This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of June. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
HW 65 Due on Jupiter Monday 6/1
Read: Chapter 21 section 5
Task: Cornell Notes
This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of May. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
Optional Podcast:The Tale of False Dmitry
The false Dmitriy was actually one of three imposters claiming to be the son of Ivan the Terrible. So what made his story seem more believable to the Russian populace?
HW 64 Due on Jupiter Friday 5/29
Read: Chapter 21 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: The Affair of the Poisons
From hemlock to cyanide, poison has unfortunately played an integral part in many of history's great sagas, But in 17th-century France, the scandal over poisoning reached an unprecedented level.
Optional Podcast: Madame de Maintenon and Louis XIV
As the Sun King, Louis XIV ruled France for over 70 years. Yet even a king can't get everything he wants. Learn about Louis' secret marriage to Madame de Maintenon -- and why it was secret.
HW 63 Due on Jupiter Wednesday 5/27
Read: Chapter 21 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 62 Due on Jupiter Tuesday 5/26
Read: Chapter 21 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 61 Due on Jupiter Friday 5/22
Read: Chapter 20 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: The Amistad Mutiny
In 1839, Africans held captive by slavers revolted and ordered the Amistad's crew to return to Africa. However, the ship was captured in Long Island and the slaves were put on trial -- but that's not the end of the story.
HW 60 Due on Jupiter Wednesday 5/20
Read: Chapter 20 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: Zheng He and the Treasure Ships
Zheng He led expeditionary voyages from China in the 15th century. While there are many tall tales about his accomplishments, his actual life was pretty spectacular without them.
HW 59 Due on Jupiter Monday 5/18
Read: Chapter 20 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 58 Due on Jupiter Thursday 5/14
Read: Chapter 19 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 57 Due on Jupiter Monday 5/11
Read: Chapter 19 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment Question 3
HW 56 Due on Jupiter Thursday 5/7
Read: Chapter 18 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 55 Due on Jupiter Tuesday 5/5
Read: Chapter 18 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 54 Due on Jupiter Friday 5/1
Read: Chapter 18 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of April. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
HW 53 Due on Jupiter Thursday 4/23
Read: Chapter 17 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes Section Assessment questions 4-6
Optional Podcast: The Tudor State
In 1485 Henry Tudor slew Richard III and routed his army at The Battle of Bosworth Field. It was a decisive victory which founded a bold new dynasty; and this date like 1789 and 1066 has been taken by historians to be one of the great ‘year zeros’ of history: Suddenly the muddled Medieval World with its robber barons, feudal barbarism and bloody Wars of the Roses was banished, and the modern age of centralized government and King’s Justice was ushered in.
Optional Read: How Martin Luther Changed the World
Five hundred years after he started the Reformation, his ideas and his ornery personality remain as potent as ever.
HW 52 Due on Jupiter: Monday 4/20
Read: Chapter 17 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 51 Due on Jupiter: Tuesday 4/7
Read: Chapter 17 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 50 Due on Jupiter: Thursday 4/2
Task: Watch the documentary "The Aztecs: Engineering an Empire" and respond to the questions in the movie guide above.
This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of March. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
**Make up Test Due Date postponed to Monday 3/30/20***
For students who missed the test on the Middle Ages on Friday 3/13, please see the document above for your make up assignment.
HW 49 Due on Jupiter: Wednesday 3/25
Read: Chapter 16 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Read: Inca Child Sacrifice Victims Were Drugged
Three Inca mummies found near the lofty summit of Volcan Llullailaco in Argentina were so well preserved that they put a human face on the ancient ritual of capacocha- which ended with their sacrifice.
Optional Read: Lasers Reveal a Maya Civilization So Dense It Blew Experts’ Minds
They were hidden there, all this time, under the cover of tree canopies in the jungles of northern Guatemala: tens of thousands of structures built by the Maya over a millennium ago.
HW 48 Due on Jupiter: Monday 3/23
Read: Chapter 16 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 47 Due on Jupiter: Wednesday 3/18
Read: Chapter 15 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: Mansa Musa and the City of Gold
HW 46 Due : Monday 3/16 Postponed to Tuesday 3/17
Read: Chapter 15 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
Chapter 13 & 14: European Middle Ages Test on Friday 3/13 (Study Guide Extra Credit Due)
HW 45 Due : Wednesday 3/11
Read: Chapter 14 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: The Black Death
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the Black Death influenced the structure and ideas of Medieval Europe. In October 1347, a Genoese trading ship arrived at the busy port of Messina in Sicily and docked among many similar ships doing similar things. But this ship was special because this ship had rats and the rats had fleas and the fleas had plague. This was the Black Death and its terrible progress was captured by the Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio who declared “in those years a dead man was then of no more account than a dead goat”. In the long and unsanitary history of Europe there have been many plagues but only one Black Death.
HW 44 Due : Monday 3/9
Read: Chapter 14 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 43 Due : Friday 3/6
Read: Chapter 14 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 42 Due : Thursday 3/5
Task: Prepare notes for Socratic seminar from Crusades socratic reading above. Fill out the socratic prep worksheet above.
HW 41 Due : Monday 3/2
Read: Chapter 14 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Read: Historian uses lasers to unlock mysteries of Gothic cathedrals
A tech-savvy art historian uses lasers to understand how medieval builders constructed their architectural masterpieces.
Optional Video:Terry Jones "Medieval Lives" - The Knights
An examination of the medieval fighting social class and how its concept of chivalry was be far more flexible and less noble than is popularly supposed
This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of January/February. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
HW 40 Due : Thursday 2/27
Read: Chapter 13 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: Chivalry
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss chivalry, the moral code observed by knights of the Middle Ages. Chivalry originated in the military practices of aristocratic French and German soldiers, but developed into an elaborate system governing many different aspects of knightly behaviour. It influenced the conduct of medieval military campaigns and also had important religious and literary dimensions. It gave rise to the phenomenon of courtly love, the subject of much romance literature, as well as to the practice of heraldry. The remnants of the chivalric tradition linger in European culture even today.
HW 39 Due : Tuesday 2/25
Read: Chapter 13 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
Chapter 12: Empires in East Asia Test on Friday 2/14 (Study Guide Extra Credit Due)
HW 38 Due : Monday 2/10
Read: Chapter 12 section 5
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: Murasaki Shikibu and the Tale of Genji
HW 37 Due : Friday 2/7
Read: Chapter 12 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 3, 4, 5
Optional Podcast: The Samurai
Melvyn Bragg and guests Gregory Irvine, Nicola Liscutin and Angus Lockyer discuss the history of the Samurai and the role of their myth in Japanese national identity.
HW 36 Due : Wednesday 2/5
Read: Chapter 12 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 3 & 4
Optional Read: Genghis Khan's Secret Weapon Was Rain
Some 800 years ago, ancestors of modern Mongolians conquered the world on horseback. A period of unusually mild weather may have helped propel them by making them rich in livestock.
HW 35 Due : Monday 2/3
Read: Chapter 12 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 4 & 6
HW 34 Due : Thursday 1/30
Read: Chapter 12 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 4 & 6
HW 65 Due on Jupiter Monday 6/1
Read: Chapter 21 section 5
Task: Cornell Notes
This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of May. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
Optional Podcast:The Tale of False Dmitry
The false Dmitriy was actually one of three imposters claiming to be the son of Ivan the Terrible. So what made his story seem more believable to the Russian populace?
HW 64 Due on Jupiter Friday 5/29
Read: Chapter 21 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: The Affair of the Poisons
From hemlock to cyanide, poison has unfortunately played an integral part in many of history's great sagas, But in 17th-century France, the scandal over poisoning reached an unprecedented level.
Optional Podcast: Madame de Maintenon and Louis XIV
As the Sun King, Louis XIV ruled France for over 70 years. Yet even a king can't get everything he wants. Learn about Louis' secret marriage to Madame de Maintenon -- and why it was secret.
HW 63 Due on Jupiter Wednesday 5/27
Read: Chapter 21 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 62 Due on Jupiter Tuesday 5/26
Read: Chapter 21 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 61 Due on Jupiter Friday 5/22
Read: Chapter 20 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: The Amistad Mutiny
In 1839, Africans held captive by slavers revolted and ordered the Amistad's crew to return to Africa. However, the ship was captured in Long Island and the slaves were put on trial -- but that's not the end of the story.
HW 60 Due on Jupiter Wednesday 5/20
Read: Chapter 20 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: Zheng He and the Treasure Ships
Zheng He led expeditionary voyages from China in the 15th century. While there are many tall tales about his accomplishments, his actual life was pretty spectacular without them.
HW 59 Due on Jupiter Monday 5/18
Read: Chapter 20 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 58 Due on Jupiter Thursday 5/14
Read: Chapter 19 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 57 Due on Jupiter Monday 5/11
Read: Chapter 19 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment Question 3
HW 56 Due on Jupiter Thursday 5/7
Read: Chapter 18 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 55 Due on Jupiter Tuesday 5/5
Read: Chapter 18 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 54 Due on Jupiter Friday 5/1
Read: Chapter 18 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of April. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
HW 53 Due on Jupiter Thursday 4/23
Read: Chapter 17 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes Section Assessment questions 4-6
Optional Podcast: The Tudor State
In 1485 Henry Tudor slew Richard III and routed his army at The Battle of Bosworth Field. It was a decisive victory which founded a bold new dynasty; and this date like 1789 and 1066 has been taken by historians to be one of the great ‘year zeros’ of history: Suddenly the muddled Medieval World with its robber barons, feudal barbarism and bloody Wars of the Roses was banished, and the modern age of centralized government and King’s Justice was ushered in.
Optional Read: How Martin Luther Changed the World
Five hundred years after he started the Reformation, his ideas and his ornery personality remain as potent as ever.
HW 52 Due on Jupiter: Monday 4/20
Read: Chapter 17 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 51 Due on Jupiter: Tuesday 4/7
Read: Chapter 17 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 50 Due on Jupiter: Thursday 4/2
Task: Watch the documentary "The Aztecs: Engineering an Empire" and respond to the questions in the movie guide above.
This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of March. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
**Make up Test Due Date postponed to Monday 3/30/20***
For students who missed the test on the Middle Ages on Friday 3/13, please see the document above for your make up assignment.
HW 49 Due on Jupiter: Wednesday 3/25
Read: Chapter 16 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Read: Inca Child Sacrifice Victims Were Drugged
Three Inca mummies found near the lofty summit of Volcan Llullailaco in Argentina were so well preserved that they put a human face on the ancient ritual of capacocha- which ended with their sacrifice.
Optional Read: Lasers Reveal a Maya Civilization So Dense It Blew Experts’ Minds
They were hidden there, all this time, under the cover of tree canopies in the jungles of northern Guatemala: tens of thousands of structures built by the Maya over a millennium ago.
HW 48 Due on Jupiter: Monday 3/23
Read: Chapter 16 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 47 Due on Jupiter: Wednesday 3/18
Read: Chapter 15 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: Mansa Musa and the City of Gold
HW 46 Due : Monday 3/16 Postponed to Tuesday 3/17
Read: Chapter 15 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
Chapter 13 & 14: European Middle Ages Test on Friday 3/13 (Study Guide Extra Credit Due)
HW 45 Due : Wednesday 3/11
Read: Chapter 14 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: The Black Death
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the Black Death influenced the structure and ideas of Medieval Europe. In October 1347, a Genoese trading ship arrived at the busy port of Messina in Sicily and docked among many similar ships doing similar things. But this ship was special because this ship had rats and the rats had fleas and the fleas had plague. This was the Black Death and its terrible progress was captured by the Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio who declared “in those years a dead man was then of no more account than a dead goat”. In the long and unsanitary history of Europe there have been many plagues but only one Black Death.
HW 44 Due : Monday 3/9
Read: Chapter 14 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 43 Due : Friday 3/6
Read: Chapter 14 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
HW 42 Due : Thursday 3/5
Task: Prepare notes for Socratic seminar from Crusades socratic reading above. Fill out the socratic prep worksheet above.
HW 41 Due : Monday 3/2
Read: Chapter 14 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Read: Historian uses lasers to unlock mysteries of Gothic cathedrals
A tech-savvy art historian uses lasers to understand how medieval builders constructed their architectural masterpieces.
Optional Video:Terry Jones "Medieval Lives" - The Knights
An examination of the medieval fighting social class and how its concept of chivalry was be far more flexible and less noble than is popularly supposed
This assignment list covers all HW assignments for the month of January/February. Please make sure that you are paying attention to DUE dates as you read.
HW 40 Due : Thursday 2/27
Read: Chapter 13 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: Chivalry
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss chivalry, the moral code observed by knights of the Middle Ages. Chivalry originated in the military practices of aristocratic French and German soldiers, but developed into an elaborate system governing many different aspects of knightly behaviour. It influenced the conduct of medieval military campaigns and also had important religious and literary dimensions. It gave rise to the phenomenon of courtly love, the subject of much romance literature, as well as to the practice of heraldry. The remnants of the chivalric tradition linger in European culture even today.
HW 39 Due : Tuesday 2/25
Read: Chapter 13 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes
Chapter 12: Empires in East Asia Test on Friday 2/14 (Study Guide Extra Credit Due)
HW 38 Due : Monday 2/10
Read: Chapter 12 section 5
Task: Cornell Notes
Optional Podcast: Murasaki Shikibu and the Tale of Genji
HW 37 Due : Friday 2/7
Read: Chapter 12 section 4
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 3, 4, 5
Optional Podcast: The Samurai
Melvyn Bragg and guests Gregory Irvine, Nicola Liscutin and Angus Lockyer discuss the history of the Samurai and the role of their myth in Japanese national identity.
HW 36 Due : Wednesday 2/5
Read: Chapter 12 section 3
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 3 & 4
Optional Read: Genghis Khan's Secret Weapon Was Rain
Some 800 years ago, ancestors of modern Mongolians conquered the world on horseback. A period of unusually mild weather may have helped propel them by making them rich in livestock.
HW 35 Due : Monday 2/3
Read: Chapter 12 section 2
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 4 & 6
HW 34 Due : Thursday 1/30
Read: Chapter 12 section 1
Task: Cornell Notes + Section Assessment questions 4 & 6