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A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage

I first read A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage for fun (yes, fun). I love an old-fashioned dog-earred book with scribbling in the margins, but this 240-page book is available in multiple formats -- major bookstore, online booksellers, for the Kindle, IPad, and the Nook. I have also provided links below to free .pdf files and an audio book, though both formats are cumbersome.
This assignment will give you an overview of the time periods, regions, and cultural customs we cover in Honors and Advanced Placement World history.

Disclaimer: The use of this book as a summer reading assignment in no way represents any endorsement by Naples High School of the use or misuse of any of these beverages, alcoholic, caffeinated, or otherwise. The book merely offers an innovative and interesting perspective to initiate our year-long discussion of world history.

Video Files

Great credit goes to David Duez, AP World History teacher in Kingwood, Texas, for creating entertaining screencasts for each drink (Notes, too). Very impressive.

.PDF Files

.Pdf files have been removed at the request of the publisher. Obviously, other sites may still have them online.

Nothing to lose pdf free download. Entire book available.

Assignments on The History of the World in Six Glasses

Illustrated Journal: There are five key themes that emerge for each drink. Identify how each of these themes emerged for these six beverages. Present these five themes for each libation. Be as creative as you wish. (.pdf of assignment)

Five Themes:
1. Food and Nutrition
2. Medicine
3. Currency
4. Social Class and Status, and
5. How This Drink Led to Change.
Here is an example of how these themes might be specified for the first drink -- beer:
· Why was beer considered nutritious?
· How was it used as medicine?
· How did beer determine social class status?
· How was it used as money?
· How did beer change society?

Divide the journal into six sections – one for each drink -- and write/draw/collage/cartoon what you learned based on the five themes for each of these six beverages. Download app store for mac os x 10.5 8. This self-contained booklet with illustrations, quotes, your commentary and questions should be attractive, informative, reflective.

Below are some suggested topics you might want to write about for each glass.

How does the story of each glass open up your understanding of world history and trade?
How did it benefit and or hurt both producer and consumer?
What did you learn about geography and resources as you studied these different beverages in the different regions?
What did you learn about class and social structure as well as religion in studying beverages (and/or food)?
How do these new drinks become accepted in part through their supposed medicinal value?

Timeline: Create a timeline of history including each “glass/beverage.” Your timeline should include at least two regions of the world affected by your “glass/beverage” and five dates with facts for each “glass/beverage” for a total of at least thirty dates and facts on the timeline. It should be illustrated appropriately and dense with detail. (You may use Inspiration or Prezi.) (.pdf of assignment)

Study Questions OR Summaries: Chapter Questions.

Map Activity: You are going to create two dense/detailed maps, so be neat and tidy. Create a legend if you need to use symbols (highly recommended) for cities on the map. Use two maps —World Map for Chapters 5 and 6; Eurasia for all other chapters. (.pdf of assignment) Maps

Chapters 1-4: Eurasia

Use yellow to shade the entire area that was touched by the use of beer & wine according to these chapters
Label any geographical reference for these chapters in RED INK. Cities, regions (Fertile Crescent), rivers, mountains, deserts, plateaus, seas, oceans. If it is a region you are identifying, use red diagonal lines to denote the region.

Chapters 5-6: World

Use a pale green to shade the entire area touched by distilled spirits according to these chapters.
Label any geographical reference for these chapters in GREEN INK. Cities, regions, rivers, mountains, deserts, plateaus, seas, oceans. If it is a region you are identifying, use red diagonal lines to denote the region.
Notate overlapping cities, cities that were important during the previous period, on the back of your map.

Chapters 7-8: Eurasia

Use a pale blue to shade the entire area touched by coffee according to these areas.
Label any geographical reference for these chapters in BLUE INK. Cities, regions, rivers, mountains, deserts, plateaus, seas, oceans. If it is a region you are identifying, use red diagonal lines to denote the region.
Notate overlapping cities, cities that were important during the previous period, on the back of your map.

Chapters 9-10: Eurasia

Use a light brown to shade the entire area touched by tea according to these areas.
Label any geographical reference for these chapters in BLACK INK. Cities, regions, rivers, mountains, deserts, plateaus, seas, oceans. If it is a region you are identifying, use red diagonal lines to denote the region.
Notate overlapping cities, cities that were important during the previous period, on the back of your map.

Socratic Seminar

These questions do NOT need to be answered in writing. Bring your book and be prepared to discuss the following questions some time during the first two weeks:

What global processes are revealed by reading this book?
What do these beverages have in common (according to the narrative that Standage tells)?
What can one learn about religion and social structure in studying beverages (and/or food)?
Does the structure of the book work as a way of thinking about the history of the world? (Precedents: cities through time, commodities…)
How is the idea of “civilized” used in the book?
If you knew nothing about world history, could you read this book and get a global picture of world history through time?
Do you think this book has a universal point of view or is it culturally specific? (is there a “missing” voice?)