Shell Lake Schools Curriculum Map
Time
Frame
Week 1-4
Wisconsin
Standard
Essential
Questions
Instructional
Strategies
Skills / Knowledge
Assessments
Resources
-What nations, capitals,
and physical features
make up the continent of
Asia?
-Note taking
-Analyze Articles
-Discussion
-Keynote presentations
-Differentiated
instruction
-Pre-test
(Countries/Capitals of
the world)
-Review proper note taking
techniques
-Note taking practice
-Begin practicing summarization
& paraphrasing skills
-Student led class discussions on
current issues (news events)
-Critical thinking (discussion of
articles and various assignments)
-Memorization technique practice
-Research skills (including MLA
formatting practice and the use of
Badgerlink)
-Development of technology &
presentation skills (w/
Controversial Issues – Asia
assignment)
-Artistic development (w/ creating
a Yin-Yang symbol)
Understand/know the following:
-Ethnic groups, discriminations,
ism’s, etc.
-Multiculturalism
-Political and geographical
features of Asia (w/ and emphasis
on China)
-Geographic terms: steppe, loess,
chernozem, and population
density
-Population control ideas
-Social problems connected to
population increase
-China’s social classes
-Foot binding
-Dynastic Cycle
-Mandate of Heaven
-History and major beliefs of
Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism,
Buddhism, and Hinduism
4 – formal
3 – formal
2 – informal
1 – project for certain
assignments
-World History
Textbook
(McDougal Littell Copyright 2009)
-What impacts does
population size have on a
country and the world?
-What are China’s
traditional social classes?
-How do you study
religions?
-What is the history and
beliefs of the religions/
philosophies that
originated in China and
India?
-What are some of the
universal themes of
various religions?
Assessment key: 4 – Selected response
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Grade/Course: 11 World History
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3 – Constructed Response
2 – Verbally
1 – Portfolio/Project
0 – not assessed
-Misc. handouts to
assist in test
preparation,
covering concepts,
and to explain
assignments
-Video (The
Buddha)
Other – describe in box
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-What important people,
places, and events impact
Chinese the dynasties?
Grade/Course: 11 World History
-Note taking
-Analyze Articles
-Discussion
-Keynote presentations
-What important people,
places, and events
impacted China after the
end of the dynastic cycle?
-What were the causes and
significant events of
WWII in Asia (the War in
the Pacific)?
-What occurred in
Nanking in 1937?
-What important people,
places, and events impact
Japanese history?
-What is the history and
beliefs of the religions that
originated in Japan?
-How did Japan become a
imperial and industrial
power?
Assessment key: 4 – Selected response
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3 – Constructed Response
2 – Verbally
-Note taking practice
-Practice summarization &
paraphrasing skills
-Student led class discussions on
current issues (news events)
-Critical thinking (discussion of
articles and various assignments)
-Memorization technique practice
Understand/know the following:
-Key people, places, and events of
the following dynasties (w/ an
emphasis on the terms following
the list of dynasties): Xia, Shang,
Zhou & the Warring States
Period, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang,
Song, Yuan (Mongol), Ming, and
Qing (Manchu)
-Chinese Writing (Oracle Bones)
-Feudalism /Autocracy
-Shi Huangdi (and his Tomb)
-Great Wall of China / Silk Road
-Civil service system
-Mongol empire (Genghis Khan,
Pax Mongolica, Kublai Khan,
Marco Polo, Chinese influence)
-China’s naval voyages
-Imperialism, protectorate, sphere
of influence, extraterritoriality
-Opium War
-Open Door Policy
-Boxer Rebellion
-Chinese Nationalism (Nationalist
Party and Sun Yixian)
-Communism (Mao Zedong)
-Chinese Civil War, WWII (China
& Japan), and the Korean War
-Brief overview of the major
periods of Japanese history
-Communist China, Industrial
Revolution in China & Japan
-Great Leap Forward
-Tiananmen Square (1989)
-Bushido (w/ emphasis on
Shintoism, Zen Buddhism, and
Confucianism)
1 – Portfolio/Project
4 – formal
3 – formal
2 – informal
1 – project for certain
assignments
0 – not assessed
-World History
Textbook
(McDougal Littell Copyright 2009)
-Misc. handouts to
assist in test
preparation,
covering concepts,
and to explain
assignments
-Video clip (if time
allows will show a
small portion of
The Last Samurai)
Other – describe in box
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Week 9-10
-What is the Greek
mythology creation story?
-What influence did Greek
mythology have on
Ancient Greece?
Grade/Course: 11 World History
-Note taking
-Analyze Articles
-Discussion
-Keynote presentations
-Differentiated
instruction
-What important people,
places, and events
impacted Ancient Greece?
-What role did the Persian
empire have in Greece?
Assessment key: 4 – Selected response
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3 – Constructed Response
2 – Verbally
-Note taking practice
-Practice summarization &
paraphrasing skills
-Student led class discussions on
current issues (news events)
-Critical thinking (discussion of
articles and various assignments)
-Memorization technique practice
-Research skills (including MLA
formatting practice)
-Development of technology &
presentation skills (w/ analysis of
Greek Gods assignment)
Understand/know the following:
-Political and geographical
features of Ancient Greece
-Basic creation story of Greek
mythology
-Be able to identify various deities
in Greek mythology
-Influence of geography in
Ancient Greece
-Homer (Iliad, Odyssey)
-Greek Olympic Games
-Greek city-states (w/ and
emphasis on Athens, Sparta, and
Macedonia)
-Persian empire (Darius, Ionia,
Persian invasions of Greece
-Polis, acropolis, oligarchy,
tyrants, aristocracy
-Cleisthenes (democracy created)
-Sparta military state
-Battle of Marathon
(Pheidippides)
-Thermopylae
-Themistocles (Battle of Salamis)
-Delian League
-Pericles (Parthenon)
-Greek Drama & Art
-Peloponnesian War
-Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
-Greek philosophers, scientists
-Alexander the Great (empire)
-Hellenistic culture
1 – Portfolio/Project
4 – formal
3 – formal
2 – informal
1 – project for certain
assignments
0 – not assessed
-World History
Textbook
(McDougal Littell Copyright 2009)
-Misc. handouts to
assist in test
preparation,
covering concepts,
and to explain
assignments
-Video (The
Greeks)
Other – describe in box
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Week 1114
-What nations, capitals,
and physical features
make up the area of Russia
and the former republics
of the Soviet Union?
Grade/Course: 11 World History
-Note taking
-Analyze Articles
-Discussion
-Keynote presentations
-What important people,
places, and events
impacted the Rurick and
Romanov dynasties?
-Note taking practice
-Practice summarization &
paraphrasing skills
-Student led class discussions on
current issues (news events)
-Critical thinking (discussion of
articles and various assignments)
-Memorization technique practice
Understand/know the following:
-Political and geographical
features of Russia and the former
republics of the Soviet Union
-Aral Sea & Chernobyl problems
-Geographic terms: kums, tundra,
steppes, permafrost, chernozem,
taiga
-Rurick Dynasty (w/ an emphasis
on Rurick, Prince Oleg, Vladimir
I, Boris, Gleb, Svyatopolk,
Yaroslav I, Alexander Nevsky,
Ivan I, Ivan III, and Ivan IV)
-Romanov Dynasty (w/ an
emphasis on Michael, Alexei,
Sophia, Peter I, Elizabeth, Peter
III, Catherine II, Paul I, Alexander
I, Napoleon, Nicholas I,
Alexander II, Alexander III, and
Nicholas II)
4 – formal
3 – formal
2 – informal
1 – project for certain
assignments
-World History
Textbook
(McDougal Littell Copyright 2009)
-Misc. handouts to
assist in test
preparation,
covering concepts,
and to explain
assignments
-Video (Russia –
Land of the Tsars)
-Analysis of above dynasties will
also include:
Rus, Kiev, Boyar, Principality,
Constantinople, Byzantine
Empire, Eastern/Russian
Orthodox religions, Tatars, Tsars,
Theocracy, Kremlin, Oprichniki,
Poland invasion, Serfdom,
Streltsy, Ottoman Empire,
Sweden, St. Petersburg, Prussia,
Age of Enlightenment, French
Revolution, Decembrist
Rebellion, Alexander Pushkin,
Crimean War, Emancipation
Manifesto, Vladimir Lenin,
Assessment key: 4 – Selected response
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3 – Constructed Response
2 – Verbally
1 – Portfolio/Project
0 – not assessed
Other – describe in box
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Grade/Course: 11 World History
Russo-Japanese War, Bloody
Sunday, October Manifesto,
Rasputin, WWI, Russian
Revolution, Bolshevik
Revolution, Russian Civil War
Economic themes:
-Socialism, Marxism, and
Communism
-Communist Manifesto
-Karl Marx
-Pyramid of Capitalism
-Factors of Production
-Scarcity
-Economic Questions
-Command, Mixed, and Market
economies
Assessment key: 4 – Selected response
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3 – Constructed Response
2 – Verbally
1 – Portfolio/Project
0 – not assessed
Other – describe in box
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Week 1518
-What important people,
places, and events
impacted Russia and the
Soviet Union (USSR)
from 1917 to the present?
-What symbolism can be
found in George Orwell’s
book Animal Farm that
relates to Russian/Soviet
Union history?
Grade/Course: 11 World History
-Note taking
-Analyze Articles
-Discussion
-Keynote presentations
-Read and analyze the
story and symbolism in
George Orwell’s book
Animal Farm
-Note taking practice
-Practice summarization &
paraphrasing skills
-Student led class discussions on
current issues (news events)
-Critical thinking (discussion of
articles and various assignments)
-Memorization technique practice
Understand/know the following:
-Russian/Soviet Union leaders
(secretaries and presidents) w/ an
emphasis on: Vladimir Lenin,
Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev,
Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin,
and Vladimir Putin
4 – formal
3 – formal
2 – informal
1 – project for certain
assignments
-Analysis of above leaders will
also include:
-Nationalization, NEP,
Comintern, Trotsky, Purges,
Industrialization, Five-Year Plans,
Collectivization, Gulags, Kulaks,
White Sea-Baltic Sea Canal,
NKDV, Propaganda-Socialist
Realism, Kolyma, WW II, Adolf
Hitler, Battle for Moscow, Battle
for Leningrad, Battle for
Stalingrad, Yalta Conference,
Eastern Europe-Satellite States,
Causality totals, Cuban Missile
Crisis, Cold War struggles, Arms
race, Space race, Containment,
Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan,
Korea (review), Vietnam (brief
overview), Afghanistan, Ronald
Reagan, and the Berlin Wall
Assessment key: 4 – Selected response
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3 – Constructed Response
2 – Verbally
1 – Portfolio/Project
0 – not assessed
-World History
Textbook
(McDougal Littell Copyright 2009)
-Misc. handouts to
assist in test
preparation,
covering concepts,
and to explain
assignments
-Video (Stalin –
Man of Steel and if
time allows will
show a small
portion of 13 Days)
Other – describe in box
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Week 1920
-What nations, capitals,
and physical features
make up the area of the
Middle East?
Grade/Course: 11 World History
-Note taking
-Analyze Articles
-Discussion
-Keynote presentations
-What is the history and
beliefs of the religions/
philosophies that
originated in the Middle
East?
-What important people,
places, and events
impacted the period of the
first three Crusades?
Assessment key: 4 – Selected response
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3 – Constructed Response
2 – Verbally
-Note taking practice
-Practice summarization &
paraphrasing skills
-Student led class discussions on
current issues (news events)
-Critical thinking (discussion of
articles and various assignments)
-Memorization technique practice
Understand/know the following:
-Political and geographical
features of the Middle East
-History and major beliefs of
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
-Tolerance of religions
-Stereotypes of religions
(ethnocentrism)
-First three Crusades (w/ an
emphasis on the following: Pope
Urban II, Alexius Comnenus,
Godfrey of Bouillon, Baldwin, of
Boulogne, Bohemond of Otranto,
Nicaea, Battle of Dorylaeum,
Antioch, Knights Templar,
Hospiltlers, Louis VII, Nurad adDin, Al-Salih, Saladin, Balwin IV,
Guy of Lusignan, Reynold of
Chatillon, Battle of Hattin,
Frederick Barbarossa, Richard I,
Acre, and Treaty of Jaffa)
1 – Portfolio/Project
4 – formal
3 – formal
2 – informal
1 – project for certain
assignments
0 – not assessed
-World History
Textbook
(McDougal Littell Copyright 2009)
-Misc. handouts to
assist in test
preparation,
covering concepts,
and to explain
assignments
-Video (The
Crescent & the
Cross)
Other – describe in box
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