WHAP (World History A.P.)

Summer Work, kind of…

7 Step Program for Initiation into the

WHAPsquad

Due on the August 19.

Yes…there will be a test.

Go to www.vlahakis.org to get a digital copy.

AP WORLD HISTORY SUMMER ASSIGNMENT

Hey future squad,

Welcome to AP World History! For your summer assignment, I am asking you to do a series of activities

that will assist in building your fundamental skills and knowledge of World History. These assignments

are intended to lay the foundation for the material that we will cover during the course of this school

year.

For some of you, this is your first AP class. Be mindful that an Advanced Placement class requires all

students to stay focused and to work hard. You should be prepared to spend four to six hours each

week reading and studying for this course. During the school year we will explore over 6,000 years of

human history and learn valuable skills in preparation for the AP exam in May 2020. This will be an

exciting class that will allow us to look at the big picture of history, trace cultures over time, and

examine human interactions.

The purpose of the summer assignment is to set the stage for the curriculum and introduce you to tools

you will be using during the year. We have much material to cover and by spending some time this

summer improving your social studies skills, it will help us to hit the ground running in August.

THIS ASSIGNMENT IS DUE ON Monday 8/19. Late assignments will receive a letter grade deduction

for every day late. It is important for you to demonstrate that you are capable of successfully

completing independent work in the time allotted. This will help to provide me with a clear picture of

your ability to handle a college-level course. You will receive two grades for this work. There will be a

grade for completing the packet and you will take an assessment on the material when you return.

I will be available to answer questions this summer. My school e-mail address is gvlahakis@rich227.org.

You may also start a “chat” with me via remind (see first assignment). Be patient. I am very busy during

the summer.

The class website is: www.vlahakis.org. It will be updated and ready for your use on the first day of

school. I am excited and looking forward to a great year!

All the best,

Mr. Vlahakis AP World History JV Scholastic Bowl Coach www.vlahakis.org

Step #1—Sign Up for Remind You MUST sign up. For extra credit, get your parent to sign up and/or get the remind app.

Step #1 —continued

Please sign up your parent or guardian. It will be good for them to know

what you’re doing in class.

Name of your guardian that signed up:_________________________

Relationship to you (e.g. Mom):_______________________________

EXTRA CREDIT:

1. After signing up for remind, download the “Remind App.”

2. Touch the “chat” button at the bottom of your cell screen.

3. Initiate a chat with Mr. Vlahakis (between 7am – 7pm)

4. Type me the message, “I want to pass AP World history and get a

3,4, or a 5 on the test. What must I do?”

5. Wait for my response and write it below.

Mr. Vlahakis’s Response:

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Step #2—Vlahakis’s Website

You will be visiting our class website on a weekly basis. If you are ever absent, need an extra

copy of an assignment, forgot what we did, or need access to class materials, you will find it on

our website. I am attempting to be as paperless as possible. Please complete the activity below.

1. Go to www.vlahakis.org

2. Click on “Honors World History”

3. You lost your phone and you cannot get Remind messages. Thankfully you

can access the remind feed on the left hand side of the page. What message

did I send to the class on 5/24/18?

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4. You were called to the counselor’s office on 3-22-18. You made it to slide

10 in the lecture but need to put the rest of the notes in your notebook. Open

up the PowerPoint from that day and find slide 11. What is the title of slide 11?

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5. What picture is on slide 19?_______________________________

6. You were absent on 4-27-18. You have to complete the “Chapter 11

questions” for the 6 glasses reading and you lost your worksheet. Click on the

electronic version of the worksheet. What is question number 3?

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7. Look at the top right hand corner of the page. You have to watch Crash

Courses 1-4 . Click on the “Crash Course” link. What is the title of Crash

Course #1?

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Step #3—A Night with John Green

We will regularly watch Crash Course World History with

John Green. Most of these viewings will take place

OUTSIDE of class, so that we can save time and work on

skills IN CLASS. Your assignment is to complete these

worksheets during/after watching episodes 1 through 4.

You can find these episodes www.vlahakis.org or you can

click to QR code at the top of the page.

Crash Course #1

Agricultural Revolution

Watch the episode. Feel free to pause so that you can write the answers down.

You may need to watch the episode twice. Answer these questions.

1. How do we have evidence of Hunter-Gatherers (H-G) and their lifeways? (New word that means “ways of life”, do not use “lifestyle”).

2. What do most early civilizations have in common?

3. What advantages did H-G have over early agriculturalists?

4. Where did agriculture emerge? Which food crops are associated with which areas?

5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of agriculture?

6. What impact does agriculture have on the environment?

7. What other lifeway emerged besides being a H-G or a farmer (agriculturalist)?

8. What were the advantages and disadvantages to Pastoralism (being a herder)?

9. Welcome to the MONGOLS! We love talking about the Mongols! We are…wait for it… _________________________________.

10. What advantages do you think that Eurasia had with its zoological set of animals compared to the Americas?

11. Evaluate John Green’s thesis that “the greatest evolutionary advantage an animal species can have is being useful to humans.” Agree/disagree, why?

12. If H-G had a “better and healthier” lifeway, why did people become agriculturalists?

13. What point do you think John Green is making about the use of the word “savage”? How might this also apply to concepts of being “civilized” or “uncivilized”?

14. What do historians say are the drawbacks to complex civilizations and agriculture?

15. What other impacts do complex civilizations have on the environment?

16. What does John Green say about “revolutions”?

17. What does DFTBA mean?

Crash Course #2

Crash Course World History

Title of Video: _____________________________________________________

List three significant proper names and identify them in context (e.g. People, Places, etc.):

1.

2.

3.

List five significant terms or concepts and define them in context, BRIEFLY:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Identify two points of humor used in the video and briefly explain them (e.g. Puns, Jokes,

Riddles, One-Liners, etc.):

1.

2.

Who is the open letter addressed to? Briefly explain.

What is in the secret compartment? Briefly explain.

Write three thought provoking discussion questions in the context of the video’s content.

1.

2.

3.

Crash Course #3

Mesopotamia

1. John Green begins by discussing one of the most obvious consequences of

agriculture…what is it and what are the most immediate consequences for

those societies?

2. Grade 9 Humanities Question- Gilgamesh…Rural vs. Urban: explain

what John Green is talking about?

3. Historically speaking, why do you think cities tend to win? But did cities

always win? Explain.

4. Why do you think early cities devoted resources to building monumental

architecture, like ziggurats?

5. How does Mesopotamia compare with the Indus River Valley (IRV)?

Identify both similarities and differences. Think of why a specific similarity and

a specific difference might exist. (This is analysis; one of the more challenging

skills you will need to develop).

6. How might the environment of Mesopotamia influence or shape people’s

perceptions of their gods?

7. What is the significance of the emergence of palaces? How did kings gain

power over priests? How did they keep it?

8. CUNIEFORM: What three points does John Green make about the advent

of writing?

a)

b)

c)

9. How did the environment of Mesopotamia shape the economy of the

society?

10. What factors led to the downfall of the Mesopotamian city-states and to

what effect? (A causes and effects question)

11. MONGOLS! The Mongols are the exception to what general rule?

12. What was Hammurabi’s most significant contribution?

13. Compare new city-states with the old city-states of Mesopotamia. Identify

3 specific similarities and 3 specific differences. State a reason for at least one

similarity and one difference.

14. Who provided the basis for the development of territorial kingdoms?

How? Why does this “base” prove to be unsteady?

15. What legacy did the Assyrians leave?

16. What are the challenges of empire what is the usual result? Or to put it in

math terms:

______________ + ________________ = ______________________

17. How did Assyrian kings attempt to legitimize their rule?

Crash Course #4

Crash Course World History

Title of Video: _____________________________________________________

List three significant proper names and identify them in context (e.g. People, Places, etc.):

1.

2.

3.

List five significant terms or concepts and define them in context, BRIEFLY:

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Identify two points of humor used in the video and briefly explain them (e.g. Puns, Jokes,

Riddles, One-Liners, etc.):

1.

2.

Who is the open letter addressed to? Briefly explain.

What is in the secret compartment? Briefly explain.

Write three thought provoking discussion questions in the context of the video’s content.

1.

2.

3.

Step #4—Map skills For this course you must MEMORIZE the regions according AP World History. Please label the

map below and identify 2 modern countries and 2 historical Empires in each

region. You may need to “google” a political map. I did #12 for you.

Use the QR code to see the world regions and label them on the map below:

NAME OF REGION 3 modern countries in that region

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12 North America Canada, United States, Greenland (I’m happy to help you)

Step #5—6 Glasses Reading

From beer to Coca-Cola, the six drinks that have helped shape human history

Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As

Tom Standage relates with authority and charm, six of them have had a surprisingly pervasive

influence on the course of history, becoming the defining drink during a pivotal historical

period.

A History of the World in 6 Glasses tells the story of humanity from the Stone Age to the 21st

century through the lens of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and cola. Beer was first made in the

Fertile Crescent and by 3000 B.C.E. was so important to Mesopotamia and Egypt that it was

used to pay wages. In ancient Greece wine became the main export of her vast seaborne trade,

helping spread Greek culture abroad. Spirits such as brandy and rum fueled the Age of

Exploration, fortifying seamen on long voyages and oiling the pernicious slave trade. Although

coffee originated in the Arab world, it stoked revolutionary thought in Europe during the Age of

Reason, when coffeehouses became centers of intellectual exchange. And hundreds of years

after the Chinese began drinking tea, it became especially popular in Britain, with far-reaching

effects on British foreign policy. Finally, though carbonated drinks were invented in 18th-

century Europe they became a 20th-century phenomenon, and Coca-Cola in particular is the

leading symbol of globalization.

For Tom Standage, each drink is a kind of technology, a catalyst for advancing culture by which

he demonstrates the intricate interplay of different civilizations. You may never look at your

favorite drink the same way again.

IN CASE YOU WANT TO READ IT ON YOUR TABLET OR PHONE

Read the first two chapters and answer the questions. There will be a discussion and a test on

this material when you return. Please SUBSEARCH (annotate) your reading.

“A History of the World in 6 Glasses”

Chapter Reading Notes

Chapter 1 1. The Agricultural Revolution led to what changes?

2. What are cereal grains and what food and drink was produced from them?

3. What archeological evidence is there to support the harvesting, transporting, storing, and

processing

4. Explain 2 discoveries early farmers made about cereal grains?

5. Bread was solid _________, and beer was liquid _________.

6. Ancient civilizations believed that beer was a gift from who? Therefore how should one be

thankful?

7. Food surpluses created by better farming, allowed what to emerge?

8. What 3 reasons are given for the switch to farming?

9. Why would beer be safer to drink than water?

10. Explain how storehouses and temples became intertwined.

Chapter 2

1. The “Land between 2 rivers” is what? What are the rivers?

2. Surplus grain allowed the possibility of what things?

3. What was the basis of the local diet of Egypt & Mesopotamia?

4. Why is Sumer important to the history of mankind?

5. How did food & drink play a part in Ancient religions?

6. How did writing help the Sumerian society?

7. Our modern Latin alphabet can be traced back to what 2 ancient civilizations?

8. Why was wheat in its 2 forms important to Mesopotamia and Egypt?

9. What are some ways beer was used as a medicine?

10.How was beer used in Egyptian burials?

Primary Resources v. Secondary Resources: Read the information below and then

complete the accompanying chart.

A Preliminary Guide The materials, evidence, or data used in your research and study of world history are known as sources.

As foundations of your research, these sources of information are typically classified into two broad

categories: primary and secondary.

Primary Sources A primary source provides direct or firsthand evidence about an event, object, person or work of art.

Characteristically, primary sources are contemporary to the events and people described and show

minimal or no mediation between the document/artifact and its creator. As to the format, primary source

materials can be written and non-written, the latter including sound, picture, and artifact. Examples of

primary sources include: • personal correspondence and diaries • works of art and literature • speeches and oral histories • audio and video recordings • photographs and posters • newspaper ads and stories • laws and legislative hearings • census or demographic records • plant and animal specimens • coins and tools

Secondary Sources A secondary source, in contrast, lacks the immediacy of a primary record. As materials produced

sometime after an event happened, they contain information that has been interpreted, commented,

analyzed or processed in such a way that it no longer conveys the freshness of the original. History

textbooks, dictionaries, encyclopedias, interpretive journal articles, and book reviews are all examples of

secondary sources. Secondary sources are often based on primary sources.

Step #6 - Sources

Here’s the Activity…

Directions: For each of the examples below, mark “P” if the source is primary or “S” if the source is secondary.

1._____ A diary titled “Life in the Mines” from a miner named Lucky Noah who lived in Idaho in the 1870s

2._____ A magazine article from 2011 titled “Mining in the Old West in the 1860’s to the 1890s

3._____ A chapter in your world history textbook about the Ancient Greeks

4._____ An original photograph from the 1941 attack at Pearl Harbor that you found in your grandparents’ photo album

5._____ An original World War I uniform worn by your great grandfather

6._____An encyclopedia entry on the Vietnam War

7._____ The diary of Anne Frank (a young girl who lived in hiding during the Holocaust)

8._____ Sheet music that was used to play military tunes during the Revolutionary War.

9._____A web site that summarizes Ancient Roman mythology

10.____ A map of China created during ancient times

11.____ An ancient tablet of Babylonian King Hammurabi’s Code of Laws

12.____ Pictures taken by your Aunt Bertha of the World Trade Center attack

13.____ A newspaper article outlining the effect of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

14.____ A manuscript of Barack Obama’s first speech as President

15.____ An ancient Egyptian mummy you saw at a museum

Name:__________________________

If you want credit for step #7, use remind to

text Mr. V and let him know that you are done. Write his response

right here: ____________________________________________

WHAPsquad Summer Work Checklist

_____ Step 1 – Remind 10 pts

_____ Step 2 – Website 10 pts

_____ Step 3 – John Green 40 pts

_____ Step 4 – Map 10 pts

_____ Step 5 – 6 Glasses 50 pts

_____ Step 6 – Sources 10 pts

_____ Step 7 – List/text V 10 pts

/140 pts

Tear this page off and staple it to the front.

Step #7 – Making a list,

checking it twice