Curriculum Map for 9th Grade Modern World History
Time Frame
4 Days:
Aug 19-Aug
22.
18 Days:
Aug 25-Sept
19
Unit
1. Class
Introduction,
What is
History and
Why is it
Significant?,
What’s going
on in the
World
Today?
2. Historical
Thinking and
Skills
Standards
CS: 1
Evidence of Understanding
CS1: I can…examine alternative course
of actions.
Vocabulary
Probability
CS: 2-4
CS2: I can…analyze and evaluate the
credibility of a primary source.
Primary & Secondary
Source
CS3: I can…develop a thesis and use
evidence to support and refute a
position.
Credibility (authors
qualifications), Plausibility
CS4: I can…identify and analyze the
relationship between historical events
taking into consideration cause, effect,
sequence and correlation.
1.
Assessment
Pre-test using
EOC exam
1. 30 MC, 2 SA
2. Writing
Assignment:
Research
Bias, Subliminal Message,
Propaganda
Assumptions, Accuracy of
Facts, Logical Fallacies
Contextualization, Point of
View
Thesis (Claim), Warrant,
Impact
Time Frame
19 Days:
Sept 22- Oct
17
Unit
3. Age of
Enlightenme
nt
Standards
CS: 5-7
Evidence of Understanding
CS5: I can… explain how the Scientific
Revolution impacted religious, political
and cultural institutions by challenging
how people viewed the world.
CS6: I can…analyze how
Enlightenment thinkers applied reason
to discover natural laws guiding
human nature in social, political and
economic systems and institutions.
Absolute Monarchy, Divine
Right, Religious Authority
Enlightenment, Natural
Rights, Enlightenment
Philosophers, Social
Contract
Assessment
1. 30 MC, 2SA, 1E
2. Writing
Assignment:
Informative
Constitutional Monarchy,
Representative Government
Mercantilism, Scientific
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19 Days:
Oct 20- Nov
14
4. Age of
Revolution
CS: 8-9
CS7: I can… prove that Enlightenment
ideas challenged practices related to
religious authority, absolute rule and
mercantilism.
Rationalism
CS8: I can… explain how
Enlightenment ideas on the
relationship of the individual and the
government influenced the American
Revolution, French Revolution and
Latin American wars for independence.
Revolution v Reform
CS9: I can…prove Industrialization
had social, political and economic
effects on Western Europe and the
world.
Industrialization, Industrial
Working Class, Child Labor,
Labor Movement/Unions
Democracy, documents that
espouse it and justify
revolution, Civic
Participation
1. 30 MC, 2SA, 1E
2. Proclamation
Pamphlet
Emigration, Urbanization,
Standard of Living
Monopoly, Robber Barons,
Captains of Industry,
Social Darwinism
Command
Economy/Marxism,
Socialism, Market
Economy/Mixed Market
Economy/ Capitalism
21 Days
Nov 17- Dec
19
(Semester
Exams Dec
15-19)
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5. Imperialism
CS 10-12
CS 10: I can… describe how Imperial
expansion had political, economic and
social roots.
CS 11: I can… critique how
Imperialism involved land acquisition,
extraction of raw materials, spread of
Western values and maintenance of
Imperialism, Westernization
1. 30MC, 2SA, 1E
2. Debate
Markets, Scarcity, Raw
Materials, Supply and
Demand, Exploitation
Colonialism, Direct v
Indirect Rule, Missionaries,
Modernization, Racism
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political control.
Indigenous populations,
Berlin Conference
CS 12: I can… evaluate how the
consequences of imperialism were
viewed differently by the colonizers
and the colonized.
Time Frame
28 Days:
Jan 5-Feb 13
Unit
6. Achievement
s and Crisis
Standards
CS: 13-17
Evidence of Understanding
CS 13: I can… critique how advances
in technology, communication and
transportation improved lives, but also
had negative consequences.
CS 14: I can… summarize the causes
of World War I, which included
militarism, imperialism, nationalism
and alliances.
CS 15: I can… evaluate that the
consequences of World War I and the
worldwide depression set the stage for
the Russian Revolution, the rise of
totalitarianism, aggressive Axis
expansion and the policy of
appeasement, which in turn led to
World War II.
Vocabulary
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
Kellogg Braid Pact
Washington Naval
Conference
Red Scare
Communism
Harlem Renaissance
Great Migration
New Deal
Assessment
1. 30 MC, 2SA, 1E
2. Film Critique
CS 16: I can… examine how
oppression and discrimination
resulted in the Armenian Genocide
during World War I and the Holocaust,
the state-sponsored mass murder of
Jews and other groups, during World
War II.
CS 17: I can… summarize how World
War II devastated most of Europe and
Asia, led to the occupation of Eastern
Europe and Japan, and began the
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atomic age.
24 Days
Feb 17- Mar
20
7. The Cold War
CS: 18-22
CS 18: I can… describe how and why
The United States and the Soviet Union
became superpowers and competed
for global influence.
CS 19: I can… analyze treaties and
agreements created at the end of
World War II that changed national
boundaries and created multinational
organizations.
Cold War
Arms Race
Containment
Red Scare
Vietnam
Anti-War Movement
1. 30 MC, 2SA, 1E
2. Writing
Assignment:
Persuasive
CS 20: I can… synthesize the
concepts of religious diversity, the end
of colonial rule, and rising nationalism
in order to show how that led to
regional conflicts in the Middle East.
CS 21: I can… identify that postwar
global politics led to the rise of
nationalist movements in Africa and
Southeast Asia.
CS 22: I can… critique that political
and social struggles have resulted in
expanded rights and freedoms for
women and indigenous peoples.
2/16-3/20:
105-124
instructional
days
* Performance Based
Assessment
Time Frame
35 Days:
Unit
8. Globalization
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CS: 1-22
Standards
CS 23-29
Evidence of Understanding
CS 23: I can… describe how the
Vocabulary
Assessment
1. 30 MC, 2SA, 1E
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Mar 23- May
15
1991-Present
breakup of the Soviet Union ended the
Cold War and created challenges for
its former allies, the former Soviet
republics, Europe, the United States
and the non-aligned world.
2. Oral
Communication
Prezi
CS 24: I can… prove that regional and
ethnic conflicts in the post-Cold War
era have resulted in acts of terrorism,
genocide and ethnic cleansing.
CS 25: I can… evaluate how and why
political and cultural groups have
struggled to achieve self-governance
and self-determination.
CS 26: I can… identify emerging
economic powers and improvements
in technology that have created a
more-interdependent global economy.
CS 27: I can… explain how
proliferation of nuclear weapons has
created a challenge to world peace.
CS 28: I can… summarize how the
rapid increase of global population
coupled with an increase in life
expectancy and mass migrations have
created societal and governmental
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challenges.
CS 29: I can… synthesize how
environmental concerns, impacted by
population growth and heightened by
international competition for the
world’s energy supplies, have resulted
in a new environmental consciousness
and a movement for the sustainability
of the world’s resources.
Time Frame
5 Days:
May 18-22
August 2014
Unit
* End of Year
Assessment
Standards
CS1-29
Evidence of Understanding
Vocabulary
Assessment
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