WORLD HISTORY AND CIVILIZATIONS SYLLABUS - 2015-2016
Week 1
8/3/2015 - 8/7/2015
8/3/2015
Recognizing Bell Curves
8/4/2015
World History - Things to Know (Syllabus, Pre-Test and Post-Test, an English Class, In-Class Work, Video,
Vocabulary and Cornell Notes, Turning in Work, Make-Up Work, Online Textbook (“pearson
successnet”/buttst@myips.org/NCC1701-A), Class Website (http://mrbuttsworldhistory.com), AfterSchool Help, Ways to Succeed, Map Skills, Quizzes, Tests, Grading, Show Graded Work - Then Return It,
Extra Credit, , Classroom Jobs, Parent Signatures, Staying Out of the Weeds, etc…)
8/5/2015
Implementing Instructional Strategies for Content-Specific Literacy
Completing an Example Assignment (The Most Isolated Tribe in the World Reading Comprehension)
8/6/2015
Completing an Example Assignment (The Most Isolated Tribe in the World Reading Comprehension)
(Determining Word Meanings from Context, Using Graphic Organizers, Identifying Main Ideas [Using
Bubblemaps], Using Flow Maps and Timelines, Creating an Example Summary and Using a Rubric for
Proofreading)
8/7/2015
Fall Semester Pre-Test
UNIT 1 - THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
Week 2
8/10/2015 - 8/14/2014
Chapter 1, Section 2 Vocabulary (page 11)
Neolithic Period
nomad
animism
Neolithic Revolution/Reading Comprehension
domesticate
Chapter 1, Section 3 Vocabulary (page 17)
surplus
civilization
polytheistic
pictograph
scribe
Cultural Diffusion/Reading Comprehension
city-state
River Valley Civilizations - Map Skills (page 18)
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UNIT 1 - THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
Week 3
8/17/2015 - 8/21/2015
Chapter 2, Section 1 Vocabulary (page 30)
Fertile Crescent
Mesopotamia
Sumer
ziggurat
cuneiform
(add irrigation)
Chapter 2, Section 2 Vocabulary (page 36)
Hammurabi/Reading Comprehension
civil law
criminal law
barter economy
money economy
Zoroaster/Reading Comprehension
alphabet
(add Phoenician)
Sumer and the Fertile Crescent - Map Skills (page 31)
Week 4
8/24/2015 - 8/28/2015
Chapter 2, Section 3 Vocabulary (page 44)
delta
dynasty
pharaoh
bureaucracy
Ramses II
(add corveé labor)
Chapter 2, Section 4 Vocabulary (page 50)
Amon-Re
Akhenaton
hieroglyphics
decipher
Rosetta Stone/Reading Comprehension
Engineering an Empire - Egypt Video Guide
Quiz 1
Week 5
8/31/2015 - 9/4/2015
Chapter 3, Section 1 Vocabulary (page 68)
subcontinent
Mohenjo-Daro/Reading Comprehension
veneration
Vedas
Chapter 3, Section 2 Vocabulary (page 76)
reincarnation
karma
dharma
caste
Siddhartha Gautama/Reading Comprehension
Four Noble Truths
Eightfold Path
nirvana
sect
Spread of Buddhism to A.D. 500 and Qin and Han Empires - Map Skills (pages 81 and 103)
Indus Civilization and Maurya and Gupta Empires - Map Skills (pages 69 and 85)
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UNIT 1 - THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
Week 6
9/9/2015 - 9/11/2015
(3 day week - 9/7/2015 is Labor Day, 9/8/2015 is a Professional Development Day)
Chapter 3, Section 3 Vocabulary (page 84)
Asoka/Reading Comprehension
golden age
decimal system
joint family
Quiz 2
Week 7
9/14/2015 - 9/18/2015
Chapter 3, Section 4 Vocabulary (page 92)
dynastic cycle
feudalism
Confucius/Reading Comprehension
Laozi
filial piety
character
calligraphy
(add Mandate of Heaven)
Chapter 3, Section 5 Vocabulary (page 101)
Shi Huangdi
Wudi
civil servant
(add Silk Road/Reading Comprehension)
Engineering an Empire: China Video Guide
Week 8
9/21/2015 - 9/25/2015
(4 day week - 9/23/2015 is Parents in Touch Day)
Chapter 10, Section 3 Vocabulary (page 317)
social mobility
Omar Khayyám/Reading Comprehension
calligraphy
Ibn Rushd (Averroes)/Reading Comprehension
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UNIT 1 - THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
Week 9
9/28/2015 - 10/2/2015
Chapter 11, Section 2 Vocabulary (page 346)
surplus
commodity
Ghana (Kingdom of Ghana)
Mali
Mansa Musa/Reading Comprehension
Songhai
(add Trans-Saharan Trade)
10/1/2015 - UNIT 1 TEST
10/5/2015 - 10/16/2015 - Fall Break
UNIT 2 - ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
Week 10
10/20/2015 - 10/23/2015
(4 day week - 10/19/2015 is a Professional Development Day)
Chapter 4, Section 1 Vocabulary (page 114)
Trojan War/Reading Comprehension
Homer
Chapter 4, Section 2 Vocabulary (page 118)
polis
citizen
monarchy
aristocracy
oligarchy
Sparta/Reading Comprehension
Athens/Reading Comprehension
democracy
tyrant
legislature
Geography of Ancient Greece - Map Skills (page 119)
Week 11
10/26/2015 - 10/30/2015
Chapter 4, Section 3 Vocabulary (page 124)
Pericles
direct democracy
Persian Wars
(add Peloponnesian Wars)
Chapter 4, Section 4 Vocabulary (page 130)
rhetoric
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Engineering an Empire - Greece Video Guide
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UNIT 2 - ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
Week 12
11/2/2015 - 11/6/2015
Chapter 4, Section 5 Vocabulary (page 137)
Alexander the Great
Pythagoras
heliocentric
Archimedes
Hippocrates
Chapter 5, Section 1 Vocabulary (page 150)
republic
patrician
dictator
plebian
(add cursus honorum)
Engineering An Empire - Rome Video Guide
Empire of Alexander the Great - Map Skills (page 138)
Quiz 3 (Chapter 4 only)
Week 13
11/9/2015 - 11/13/2015
Chapter 5, Section 2 Vocabulary (page 155)
imperialism
Tiberius Gracchus
Gaius Gracchus
Julius Caesar/Reading Comprehension
Augustus (Octavian)/Reading Comprehension
(add Pax Romana/Reading Comprehension)
Chapter 5, Section 3 Vocabulary (page 161)
Virgil
engineering
aqueduct
Ptolemy
Rome - The Rise and Fall of an Empire - Julius Caesar Video Guide
Growth of Roman Power to 44 B.C. - Spread of Christianity to A.D. 476 - Map Skills (pages 156 and 169)
Week 14
11/16/2015 - 11/20/2015
Chapter 5, Section 4 Vocabulary (page 166)
messiah
martyr
Constantine/Reading Comprehension
clergy
pope
heresy
Chapter 5, Section 5 Vocabulary (page 173)
Diocletian/Reading Comprehension
inflation
Constantinople
Huns
mercenary
(add Justinian’s Code/Reading Comprehension)
Rome - Rise and Fall of an Empire - Constantine Video Guide
Why Did Rome Fall?
Barbarians - The Goths Video Guide
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UNIT 2 - ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME
Week 15
11/23/2015 - 11/24/2015
(2 day week - 11/25/2015 - 11-27-2015 is Thanksgiving Break)
11/23/2015 - UNIT 2 TEST
UNIT 3 - NEW WORLD CIVILIZATIONS
Week 16
11/30/2015 - 12/4/2015
Chapter 6, Section 1 Vocabulary (page 186)
Mesoamerica
maize
Olmecs
stela
Valley of Mexico
Tenochtitlán
chinapas/Reading Comprehension
Teotihuacán
Chapter 6, Section 2 Vocabulary (page 195)
Moche
adobe
Nazca
Huari
Tiahuanaco
Cuzco/Reading Comprehension
quipu
Inti
(add Machu Picchu/Reading Comprehension)
Engineering an Empire - The Maya - Death Empire Video Guide
Week 17
12/7/2015 - 12/11/2015
Chapter 6, Section 3 Vocabulary (page 201)
Mesa Verde/Reading Comprehension
pueblo
Pueblo Bonito/Reading Comprehension
kiva
earthwork
Cahokia/Reading Comprehension
Iroquois League
Quiz 4
Week 18
12/14/2015 - 12/17/2015
(4 day week - 12/18/2015 is a records and Close-out Day)
12/15/2015 - Fall Semester Post-Test
Apocalypto
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