Ch. 1; Section 2

1. Read Ch. 1 section 2 (Islam) in your text.

2. Read/answer questions from handout.

3. Prep for quiz on this assignment (quiz tomorrow).

PJ#7-- Silk Road Merchant

1. Go to your next stop on your map.

2. For that place, please find 3 pictures showing any major geographical features (landmarks, landforms, etc). Paste/Label them in your PJ.

3. Find a historical building from that place (church, mosque, government building, palace, etc) and paste a picture of it in your PJ (label please).

4. Write a journal entry about your new stop. Do you like it? What do you like about it? why?

5. Write another entry in which you are in the historical building (sightseeing) when you happen to run into a merchant from the Silk Road in China. This merchant thinks that it is still around 500 CE. What do you tell him? What does he tell you? Describe the meeting and discussion.

NOTE: YOU ONLY NEED TO START THIS TONIGHT-- WE WILL WORK ON IT IN CLASS TOMORROW.

Quiz Postponed Until Monday

For those of you who see this tonight-- the quiz is postponed until Monday.

Tomorrow in class you will be studying for it with a revised Study Guide.

For Quizam

You should be comfortable with these items for the Quizam:

***

• Dates for all dynasties
• What each dynasty was known for (highlights)

Other items that will be tested (you will get notes tomorrow):
***

• Taoism
• Confucianism
• Legalism

Work on Poster if you Need to Only

Tonight's home work is only to work on the poster project if you NEED to. Some groups might, and others might not.


Posters MUST be finished by the end of tomorrow's class (total time=45 minutes).

Ancient China HW + Finish PJ

Please finish the PJ assignment due for tomorrow.

Please click on the link below. Explore and discover what's happening in Ancient China.

Write about 5 things you didn't already know about China. Also write about 5 things that you find very interesting about China. These should be different than the things you didn't know.

Ancient China Link

DUE: Tomorrow...there will be NO hw over the holiday. Happy Turkey Day!

PJ # 6- Meeting a Hindu/Buddhist traveler

You are at your first stop getting ready to move on to your next stop when you meet a Hindu or Buddhist traveler. Answer the following prompts within a narrative journal entry. You MAY use imagination, but this entry will be graded on how accurate you are in discussing the traveler and what you talk about.

a. Describe where you meet the traveler (cafe, library, historical landmark, mountain pass, etc)?
b. Make sure you state which religion they are...
c. Describe the conversation you have (which needs to include details about the religion-- your choice).

Be imaginative! You may talk as if it is the past (ancient-medieval world) or present (now), but you may not talk as if it is the future.

DUE: TUESDAY NOV. 21