INTEGRATED HONORS WORLD
HISTORY/ENGLISH II COURSE
Themes:
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2.
3.
4.
5.
The interaction between humans and their environment
Cultural interactions and formations
Development of politics and governments.
Evolution of economic systems
Development of social systems
Sub Themes
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Key Theme 1: Patterns of Population
Key Theme 2: Economic Networks and Exchange
Key Theme 3: Uses and Abuses of Power
Key Theme 4: Haves and Have-Nots
Key Theme 5: Expressing Identity
Key Theme 6: Science, Technology, and the Environment
Key Theme 7: Spiritual Life and Moral Codes
Skills:
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
Chronological Thinking
Historical Comprehension
Historical Analysis and Interpretation
Historical research
Course Essential Questions
1. How has the changing relationship between human beings and the physical and natural environment affected
human life from early times to the present?
2. Why have relations among humans become so complex since early times?
3. How have human views of the world, nature, and the cosmos changed?
Big Eras
Agricultural Civilization 8,0000-500 BCE
Classical Civilizations – 500 BCE- 600 CE
Post Classical Era – 600-1500 CE
Making of the Modern World – 1450-1750 CE
The Long Revolutionary Century – 1750-1914 CE
Twentieth Century and Turning Points
Primary Website: http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/
Name
Essential
Standards
2.1, 2.2,
2.3, 2.9
# of
Days
5
Classical
Civilizations
Big Era #4
2.2, 2.3,
2.4, 2.7,
3.1
Excerpts from Plato’s
Republic
Ethics book
Julius Caesar Shakespeare
Trial
World Religions
2.5, 2.6
Post Classical
Period – The
Other Empires
Big Era #5 – 6001500 CE
2.6, 2.7,
3.1, 3.2,
3.3.
12 days Greece & Rome & Persia,
China, Mughal
Long distance trade
networks
Regional Worlds
Landscape 4.4
What factors enable
civilizations to rise in
power and why do they
decline?
Development of
democracy
Fall of Rome
8 days Comparative Approach to
Religion in today’s world
Judaism, Christianity,
Islam, Hinduism,
Buddhism, Others
14 days Islamic Empires –
(maybe Mongol Empires
broken Byzantines,
into
Ghana & Mali
two
Western Europe:
units
feudalism, secular vs
religious power, crusades,
Hundred Yrs. War, Black
Death. Look at Panorama
#5
2 WH classes
Excerpts from Old and
New Testament,
Cherokee Creation story,
Qur’an, Analects
Either Persepolis
Selections from Arabian
Nights,
Grendel, Barbers were
Surgeons, Melancholy
and Madness
Analytical Graffiti
project analyzing
two creation
stories; Show the
movie Argo
Performance/Video
Project
10 days Renaissance Art
Technological advances:
Gun powder and Printing
Press
Reformation
Exploration
9 days Enlightenment
English Civil War
French
Revolution/Napoleon
Were the ECW and FR an
inevitable result of the
Girl w/Pearl Earring
Prezzi
Excerpts from Luther, and
Calvin/Machiavelli/Utopia
American Holocaust
1. Agricultural
Civilizations.
Big Era #3: River
Valley’s and
Complex society
Large Paper –
topic TBA
Making of the
Modern World –
Big Era #6
1400-1800 CE
3.2, 3.4,
4.1, 4.4,
5.1, 5.3,
5.4
Making of the
Modern World –
Ideas
Big Era #6
4.2, 3.2,
6.1, 6.1
Key Topics
What does it take to be a
civilization? See Panorama
Lesson and Landscape 3.3:
#2 Development of Laws
(do the law activity
comparing ancient laws
Literature
Integrated
Assessments
PS: Ancient Laws (WH)
Eng: development of
language
Hobbes, Locke,
Wollstonecraft,
Cyrano (look for PS/SS
gore on Guillotine
News cast –social
implications of an
invention? Did
they aid or hinder
historical events
(cause and effect)
The Long Century
1700-1914
Big Era #7
6.2, 6.3,
6.4, 7.5,
7.2, 7.4,
7.6
14
Days
Turning Points in
the 20th Century
8.1, 8.3,
8.4
5
Enlightenment?
Industrial Revolution
Communism – Workers
stand up
Russian Revolution
Nationalism – Italy,
Germany
Reactions to Colonialism:
Zulu, Boxer, Sepoy, Opium
Wars, Meiji
WWI----Depression,
remapping of Middle East
WWII-----US Rise, Cold
War, Fall of Colonialism
Fall of Communism
Globalization ---Environment, people,
Migration---
A Day in the Life of
Ivan...?
Things Fall Apart?
African literature
79 DAYS –
6 DAYS – exams -= 84 + 5 days – lost mis = 89 days. 1 Extra days to play in the semester.
TBA
culminating project
- TBA