Opener: Relax | You Do Not Have School Today 

• • We are celebrating Labor Day.

Lesson: Understand The Holiday | Labor Day

• • If you would like to learn more about Labor Day, I have provided a link to the U.S. Department of Labor's summary of the history of Labor Day.  🔗 

Closing: Celebration | Labor Day

• • On June 28, 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed a law making the first Monday in September of each year a national holiday.

  • Knowing that you get today off due to Grover Cleveland, consider your favorite thing about Cleveland.  It does not have to be the president, you could also be thankful for Cleveland, Ohio.

Opener: Great Race | East Asia

• Complete the Great Race together as a class - each group has to contribute

Lesson: China and the World

• I. Notes: China and the World

• II. (Extension) Preserving the Past | Seven Wonders of the World

• Most of the original wonders of the world have been destroyed.  Humans gonna human.  In 2001, Bernard Weber, a Canadian film-maker, decided to have a public poll to vote on new wonders.   🔗 

• Choose your favorite Wonder of the World and explain why it should be better protected from destruction that the other six wonders.  Here are your choices:

  • Petra, Jordan   |    Taj Mahal, India   |   Great Wall of China, China   |   Machu Picchu, Peru   |   Cristo Redentor, Brazil   |   Colosseum, Italy   |   Chichen Itza, Mexico

Closing:  Cultural Comparison | Modern Body Modification 

• There are many different forms of body modification throughout the globe today.  These include nose piercing in India, neck elongation in Thailand and Africa, tooth filing in Bali, and circumcision in a variety of areas around the world. 🔗

  • Why do you think foot-binding was outlawed in China c. 1912 C.E., when other forms of body modification persist today?

Opener: Short Answer Question Practice| 2017 SAQ

• Chinese General Meets Uighur Nomads 📜 

  • a) Identify and explain ONE way in which the interaction depicted in the image represents a continuity in Chinese imperial history. 

  • b) Identify and explain ANOTHER way in which the interaction depicted in the image represents a continuity in Chinese imperial history.

  • c) Identify and explain ONE way in which the interaction between imperial China and Central Asian nomads changed after 1100 C.E.

Lesson: Cultural Diffusion in Asia

• I. Notes: Cultural Diffusion in Asia

Closing: Agree or Disagree? | Buddhism: The Source of Suffering

• Suffering comes in many forms. Three obvious kinds of suffering correspond to the first three sights the Buddha saw on his first journey outside his palace: old age, sickness and death.

• But according to the Buddha, the problem of suffering goes much deeper. Life is not ideal: it frequently fails to live up to our expectations.  Human beings are subject to desires and cravings, but even when we are able to satisfy these desires, the satisfaction is only temporary. Pleasure does not last; or if it does, it becomes monotonous.  Even when we are not suffering from outward causes like illness or bereavement, we are unfulfilled, unsatisfied. This is the truth of suffering.  🔗       

-"The Four Noble Truths," BBC Culture, 2017-

• Do you agree or disagree with this assessment of the human condition espoused in the Buddhist believe system?  Explain.  

Opener: Vocabulary Quiz | China and the World

• • Take the vocabulary quiz in Schoology.  You will have five minutes once you begin the quiz.  

Lesson: The Thematic Chart

• Complete the thematic chart as a class, with each student copying their own chart for sake of studying tonight.  

Closing:  Check Student Work | The Thematic Chart

• I will go around and check to make sure your chart matches the one we created on the board.  You will lose points based on how fewer details you have compared to the class chart.

Opener: Prepare | Study for 10 minutes

• • Review your notes, practice writing questions, document analysis, and relevant worksheets

Test: Weeks 2 and 3 | Commerce, Culture, and China and the World

• • 20 selected response questions worth two points each

  • 1 modified written response (e.g. write a long essay as a short essay) worth ten points

Closing: Foreshadowing | The Worlds of Islam

• • Next week we will be studying China and the World, c. 600 to 1450 CE.  Tell me three things you know about the Islamic faith and the expansion of its empire(s) before the year 1451.