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00:00 Introduction 

03:00 What has been the easiest content/topics/information to grasp for 1450-1750?

04:40 What has been the hardest content/topics/information to grasp for 1450-1750?

06:06 All Star Activities for the timeframe 1450-1750

• Speed Dating - Coming Soon, but versions available in APWH Group - Hopefully updated by Mid November
• Choice Boards (go to 17:53 and 19:20 for specifics)
• Autopsy of an Empire (Gunpowder Empires) - Versions available in APWH Group 

09:00 The process of using speed dating in APWH

10:24 Toast or Roast in speed dating

11:45 Grading Speed Dating and the “Anchor Chart”

13:55 Conquest of Americas Simulation - Choose your own adventure - Coming Soon - Hopefully updated by Mid November

• Literature on Cortes not being Quetzalcoatl - Camilla Townsend, "Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico," The American Historical Review, Volume 108, Issue 3, June 2003, Pages 659–687.
• Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Matthew Restall
• Socratic Seminar -Versions available in APWH Group 

17:53 Student Led vs. Teacher Led Activities and failure at times

19:20 The idea and implementation of the “Choice Board”

• Revolutions Choice Board - Coming Soon - Hopefully updated by Mid November

21:38  All Star DBQs, SAQs, LEQs that “punch above their weight” for this time frame

• DBQ 2006 - Global Flow of Silver
• DBQ Caribbean Smuggling - Mercantilism
• DBQ Christianity and changes in Latin America - Candomble, Syncretism
• SAQ  Matrix
• SAQ Spanish Requerimiento - Primary Source
• SAQ China CCOT Political non-stimulus
• SAQ Columbian Exchange and East India Company
• SAQ 2022 #3 - Columbian Exchange
• SAQ 2023 #3 - Spread of Islam

29:51 Using pre-2017 LEQs to outline to build students confidence

• LEQ 2007 Compare Contrast Sea vs. Land based Empires
• CCOT Personal Activity
• LEQ 2005 Change and Continuity Over Time Social and Economic Transformations of the Atlantic World and two others
• LEQ 2017 Labor Migration

36:00 The CCOT Personal Activity - From Bill Strickland -  Hopefully Versions available in APWH Group

• Red Hot Chili Peppers - California video - Coming Soon - Hopefully by Mid November

38:12 Verification from AP Summer Institute and the “Unicorn Point” and essay structure and “Make the Complex Simple” and the “Two for One”

• Essay outlining and framing for Freshmen and APWH - Coming Very Soon - Hopefully updated by Mid November

42:14 Teaching in Different Environments: How would you teach this unit differently at a school where 10% or 25% of the students were proficient in reading or writing according to state testing?

45:37 Thoughts on Textbooks for 1450-1750 CE and advantage of  teachers reading different examples

• Robert Strayer Ways of the World
• The World History Project OER
• AMSCO APWH - only as a supplementary resource.

49:21 APUSH and APEH connections and scaffolding of of yourself

50:40 Vertical Alignment

51:30 Activities for Teaching Freshmen World History

• The DBQ Project
  • Slavery and Sugar
  • Printing Press
  • Aztecs
• Debate: What should History Say about the Aztecs?
• History Alive TCI - The activity below was from a previous version from around 2003 from History Alive/TCI.  We recommend that you call them and/or order their current resources or samples.
  • Renaissance Art Analysis
• Relics and finger bone for Martin Luther

57:20 All Star Movies, Documentaries, Podcasts, Books for 1450-1750

• CNN Millennium - Official Site - Wikipedia Description of Episodes - Can be found on youtube
  • Century of the Sail
  • Compass
  • Telescope
• Jstor
• Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Matthew Restall
• The Mission (1986 - movie)
• Black in Latin America Brazil Episode (can be found on youtube)
  • Book by Henry Louis Gates
• Brazil in Black in White by Wide Angle (can be found on youtube)
  • Article by NPR on episode
• The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke  documentary series (can be found on youtube)
• https://www.abc-clio.com/
• Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• Tent of Miracles by Jorge Amado
• The Inca People of the Sun by Carmen Bernand
• Dan Carlin Hardcore History Podcast
  • Hardcore History 48 – Prophets of Doom
• NCSS article on Zheng He
  • Social Education March/April 2013 - Why Didn't China Discover the New World? By Scott Wolla
• National Geographic on Zheng He
• Cradle of Gold: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu by Christopher Heaney
• Peru: Tesoro Escondido Netflix
• Cuba Libre Netflix - Early Episodes
• History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage

1:09:16 Do you have any favorite historical/tourist sites or countries that you have visited that are relevant to this 1450-1750 CE?

• Expensive (Italy) vs. Cheap (Mexico DF) Versions
  • Mexico City (DF) Links Below
    • Templo Mayor Museum
    • Palacio Nacional
    • Hotel Isabel in Mexico DF
    • Turibus Hop On Hop Off Mexico City Tour
    • Teotihuacan Pyramids
• Guarani in Paraguay

01:15:57 Future travel goals 1450-1750 CE

• Babur and Gunpowder and Elephants to Jodha Akbar to the Taj Mahal

01:18:35 Recommended Tips for Other Teachers

• Mid Year Check in Point
• Where are you at in regards to pacing for the semester?

01:21:06  Tips for a First Year or a 5th year teacher for 1450-1750 CE

• Stepping Back at Times and Take Care of Yourself
• Variety of Assessments
• Outlining and Writing Essays and Efficiency

01:25:11 Ending with Positive Stories

• “Project” Students and Anxiety and Trusting the Process
• 1st Year vs. 2nd Year and Students “Quitting” on you

01:30:00  Outro and End of Episode