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Friday, December 4, 2015

CPWC6-9 Day 60 - Rdg. Quiz & History of South Asia

Objective:  Identify unique cultural, historical, and geographic features of South Asia.

Task:  Good morning!  When you arrive to class, please get out your pencil and your note card in preparation for the reading quiz.  After you've finished the quiz, please work on your South Asia Investigation or watch "The Mughal Empire" (you must use headphones!).  Once everyone has finished the quiz, we'll continue our notes on the history of South Asia and begin our examination of Gandhi.

Homework:
  • TODAY - Unit 6 reading quiz
  • Monday, December 7 - South Asia Investigation due in class (links at CPWC Day 54 -AND- Schoology)
  • Friday, December 11 - Unit 6 test
For Further Consideration: 
 

The British East India Company (University of Air, 1965) 

  1. What were the main interests of the East India Company in the 18th and 19th centuries?
  2. Humanitarian motives are based on kindness and concern for others. What humanitarian motives came to influence the British government in its attitude to India?
  3. Give examples of ways in which contact with Indian society influenced the British.
  4. Why did the British become increasingly arrogant towards Indians?

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