Course Syllabus
Unit 1: The Rights of Man: The Enlightenment,
American, French, and Latin American
Revolutions
Chapters: 18, 19, and 21
SC standard: GS3.2 3.3,4.3
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Week 1 Aug 22-24
Introduction to the course, Unit 1 Vocabulary, Intro to American
Revolution, TGIF 50 United States
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Week 2 Aug 27-31
American and French Revolutions Vocabulary Quiz
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Week 3 Sep 4-7
Finish Revolutions 50 States Map Quiz, Unit Test
Unit 2: Let the Wheels of Progress Turn: The
Industrial Age
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Week 4 Sep 10-14
Chapters: 20, 22, 25
SC standard: GS-4.4
Life in the Industrial Age, Begin Industrial Revolution DBQ
Introduction to the DBQ,
First DBQ Comparing
Materials Provided
Female Mill Workers in Britain and Japan
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Week 5 Sept 17-21
Unit 2 Vocabulary Quiz Document Analysis, Rough Draft of Essay
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Week 6 Sept 24-28
Complete DBQ, Theories of Industrial Revolution Unit Test, Begin
Unit 3, TGIF Asia
Unit 3: The Spread of National Identities:
Nationalism, Democracy, and Progress in the
19th Century
Chapters 23 and 24
SC standard: GS-4.44.5
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Week 7 Oct 1-5
Begin European Nationalism in Germany, Italy and Russia Unit 3
Map Quiz Asia, DBQ Essay Due
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Week 8 Oct 9-12
Vocabulary Quiz, Democracy in Britain, France, and the US Unit
Test, TGIF Africa
Unit 4: Overconsumption and Expansion: The
Spread and Effects of Imperialism
Chapters 25 and 26
SC standards: GS-4.2
4.5
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Week 9 Oct 15-19
Imperialism in Africa, Middle East, and Asia, Map Quiz Africa
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Week 10 Oct 22-26
Unit 4 Vocabulary Quiz Changes to European Territories, Economic
Imperialism, and lasting impacts of Imperialism Unit Test,
Unit 5: The War to End all Wars: World War I
and its Revolutionary Aftermath
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Week 11 Oct 29-Nov 2
Chapters 27, 28, 29
The changing warfare of WWI and the Russian Revolution, Unit 5
Vocabulary Quiz
Second DBQ What Were the Underlying Causes
of WWI?
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Week 12 Nov 5-Nov 9
Unit 6: The Age of Catastrophes: Depression,
the rise of Totalitarianism, and World War II
SC Standard: GS-4.64.7, 5.5
Materials Provided
Finish Russian Revolution, Nationalist Movements in Africa, India,
and rising China Unit Test,
Chapters 30 and 31
SC Standard: GS5.4-5.6
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Week 13 Nov 12-Nov 16
Crisis of European Democracies, Fascism and Nazism, DBQ Due
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Week 14 Nov 19-20
World War II, Unit 6 Vocabulary Quiz
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Week 15 Nov 26-30
Thanksgiving Break!
Unit 7: The Atomic Age: The Cold War
Enjoy!
Europe Map Quiz, the Holocaust, Creation of Israel, Review, Unit
Test, TGIF Balkan Peninsula
Chapters 32 and 33
SC Standard: GS6.1-6.2
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Week 16 Dec 3-7
Map Quiz Balkan Peninsula, Changing Political, Economic, and
Social Life after WWII
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Week 17 Dec 10-14
Unit 7 Vocabulary Quiz Communism vs Democracy: US and Soviet
Superpowers, TGIF Latin America
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Week 18 Dec 17-18
Unit Test
Christmas Break!
Enjoy!
Unit 8: Developing the Underdeveloped and
the Creation of Interdependency: Africa, Asia
and Latin America in the 20th Century
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Week 19 Jan 3-4
SC
Standard: GS- 6.1-6.4
Latin America in the 20th Century,
Week 20 May 21-25
Exam and Final Project Completion
Week 21 May 29-June 1
Chapters 32 and 33 / 17 and 18
Map Quiz Latin America, Africa and Asia in 20th Century, Unit Test
Review Units 1-9
Project Presentations Review and Final Exam
Good Luck Next Semester!