Generic Silk Road Bell Ringer

1. Generic Silk Road Bell Ringer • Get your DBQ folder from the front of the room. • Open your DBQ to the section we were last working on. • Make sure you are caught up with the rest of the class.

2. The Silk Road: Recording the Journey A DBQ for the fourth nine weeks.

3. 8 May 2012 – Bell Ringer • Get your DBQ folder from the front of the room. • Get a DBQ from the front table. Sit down and spend the next three minutes looking through it. • On the front of your DBQ here, answer these two questions: • How will this DBQ be the same as the others? • How will this DBQ be different than the others?

4. The Silk Road: Recording the Journey A DBQ road map for the fourth nine weeks.

5. AGENDA – time limit 4 days • Hook Exercise • Background Essay Quickthinks and Questions • Understanding the Task • Pre-Bucketing • Document A • Document B • Document C • Document D • Document E • Bucketing • Further Organizing of Your Journal • Outline Guide • Essay Writing We can do this!

6. Hook Exercise • It’s time to make believe you are a traveler on the Silk Road. • Putting yourself into the shoes of people who were actually there is an excellent way to adjust your thinking. • On page 397 of your DBQ, please make a fictitious persona by filling out all the blanks on the Profile Sheet. • Use the information on page 399 to help you. You may also use the textbook if you wish. • You have eight minutes to complete this task.

7. Time’s up! Would anyone like to share their creation?

8. I will make groups for you. • You will read the background essay together. The group leader (the person who is tallest while sitting down) will start by reading the first paragraph. • Everyone in the group will then share their first impression starting with the person to the left of the group leader. • Everyone will write one of those quickthinks in the margin of the DBQ next to the paragraph. Background Essay Quickthinks You will have about fifteen minutes for this activity.

9. Background EssayQuestions When you finish the quickthinks, answer the background essay questions and write the definitions using your best guesses.

10. Understanding the Task • When the question asks you to describe your task for this Mini-Q on page 405, I would like you to tell me what you think your final product will be. • In other words, what will you produce. • The class is one group. • Take the next five minutes to discuss what this DBQ is about as a class. • When the class has come to a common answer, write it down.

11. Time’s up! Who will share an answer? Stand up if you’d like to speak.

12. Pre-bucketing • How do you organize an essay with ‘buckets’? • When you write an essay, your ‘buckets’ are body paragraphs. • How do you organize a journal with ‘buckets’? • The class is one group. • Take the next two minutes to discuss what this DBQ is about as a class. • When the class has come to a common answer, write it down.

13. Time’s up! Who will share their ideas on pre-bucketing? Stand up if you’d like to speak.

14. Document AnalysisIf you want to use a special document analysis sheet, pick one up from the front table. It has space for eight documents! • Spend at least two minutes silently reading each document before you attempt the questions. -or- • Read and say something (Take turns reading out loud and say a quickthink that you do not have to read out loud). • There are three types of groups you can answer questions in: • Solo • Trio • Quintet • If you are working with others, I want you to answer the document questions Carousel style (after you answer a question, rotate papers, write the next answer on someone else’s paper).

15. Document A NotesThis information is from the teacher’s edition. You may use it how you like.Ignore “Writing Journal Entry #1” for now. • During ancient times, the Silk Road was just one of the many trade routes headed northwest across China across the Gobi Desert and then across the cast Kirghuz Steppe, which extended from Mongolia to the Carpathian Mountains in Eastern Europe. • The flat terrain of the Kirghiz Steppe made the Eurasian Steppe Route easier to traverse than the Silk Road. • However, the danger of raiding bandits and nomadic tribes reduced the traffic on this route. • Since silk was at the very heart of the Silk Road trade, it is fitting to say a word about the silk-making process: • First, the caterpillars feed on mulberry leaves for about five weeks. • The caterpillars then spin their cocoons. • After this, the cocoons are placed in hot water, which softens them and makes it possible to unravel the filaments. • Five to seven filaments are then joined to make a thread. • Later, the threads are woven into silk cloth. • The Silk Road divided into two routes west of Dunhuang. • Many other trade routes connected to the Silk Road. Because of this, goods were available from regions that were a long distance from the Silk Road. • For example, spices from India could be found in cities along the Silk Road.

16. Document B NotesThis information is from the teacher’s edition. You may use it how you like.Ignore “Writing Journal Entry #2” for now. • In the early 300s CE, a Buddhist monk saw a vision of many Buddhas shining on the cliffs near Dunhuang (“dun-wong”). • Inspired by this visionm the monks began to dig out caves in the cliffs to use as shrines. • Buddhist monks continued this practice for about 700 years, during which time about 500 caves were dug. • The monks placed clay statues of Buddhist deities in most of the caves and painted many of the walls with Buddhist images. • These honeycombed caves came to be called the Caves of Thousand Buddhas. • In 1900, a Taoist monk named Abbot Wang was poking around cave 16 which had been abandoned for about 1000 years. • He found a secret door that was filled with scrolls and paintings. • He found many Jewish, Buddhist, and Confucian texts as well as secular texts dealing with economy and social structure of the religion. • Artistic influences of the Silk Road were very multicultural with similar styles stretching from Greece to Japan.

17. Document C NotesThis information is from the teacher’s edition. You may use it how you like.Ignore “Writing Journal Entry #3” for now. • The Silk Road travels through two deserts side by side: the Gobi and the Taklimakan. • The Taklimakan Desert covers 125,000 square miles. Of the United States, only Alaska, Texas, and California are bigger than the Taklimakan. It is filled with many small hills and shifting sand dunes. • The Gobi desert is even bigger. It covers 500,000 square miles. There are about 250 countries in the world. 200 of them are smaller than the Gobi Desert. In the US, only Alaska and Texas are larger than the Gobi. Most of the soil is rocky. • Water was hard to find in the desert. Caravans like to travel in cold seasons so that they could carry blocks of ice (for water). • If a caravan was travelling during the warm seasons, most traveling would take place at night. Some caravan guides trained at nautical schools with sailors to learn to read the stars in the sky like a map.

18. Document D NotesThis information is from the teacher’s edition. You may use it how you like.Ignore “Writing Journal Entry #4” for now. • The Pamir Mountains form a rugged range where the Himalayan, Hindu Kush, Kunlun, and Tian Shan mountains meet. It is one of the highest mountain ranges in the world, with an average height more than 13,000 feet above sea level. • Many of the markets of Marakanda sold rugs, which were made by craftspeople in the surrounding areas. For example, some of the rugs came from the city of Khotan. These vividly colored rugs combined Chinese and Central Asian designs and often featured metallic thread. • The city of Samarkand (formerly Marakanda) remains a vibrant urban area in the nation of Uzbekistan. Its economy is based on cotton ginning, silk spinning, wine production, and fruit canning. • In this document, the Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang (“shwen-zang”) suggests that the region around the city has excellent climate and soil for growing crops. These favorable conditions remain true today. • Uzbekistan grows cotton, carrots, cucumbers, onions, melons, apricots, pears, grapes, and figs. However, irrigation has been reduced, since the practice has seriously depleted the main rivers.

19. Document E NotesThis information is from the teacher’s edition. You may use it how you like.Ignore “Writing Journal Entry #5” for now. • The Parthians came from a region southeast of the Caspian Sea. This land was conquered by the Persians around 520 BCE and by Alexander the Great around 330 BCE. The Parthians gained independence by 235 BCE and soon ruled a large empire that extended from western Central Asia in the east to the Euphrates River in the west. • The Parthian Empire rarely took the offensive in military matters, but often had to defend their domain from invaders, including Rome. • Around 224 CE, the Sassanians overthrew the Parthian Empire. • Antioch was a major city in the Roman Empire. Since the Silk Road ended at Antioch, the Chinese thought they had arrived at the Rome, the actual capital of Rome. • The caravans approached the city on a 30-foot wide, paved roadway that led into the huge gates of the city. Once inside the walls, the caravan travelled on a wide avenue lined with columns. • In some ways, the desire of silk caused the Roman empire to go bankrupt. The Roman historian Pliny estimated that silk and spices cost the empire 100 million sesterces per year. Two loaves of bread cost one sesterce.

20. Bucketing • At the bottom of the page 407, there is a paragraph I asked you to ignore. • Read the ‘Writing Journal Entry’ paragraph. • In or near the first bucket, write down what is happening at that time. For example, in Journal Entry #1, you are just about to leave on your Silk Road journey, so you might write ‘departure’ in the bucket. • This is an independent part of the DBQ. You will not need to work with anyone at this time. • Take the next five minutes to find what each journal entry will be about. Use this time to describe what each entry will be about in the buckets on page 417. • If you are done, stand up and silently look around the room to see who you were faster than.

21. Further Organization of Your Journal • Look at the ‘Writing Journal Entry’ paragraph again. It starts by asking you to label your journal entry. • On the line for entry #1 on page 417, copy that label. You will need it when you are writing your journal. • This is an independent part of the DBQ. You will not need to work with anyone at this time. • Use the next three minutes to copy the labels from each document page over to the bucketing page. • If you are done, stand up and silently look around the room to see who you were faster than.

22. Outline Guide (page 419) • The directions say you need to list three details from each document that will go into your journal entry. • Imagine you are the fictional person you created in the hook exercise looking at Document A. • What facts would you write that can be taken straight from the document? • This is an independent part of the DBQ. You will not need to work with anyone at this time. • For example: “We are leaving Japan to go to Hawaii so we can buy silk!” • This is not true, so if you copy it, you will not get points! • DO NOT TAKE DETAILS FROM THE “WRITING JOURNAL ENTRY #” PARAGRAPH. THAT IS NOT PART OF THE DOCUMENT! • You have three minutes until the rubric comes on the screen. Please try and find factual details for all five documents.

23. Journal Writing

24. ¡Buena suerte! がんばって! (Gambatte!) גליק!(Glik!) Good luck! Journal Writing Day – No Talking If you need assistance, raise your hand and wait for me to come to you. You may also come to the front table to scroll through this presentation for help on any part of the DBQ packet.

25. ¡Buena suerte! がんばって! (Gambatte!) גליק!(Glik!) Good luck!