AP World 10/14/09

The students took a set of current events and I collected the homework from last class. We also had a reading quiz on the previous nights reading and we took notes on Islam. The students recieved a rubric for the Continuity and Changes Over Time (CCOT) Essay. They also got a sample of a student that recieved an 8 out of 9. The students need to write their own CCOT essay about the silk road, this will be collected for a homework grade on Tuesday. Many students took home an additional textbook to help them with this. We do not have class this coming Friday because it is a half day of school, so the students have a little more reading than usual. The students need to read all of Chapter 7 Stearns before this coming Tuesday. The Students also need to be prepared to write a CCOT essay of the Arabian Pennisula from roughly 500 CE to roughly 800CE focusing specifically on the Umayyad and Abbisad. That essay will be given to them Tuesday for a quiz grade. The students can find the bulk of this info in Chapter 6 of Stearns, the begining of Chapter 7 of Stearns covers the fall of the Abbasid.