This site has an excellent virtual and interactive view of this most famous Chinese painting.
Some of you may be getting comfortable with this class and may even want to do some reading on your own. This is what AP students who score 4s and 5s do. Below is an incomplete list of titles that you may find interesting - some fiction, some non-fiction.
1421: The Year China Discovered America - Menzies, Gavin 1661: The World in Motion - Christensen, Thomas The Adventures of Ibn Battuta - Dunn, Ross E. All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque, Erich Marie The Bonesetter’s Daughter - Tan, Amy Brunelleschi’s Dome - King, Ross Dr. Zhivago - Pasternak, Boris Feast of Roses - Sundaresan, Indu Germainal - Zola, Emile Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Weatherford, Jack Guns, Germs, and Steel - Diamond, Jared In the Garden of Beasts - Larson, Erik Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit - Quinn, Daniel King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa - Hochschild, Adam Nectar in a Sieve - Markandaya, Kamala The Prince - Machiavelli, Niccolo Red Azalea - Min, Anchee Salt: A World History - Kurlansky, Mark Thing Fall Apart - Achebe, Chinua A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Manchester, William The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400 to present - Pomeranz, Kenneth and Steven Topik |
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