World History—Ms. Garrett
Unit I: Foundations of Democracy
Why do people live together and form societies?
How should power be held and exercised?
What risks do people take by adopting new ideas?
How can ideas be more revolutionary than an army or invention?
Wed 8/21
Introduction
Honors agreement
Why study history?
Due by Friday: Honors agreement
Mon 8/26
Cicero practice quiz
History matching terms game
Tues-Wed 8/27-28
HW #1 due (open note quiz)
Readings: Aristotle & Plato
Chart: Greek and Roman Legacy
DUE Tues/Wed: HW #1
Mon 9/1
Labor Day – No School
Due Thurs/Fri: HW #2
Tues-Wed 9/3-4
HW #3 due (open note quiz)
Lab: Renaissance art activity
Honors: Complete the Historical Analysis
Worksheet for Monday (write about the same
art work from class)
Mon 9/9
HW #4 due (open note quiz)
Scientific Revolution
DUE Monday: HW #4
Tues-Wed 9/10-11
The Enlightenment
Due Thurs/Fri: HW #5
Mon 9/16
Staff Development Day
No School for Students
Tues-Wed 9/17-18
Unit Exam
Homework #1: Textbook, pages 5-9 (Ancient Greece & Rome)
Thurs-Fri 8/22-23
Honors agreement due
Course/syllabus overview
Textbook check-out & activity
Cicero discussions
HW: Finish Cicero excerpts & be
prepared for quiz on Monday
Thurs-Fri 8/29
HW #2 due (no quiz)
Legacy of Monotheistic Religions
Intro to Renaissance
Writing a key term
DUE Tues/Wed: HW #3
Thurs-Fri 9/5-6
Renaissance/Scientific Revolution
Thurs-Fri 9/12-13
H# #5 due (open note quiz)
The Enlightenment/discussions
Study for Test
Thurs-Fri 9/19-20
Jigsaw: Worlds of the Fifteenth
Century
Start French Revolution
Due: Tues-Wed 8/27-28
 Read pages 5-9 in your textbook.
 Be able to define the following terms and include them in a short response: Socrates, Plato, Natural Law, Republic, Senate,
Justinian Code
 Be able to answer the following questions in a solid paragraph each for an open-note quiz:
1. How did Greek philosophers enhance democracy?
2. How did Rome influence the development of democracy in the western world?
3. In what ways was the Roman political system similar to the Athenians and how was it different?
HW #2: Text pages 12-14
Due Thurs-Fri 8/28-29
 Key terms (or key term groups) to know: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, polytheism, legacy of monotheism
 Be prepared to discuss your readings and use your notes for a class activity:
1. How are Judaism, Christianity and Islam similar in the type of behavior they encourage among their followers?
2. What do you think is the connection between these three religions and democracy? (In other words, why are
we studying them as part of this unit?)
Homework #3: Textbook, pages 15-16 & Read Intro. To Renaissance article
Due: Tues-Wed 9/3-4
 Read pages 15-16 in your textbook and take notes.
 Read handout: Renaissance Introduction & takes notes on the questions in the margins. Be prepared for an open-note
quiz answering one or more of these questions.
 Be able to define the following terms and include them in a short response: Renaissance, Reformation, humanism, Lorenzo de
Medici, Michaelangelo, printing press
Homework #4: Textbook, p. 165-168 (Scientific Revolution)
Due: Monday 9/9
 Read pages 165-168 in your textbook.
 Be able to define the following terms and include them in a short response: Scientific Revolution, Copernicus, geocentric theory,
heliocentric theory, Kepler, Galileo, scientific method, Bacon, Descartes
 Be able to answer the following questions in a solid paragraph for an open-note quiz:
1. Why did most people believe the geocentric theory?
2. What was revolutionary about the Scientific Revolution? What were some of the main ideas of this new way
of thinking?
*Honors only:
3. Complete the Historical Analysis Worksheet for Monday (write about the same art work from class)
Homework #5: Textbook, Chapter 6.2 (The Enlightenment)
Due: Thurs/Fri, 9/12-13
 Read pages 171-176 in your textbook.
 Be able to define the following terms and include them in a short response: Enlightenment, Thomas Hobbes, social contract,
John Locke, natural rights, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Montequieu, Mary Wollstonecraft, secularism, individulaism
 Be able to answer the following questions in a solid paragraph for an open-note quiz:
1. How does Locke’s view of human nature differ from that of Hobbes?
2. Where does authority rest in Rousseau’s view of the social contract?
3. In what ways did the Enlightenment thinkers change Europeans’ view of government?
4. Honors Only: How and why did the Enlightenment thinkers change the way people thought about
religion?
For the Unit Exam, review your homework notes from the assignments above. These discussion
questions will also help you study for the test:
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What contributions did Ancient Greece, Rome, and monotheistic religion make to modern democracy?
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How did humanism influence the Renaissance?
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How did the Renaissance influence democratic ideals?
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What risks do people take by adopting new ideas? (Think about the Scientific Revolution & the
Enlightenment)
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How did the scientific revolution impact the Enlightenment thinkers?
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What are the similarities and differences among the Enlightenment thinkers’ ideas? Whose authority did they
challenge?