Queens Academy High School
138-11 35th Avenue
Flushing, N.Y. 11354
Phone (718) 463-3111
Fax (718) 886-5015
Beverly Short, Principal
Bill Manolios, Assistant Principal
Derek Phillips, Assistant Principal
Jamaica Campus
142-10 Linden Blvd., Jamaica, N.Y. 11436
(718) 322-3580/Fax (718) 659-9278
Course: Global Perspectives
1. Essential Question: How has history been shaped overtime?
2. Essential Question:
Pacing
BLOCK
#1
Start of
Trimester
to the
Regents
Exam
Unit Topics /
Big Ideas
Unit 1
Regents Prep
Desired Results
Meaning
Enduring Understanding
Students will understand
that…
- Historical events are
very often connected
to one another
- Geography either
alters how people live,
or people alter their
geography
- How belief systems
impact the daily lives
of it’s followers
- How the ending of
World War I led to
Second World War
- Events taking place
right now will make
history
Essential Questions
Students will keep
considering…
- How has history been
shaped overtime?
Acquisition
Skills
Students will be able to…
- read and interpret
historical documents to
determine key points and
ideas
- how one event led to
another throughout history
-
Content/Knowledge
Students will know…
Assessment
Performance Task(s):
Other Evidence:
Thematic Essays
Multiple Choice Questions from
Regents Exams
DBQ Essay
Pacing
BLOCK
#2
Unit Topics /
Big Ideas
Unit 2
The Enlightenment
3 weeks
The French
Revolution
Latin American
Revolutions
Industrial
Revolution
Imperialism
Desired Results
Meaning
Enduring Understanding
Students will understand
that…
Essential Questions
Students will keep considering…
-
- New ideas often lead to
changes in society
- People can change their
form of government
- People should have a
voice in their government
- Imperialism led strong
nations to seek out
vulnerable nations for
various reasons
Acquisition
-
Which style of
government is best?
Should people have a
voice in their
government?
Skills
Students will be able to…
-
Active reading
Analyzing historical
documents
Assessment
Content/Knowledge
Students will know…
-
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Voltaire
Rousseau
Montesquieu
The Enlightenment
Monarchy
Democracy
The French Revolution
Napoleon
Haitian Revolution
Toussaint
Simon Bolivar
Hidalgo
Performance Task(s):
Newspaper article that argues for a
specific form of government and
identifies the alternatives.
Genocide ICC
Imperialism good or bad
Other Evidence:
Small written responses
Homework assignments
Pacing
BLOCK
#2
Unit Topics /
Big Ideas
Unit 3
3 weeks
Desired Results
Meaning
Enduring Understanding
Students will understand
that…
Acquisition
Essential Questions
Skills
Assessment
Content/Knowledge
Students will keep considering…
Students will be able to…
Students will know…
-
-
-
Performance Task(s):
Other Evidence:
BLOCK
#2
Unit 4
Students will understand
that…
Students will keep considering…
-economic, political and
social reasons for
imperialism
-the pros and cons of
European imperialism
- Did European imperialism do
more harm than good?
-Does one nation of people have
the right to take over another?
-How does greed and the cultural
superiority of one nation impact
the people of other nations?
-Does imperialism contradict the
ideals of the Enlightenment?
-Did the Industrial Revolution
make imperialism inevitable?
Imperialism
2 weeks
Interim
Assessme
nt #2
Students will be able to…
Students will know…
Performance Task(s):
- explain the dynamics of
cultural change and how
interactions between and
among cultures has affected
various cultural groups
throughout the world
- interpret and analyze
documents and artifacts related
to significant developments
and events in world history
-definition of imperialism,
colonization
-European colonialism of Africa,
India, SE Asia, China and Latin
America
-Scramble for Africa
-White Man’s Burden
-Social Darwinism, ethnocentrism
-Boer Wars
-Sepoy Rebellion
-Opium Wars, Treaty of Nanking
-Meiji Restoration and the ending of
Japanese Feudalism
-Multiple Choice Questions
-DBQ Essay – Prompt:
Evaluate the positive and negative
effects of imperialism on nations and
regions.
Other Evidence:
-Creative visual representation of
imperialism
Interim Assessment #2
Pacing
BLOCK
#3
1 week
BLOCK
#3
A Half
Century
of Crisis
and
Achieve
ment
2 weeks
End of
Term
and MP
2
Optional
Final
Exam,
Culmina
ting
Project
Unit Topics /
Big Ideas
Unit 5
Global Changes
and Revolutions
(1750-1914)
Unit 6
Desired Results
Meaning
Enduring Understanding
Essential Questions
Students will understand Students will keep
that…
considering…
- various independence
movements had similar
causes and effects
-there is a link between
European imperialism
and revolutions in Latin
America and in African
nations
-Did imperialism lead to
independence movements?
Students will understand Students will keep
that…
considering…
World War I
The Russian
Revolution
-European militarism,
alliances, imperialism
and nationalism
(MAIN) caused World
War I
-there are various
similarities and
differences between
the French and
Russian Revolution
- the Russian
Revolution stemmed
from a Marxist
(Communist) analysis
of Industrialized
Europe, class struggle
-How did rising tensions in
Europe contribute to the
causes of World War I
- Do revolutions created from
different ideologies create
different outcomes?
Acquisition
Assessment
Skills
Students will be able to…
Content/Knowledge
Students will know…
- interpret and analyze
documents and artifacts related
to significant developments
and events in world history
-imperialism
-Latin American Independence
movements
-Simon Bolivar
-Toussaint and Haiti defeat of the
Napoleon army
-Jose de San Martin
-Grand Columbia
- case study of one independence
movement throughout Latin America
Students will be able to…
Students will know…
Performance Task(s):
- explain how technological
change affects people,
places, and regions
- investigate major turning
points in world history to
identify the factors that
brought about change and
the long-term effects of
these changes
- interpret and analyze
documents and artifacts
related to significant
developments and events in
world history
-analyze how the forces of
cooperation and conflict
among people influenced
the division of the Earth’s
surface
-MAIN
-assassination of Archduke
Ferdinand
-The Treaty of Versailles
-The Armenian Genocide
-review of the French Revolution,
causes and impacts, Marxism
-Lenin, the Bolsheviks, creation of
the USSR
-Communism
-collectivization
-
Performance Task(s):
Other Evidence:
Thematic Essay
Other Evidence:
Research Project aimed at answering
unit essential question