Warm-ups are given to the students each day at the beginning of class. The students are expected to read the warm-up question on the board and then answer it in at least one paragraph. After approximately 10 minutes-15 minutes of writing, the question is discussed with the whole class. This discussion gives the students the opportunity to add to their answers if they so choose. At the end of the week, the warm-ups are turned in to the teacher for credit. The grade is determined by the number of questions answered and the quality of the answers. Students may make up or redo the questions for a better grade.

Week of 2/2

70. What is Freedom? Are we free? What makes us free? Explain.

71. What do you know about India?

72. Describe a Harappan city.

73. What are Vedas? How did they develop?



Week of 2/9

74. What are the differences between Harappan and Aryan societies?

75. Describe the climate of India. What are Monsoons?

76. How do friends influence the way you act? How do you influence others?



Week of 2/16

77. What is your favorite game? Why do you like it? What makes a good game?

78. What did the ancient Indian people learn from the Vedas? How are we similar?

79. (No question today due to anti-bully presentation.)



Week of 2/23

80. What is the Caste System?

81.What is Samsara? How does it work?

82. What are the Vedic Texts?

83. What are the principles of Jainism?



Week of 3/2

84. Why is education important? Are some schools better than others? Why or why not?

85.Is Ruby Bridges brave? What makes her brave? What gives her strength? Would you be able to endure what she does? Explain

86. What does the term "nonviolence" mean? how does it apply to ancient India? How does it apply today?

87. In what ways do you find inner peace? How do you deal with stress? How do you stop feeling bad and depressed?



Week of 3/9

88. What is the secret to happiness? How do you achieve it?

89. Describe the Buddha's early life. Why was he unhappy. Would you have been happy?

90. What events made Siddhartha become "the Buddha?

91. Explain Buddha's "Four Noble Truths."



Week of 3/16

92. Who was Asoka? What did he do?

93. Compare the Mauryan and the Gupta Empires

94. What were the Ancient Indian's achievements in medicine?

95. If you invited Buddha to dinneWeek of 3/16



Week of 3/23

96. What do you know about China?

97. Describe the geography of China.

98. What were the achievements of the Shang Dynasty? How do we know this?

99. What might you choose as a career? What are you doing now in order to achieve this goal?


Week of 3/30

100. How did the Zhou Dynasty rise? How did it fall?

101. Who was Cesar Chavez? What did he do?

102. What were Confucius' ideas about education?

103. What were Confucius' ideas about family?


Week of 4/13

104. Describe Legalism.

105. What did Shi Huang di do to unite China?.

106. What Chinese philosophy is closest t the USA's philosophy?

107. What would Confucius say about Legalism?


Week of 4/20

108. How should you handle Stress before a test?

109. Describe how the Qin emperor was able to take over other territories.

110. How will you do on the test? Explain.

111. What were the five chinese dynasties we have studied or will study? Describe them in one or two words.

112. What were some Chinese inventions during the Han dynasty?

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