Transcript CCOT - Mrs. Bui's Extreme World History

CCOT
CHANGE AND CONTINUITY OVER TIME
Purpose:
 To evaluate your ability to analyze historical changes
and continuities that have shaped events, social,
political, economic developments in history and
ability to gauge your analysis of global processes.
 This is really a high level analysis of history.
Rubric
 Thesis that answers the question.
 Example: Analyze the political and social changes
and continuities of Northern Africa between 600CE
and 1450CE.
 What does your thesis need to include?
Changes:
 Must discuss, utilize concrete detail and analyze
changes that occurred relevant to the prompt and
correctly!
 If the prompt discusses command terms (social and
political) you need to focus on political and social
changes.
 If your prompt is more vague- you need to think of
aspects to base your analysis- use the PERSIAN
chart!
Continuities
 The prompt also asks you to address continuities,
generally these are patterns or cultural tendencies
that remain stagnant for years and years.
 Example: Think of role of women, religions,
philosophies or clash/conflict between the social
classes.
 You need to have concrete detail to back up your
continuity however.
IMPORTANT INFO
 IN order to completely get all credit for CCOT, you
need to address the starting point. In order to
analyze changes, you must discuss what it was like
before. However, pay attention to time period.
 Thus, given the prompt, your essay may require
starting point, transition, ending condition OR
 Starting POINT  Ending condition.
 Pre-Write is mandatory for this reason.
Paragraph
Construction
based on
PERSIAN/Com
mand
Analyze the political
and social changes and
continuities of
Northern Africa from
600-1450CE
 Intro- background + thesis
 Body One: POLITICAL
 Starting point- ending
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600: political system based on kinship ties, lack
of cnetralized government
700’s traders of Islam Empire (berbers, arabs)
led to kings converting, Richese form trade
allowed them to gain control of territory
Ghana
1100 Mali, Swahili City states
 Body Two: SOCIAL
 Starting to ending
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600: base don kinship ties, indigen. Religious
beliefs
700’s as kings convert bring islamic way of life
1100 Timbuktu as cultural center of Africa
CONTINUITY: majority of population kept
religious beliefs…
Starting
Point—Ending
point
construction
Analyze the political
and social changes and
continuities of
Northern Africa from
600-1450CE
 Intro
 Body One: Starting Point
 600’s What was africa like before
Islam came in
Politically
 Socially
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 Body Three: Ending
 Islam coming in
Politically formation of Ghana, Mali
 Socially- shari’a
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Paragraph Construction
 Intro: background Statement with date, intro for
reader. Thesis that answers in detail the question.
 BODY: will depend on prompt. You can choose to
format it two ways.
PERSIAN: Social paragraph in which you discuss the
social starting point, social changes and analyze OR….
 TIME: Starting point: In which you will address and
analyze the social, political and economic starting points.
Second body paragraph would then discuss social,
political and economic transition.
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Grading
 Thesis
 Changes and Continuities
 Use of key terms, vocab
 Use of concrete detail
 Use historical context to show change/continuity
over time
Prompt
 Analyze the social and economic transformations
that occurred in the Atlantic World as a result of new
contacts among Western Europe, Africa and
Americas from 1492-1750.
 Put this prompt into question form
 What is it asking you to do in terms of social
transformations? Economic.
 Finish your pre-write.