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1ST QUARTER
COURSE TITLE:
World History
Unit Title and Objectives
Unit: Geography
WEEK 1-2
CONTINUOUS-OBJECTIVE
Locate and describe geographic
places in the United States and the
world using absolute and relative
location
Unit: 1 Early Civilizations
WEEK 3-4 —OBJECTIVES
Describe the cultures of and identify
the contributions made to our world
by the Mesopotamia River Valley
civilizations
Unit: 1 Early Civilizations
WEEK 5-6—OBJECTIVES
Describe the cultures of and identify
the contributions made to our world
by the Egypt river valley civilizations.
Unit 1: Early Civilizations
WEEK 7-9—OBJECTIVES
Describe the cultures of and identify
the contributions made to our world
by the Ancient Israelites civilizations
GRADE:
List CLTs for Each Objective
Brief Description of
Formative Assessment(s)
End-of-Unit Benchmark or
Performance Assessment
This objective is taught as part of the
continuous process locating and
describing geographic places in the
United States and the world.
Instruction and assessments will be
varied and repeated throughout the
year.
Locate rivers, cities, and oceans using absolute
Or exact locations with longitude, latitude,
and the compass rose
Locate rivers, cities, and oceans, using relative
directions which refers to the position of a
place in relation to other places.
Explain information about the religion,
leaders, and the accomplishments of the
leaders in Ancient Mesopotamians
Identify languages and or writing discovered
and explain their contributions or inventions
of the Mesopotamia civilization
Explain the social history of the Mesopotamia
civilization
Students will create a flyer comparing
contributions of the ancient river civilizations.
Explain information about the religion,
leaders, and the accomplishments of the
leaders in Ancient Egypt
Identify their language and or writing
discovered and explain their contributions or
inventions of the early Egypt civilization
Explain the Social history of ancient Egypt
Create a fact sheet interpreting section
readings for Ancient Egypt
Explain information about the religion,
leaders, and the accomplishments of the
leaders of the First Israelites
Identify their language and/or writing
discovered
Explain their contributions or inventions of the
Early Israelites
Explain the Social History of the Early Israelites
7th
End of Unit Benchmark Assessment
Complete graphic organizers for important
information from the textbook.
End of Unit Benchmark Assessment
Design a poster displaying the Social history
for Ancient Egypt
Complete True/False quiz over the Ancient
Egypt civilization.
Create a story map from section reading of the
Early Israelites.
Create a newsletter explaining section
readings over Early Israelites.
End of Unit Benchmark Assessment
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2nd QUARTER
COURSE TITLE:
World History
Unit Title and Objectives
Unit: 2 The Ancient World
WEEK 10-11—OBJECTIVES
Describe the culture of and identify
the contributions made to the world
by the Ancient Greeks
Unit: 2 The Ancient World
WEEK 12-13—OBJECTIVES
Describe the culture of and identify
the contributions made to the world
by the Ancient India
Unit: 3 New Empires and New Faiths
WEEK 14-15—OBJECTIVES
Explain and demonstrate examples of
roman culture and the contributions
made to our world by the Romans
Unit 3: New Empires and New Faiths
WEEK S 16-18 —OBJECTIVES
Explain and demonstrate the Rise of
Christianity
GRADE:
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Brief Description of
Formative Assessment(s)
Explain information about the religion, the
leaders, and the accomplishments of the
leaders in Ancient Greeks
Identify the language and or writing
discovered by Ancient Greece
Identify contributions and inventions of the
Early Greeks
Explain the Social history of the Ancient
Greeks
Create a power point about the information
from section 1 information in the textbook
over ancient Greeks
Explain information about the religion, the
leaders, and the accomplishments of the
leaders in Ancient India.
Identify the contributions and inventions of
Ancient India.
Explain the Social history of Ancient India.
Complete section review questions for reading
in the textbook
Explain information about the religion, leaders
and accomplishments of Ancient Rome
Create a circle plot diagram for factual
information about Ancient Rome
Identify the language and or writing
discovered by Early Rome
Explain the social history of Early Rome
End-of-Unit Benchmark or
Performance Assessment
End of Unit Benchmark Assessment
Complete reading organizer from section
information in the textbook
End of Unit Benchmark Assessment
Complete a quiz over information in the
textbook
End of Unit Benchmark Assessment
Complete Brain pop quizzes over Ancient
Rome
Explain information about the religion, leaders
and accomplishments of the First Christians.
Identify the language and or writing invented
by the Early Christians.
Create a foldable organizing Christian beliefs
Explain the contributions and inventions by
the First Christians.
Complete section questions for reading in the
textbook
Explain the social history of Early Christians.
7th
Complete a graphic organizer showing the
reasons for the growth of Christianity
End of Unit Benchmark Assessment
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3rd QUARTER
COURSE TITLE:
World History
Unit Title and Objectives
Unit 4: The Middle Ages
WEEK 19-21—OBJECTIVES
Explain and demonstrate examples of
Early China culture and the
contributions made to our world by
early China
Unit: 4 The Middle Ages
WEEK 22-24—OBJECTIVES
Explain the feudal society of Japan
List CLTs for Each Objective
Explain information about religion leaders,
and the accomplishments of the leaders in
Ancient China
Identify the language and or writing
discovered by Ancient China
WEEK 25-27—OBJECTIVES
Discover and explain the medieval
feudal society of Europe
Brief Description of
Formative Assessment(s)
Create a free form map of Ancient China
7th
End-of-Unit Benchmark or
Performance Assessment
End of Unit Benchmark Assessment
Create a flyer using factual information for
Ancient China
Explain the contributions and or inventions by
Ancient China
Explain information about the religion,
leaders, and accomplishments in Medieval
Japan
Identify the language and or writing
discovered in Medieval Japan
Explain the social history of Medieval Japan
Unit: 4 The Middle Ages
GRADE:
Explain information about the religion,
leaders, and accomplishments in Medieval
Europe
Identify the language and or writing
discovered in Medieval Europe
Explain the social history of Medieval Europe
Create a web map of important factual
information
End of Unit Benchmark Assessment
Create a foldable for the different eras in
Japan history
Complete graphic organizers for textbook
reading
Create a foldable organizing data about
events in medieval Europe
Complete an exit slip comparing the feudal
system of Europe and Japan
End of Unit Benchmark Assessment
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4th QUARTER
COURSE TITLE:
World History
GRADE:
Unit Title and Objectives
List CLTs for Each Objective
Brief Description of
Formative Assessment(s)
Unit 5: A Changing World
Explain information about the religion,
leaders, and the accomplishments of the First
Americans.
Identify the language and or writing of the
First Americans
Create a scrapbook page for information over
Early Americans
WEEK 28-30—OBJECTIVES
Explain and demonstrate the culture
of the First Americans
Explain the Social history of the First
Americans
Unit 5: A Changing World
Explain the definitions of and describe key
terms for the Renaissance period
WEEK 31-33—OBJECTIVES
Identify the language and or writing
discovered during the Renaissance
Explain contributions or inventions of the
Renaissance period
Explain the Social history and influential
individuals of the Renaissance
Explain how the Renaissance began
and its impact on France, Germany,
Spain and England
Unit: 5 Enlightenment and
Revolution
Explain the age of exploration
WEEK 36-39—OBJECTIVES
Summarize the scientific revolution
Summarize how the voyages of
exploration and scientific discoveries
affected people in different parts of
the world
End-of-Unit Benchmark or
Performance Assessment
(Place after last objective in unit
that is assessed)
End of Unit Benchmark Assessment
Complete Brain pop quizzes for Early
Americans
Complete section questions in the textbook
for The First Americans
Create a document of the influential people of
the Renaissance period
End of Unit Benchmark Assessment
Complete Brain pop quizzes for the
Renaissance period
Create a newspaper column about the
voyages of exploration
Complete graphic organizers interpreting
information from textbook reading
Research explorers that were important to the
Age of exploration
Explain the enlightenment
7th
End of Unit Benchmark Assessment