World History Unit 1: Farming and the Emergence of Complex Societies
History Standard 1.2b Investigate causes and effects of significant events in world history
History Standard 1.1a Evaluate a historical source for point of view and historical context
Week 1
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Tuesday 8/13
- Class syllabus/expectations - Brainstorm everything you know about the history of the world. - The World in Seven Minutes video - Assignment: bring back expectations sheet signed by you and your parent/guardian tomorrow Wednesday 8/14 Objective: Gain a basic understanding of how historians view history. Warm-up: Think about inventions, lifestyles and events that changed the course of history. Which one is the MOST important to civilization and why? Activities: 1. How to Think Like a Historian Presentation 2. Complete the Neolithic Revolution handout and venn diagram Thursday 8/15 Objective: Explore the time period before humans became civilized. Warm-up: Activities: View the "Big Era 2" slideshow and discuss as a class. |
Week 2
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Monday 8/19
Objective: Draw conclusions about the domestication of animals. Warm-up: Half of class answers question 1, the other half answers question 2. 1. List the advantages of keeping animals such as goats, sheep or cattle as domestic animals rather than hunting them. 2. List the disadvantages of keeping animals such as goats, sheep or cattle as domestic animals rather than hunting them. Activities: 1. Read "Was Farming a Good Idea?" and take notes on the advantages and disadvantages of the Agricultural Revolution. 2. With a partner, complete the Origins of Plants and Animals worksheet Tuesday 8/20 Objective: Identify the major characteristics of civilizations. Warm-up: List the components that comprise a civilization. Activities: Using the evidence packet Miss D gave you, complete the Evidence organizer. Wednesday 8/21 Objective: Identify the major characteristics of civilizations. Warm-up: List the components that comprise a civilization. Activities: 1. Cartoon work day. Thursday 8/22 Objective: Identify the major characteristics of civilizations. Warm-up: None Activities: 1. Finish cartoons for first 15 minutes. 2. Take notes on Civilization Powerpoint presentation using the organizer provided. |
Week 3
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Monday 8/26
Objective: Use primary and secondary sources to learn about ancient civilizations. Warm-up: None Activities: 1. Read "Why this unit?" as a class. Then complete Question 1, A-G using the slideshow. 2. Using this slideshow, complete question 2, A-H 3. Using the handout explaining the Olmecs, complete the worksheet. 4. Take notes in the civilization organizer on the Olmec civilization. Tuesday 8/27 Objective: Use primary and secondary sources to learn about ancient societies. Warm-up: What is a social class? What social classes exist in our culture? Activities: 1. In groups of three, divide up the civilizations and fill in the civilization organizer you received in class yesterday. 2. Go to this website and click on "Egyptian Life." 3. Create a venn diagram that compares the life of an Egyptian peasant to the life of a noble. Then click on the "Story" tab at the bottom to learn about peasant life. Use the "Explore" tab to learn about life as an Egyptian noble. Wednesday 8/28 Objective: Use primary and secondary sources to learn about ancient societies. Warm-up: To help understand society in the past, what are the advantages and disadvantages of written documentary evidence compared to physical evidence such as skeletons, art, building remains, tools, etc.? Activities: 1. Primary/secondary source overview. 2. Look at the primary source 1 and primary source 2. Pretend you are an archaeologist and this is the only information you have discovered about Egypt. Use this information to answer the questions given to you. 3. Closing activity: In what ways was your description of Egypt limited by the documents you read? Thursday 8/29 Objective: Explore the formation and growth of early cities. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. Stonehenge video guide. |
Week 4
Test on Thurs., 9/5 |
Tuesday 9/3
Objective: Explore the formation and growth of early cities. Warm-up: Once civilizations formed, do you think the population increased slowly or rapidly? What did this lead to? Explain your answer using three of the following terms: surplus production of food, social stratification, labor specialization, monumental structures, dominant religion, centralized government Activities: 1. Urbanization graph activity. 2. Read "The Historical Context" of the Indo-Med region as a class. Wednesday 9/4 Objective: Understand how natural resources have led to power shifts in ancient civilizations. Warm-up: How do you think the introduction of iron changed early cities? Activities: 1. Complete a cause and effect organizer for the Iron Age -OR- create a diagram depicting the changes brought about by iron. 2. Catch-up and study for test tomorrow. Thursday 9/5 Assessment on Unit 1: Farming and the Emergence of Complex Societies |
World History Unit 2: Expanding Networks of Exchange and Encounter
Week 5
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Monday 9/9
Objective: Explore an early civilization Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. Ancient Egypt documentary. Tuesday 9/10 Objective: Gain background information for Big Era 4. Warm-up: Why is trade so important? Activities: 1. Background presentation for Big Era 4. Wednesday 9/11 Objective: Gain background information for Big Era 4. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. Finish background presentation for Big Era 4. 2. Begin Assyrian/Phoenician questions using the reading given in class. Thursday 9/12 Objective: Explore early empires and how they interacted with other empires. Warm-up: Summarize how trade impacted the society you read about yesterday. Activities: 1. Complete Assyrian/Phoenician activity. 2. Compare information in your groups. 3. Go over tests. |
Week 6
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Monday 9/16
Objective: Explore early empires and how they interacted with other empires. Warm-up: Look at the lists of items found in tombs in ancient China and answer these questions. Activities: 1. Brainstorm a list of what an archeologist would find if they opened up a tomb from today in 1,000 years. Create a drawing of what a current tomb would look like. Tuesday 9/17 Objective: Explore early empires and how they interacted with other empires. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. You will be given a specific role of someone involved with the tomb. Based on your role, complete these questions. 2. With your group, come up with a story line involving all the roles you were given. Wednesday 9/18 Objective: Explore early empires and how they interacted with other empires. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. Finish and present story lines from yesterday. 2. As a class, read/act the short play, then answer these questions based on the play. Thursday 9/19 Objective: Explore early empires and how they interacted with other empires. Warm-up: Follow the instructions on this list of Confucius proverbs. Activities: 1. Complete Confucius discussion questions. 2. Write your own proverbs and display them on posters. |
Week 7
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Monday 9/23
Objective: Understand how empires interacted. Warm-up: None Activities: 1. Battle simulation Tuesday 9/24 Objective: Explore Southern Africa using three forms of evidence. Warm-up: Besides ancient Egypt, what do you know about the history of Africa? Activities: 1. Go over three different types of evidence as a class. 2. Complete evidence analysis of one handout. Wednesday 9/25 Objective: Explore Southern Africa using maps as evidence. Warm-up: Mapping the spread of iron-making. Activities: 1. Look at the maps of language and agriculture diffusion. Choose a point in Southern Africa. 2. Complete the questions about the location you chose based on the information you have. Thursday 9/26 Homecoming BBQ (no class). |
Week 8
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Monday 9/30
Objective: Explore Southern Africa by studying commerce. Warm-up: What can we learn about a country or culture by studying imports and exports? Activities: 1. Import and export activity. 2. Create a business from this time period. Create a poster that advertises your business to the public. Your poster must be appropriate to the era. Tuesday 10/1 Objective: Explore how empires interacted through trade. Warm-up: What global trade routes exist today? Activities: 1. Read Global Trade Route explanation. 2. Complete global mapping activity using this map. Wednesday 10/2 Objective: Explore how empires interacted through trade. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. Complete global mapping activity using this map. Thursday 10/3 Objective: Explore how empires interacted through trade. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. End of the unit activity. |
World History Unit 3: Origins of World Religions
History Standard 1.3a Discuss the historical development and impact of major world religions and philosophies.
Week 9
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Monday 10/7
Objective: Understand how religions are formed. Warm-up: How are religions formed? Activities: 1. Compare flood stories in a 3-circle venn diagram. Tuesday 10/8 Objective: Understand how religions are formed. Warm-up: Does everybody believe in the same things? Why or why not? Are there some things that everybody believes in?” Activities: 1. Create a class list of ideas everyone believes in. Discuss where these beliefs come from. (Belief systems are important because they help us understand the world around us, guide us on what is important, show us right from wrong, and lead us to behave properly and reasonably.) 2. Complete handout on the difference between religion and philosophy. Wednesday 10/9 Objective: Define terms that help study religion and philosophy. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. Complete vocabulary exercise. Thursday 10/10 Activities: 1. Engineering an Empire: China (no make-up work if absent). |
Week 10
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Monday 10/14
Objective: Compare different religions in ancient China. Warm-up: 1. Religions and philosophies can both shape a society and be shaped by it. What is an example of this? 2. Belief systems often try to provide answers to problems that exist within a society. What is an example of this? Activities: 1. Use the handout you are given in class to complete the worksheet on your religion or philosophy. 2. Form groups and share information to fill out the graphic organizer you were given in class. Tuesday 10/15 Objective: Compare different religions in ancient China. Warm-up: Of the three religions/philosophies you learned about yesterday, which one makes the most sense to you? Activities: 1. Complete "Saying of the Three Belief Systems of China" handout you were given in class. Wednesday 10/16 Objective: Compare different religions in ancient China. Warm-up: If you were the ruler of ancient China, which of the three religions you studied would you adopt for China and why? Activities: 1. Worksheet on Reunification of China Thursday 10/17 Objective: Compare different religions in ancient China. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. Complete Hindu deity activity. |
World History Unit 4: Greco-Roman Age
History Standard 1.2a Evaluate continuity and change over the course of world history.
Week 11
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Monday 10/21 and Tuesday 10/22
Objective: Explore Ancient Greece. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. Compete Ancient Greece webquest. Wednesday 10/23 Objective: Compare two different ways of organizing a society. Warm-up: Complete the Pericles reading questions. Activities: 1. Use the Athens v Sparta documents to complete the document guide. Thursday 10/24 Objective: Compare two different ways of organizing a society. Warm-up: Listen to the explanation of totalitarianism and democracy. Then, complete quote comparison. Activities: 1. Finish documents from yesterday and complete venn diagram on the back. 2. Using the T-chart on the back of your quote comparison, pretend you are a member of one city-state that may be going to war with the other city-state. Draft a letter to the other explaining how you think the war will unfold and why. Use specific examples from your documents and information about Athens and Sparta. |
Week 12
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Monday 10/28
Objective: Learn about this year's local election. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. Discuss school board and read candidate information sheets. 2. View candidate forum video. Take notes in the note-catcher. Tuesday 10/29 Objective: Understand how emperors maintain control over populations. Warm-up: What is an empire? Come up with your own definition, then compare it to the dictionary definition. Activities: 1. Read Cyrus and Ashoka and complete the handout. 2. Participate in mock election. Wednesday 10/30 Objective: Understand how empires interact. Warm-up: What connotation does the term "empire" have to you? Is it positive or negative? Activities: 1. Persian/Greek war video activity. Thursday 10/31 Objective: Understand how myths play a role in societies. Warm-up: Roman map warm-up. Activities: 1. Finish video notes from yesterday 2. Complete Romulus and Remus reading as a class and answer the questions. 3. Read Is Troy True and about the Battle of Thermopylae (if absent, you do not need to complete these readings) |
Week 13
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Monday 11/4
Objective: Understand factors that led to the rise and fall of the Roman empire. Warm-up: What three questions do you have about the Roman Empire? Activties: 1. Roman Republic notes. 2. Legacy of Rome. Tuesday 11/5 Objective: Understand factors that led to the rise and fall of the Roman empire. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. Complete the Legacy of Rome questions from yesterday. 2. Complete legions worksheet. 3. Begin research project on Greco-Romans Wednesday 11/6 Objective: Learn about how Greece and Rome influenced our country. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. Begin Greco-Roman research project in library. Thursday 11/7 No class. All-student assembly. |
Week 14
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Monday 11/11- Wednesday 11/13
Objective: Learn about how Greece and Rome influenced our country. Warm-up: None Activities: 1. Continue Greco-Roman research project in library. Due on Thursday, 11/14. Thursday 11/14 Objective: Learn about how Greece and Rome influenced our country. Warm-up: None Activities: 1. Gallery-style presentations. |
World History Unit 5: Interactions of Civilizations-Islam, Crusades, Dark Ages, Mongols
History Standard 1.2c Analyze the complexity of events in world history.
Week 15
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Monday 11/18
Objective: Learn how Christianity spread throughout the Roman empire. Warm-up: Read pages 98-99. Why were civil service exams important (what did they ensure)? Activities: 1. Read Ch. 3, Section 1. Answer questions 2-5 at the end of the section. 2. Read Ch. 3, Section 2. Answer questions 1, 2, 4, 5 at the end of the section. Tuesday 11/19 Objective: Learn how Islam contributed to civilization. Warm-up: What did Islamic societies contribute to civilization? Activities: 1. Finish book questions from yesterday. 2. Read Ch. 3, Section 3. Answer questions 1, 3, and 5. Wednesday 11/20 Objective: Learn about the foundations of Islam. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. Use the cartoon about the Origins of Islam to complete the questionnaire. Thursday 11/21 Objective: Explore ancient battles. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. History Channel: Ancients Behaving Badly |
Week 16
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Monday 12/2
Objective: Learn about the causes and effects of the Crusades. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. Take notes on the Crusades video. Tuesday 12/3 Objective: Learn about the causes and effects of the Crusades. Warm-up: Read pages 90-91 in World Geography. Review the 5 pillars of Islam as a class. Why is Islam often considered a "way of life," and not just a religion? Activities: 1. Crash Course: Islam Wednesday 12/4 No class, snow day!! Thursday 12/5 No class-Alive at 25 Assembly. |
Week 17
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Monday 12/9
Objective: Learn about the causes and effects of the Crusades. Warm-up: What questions do you have about Islam? Activities: 1. Crash Course: Crusades 2. Use "1,000 Years of Bad Memories" to answer questions about the Crusades. Tuesday 12/10 Objective: Explore how Genghis Khan was able to create the largest empire in world history. Warm-up: View Mongol trailer. According to this movie, what kind of leader and warrior was Khan? Activities: 1. Take notes on Big Era 5 2. Complete questions about the Crusades "1,000 Years of Bad Memories" article. Wednesday 12/11 Objective: Explore how Genghis Khan was able to create the largest empire in world history. Warm-up: View Mongol trailer. According to this movie, what kind of leader and warrior was Khan? Activities: 1. Mongol Introduction 2. Mongol documents and questions Thursday 12/12 Objective: Learn what the Mongol empire was like to live in. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. Complete documents from yesterday. 2. View History Crash Course: Mongols. |
Week 18
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Monday 12/16
Objective: Learn what the Mongol empire was like to live in. Warm-up: Click here. Activities: 1. Complete Mongol Documents 5 and 6. 2. Judging the Mongols- Use the Impacts of Mongols packets to record notes on your assigned topic. Tuesday 12/17 Objective: Determine if the Mongols were a positive or negative force in history. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. In groups, share information using the Impacts of Mongols packet. Wednesday 12/18 Objective: Determine if the Mongols were a positive or negative force in history. Warm-up: None. Activities: 1. Complete the back page of the packet from yesterday. 2. Complete written assessment #1 on the bottom of the last page. |