Horizontal Curriculum Map by Month- Harnick and Herman
Month
Standard(s)
Essential Questions
Content
Skills
How can religion be used as a
method of control by a
government?
February
Compare and contrast treatments
of the same topic in several
primary and secondary sources.
(Reading Standard #9)
Cite specific textual evidence to
support analysis of primary and
secondary sources, attending to
such features as the date and
origin of info. (Reading Standard
#1)
Writing Standards:
1. Use of evidence, reasoning,
and historical context to
write persuasively.
2. Organization and clarity of
expression.
3. The writing process
4. Varied daily writing
How did Islam spread rapidly
over a wide area?
What contributions can be
credited did to the Muslims?
How do classical Chinese
civilizations help us to
understand human society?
What are some of the
achievements of the early
Chinese?
Did the Chinese have a true
“golden age?”
How did the Silk Road
encourage cultural diffusion?
How were nomadic peoples able
to conquer more advanced ones?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Gupta Empire
Islamic Empire
Qin/Han Dynasty
Tang and Song
Mongol Empire
• Assess and evaluate
information using documents
• Assessing change and
continuity
• Assessing diversity of
interpretations
• Seeing global and local patterns
• Comparing within and among
societies
How did western Europe change
after the fall of Rome?
Why was Charlemagne known
as the “holy barbarian”?
March
How did feudalism satisfy the
needs of the people?
Determine the central ideas or
information of a primary or
secondary source; provide an
accurate summary of how key
events or ideas develop over the
course of the text (Reading
Standard #2)
Writing Standards:
1. Use of evidence, reasoning,
and historical context to
write persuasively.
2. Conduct research projects
3. Gather, assess and integrate
sources with citations
4. Varied daily writing
How does European Feudalism
compare to Japanese Feudalism?
How did the Roman Catholic
Church strengthen life in western
Europe?
Why did the Pope Urban II call
for the Crusades?
Why was the Crusades known as
a successful failure for
Europeans Christians?
How did the Crusades lead to the
rise of towns and cities in
Europe?
How did life differ in a town
than on a manor?
How did the Bubonic plague
affect life in Europe?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Middle Ages
European Feudalism
Japanese Feudalism
Crusades
Plague
• Constructing and evaluating
arguments using Documents
• Assessing change and
continuity
• Assessing diversity of
interpretations
• Seeing global and local patterns
• Comparing within and among
societies
Why did the Renaissance begin
in Italy?
How did humanism impact
Renaissance art?
How did this golden age affect
life in Europe?
Is it better to be feared or loved
as a leader?
April
Writing Standards:
1. Use of evidence, reasoning,
and historical context to
write persuasively.
2. Expository writing (to
inform) within the
framework of history.
3. Creative writing with
concise narrative technique
within the framework of
history.
4. Incorporating evidence
from informational texts
5. Varied daily writing
How did the Renaissance change
the way people viewed
humanity?
How did science and the church
perceive the natural world?
Why did religion and science
come into conflict during the
Renaissance?
How did the Roman Catholic
Church lose its religious
monopoly in Europe?
How did the “Ninety-Five
Theses” ignite conflict in
Europe?
How did Calvinism compare and
contrast with Lutheranism?
Why did Henry VIII create the
Act of Supremacy?
How did the Roman Catholic
Church respond to it s critics?
1. Renaissance
2. Reformation
3. Counter-Reformation
• Constructing and evaluating
arguments using Documents
• Assessing change and
continuity
• Assessing diversity of
interpretations
• Seeing global and local patterns
• Comparing within and among
societies
What factors contributed to the
development of the early African
Empires?
Assess the extent to which the
reasoning and evidence in a text
support the author’s claims.
(Reading Standard #8)
May
Writing Standards:
1. Use of evidence, reasoning,
and historical context to
write persuasively.
2. Organization and clarity of
expression.
3. The writing process
4. Gather, assess and integrate
sources with citations
5. Incorporating evidence
from informational texts
6. Varied daily writing
How do the reasons for the
decline of African empires
compare with those of European
or Asian empire?
How did Islam influence the
people of West Africa?
How does geography play a role
in the success or failure of the
Mayas, Incas and Aztecs?
How can empires prosper
without interaction with other
empires or civilizations?
What impact does technology
play in conquest?
How did the findings of
Copernicus and Galileo caused
controversy?
What discoveries today
challenge our perceived notions
of the world?
1. Africa
2. Mesoamerica
3. Scientific Revolution
• Constructing and evaluating
arguments using Documents
• Assessing change and
continuity
• Assessing diversity of
interpretations
• Seeing global and local patterns
• Comparing within and among
societies
How can someone be a hero to
one group of people and a villain
to another?
How was Africa affected by
early encounters with the
Europeans?
How did slavery affect Europe,
the Americas and Africa?
June
Writing Standards:
1. Use of evidence, reasoning,
and historical context to
write persuasively.
2. Expository writing (to
inform) within the
framework of history.
3. Creative writing with
concise narrative technique
within the framework of
history.
4. Organization and clarity of
expression.
5. The writing process
6. Conduct research projects
7. Research methods
8. Gather, assess and integrate
sources with citations
9. Incorporating evidence
from informational texts
10. Varied daily writing
Was the Age of Exploration a
blessing or a curse to the world?
Why did rulers gain absolute
power in Europe?
How did European rulers
demonstrate their absolute
power?
1. Age of Exploration
2. Absolutism
• Constructing and evaluating
arguments using Documents
• Assessing change and
continuity
• Assessing diversity of
interpretations
• Seeing global and local patterns
• Comparing within and among
societies