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Unit Name
&
Timeframe
Major Topics
Unit 1
History and
methods of
reconstructing
the past
Global
Environment
& The World
Today
Geography
Historiography
Weeks 1 – 2
Change and
continuity
over time
Point of view
Global vs.
Local
Big Ideas &
Essential
Questions
Standards &
Benchmarks
College
Readiness
Standards
What can you
learn about
yourself by
studying the
lives of others?
14. B.5 Analyze
similarities and differences among world
political systems (e.g.,
democracy, socialism,
communism).
R 13-15
Locate basic
facts clearly
stated in a
passage
What do we
mean by
culture, and
cultural
identity?
15. A Understand how
different economic
systems operate in the
exchange, production,
distribution and
consumption of goods
and services.
W 3-4
Show a little
understanding of
the persuasive
purpose
What happens
when cultures
meet?
How does
geography
affect cultural
diversity?
16.C.1a Identify how
people and groups in
the past made
economic choices (e.g.,
crops to plant, products
to make, products to
trade) to survive and
improve their lives.
16. D.1 Identify how
customs and traditions
from around the world
influence the local
community.
17. C.3a Explain how
human activity is
affected by geographic
factors.
18. B.3b Explain how
social institutions contribute to the
development and
transmission of culture.
Use information
from one or more
sections of a
more challenging
passage to draw
generalizations
and conclusions
about people,
ideas, and so on
Readings &
Supplemental
Texts
World Cultures
Chapters 1 – 2
Howard Zinn:
Peoples History
of the World
Others TBA
Assessments
&
Major Writing
Assignments
Persuasive
essay – I want
to meet the
people of the
______ culture
because …
(base line)
My culture
poster*
Personal
Venn
Diagram
Why study
history? Paper
Review
Perspective
Map Analysisinvestigate
various map
projections
PPT
Unit Exam
Department
Specific Section
(i.e. Historical
Analysis Skills,
Students use a
variety of maps
and documents
to identify
physical and
cultural features
of
neighborhoods,
cities, states and
countries and to
explain the
historical
migration of
people,
expansion and
disintegration of
empires, and the
growth of
economic
systems.
Students draw
upon and utilize
visual, literary,
and musical
sources.
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Unit Name
&
Timeframe
Unit 2
Interaction
between
Humans and
the
Environment
Major Topics
Demography
and Disease
Migration
Patterns of
Settlement
Big Ideas &
Essential
Questions
What factors
contributed to
the decline of
humans in
certain
locations on a
map?
Technology
Weeks
3-9
Explain why
people move
from one place
to another
What attributes
led to people
settling an area
for an extended
time?
What major
developments
led to the rise or
fall of a culture?
Standards &
Benchmarks
16. C.1b Explain how
trade among people
brought an exchange of
ideas, technology and
language.
16.D.4 (W) Identify
significant events and
developments since
1500 that altered world
social history in ways that
persist today including
colonization
17. C.2b Describe the
relationships among
location of resources,
population distribution
and economic activities
(e.g., transportation,
trade, communications).
17. C.3a Explain how
human activity is
affected by geographic
factors.
18. B.3b Explain how
social institutions contribute to the
development and
transmission of culture.
College
Readiness
Standards
Readings &
Supplemental
Texts
R 13-15
Recognize a
clear intent of an
author or narrator
in uncomplicated
literary narratives
World Cultures
Selections from
chapters 3, 7, 20
W 3-4
Show limited
control of
language
(conventions,
simple structure)
New Theories
About Human
Development
Understand the
dynamics
between people,
ideas, and so on
in more
challenging
passages
Hammurabi’s
Code
Identify clear
relationships
between people,
ideas, and so on
in uncomplicated
passages
Identify clear
cause-effect
relationships in
uncomplicated
passages
Articles:
World Creation
Stories
Assessments
&
Major Writing
Assignments
Analyzing
Ancient
Literature
Create your
Own Culture
Project
Pottery
Project
Unit Exam
Honors
Map Activity:
Sweet Honey
and the Rock
Department
Specific Section
(i.e. Historical
Analysis Skills,
Students
construct various
timelines of key
events, people
and periods
Students assess
the credibility of
sources and draw
sound
conclusions from
them
Students detect
the different
historical points of
view on events
Students show
the connections
between
particular
historical events
and larger social,
economic and
political trends
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Unit Name
&
Timeframe
Unit 3
Development
& Interaction
of Culture
Weeks 10 –
15
Major Topics
Religions &
Belief systems
Philosophies,
Ideologies
Science and
Technology
The arts and
architecture
Big Ideas &
Essential
Questions
What processes
led to the
emergence of
agricultural
societies?
Why was the
Neolithic
Revolution
critical for the
rise of
civilization?
What role did
geography and
environment
play in the rise
of civilizations?
What are the
main
characteristics
of civilization?
What elements
of ancient
civilizations still
exist today?
What have
changed?
Standards &
Benchmarks
14. B.5 Analyze
similarities and differences among world
political systems (e.g.,
democracy, socialism,
communism).
14. E.5 Analyze
relationships and
tensions among
members of the
international community.
16.B Understand the
development of
significant political
events.
18. C.2 Describe how
changes in production
(e.g., hunting and
gathering, agricultural,
industrial) and
population caused
changes in social
systems.
16.C.2a (W) Describe
the economic consequences of the first
agricultural revolution,
4000 BCE-1000 BCE
16. A.2c Ask questions
and seek answers by
collecting and analyzing
data from historic
documents, images and
other literary and nonliterary sources.
College
Readiness
Standards
R 13-15
Recognize clear
cause-effect
relationships
described within
a single sentence
in a passage
W 3-4
Present a
discernible
minimally
developed
introduction and
conclusion
Determine, even
when the
language is richly
figurative and the
vocabulary is
difficult, the
appropriate
meaning of
contextdependent
words, phrases, or
statements in
virtually any
passage
Readings &
Supplemental
Texts
World Cultures
Selections from
chapters 4, 8,
11, 14
Articles:
Laws of
Hebrews
Laws Relating to
Women
The Spartan
Creed
Slaves in the
Roman
Countryside
Chakras Belief
Assessments
&
Major Writing
Assignments
French/Russia
n/Chinese
revolution
propaganda
PowerPoint
Mini-DBQ
Gandhi, King
& Mandela –
What Made
Non-Violence
Work? – 2
buckets &
intro/conclusi
on
Child Labor
Diary
Unit Exam
Honors
Arabian
Artwork
Department
Specific Section
(i.e. Historical
Analysis Skills,
Students assess
the credibility of
sources and draw
sound
conclusions from
them
Students
understand and
distinguish cause,
effect, sequence,
and correlation in
historical events,
including the
long-and shortterm causal
relations.
Students
compose a
historical
argument
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Unit Name
&
Timeframe
Unit 4
StateBuilding,
Expansion,
and Conflict
Weeks 16 –
21
Major Topics
Political
structures and
forms of
government
Empires,
Nations and
Nationalism
Revolts and
Revolutions
Regional, Transregional, and
Global
structures &
Organizations
Big Ideas &
Essential
Questions
Are conflicts
between
nations and/or
people
inevitable?
How does an
group’s point of
view affect the
way they deal
with conflict?
Why do some
conflicts remain
local and others
become
global?
Is a lasting world
peace
possible?
Standards &
Benchmarks
14. D.5 Interpret a variety
of public policies and
issues from the
perspectives of different
individuals and groups.
14. E.5 Analyze
relationships and
tensions among
members of the
international community.
16. B.5a (W) Analyze
worldwide consequences of isolated
political events,
including the events
triggering the
Napoleonic Wars and
World Wars I and II.
16. D.5 (W) Analyze the
relationship between an
issue in world social
history and the related
aspects of political,
economic and
environmental history.
17. C.5c Describe
geographic factors that
affect cooperation and
conflict among societies.
18. B.4 Analyze various
forms of institutions (e.g.,
educational, military,
charitable,
governmental).
College
Readiness
Standards
Readings &
Supplemental
Texts
Assessments
&
Major Writing
Assignments
R 13-15
Recognize clear
cause-effect
relationships
described within
a single sentence
in a passage
World Cultures
Selections from
chapters 5, 10,
13
CHOICES
Conflict in
Iraq position
paper
SPICE Agenda
for Peace
DBQ: The
Printing Press
Articles:
W 3-4
Offer a little
development
with one or two
ideas; include
general examples
that may not be
clearly relevant
Wars, Slaves, &
Land Reform
DBQ: What
Drove the
Sugar Trade
Understand
implied or subtly
stated causeeffect
relationships in
more challenging
passages
Infer the main
idea or purpose
of straightforward
paragraphs in
uncomplicated
literary narratives
When Worlds
Collide Lyrics
Merchants &
Trade
Machiavelli
Packet
The Mongol Era
The Heart of
Darkness
Honors
Point/Counterp
oint reading -fence b/t Israelis
and Palestinians
Quilt Project:
Cultural
Encounters
Unit Exam
Honors
Persuasive
essay Will a
fence solve
problems 4
Israel/Palesine
?
Department
Specific Section
(i.e. Historical
Analysis Skills,
Students
construct various
time lines of key
events, people
and periods for
the historical era
they are studying.
Students explain
the central issues
and problems
from the past,
placing people
and events in a
matrix of time
and place.
Students
understand the
meaning,
implication, and
impact of
historical events
and recognize
that events could
have taken other
directions.
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Unit Name
&
Timeframe
Unit 5
Creation,
Expansion,
and
Interaction of
Economic
Systems
Weeks 22 –
27
Major Topics
Agricultural
and Pastoral
production
Trade and
Commerce
Labor systems
Industrialization
Capitalism and
Socialism
Big Ideas &
Essential
Questions
What impact
have regional
and global
trade networks
had on world
history?
How does
globalization
affect people’s
lives?
What are the
responsibilities
and
consequences
of this new
world order
described as
"global"?
Standards &
Benchmarks
14. E.5 Analyze
relationships and
tensions among
members of the
international community.
15.C.2b Identify and
explain examples of
competition in the
economy
16. C.2c (W) Describe
basic economic
changes that led to and
resulted from the
manorial agricultural
system, the industrial
revolution, the rise of the
capitalism and the
information/communica
tion revolution.
16. E.4a (W) Describe
how cultural encounters
among peoples of the
world (e.g., Colombian
exchange, opening of
China and Japan to
external trade, building
of Suez canal) affected
the environment, 1500 present.
17.C.2b Describe the
relationships among
location of resources,
population distribution
and economic activities
(e.g., transportation,
trade, communications)
18. C.4b Analyze major
contemporary cultural
exchanges as
influenced by worldwide
communications.
College
Readiness
Standards
Readings &
Supplemental
Texts
R 13-15
Locate basic
facts (e.g.,
names, dates,
events) clearly
stated in a
passage
World Cultures
Selections from
chapters 15, 17,
21, 24
W 3-4
Maintain a focus
on the general
topic in the
prompt through
most of the essay
Use a few simple
and obvious
transitions
Discern which
details, though
they may appear
in different
sections
throughout a
passage, support
important points
in more
challenging
passages
Articles:
The Declaration
of Rights of Man
The Tennis Court
Oath
Feudalism in
Western Europe
& Japan
Rethinking
Globalization
SPICE Global
Investigation of
Child Labor
Assessments
&
Major Writing
Assignments
PowerPoint
Photo Essay –
Columbian
Exchange or
Triangle Trade
DBQ: How did
Colonialism
Affect Kenya
Department
Specific Section
(i.e. Historical
Analysis Skills,
Students assess
the credibility of
sources and draw
sound
conclusions from
them
Collage:
Social History
of Today
Students interpret
basic indicators
of economic
performance and
conduct costbenefit analyses
of economic and
political issues.
Make a
Difference
Project on
Child
labor/sweatsh
ops(presentati
on, rap,
video, etc)
Students show the
connections
between
particular
historical events
and larger social,
economic and
political trends
Unit Exam
Students
compose a
historical
argument
DBQ: The Mill
Workers
Honors
Antiglobalization
PowerPoint
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Unit Name
&
Timeframe
Unit 6
Development
&
Transformation
of Social
Structure
Weeks 27– 33
Major Topics
Gender roles
and relations
Family and
kinship
Racial and
Ethnic
Construction
Social and
economic
classes
Big Ideas &
Essential
Questions
How have
gender roles
and relations
changed over
time?
How did the
collapse of
empires affect
family and
kinship relations
globally?
What is race
and ethnicity?
Will the
promotion of
democracy
alter the historic
social and
economic
classes of a
region?
Standards &
Benchmarks
14. D.4 Analyze roles and
influences of individuals,
groups and media in
shaping current debates
on international policies.
16.D.3 (W) Identify the
origins and analyze
consequences of events
that have shaped world
social history including
famines, migrations,
plagues, slave trading
17. D.5 Analyze the
historical development
of a current issue
involving the interaction
of people and
geographic factors
(e.g., mass
transportation, changes
in agricultural subsidies,
flood control).
16. A.5a Analyze
historical and
contemporary
developments using
methods of historical
inquiry (pose questions,
collect and analyze
data, make and support
inferences with
evidence, report
findings).
16. B.5a (W) Analyze
worldwide consequences of isolated
political events,
including the events
triggering the
Napoleonic Wars and
World Wars I and II.
College
Readiness
Standards
R 13-15
Locate basic
facts clearly
stated in a
passage
W 3-4
Provide a
discernible
organization with
some logical
grouping of ideas
in parts of the
essay
Use a few simple
and obvious
transitions
Readings &
Supplemental
Texts
Population
Explosion
The Spread of
Democracy at
the End of the
Century: China,
Africa, and the
Middle-East
Bosnia: The Two
Faces of War
The Non
Alignment
Movement
Stokely
Carmichael:
What We Want
Assessments
&
Major Writing
Assignments
Cartoon
Analysis
Project
Compare and
Contrast
essay:
Legacies of
Colonialism
Change over
time:
Women’s role
in China,
Russia, Iran,
India and the
U.S.
Project: Time
Capsules of
Change
The Wall in My
Backyard
Unit Exam
Obama: On
Race
TBA
Buchanan: A
Brief for Whitey
Honors
Department
Specific Section
(i.e. Historical
Analysis Skills,
Students use a
variety of maps
and documents
to interpret
movement,
including the
diffusion of ideas,
technological
innovations,
diseases, and
goods.
Students assess
the credibility of
sources and draw
sound
conclusions from
them
Students
compose a
historical
argument
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Unit Name
&
Timeframe
Major Topics
Unit 7
Human Rights
19th Century
and
Contemporary
Period
Weeks 34 –
39
Holocaust
20th/21st c
genocides
(Rwanda,
Bosnia, Darfur)
Big Ideas &
Essential
Questions
Standards &
Benchmarks
What role does
the world play
in determining
social and
political morals?
14. D.5 Interpret a variety
of public policies and
issues from the
perspectives of different
individuals and groups.
How are
prejudice
and bias
created?
How might
different
cultures live
peacefully
together?
Who is
responsible
for the
genocides
that have
occurred in
the 20th
century?
14. E.5 Analyze
relationships and
tensions among
members of the
international community.
16.D.4 (W) Identify
significant events and
developments since
1500 that altered world
social history in ways that
persist today including
colonization, Protestant
Reformation,
industrialization, the rise
of technology and
human rights
movements.
17. C.5c Describe
geographic factors that
affect cooperation and
conflict among societies.
College
Readiness
Standards
R 13-15
Recognize a
clear intent of an
author or narrator
in uncomplicated
literary narratives
W 3-4
Show limited
recognition of the
complexity of the
issue in the
prompt
Readings &
Supplemental
Texts
CHOICES
Confronting
Genocide:
Never Again?
SPICE Human
rights in a
global context
Assessments
&
Major Writing
Assignments
CHOICES
Position Paper
Illustration of
Holocaust
Children’s
Poem
Unit Exam
Honors
Comparative
essay –
Jewish
Holocaust
with more
recent
genocide
Department
Specific Section
(i.e. Historical
Analysis Skills,
Marshal evidence
of antecedent
circumstances
and
contemporary
factors
contributing to
problems and
alternative
courses of action.
Evaluate
alternative
courses of action.
Formulate a
position or course
of action on an
issue.