Author Archives: Jared Maynard
10/20/15 Catholic Reformation
Today we used chapters 17.3 and 17.4 to compare the Lutheran and Catholic Reformations. Here is the organizer we used: Comparing Catholic Church pre and post reformation
10/19/15 Calvinism in the Renaissance
Today we learned about Calvinism and his idea of predestination. Here are the questions you should be looking at to finish (pick 2) -What do you think of Clavin’s idea of Predestination? If you don’t agree with it explain why. -How do you think the idea of “free will” fits in Calvin’s idea? -Many … Continue reading
10/15/15 Northern Renaissance and Martin Luther
Today we finished the video from yesterday. We started looking at the Northern Renaissance here (Northern Renaissance Reading assignment, whatever is not done is homework) and for homework on your nice break from class tomorrow is to figure out Martin Luther’s main themes by making tweets! Luther Tweets
10/14/15 Beginnings of the Renaissance
Today we watched about 38 minutes of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FFDJK8jmms and used this document (Birth of a Dynasty notes) to figure out how this all started in Italy.
10/13/15 The main aspects of the Renaissance
Today we used this to help us analyze the main aspects of the Renaissance. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zEIy8Bcb0Q6mTv_h6fZtPtbWpuRNgkUiT5N3DVkN4Uo/edit
10/12/15 Renaissance Guided Tour
Today we went over the test and then did a guided tour of chapter 17 in our textbook: Chapter-17-Guided-Tour (1)
Presentations
We’ve been doing some presentations. Here are a few you can look at to study from: CHINA’S EMPIRE untitled-prezi-5613fef7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GB2IKa-dro&feature=youtu.be
10/2/15 Last day of group work.
Monday the presentations are going to start! Here is the rubric: World History Empire Presentation Rubric Unit 2
9/29/15 Getting started with the Gunpowder Empires
Today we used this document (Intro to Gunpowder Civilizations) to brainstorm what we need to know about empires in order to compare them. Then we watched this video https://www.history.com/shows/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us/videos/mankind-the-story-of-all-of-us-gunpowder-to-guns to figure out what these empires were all about and then we analyzed 4 maps to see how the main 5 gunpowder empires changed: Gunpowder Empires with maps (in … Continue reading
9/28/15 Getting started with unit 2
Today we went over the test. Afterwards we figured out what we are going to be doing the next couple weeks and tried to pick groups to work with on a group project. Here are the expectations: Unit 2 expectations