HW #13-2 Carbon Foot print calculator

Please calculate your carbon footprint in the world. In four to six sentences explain steps you can take to reduce your carbon footprint. 

Carbon Footprint Calculator
Carbon calculator

Aim: What are some Environmental Issues facing our world?

DO NOW: What is the Environment?

Global problems ppt

Project for Global 4 Marking Period DUE April 28th

Global History and Geography Regents Review – What you need to know (this is not a definitive list)

On the lined side of the index card, students will address the BLPT for each key term as follows:

Bottom Line: the most essential characteristics of the term

Place: the location most closely associated with the term

Time: a date or era associated with the term

Create a BLPT index card for each term. Be sure you define the term and its key significance.

1. Ancient Athens:Socrates, Plato, Aristotle; direct democracy2. Ancient Rome: development of law codes – 12 Tables, Justinian Code; Pax Romana
3. Middle Ages:barbarian invasions; Roman Catholic Church (preserver of learning and knowledge); serfs,lords, vassals, knights, chivalry;feudalism; manorialism – self sufficient Japan Feudalism/samurai/bushido
4. Crusades
5. Magna Carta
6. Renaissance
7. Reformation
8. Scientific Revolution
9. Commercial Revolution
10. Ages of Exploration
11. Colombian Exchange
12. Mercantilism
13. Absolutism
14. Glorious Revolution
15. English Bill of Rights
16. Enlightenment
17. French Revolution
18. Napoleon
19. Industrial Revolution
20. Laissez Faire, Capitalism
21. Socialism/Marxism
22. Imperialism
23. Nationalism
24. World War I
25. World War II/Holocaust
26. Cold War – Marshall Plan, NATO
27. European Union
28. Japan- mountainous, archipelago,  lack of natural resources
29. Confucianism filial piety; civil service exam
30. Tokugawa Shogunate – isolationism
31. Meiji Restoration
32. Hiroshima/Nagasaki
33. Constitutional Monarchy
34.Byzantium:Cyrillic language, Orthodoxy,dress, architecture
35.Mongols:Golden Horde, tribute system
36. Autocracy: czars
37. Peter the Great
38. Catherine the Great
39. Russian Revolution
40. Vladmir Lenin
41. NEP (New Economic Policy)
42. Joseph Stalin
43. Five Year Plans-Collectivization – kulaksGulag
44. Cold War:Truman Doctrine, containment, Berlin Airlift, Warsaw Pact,Berlin Wall
47. Mikhail Gorbachev: perestroika, glasnost, democratization
48.Chernobyl

49. China Huang Ho (Yellow) and Yangtze Rivers, Gobi Desert
50.Tibet -Buddhism, China,  Himalayas
51. Ethnocentrism

52. Chinese Dynasties: Mandate of Heaven Shang, Zhou, Chin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Yuan (Mongol),
Ming, Qing (Manchu)
53. Opium Wars –
54. Boxer Rebellion
55. Sun Yat Sen – Nationalists
56.Communist Revolution-
57.Great Leap Forward
58. Cultural Revolution
59. Deng Xiaoping
60. Four Modernizations
61.One-Child Policy-infanticide
62. Tiananmen Square

63.India-Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra Rivers. Monsoons
64. Hinduism-Caste system- reincarnation
65. Buddhism- reincarnation
66.Indian Empires-Mauyra Empire,Gupta Empire,Aryans Mughals
67. British Imperialism
68. Sepoy Rebellion
69. Mohandas Gandhi-Non-violent resistance- Salt March
70. Pakistan
71. Non-alignment
72. Kashmir
73.Africa Geography Nile River Valley Civilization . Sahara Desert, Sahal, Savanah
74.Bantu Migration
75. African Empires-Ghana Mali,Songhai,Gold-Salt Trade,Mansa-Musa,Timbuktu, Zimbabwe
76.Slavery-Middle Passage
77. Scramble for Africa
78.Berlin Conference
79. Tribalism/Ethnic conflict
80. Kwame Nkrumah-Jomo Kenyatta
81. Nelson Mandela -Apartheid, ANC
82. Famine (Ethiopia/Somalia)
83. African Genocides Rwanda/Burundi (Hutus v. Tutsi), Sudan (Darfur)
84. Desertification
85. AIDs
86. Middle East- Oil, Desert, Fundamentalism
87. Judaism (Torah)
88.Christianity (Bible)
89.Islam (Koran)
90.Mesopotamia-Gilgamesh, Fertile Crescent, Hammurabi
91.Ottoman Empire
92.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
93. Suez Canal
94. Zionism, Arab-Israeli Conflict
95. Persian Gulf Wars
96.Latin American Geography Andes Mountains, Amazon Rainforest
97.Latin American Empires -Mayas Aztecs, Incas
98. Spanish conquistadors God, Gold, Glory
99. Encomienda system
100. Spanish Colonial Society Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos, Mulattoes Latin American Revolutionaries-Toussaint L’Overture, Simon Bolivar, Miguel Hidalgo
101.Monroe Doctrine
102. Panama Canal
103.Fidel Castro
104. Global Warming
105. World hunger
106. Population growth
107. United Nations
108.Green Revolution

THEMATIC ESSAY QUESTION Theme: Nationalism

In developing your answer to Part II, be sure to keep these general definitions in mind:
(a) describe means “to illustrate something in words or tell about it”
(b) discuss means “to make observations about something using facts, reasoning, and
argument; to present in some detail”
Part II

THEMATIC ESSAY QUESTION
Directions: Write a well-organized essay that includes an introduction, several paragraphs addressing the task
below, and a conclusion.
Theme: Nationalism
Throughout history, nationalist movements have begun in different countries and
regions with the hope of achieving either unification or independence. The results
of these movements have been mixed.
Task:
Select one country or region and
• Describe the historical circumstances that led the people of this country or
region to begin a nationalist movement
• Describe a goal of the nationalist movement
• Discuss a method used to achieve this goal
• Discuss the results of this nationalist movement on this country or region
You may use any country or region from your study of global history. Some suggestions you
might wish to consider include Germany, Kenya, India, China, Latin America, the Balkans,
and the Middle East.
You are not limited to these suggestions.
Do not use a nationalist movement in the British North American colonies or
the United States in your response.
Guidelines:
In your essay, be sure to
• Develop all aspects of the task
• Support the theme with relevant facts, examples, and detail
• Use a logical and clear plan of organization, including an introduction and a conclusion that
are beyond a restatement of the theme

HW #12-2

Aim: Why are India and Pakistan fighting over Kashmir?

Do Now:
1. What do you know about the current conflict between India and Pakistan?
2. Why are there often disputes between countries that share borders?

Notebook file

Aim: How is imperialism depicted in movies?

Do Now:
1. What is imperialism?
2. Where did imperialism occur?
3. What happened to peoples who were victims of imperialism?
4. Can movies be historically accurate?

Notebook file

Aim: What events led to the ongoing conflict between Jews & Muslims?

Do Now: How would your life be different if you lived in a place that suffered from weekly terrorist attacks? 

 

Notebook file 

Conflict worksheet 

Aim: Why do Arabs and Israelis fight?OR Aim: Why did the world feel it was necessary to create a Jewish homeland?

In 1947 the United Nations proposed dividing the British mandate of Palestine into two states: a Jewish one and an Arab one. The Jews accepted the plan and in 1948 proclaimed the state of Israel, which was soon attacked by a coalition of Arabs. By the end of the war, Israel had taken much of the Arab land.


Do Now: 
1. Where is Palestine?
2. Where is Israel? 
3. What religion do the people in these countries practice?
4. Name five other Arab countries?  
5. Why is it important to have a nationality?

 Powerpoint file
Creation Worksheet 

Exam on Africa

Aim: How was the fight against Apartheid won? OR AIM: How did the policy of apartheid divide South Africa?

Do Now:
1. What is Apartheid?
2. Who were the Prawn?
3. Is it a racist term?
OR

Do Now: Is it better to live in a multi-cultural area, or one where there is just one culture?  Explain.

Notebook file
Powerpoint
MANDELA WORKSHEET 

HW #11-2 Arab - Israeli conflict due Monday the 11th

HW #10-2 The Creation of Israel due Friday the 8th

HW #9-2 Apartheid due the 6th