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As you read the Key Concepts, don't just memorize individual facts (although you do need to know them.) It is important that you know how facts serve as examples of the larger concepts under which they are indexed.  

Key Concepts for Period 6
Key Concept Mashup (Order in which they will be taught in class--Great study guide!)
Key Concept 6.1 Science and the Environment
Key Concept 6.2 Global Conflicts and Their Consequences
Key Concept 6.3 New Conceptualizations of Global Economy, Society, and Culture

 

Class Handouts Class Notes/Resources
Graphic Organizer: Global Conflicts The Origins of the Great War                   
Harkness: Militants' Goals in Mideast The End of the Great War
Harkness: A New Dark Age? The World Between the Wars: A Summary
Harkness: The Clash of Civilizations Map History of Decolonization: India/Pakistan
  Mankind: Penicillin 
  Mankind: Organ Transplants and nuclear power
   

 

Class Podcasts

The Great War: The Ottoman Empire and China

 Learning Objectives for this Podcast:
1) Vocab: Sykes-Picot Agreement, Balfour Declaration, Mandate System, Zionism 
2) What resettlement of people took place after WWI?
3) What was the goal of Britain concerning the Ottoman Empire during the war?
4) Vocab: Kuomintang, Mao Zedong, Long March, Chinese Communist Party
5) How was Mao's vision of a communist revolution different from that of Marx and Lenin?
 
Economic Contraction, Anxieties, and New Paradigms 
 

Learning Objectives for this Podcast:
A) How did advances in communication and transportation increase insecurity between the wars?
2) How did new scientific paradigms challenge traditional orthodoxies?
3) Describe an alternate economic vision of society that emerged between the wars
4) How did leaders adapt Marxism to fit the circumstances of their societies?
5) Describe a movement to unite people across national borders. What happened to it?

New Balance of Power, Cold War, and Decolonization
 

Learning Objectives for this Podcast:

1) Vocab: Suez Crisis, Nasser, non-alignment, Bandung Conference, FLN, pieds noirs.
2) How was the global power structure different after WWII?
3) Describe India's process of negotiated indepedence
4) Describe Algeria's experience of violent struggle for independence 
5) What was a new pattern of migration in the post-colonial world?

 Final Podcast
   
Learning Objectives for this Podcast:

Weeks 1 and 2 2018

Day #

Date

Topics/Key Concepts

1

8/2-8/3

Greetings. Course intro: What is World History and why should we care? HW-Internet scavenger hunt, About Me essay.  Key Concept 1.1, Big Geography, “out of Africa,” Paleolithic characteristics, tools, short History Channel video on fire.  First discovery of farming (Key Concept 1.2)

2

8/6
Monday

Cover class syllabus. Neolithic Revolution and it's consequences. Effect of Pastoralism and Agriculture on land. (short video) Key Concept 1.2. Homework: Read article "The Worst Mistake in History." 

3

8/7
Tuesday

Quiz/discussion on article "The Worst Mistake in History." Continue KC 1.2. Tools (stone to bronze), Surpluses to hierarchies, stratification. The development of patriarchy. (KC 1.2, II, C) "Skipping Stones" --the Causation argument

5

8/8-8/9
WD/TH

Systems of writing (Cuneiform) and their benefits to civilization: Laws (Code of Hammurabi, and Literature.(Epic of Gilgamesh). What is an empire? What makes it difficult to rule? KC 1.3 Harappan civilization, worksheet on historical inferences. KC  1.3

6

8/10
Friday

How to make an argument. Culture and the state: monumental architecture, the rise of belief systems. HW: Read Hammurabi and Moses for Wednesday/Thursday. HW: For Monday, turn in polished essay on causes of the fall of Indus River Valley Civ. Remember topic sentences, evidence, analysis and linking language that demonstrates corroboration of evidence. This must be submitted through ItsLearning.

7

8/13
Monday

Finish content for Period 1. Map exercises on required locations and regions. Review for Friday's Exam.  (1.1, 1.2, 1.3) Vedic Age, Monotheism, Invasions of Jewish state, trade diasporas. All of Period I on AP Worldipedia must be read by tomorrow. 

8
 

8/14
Tuesday

 Test on Period 1, Key Concepts 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 

9-10

8/15-8/16
Wed-Thu

Begin Period II 

11

8/17

 

Weeks 3 and 4 2019

Day #

Date

Topics/Key Concepts

13

8/19
Monday

Hinduism: Its development and impact on South Asian civilization. 

14

8/20
Tuesday

Class discussion: Empire in South Asia. Ashoka, Edicts, Contextualize South Asian document. HW: Podcast 1 on Islam.

15-16

8/21-8/22
WD/TH

(Substitute) In-class Document analysis: Reasons for the decline of classical states. Mankind video on the rise and spread of Christianity (Episode: Empires. Students take notes comparing the spread of Buddhism with the Christianity) HW: Podcast 2 on Islam

17

8/23 Friday

Quiz on Islam Podcasts. Making Historical Claims: Comparing the spread of Buddhism with the spread of Christianity. 

18

8/26
Monday

Complete Foundations Unit: Comparison of Belief Systems.

19

8/27
Tuesday

Complete Foundations Unit.  HW: Read AP Worldipedia Topic 1.1 on Chinese State-building. 

20-21
 

8/28-8/29
WD/TH
Begin AP Exam Content Today. Peergrade question on Confucianism. Continuities and Innovations in Chinese State-building. Documents for Group Discussions. The Song Dynasty's economic revival. HW: Read AP Worldipedia Topic 1.1 on the spread of Chinese culture. 

22

8/30
Friday

The spread of Chinese culture across Asia. HW: Read pages 76-80 in AMSCO.

Weeks 5 and 6 2019

Day #

Date

Topics/Key Concepts

 

9/2
Monday

Labor Day. No School. 

23

9/3
Tuesday

Class discussion: The impact of China across Asia (Notes: Sinification of Asia) 

24-25

9/4-9/5-8/22
WD/TH

Review: Students create causation claims for Song China's economic recovery. Begin Topics 1.2 and 1.5. (Note: you might want to review Podcast 2 on Islam) Effects of the spread of Islamic Civilization (Documents for background/contextualization). Students analyze Documents on Islam in groups and formulate CCOT claims. (CCOT Documents for Islam) HW: Create a claim and support it with evidence on Peergrade by Thursday night 11:59 pm.

26

9/6 Friday

Peer-evaluate claims and evidence on Peergrade. Today's topic: Variety of State formation in Africa. HW: Read AMSCO 94-100 on the Americas (go to ItsLearning to get the link). 

27

9/9
Monday

Topic 1.4 Quiz on The Americas. Analyze documents to compare political states in the Americas. HW: AMSCO 84-90.

28

9/10
Tuesday

Finish Americas. Begin Topic 1.3 Southeast Asia. HW: Read "Oats, Peas, and Barley Grow," from Science and Technology in World History (look on ItsLearning).

29-30
 

9/11-9/12
WD/TH
Begin Topic 1.6: Developments in Europe.Review Unit 1

31

9/13
Friday

Personal Progress Check for Unit I

 

Weeks 7 and 8 2019

Day #

Date

Topics/Key Concepts

 32

9/16
Monday

Review Personal Progress Check on Unit 1. Reteach topic 1.6 on Europe. 

33

9/17
Tuesday

(Substitute) Mankind video: Plague. 

34-35

9/18-9/19
WD/TH

Introduce Unit 2: Student self-check document to be filled out as we progress. In groups, students fill out Content Ladder on Topic 2.1 and complete the tasks on the back of the sheet. Students individually prepare a historical claim supported with evidence on this prompt, to be entered into Peergrade by Thursday night. HERE are the Topics for Unit 2. Print these and use them to annotate the readings this week.

36

9/20 Friday

Peer-evaluate claims and evidence on Peergrade. Quiz on Mongol Podcast. HW: Listen to Mongol Podcast found here (scroll down)

37

9/23
Monday

Review Historical Claims from last week. Quiz on Mongols, Complete content/analysis on the Mongols. HW: Students read and annotate Strayer, Commerce and Culture pp. 335-341 (Find this in ItsLearning)

38

9/24
Tuesday

Networks of trade. HW: read and annotate Commerce and Culture, pp. 341-348 (Sea Roads: Exchange Across the Indian Ocean) Watch THIS VIDEO on paragraph composition before Wed/Thurs. 

39-40
 

9/11-9/12
WD/TH


Reading and annotation of Commerce and Culture, pp. 348-351 (Sand Roads: Exchange Across the Sahara)

41

9/13
Friday

In-class SAQ and quiz on Strayer readings.

 

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