From Food to Guns, Germs & Steel

You are to comment on the blog based on the following prompt:

• What role did the elements mentioned in part three of Guns, Germs, and Steel play in the development of societies? Explain the role of the evolution.

Note: You are to submit by Monday, 9 January 2012.
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Carlos De León
Social Studies Department Chair
Luther Burbank High School

Reading for AP World History (Week 17)

Complete the following reading for homework ...

... from Guns, Germs & Steel chapter 15:

• "Yali's People" (pp. 295-321)

... from Earth and Its People chapter 18:

• "Religious and Political Innovations" (p. 445)
• "Realm of Ideas" (p. 464)

Note: You are to take two separate sets of Cornell notes on these readings. Submit on Monday, 9 January 2012.
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Carlos De León
Social Studies Department Chair
Luther Burbank High School

Blueprints and Borrowed Letters

You are to comment on the blog based on the following reading ...

• "Blueprints and Borrowed Letters" (p. 215)
• What role does the evolution of writing play in the development of societies?

Note: You are to submit by Monday, 12 December 2011.
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Carlos De León
Social Studies Department Chair
Luther Burbank High School

The Rise and Spread of Food Production

GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL

SECTION II

EXAM

Starting on 14 November 2011, there will be an online discussion on section two ("The Rise and Spread of Food Production") that will end on 28 November 2011. Your comments will be posted on a daily basis and are allowed to make only one comment a day! Each ACCEPTED comment must come from a different chapter within section two of Guns, Germs, and Steel, and will be worth 20 points.  You are highly encouraged to discuss and argue opinions so long as they are backed by textual reference.

Note: Complete by Monday, 28 November 2011.
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Carlos De León
Social Studies Department Chair
Luther Burbank High School

Reading for AP World History (Week 13)

Complete the following reading for homework ...

... from Guns, Germs, and Steel chapter 11:

• Lethal Gift of Livestock (pp. 195-214)

Note: You are to take  Cornell notes on this reading. Submit on Monday, 28 November 2011.
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Carlos De León
Social Studies Department Chair
Luther Burbank High School

GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL!!!

GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL

EXAM!!!

AP World History students, by 11 November 2011, chapters 4 - 11 of Guns, Germs, and Steel should be completely read. Starting on 14 November 2011, there will be an online discussion on section two ("The Rise and Spread of Food Production") that will end on 28 November 2011. Your comments will be posted on a daily basis and are allowed to make only one comment a day! Each ACCEPTED comment must come from a different chapter within section two of Guns, Germs, and Steel, and will be worth 20 points.

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Carlos De León
Social Studies Department Chair

Luther Burbank High School

Reading for AP World History (Week 12)

Complete the following reading for homework ...

... from The Earth and Its People chapter 15:

• "New Islamic Empires" (p. 375)
• "Social and Cultural Change" (p. 387)

Note: You are to take Cornell notes on these readings. Submit on Monday, 14 November 2011.
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Carlos De León
Social Studies Department Chair
Luther Burbank High School

Guns, Germs, and Steel: How to Make an Almond

You are to comment on the blog based on the following reading ...

• "How to Make and Almond" (p. 114)
• Explain the unconscious development of ancient crops.

Note: You are to submit by Monday, 31 October 2011.
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Carlos De León
Social Studies Department Chair
Luther Burbank High School

Reading for AP World History (Week 10)

Complete the following readings for homework ...

... from The Earth and Its People chapter 10:

• "Early Medieval Europe" (p. 250)
• "The Western Church" (p. 258)

... from Guns, Germs, and Steel chapters 7 & 8:

• "How to Make and Almond" (p. 114)
• Apples or Indians" (p. 131)

Note: You are to take Cornell notes on these readings. Submit by Monday, 31 October 2011.
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Carlos De León
Social Studies Department Chair
Luther Burbank High School

Guns, Germs, and Steel: To Farm or Not to Farm

Complete the following reading for homework ...

... from Guns, Germs, and Steel chapter 6:

• "To Farm or Not to Farm" (p. 104) ... What were the causes of the spread of food production?

Note: You are to comment on the blog and take Cornell notes on this reading.  Submit on Monday, 10 October 2011.
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Carlos De León
Social Studies Department Chair
Luther Burbank High School

Reading for AP World History (Week 7)

Complete the following readings for homework ...

... from the Earth and Its People chapter 7:

• "The Vedic Age, 1500-500 b.c.e." (p. 174)
• "The Rise of Hinduism" (p. 181)
• "The Mauryan Empire, 324-184 b.c.e." (p. 184)
• "The Gupta Empire, 320-550 c.e." (p. 186)

Note: You are to comment on the blog and take Cornell notes on these readings. Submit on Monday, 10 October 2011.
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Carlos De León
Social Studies Department Chair
Luther Burbank High School

China and Rome Compared

Use the available primary sources and the readings to comment on China and Rome Compared (WH, Ch. 4).

Note: Submit on Monday, 3 October 2011.
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Carlos De León
Social Studies Department Chair
Luther Burbank High School

From Eden to Cajamarca

Use the available primary sources and the readings to comment on From Eden to Cajamarca (GGS, Ch. 1-3).

Note: Submit on Monday, 3 October 2011.
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Carlos De León
Social Studies Department Chair
Luther Burbank High School