Wednesday, 1/24/18

Today in class, in small groups we did some paragraph writing practice and critiquing (see the Treaty of Tordesillas paragraph writing activity under Unit 6 tab). Then, we read the Zheng He piece and discussed why his trips were so remarkable, what motivated and enabled his travels, and why the travels stopped (get notes from a classmate if you weren't here).  Last, we made posters comparing and contrasting European and Chinese exploration and ended class with a stop-drop-and-write about why these differences may have existed from an historical perspective.  For Friday, there are notes, assertion and evidence writing, and notes quiz corrections (optional).