Comparative Essay - Day 2
Aim: How do you maximize the available number of points necessary for score of 9?
Do Now: What are the main categories historians generally put historic events into?
Lesson Overview:
| Item | Approx Time |
| Do Now | 3-5 Min |
| Mini Lesson | 15-20 Min |
| Activity | 15 Min |
| Discussion | 5-7 Min |
Classification Categories
POLITICAL
- Political Centralization
- Bureaucracy
- Ideology
- Political Participation
- State control over economy and society
- Succession (how leadership is passed on)
- Loyalty
- Specific Individuals
- Texts or Documents
- Capitals
- Relationship to Religious thought
- Military
ECONOMIC
- Agriculture
- Merchants
- Role of manufacturing in economy
- Labor systems including gender roles
- Technology
- Internal and international trade
- Items traded
SOCIAL
- Social structure
- Social mobility
- Relations between social classes
- Leisure and recreation
- Family
- Urbanization
- Population Density
- Women’s Roles, including texts that portray women
- Interactions Between Societies and what brought them together
RELIGION
- Beliefs
- Religious Leaders
- Spread of religion and by what means
- Texts
- Relationship to government, if any
INTELLECTUAL
- Art and Music
- Architecture
- Religion
- Philosophy
- Art and music
- Literature
TECHNOLOGICAL
- Tools that improved agricultural production
- Transportation systems, including land and sea
- Communication systems
- Military technologies
Classwork & Homework
Lesson Activity:
Homework: Assignments 2012