. 14(b) as we finish the video of the same title.

Today’s Learning: How did ancient China contribute to global trade?

Warm Up: Please close read – highlight, underline, and annotate – The Silk Road found on your table.

Class Work: Then use your Silk Road notes on p. 13 of your notebook to corroborate what you’ve just read. Write one fact about Silk Road trade from the article that agrees with your notes and one new fact from the article at the bottom of p. 2 of the article.

Share your corroborating evidence with your assigned travel partner.

Please title p. 14 of your Social Studies notebook, Treasure Seekers: The Silk Road, and create the Cornell Note-Taking format there. 

Then take notes in the “field” (Step 2) on p. 14 as we view the video of the same title.

Today’s Learning: How did ancient China contribute to global trade?

Warm Up: Please use the sources listed below to make any and all corrections to your Standards 5.1/5.2 Quiz. Cite the source and indicate the correct answer for each of those you missed originally. Due at the beginning of class Wednesday.

• People of the Feudal System Notes, notebook p. 3
• European Trade During the Middle Ages SR
• Feudal System Chart Notes, p. 4
• Life in the Middle Ages: The Serf Video Guide, p. 5
• Why the Feudal System Existed in the Middle Ages Graphic Organizer, p. 7
• Italian City-States and Afroeurasian Trade SR
• Why Did the Feudal System Eventually Go Away? Graphic Organizer, p. 9
• Life in the Middle Ages: The Merchant video guide, p. 10
• Castle video guide, p. 11

Class Work: Please open your Chromebook, login to Classroom, and read Last Day in China as an introduction to this topic. 

Then summarize your “last day in China” by describing in a paragraph what life was like on the Silk Road on p. 13 of your notebook. Include what you think Gregory and Nestor were trying to steal in your paragraph.

Share your warm up response with your assigned travel partner. Discuss as a class.

Turn to p. 13 of your notebook. Subtitle that page The Silk Road. Add the following notes to p. 13.

Today’s Learning: Show what you know about how Europe contributed to global trade during the Middle Ages.

Warm Up: Please meet your travel partner at Shanghai (notebook, p. 1) and share your completed Standards 5.1/5.2 Review so that you’re ready for our quiz. When you are finished sharing, return to your assigned seat.

Class Work: Standards 5.1/5.2 Quiz.

Describe the stories you hear on today’s CNN 10 on p. 12 of your notebook.