EQ paragraphs are due today. We began our new unit, "Modern Europe." We added a few notes to our Mental Map Timeline handout and set up our new CQ and EQ pages. (The current EQ is "What is significant about the age of the European Renaissance, Reformation, and Exploration?) We then began adding notes to our EQ and CQ pages (with regard to the source of the Renaissance and additional causes of the "West versus East" divide while viewing part II -- "The Awakening" (52 minutes) of the PBS documentary "Islam: Empire of Faith." (We'll finish the DVD segment in class tomorrow.)